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COMMENCEMENT'S!

MfCMY THE WORLD WATCHEDUS IN TRIUMPHI

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S IQ Rpril, IRBi took the money and began work hoping that additional money would be given them as needed during the development. As an econ­ omic measure NASA simply did not employ the piece by piece testing which was always a key factor during the glory days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. According to Noel Hinners, ex-NASA scientist and president of the National Air and Space Museum, “To take on a technological challenge like the shuttle with penny pinching as its major goal was just plain stupid. If you are going to break tech­ nological ground, you can’t design to cost.”

Now, ten years after the original debate over funding, the space shuttle program has reached the end of its beginning. From this point, development gives way to practical employment. Three additional shuttles are cur­ rently being built to join Columbia in what NASA anticipates will be weekly and even semiweekly delivery runs into space. Says Aerospace Industries Association president Karl Harr, ‘The space shuttle is the U.S.’s launching pad into a new era of space research and manufacturing.” As President Reagan and his team of business sector advisers develop policy to boost the economy out of its current slump, the S.T.S. program moves ahead to what could be a substantial contribution to economic recovery. The shuttle promises to extend our capabilities to recover and employ mineral resources on Earth, both on land and

On April 12, 1981, the planet Earth was plunged into a new era in grand fashion as the spacecraft Columbia’s 6.4 million pounds of thrust ripped it free of the Earth’s gravitational pull in only eleven minutes.

Now that the shuttle, officially designated Space Transportation System (S.T.S.), has suc­ cessfully flown and landed, we can look back on the shuttle development program in retro­ spect and look ahead to the shuttle program as a whole.

Until last month’s success it seemed to many that fate was aligned against the shuttle program from the beginning. Engines exploded, fuel lines melted away, multimillion dollar heat tiles fell off and were badly damaged as the launch of the shuttle was forced almost three years behind schedule. But fate had little to do with it. Rather, improper funding lay at the root of every delay. Too little money resulted in too little planning, which led to too many disasters and too many delays.

In 1971, when congress finally approved funding for the S.T.S., the space program as a whole had become a politically sensitive sub­ ject. Legislators were drowning in what seemed an overwhelming political mandate to “spend our billions on Earth” toward solving social woes. NASA was forced to settle for a comprorn.se funding package of S5.5 billion, knowing full well that major cost overruns were to be expected. Unable to get all they needed, NASA 1

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MAY 1981 Volume 85, No. 1 Published monthly during the school year by the students of Northwestern College 1300 Western Avenue Watertown, WI53094

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Today the World Watched Us in Triumph.

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Songs of Praise from Age to Age...............

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Why Northwestern?...................................

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In Defense of Liberalism

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Remember that Survey...?

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Run of the Mill

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in the oceans, while at the same time providing a better understanding for meterologists and a stepping stone for the mass utilization of solar energy.

Manufacturers have not been quick to follow up on the claims of NASA for all the uses of space in manufacturing, but NASA officials are confident that once the shuttle is in its full operational phase, such projects will look more lucrative and appealing. Once the idea catches on, private industry will be able to supply needed funding for the shuttle.

This fact alone separates S.T.S. from anything else in the space program heretofore.

As Moscow was quick to point out last month, the shuttle has its military advantages as well. In fact, had it not been for the Penta­ gon, the additional funding needed to complete the development program might never have been OK’d. Former defense secretary Harold Brown said in January, “We plan to begin transition of our operational spacecraft to shuttle launch by 1983. Our dependence on the shuttle will become critical.” Some of this military use is confidential and not so obvious, but Pravda claims it includes the testing of military lasers. Most of the military use, how­ ever, will be in the area of high technology sur­ veillance and early warning satellites, some so large that the rockets employed before this time could never have lifted them into orbit.

During the month of March, when the Soviet Union semi-successfully tested a killer satellite capable of destroying a U.S. “eye-inthe-sky,” one other aspect of the shuttle be­ came increasingly appealing-the shuttle can retrieve satellites to Earth for repair and re­ deployment in their original orbit. This advan-

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tage is not only military however, since every year millions of dollars worth of satellites go on the blink, leaving their owners helpless to remedy the situation. With a practical method of repairing their investment, the private sector will be much more likely to use this technology to their advantage. Even smaller businesses will be more willing to emply it as cost becomes less and less of a deterrent. According to Jesse Moore, flight coordinator for all of the commercial flights already booked for the shuttle, “Once we’re in the operational phase and can guarantee a flight schedule, the com­ mercial opportunities arc enormous.”

As the space shuttle becomes the launching platform for business in space, it will also be­ come the Cape Canaveral for future space ex­ ploration. Beyond the place of a 12-ton, 43foot long telescope in space in 1985, manned missions to the planets could be accomplished much more cheaply without the comparatively impractical Earth launch required for our historic moon shots. Future unmanned missions “Galileo” and the Venus Orbiting and Imaging Radar (V.O.l.R.) arc already scheduled to begin their journeys in the cargo bay of the shuttle.

The advantages of space utilization have never been more available or apparent. The socio-economic objections to Apollo of '70’71 simply do not apply to the S.T.S. program.

We stand at the threshhold of opportunity equaling that of Columbus as he set foot on the West Indies. History will look favorably upon America’s decision to explore and subdue the last great frontier.

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Commencement Oration in the Field of Religion :

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mnmiom its beginning the Lutheran church has ^^been referred to as the “singing church.”

This little title reflects the great desire those first German Lutherans felt for singing. While they were still in the Catholic church, they

were allowed only limited congregational singing. Not until they were free of the oppressive Roman yoke were they able to sing as they wished. In the fledgling Lutheran church they filled the churches with the glorious

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is Lutheran. What more could we want or need?

Now if this were really the case, there would be no need for this presentation to continue. However, we must ask, “What is Lutheran?” Consider the Lutherans in our foreign missions. They are Lutheran, but the music of their cultures is based on scales, rhythms, and melodies that we definitely have trouble appreciating. Professor Wendland in his book, To Africa With Love, tells of a tradi­ tional Lutheran service in Africa. The liturgy and hymns were translated into their native language, but the German musical settings were retained. The service seemed dull, life­ less, and mechanical. After the service the natives sang a few of their own songs for him, and the change was striking. Life and joy filled those hearts that seemingly were lifeless be­ fore. Lutherans in Japan are also using some hymns of their own composition.

A parallel can be seen in the inner cities of our own country where even in our own land a culture gap separates us from most of them.

What about the student aged population of our own synod? Students are always looking for new and different ways of worship. Today Lutheran music has new needs to meet. This is not to say that we should toss out the old; the old must be preserved. But neither can the needs of this age be neglected. Modern Lutheran music must not be confined by national, social, or age barriers. Wherever the Word is needed, good church music is also needed.

In an attempt to answer what constitutes good church music, we should first of all consider the purpose of church music. In the first place, why do we need music at all? Is the spoken Word of God insufficient? Well, we obviously don’t need music to believe.

Rather, music is an aid, subservient to the Word. Music takes those incredible, exalted truths of Scripture and brings us closer to the divine atmosphere of those truths. The notes make the words come alive. The music and the text complement each other; the music helps to strengthen and interpret the text.

Church music is not primarily to gratify people musically or emotionally. This is where so much of modem church music goes wrong.

It is nothing more than cheap, sentimental tunes with heretical or doctrinally void texts.

They sound cute and may make one feel religious, but faith is not a feeling. The music should be solidly based on God’s Word, a reflection of faith, not of feeling.

Never must church music exist for its own

sound of singing. Indeed, it was a privilege they cherished highly.

Music in the church is still a privilege we cherish highly today. Our Lutheran church can still rightly be called the “singing church.”

No other church makes use of a musical heritage as rich and deep as ours. Just imagine what our worship services would be like if there were no singing. If singing were eliminated from Christmas, Easter, or any service, I’m sure we would feel that something important was missing. Music is such an integral part of our worship that we hardly give it any special thought. But let’s take a moment to consider this precious heritage.

Not all Lutheran music is the product of the Reformation. In fact, some of it reaches back more than one thousand years earlier. In the early days of the Christian church Paul wrote in Colossians 3:16, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” Some of the music from these early days is still extant; parts of our liturgy date from this time.

The next thousand years saw limited devel­ opment of music. The Gregorian chant reigned supreme. Finally, about the year 1000, har­ mony was developed. It was by no means high­ ly refined, but some of our most beautiful Easter and Pentecost hymns originated at this time. The brilliant flowering of hymnody was awaiting a man named Martin Luther.

Luther’s talents were not confined to theology. His musical training was rather extensive and he was a skillful hymn writer and lute player. For Luther, music was more than just a beautiful ornament; it was an essential ingredient of his life and soul. He wrote, “Music is an outstanding gift of God and next to theology.” This led the great reformer to give his song-hungry parishioners many hymns.

Luther’s work produced a solid foundation for Lutheran church music, and it continued to grow and prosper during the turbulent years of the new church’s existance. This was the time of the great masters of the German chorale. Buxtehude, Bach, and many others brought Lutheran church music to a spectacular pinnacle of artistic development.

This rich heritage has been handed down and now makes up a substantial part of the music in our Lutheran Hymnal. This, we might say, is truly the Lutheran sound. It is a beauti­ ful, valuable collection of church music. This 3

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sake. It is an art the Holy Ghost uses to spread and establish the Word. Since religious music is dedicated to God, it must also be good in quality. Offering musical garbage to God is insulting to Him. There seems to be a tendency for church musicians to take security in hiding in the past.

This was not always the case; both Luther and Bach employed contemporary art forms in their compositions along with a high regard for the good things of the past. But again this is not to say that we need a new hymnal based on the pop music tunes or the latest avantgarde musical methods.

Tradition is timeless, but it doesn’t stand still. The great things of the past will endure, and it is our responsibility to hand them on to future generations. The good traditions of Bach, Luther, and others will live in sound as long as music is played on this earth. But the means by which tradition is transmitted, the saints from age to age, is a constantly changing medium.

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duce additional traditions for posterity. Faith is a living thing; our music and worship must be living, too.

Now so that there is not any misunder­ standing, I do not feel that the main emphasis should be on the newer songs. There must be a proper balance. Compared to the vast musical treasury of the past, the new music of this age can rightly occupy no more than a very small part of the whole picture. After all it is a balance between the contemporary music of one generation and the musical heritage of well over a thousand years. But small as it rightly must be, a little musical progress is vital for the well being and growth of our church. The needs of today and tomorrow must be met if we are to effectively bring the changeless Gos­ pel to a changing populus. Our music, both old and new, is a priceless treasure from God. May we use it to testify to the glory of His name.

May it serve as a living voice of the Gospel, as His praise is sung from age to age.

MARK ALBRECHT

Why

Northwestern Commencement Oration in the Field of Humanities

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^^here are a number of important decisions 1 a person makes in his life-the choice of a career, the choice of a spouse and the choice of which college to attend to further his educa­ tion through the university level. This last choice may not seem as important as the first two, yet it is very important for it can make or break not only one’s education but also one’s personality.

When one ot the students here mentions to someone outside of our circles that he is attending a small college in Wisconsin that has 240 students and 19 professors, that stranger almost invariably asks, “Why did you go there?

Why didn’t you go to a major university?”

And that is our question for this morning, “Why Northwestern College?”

The first answer I usually give is that our Synod makes certain requirements of students who wish to enter its Seminary and has set up this college so that a young man can meet them. But is this the only reason for NWC? 1 don’t think so.

To the world a large university is the place to be. A diploma from a prestigious university with its ivy halls, research and facilities looks nice on anyone’s wall. The diversity of the major university’s curricula is also appealing.

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Before I came to NWC I attended the Univer­ sity of Washington in Seattle. Its course des­ cription catalog is a monstrous volume of some 1,067 pages. Courses ranged from accounting to zoology, from nuclear science to sandbox 01 and 02. To the world the university is far superior to NWC. Our little college, on the other hand, does not have the same national prestige as the major universities. Nor do we have the diver­ sity of studies the major universities have. Our course catalog is some 48 pages long containing course descriptions mostly for languages, religion, music and history. Yet in my opinion NWC not only matches but far surpasses any major university.

Certainly the quality of the education is better. Here the average work load is between 18 and 21 hours. In a major university the average is 12 hours. This is not because the universities have more work or a more inten­ sive program. At the University of Washing­ ton I had very little daily preparation and even that was rarely checked. Here at NWC, how­ ever, we research, learn vocables and do exer­ cises until they come out of our ears, and then we start our second assignment.

Even more important than the quality of education is the difference in the atmosphere and personal nature of NWC. At the university we had over 32,000 in the student body. In an introductory course it was not uncommon to have five sections or groups of 1,000 stu­ dents. A small lecture had 400 students.

Usually the professor didn't even know the students because graduate students ran the class. All the student was was a number on a computer punch card. No one knew you or cared. When I arrived here it was a whole new world. The first time I stepped on campus I was amazed that all the professors knew me.

When I said my name they acted as if they had known me all my life. This same atmosphere continued in the classroom. The professor isn’t just a blip in the front of the room, he is a friend you can talk to. He is a man who has achieved the goal we are working towards— the preaching ministry. He relates experiences which teach us about the profession we are seeking. He helps us through times of crisis, for he was in our shoes once upon a time.

Another plus NWC has going for it is the caliber of students in attendance on her campus. Good, decent young men who are laboring right next to you to achieve the same goal. I came here knowing no one at all. Yet ^

in these four years I have made many friends.

Our class has grown from a group of independ­ ently minded teenagers to a closely knit group of solidarity. A great group of fellows and I’m proud to call them my classmates and my friends. How couldn’t they be my friends when they are so concerned about me? Several times during the years they were so concerned about my personal hygiene that they literally carried me to the showers or the showers to me.

The major benefit of NWC in its liberal arts curriculum that no major university has is its Christ-centered atmosphere. NWC is not a Bible college that teaches only a translation of the Scriptures, while not teaching the tools and application of Scripture and also leaving general education out in the cold. Rather we are a Bible-centered college. NWC teaches its students the tools so that we can read the Bible in the original languages for ourselves.

But it doesn’t stop there. It gives its students a liberal arts education-that is it rounds out our education. Most importantly, no matter if it is a history class or a religion class, Christ is the unseen influence. It was a relief to hear people speak lovingly about Christ, rather than in the ridiculing, irreligious and blasphemous terms I was smothered with in the university. Christ is the head of NWC and all on this campus live for His glory.

Like all students we complain. We gripe

about the food, the work and the absence of girls, but deep down inside we don’t mean it.

We realize that NWC is the best place for us to be. We not only receive a good liberal arts education that puts any university to shame, we also receive maturity in mind and faith.

NWC is not just some dinky little college in Wisconsin. It’s an institution which fulfills its

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objective of preparing young men for the ministry. It has been our home away from home. It is the place where we have had our good times and our bad, our laughs and our tears. It has become a part of us, a part that we will always cherish.

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In Defense of Liberalism An Editorial

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he word liberal has unfortunately taken on some bad connotations among students at Northwestern and among Wisconsin Synod Lutherans in general. The word seems to im­ mediately conjure up notions of religious bodies and leaders who take a different view of the Bible than we, interpreting Scripture to find endorsement for positions ranging from abortion and free love to pulpit fellowship with Catholics and advocacy of a fuller role for women in the church. It also brings to mind images of left-wing politicians whose only joy in life is to spend money wildly on any and every socialistic scheme that comes along, tak­ ing the money for their programs from the common man who works to legitimately earn his money, only to see it confiscated by what he views as an unjust tax structure, created expressly to fund government handouts and boondoggles.

Indeed, when referring to religious bodies and doctrines we are probably justified in having negative impressions upon hearing the word liberal. However, we must remember that some groups, such as the Mennonites or our cross-town Baptist friends, consider us liberal in some respects.

A more unfortunate impression concerns the term liberalism in connection with poli­ tics. Liberalism is perceived as something to be automatically and vigorously opposed.

According to Webster, the word liberal is defined as “characterized by or inclining toward opinions or policies favoring progress

or reform; not intolerant or prejudiced; broad­ minded.” Liberals are not all striving toward a socialist state, neither do they all favor abor­ tion on demand, nor arc they intent on taxing us of all our money for redistribution to “lazy bums” who make their living by mooch­ ing off the government.

Liberals, as the dictionary says, are merely those who desire and work for positive reform.

Credit is owed them for such progressive legislation as occupational safety regulations, automobile safety rules and environmental guidelines, many of which affect us in a posi­ tive way each and every day. Liberals are not intolerant or prejudiced; to them we owe most of the equal rights legislation passed in the last two decades, legislation prompted by a desire to fulfill the creed expressed in the Declara­ tion of Independence; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..

Many claim that liberals have been overzealous, that their regulations have placed intolerable burdens on business and industry, resulting in extra costs which in tum are passed along to consumers. In a few instances this may be true. If so, the liberals were moti­ vated by good intentions. Perhaps also they remembered the original, intolerable condi­ tions which prompted the first regulatory legislation. We can recall from American history classes the incredible filth and scan­ dalous working and living conditions of the early 1900’s which drove Upton Sinclair and 6

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others to pen their explosive exposes, which resulted in liberal legislation to clean up the mess.

Government overregulation? Yes, in some cases the trivial regulations and additional paperwork may seem to be superfluous and un­ productive. Liberals would be delighted if there were no need for government involve­ ment in business and industry. But dare we return to the days when the captains of industry were given free rein, days which saw huge trusts, unscrupulous business practices, unfair wages, overlong hours and unsafe working conditions? The efforts by liberals to correct these conditions were motivated by humane concern for the worker’s welfare and protec­ tion of the consumer.

But the liberal is not merely concerned with regulating the “big bad businessman.”

Perhaps the closest one can come to a general definition of the typical liberal is one who has compassion for his fellow citizens who are not as fortunate as he and who need some govern­ ment assistance to maintain a decent standard of living for themselves and their families. A liberal is one who sees the vast wealth of this country and realizes a need for redistribution of a limited amount of the wealth. Lyndon Johnson said: “We have enough to do it all. ..

We’re the wealthiest nation in the world. And I cannot see why, if we have the will to do it, we cannot provide for our own happiness, education, health and environment.”

A liberal is one who sees the ghetto child come to school in the morning hungry and realizes that a government-supported school lunch program will probably prevent mal­ nutrition and at the same time promote better performance in school. A liberal is one who sees the retarded child of a poor family and recognizes that a government-supported educa­ tion program may help the child become a useful part of society, a chance he might other­ wise be denied. A liberal is one who sees the young father trying to support a family after being laid off and realizes that unemployment and food stamp benefits for a limited time will help him feed his family and avoid repossession of his home, car and other possessions.

A liberal is one who sees the pregnant mother who cannot afford the food for proper nutrition of both herself and her child, and recognizes that government assistance will prevent more money being spent for health services which would be required as a conse­ quence of improper nutrition during pregnancy.

A liberal is one who sees the college student who, with government assistance, such as Basic Educational Opportunity Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans, can receive the education now that he may have to delay in­ definitely or forget about completely if forced to rely on his own funds.

And yet liberals cannot always be auto­ matically placed into categories of those who oppose or support certain positions. There are many liberals who support nuclear power, but not unconditionally. They desire to see ade­ quate safeguards imposed so that a situation like Three Mile Island, or something worse, is not repeated. There are many liberals who support a strong defense policy, but not un­ conditionally. They desire to see a proper balance between guns and butter. They don’t want millions spent for a new bomber if it means that thousands of children will go to bed hungry in this, the richest nation on earth.

There arc many liberals who would support tax cuts for business if they were certain that the money would be poured back into the factories to create more jobs. Unfortunately many companies tend to use their extra profits to buy up other companies, which results in more, profits, not more jobs.

Another misconceived notion of liberals is that they are all semi-heathen humanists out to destroy all that we as Christians hold dear.

True, some, but not all liberals support abor­ tion on demand, female pastors and integra­ tion quotas for private schools if they are to retain their tax-exempt status. Certainly these efforts should be opposed. But not all liberals are anti-Christian, and liberals are the staunchest defenders of separation of church and state, for which we should be thankful.

When they do make efforts to interfere in matters like private schools, it is because there are always a few who do discriminate against minorities.

Anyone can come up with horror stories about the excesses of liberalism: welfare queens, large oil fields which lie dormant in the name of environmental protection, exces­ sive regulations which unduly burden wellintentioned organizations. Liberals do not support the abuses and excesses of liberalism any more than conservatives do. But these arc isolated incidents, no worse than some of the horror stories which can be told as results of the excesses of conservatism: minorities denied equal rights, poor and sick people denied government aid because of fund cut7

offs, huge conglomerates which bankrupt and/or devour smaller companies through ruthless business practices and yet manage to avoid federal antitrust suits, all in the name of free enterprise.

Few of us would support the policies of liberalism unconditionally, just as few of us would support the policies of conservatism without reservation. But liberalism should not be a trigger word which causes us to immediately go on the defensive against whatever follows.

There are many good laws on the books which were placed there through the efforts of liberals in the face of vehement conservative opposition, but which today receive some of their staunchest support from conservatives.

An example is the Legal Services Corporation, which provides legal counsel for those who cannot afford it. In the face of a fund cutoff in next year’s budget, some loud conservative voices have been heard in an effort to retain

the funding.

Unquestionably, there is a need for balance.

Liberalism should not be a one-way street of spend, spend, spend. Common sense and restraint should be an important part of any policy. William Penn said: “Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

Both together make an excellent temper.

Happy the place where that is found.” The next time we are tempted to condemn liberal­ ism, we would do well to take into considera­ tion that the desire to “bestow. . .to the benefit of others that need” is a noble quality.

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Remember That Survey m m a 9 m a ast month before the welcome relief of a “short Easter recess, the outgoing Black and Red staff conducted an on-campus survey for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of the B & R and seeking suggestions for its im­ provement. Of the 275 surveys distributed to students and faculty, 163 (59%) were returned.

The first revealing question was, “Do you read the Black and RedV’ Only 3 answered negatively, indicating that about 98% of those surveyed read at least some part of the B & R. The next question narrowed this down, asking what percentage of the booklet was read. The results are approximated as follows: Percentage Number of Read Responses 100% . ..

18 76-99% .

47 51-75% .

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“Which articles do you usually look at?” By far the most popular was Campus and Class­ room, followed by sports. Interviews came next with short stories and editorials tied for fourth. The item least looked at was poetry.

What most liked about the articles they did read was that they were informative and interesting. Many enjoyed the humor, pre­ sumably referring to C & C. A significant num­ ber appreciated the quality of the material offered. Some liked the articles they read be­ cause they were short and others because they were written by fellow students.

When asked to list reasons for not reading the other articles, most indicated that the sub­ ject matter simply did not interest them. The next reason most often given was that the material was “boring.” Some said they did not have the time to read them, while others dis­ liked the quality or said they were too long.

There was a substantial number from each class who said the poetry was too “weird” and “lacked essence.” Quite a few thought sports was out of date and of poor quality and that it

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should be more objective. C & C was often criticized for its “inside humor.”

All but 5 felt it is important for North­ western to have a school periodical like the B&R. If given a choice, 112 would subscribe to the B & R while 51 would not. (The student activity fee includes a subscription to the B&R.) A variety of suggestions for improving the B&R was presented. The need for more articles and writers was most often stated.

Several wanted more articles relevant to the college and synod, while others suggested a wider variety of articles dealing with things off-campus. “More student input” and “less censorship” were listed several times. Some advised the addition of a fine arts column

reviewing concerts, plays, etc. A few wanted upcoming events publicized in some sort of monthly calendar. The addition of a “letters to the editor” column was also encouraged.

Some individuals would like to see picture comics included.

The overall opinions covered a spectrum from “a very decent college periodical” to “unimpressive.” The general feeling running through the responses was that the B & R is a “good” magazine that could stand improve­ ment. This survey has been helpful to the staff and will be used in future planning to bring about some of that improvement. Those who took time to complete the form deserve a sincere “thank you.”

Prom the Editor ing changes and new ideas. With this issue, Volume 85 bursts forth, together with the efforts of an enthusiastic new staff. Congratula­ tions to Mark Albrecht and the staff of Volume 84 on a job well done.

Although “seasons” of the B&R have changed, the twofold purpose of the periodi­ cal remains the same: to provide a communica­ tion link between alumni and their alma mater, and to supply its readers with good literary material. To uphold this purpose, the familiar “limbs” of the Alumni, Sports, and C & C columns will remain relatively unchanged.

We will continue to provide informative essays, interviews, thrilling Fiction, poetry, and imag­ inative artwork for your enjoyment. Since it is a student publication and has always reflected

I ike solemn guardians, the trees which L flank the west lawn of our campus have stood nearly as long as the college itself. Their stately forms arc as familiar a sight to us as they were to those who passed beneath them decades ago. Their twisted, gnarled limbs, sturdy trunks, and rugged bark all reflect their great age. Yet, each spring the buds burst and delicate new shoots sprout from those ancient branches. Fresh, verdant leaves unfold and mature as the season progresses.

In many ways the Black and Red is like those trees. Firmly rooted in Northwestern soil for eighty-four years, it too is a familiar part of the college scene. As strong as the trunk of the tradition of the B&R, each year a “green” new staff emerges and grows, initiat­ 9

the moods and attitudes prevalent on campus, the B & R will continue to be “the voice of the student body,” providing a forum for constructive criticism where necessary.

Some new verdure will appear in Volume 85, however. Some changes in format have been made including the striking new titles and drawings which head the regular columns and index page. Thanks go to Davie Sellnow for his originality and artistic excellence. Next year more artwork and photography will ac­ company articles and more innovative covers will greet your eyes. We will attempt to “roll with the changes” and advances being made in the field of graphic arts. Such alterations will improve the appearance of the B & R, modern­ ize the format, and make the magazine easier and more inviting to read.

As for changes in actual content, reviews of books, movies, records and the like, largely neglected since the early seventies, will make return appearances. Ways are also being sought to make the advertising portions of the booklet more meaningful to both our advertisers and readers. Other changes and additions may be made as the staff grows in confidence and as the results of the on-campus B & R survey are considered.

Of course, we are always trying to improve the quality and variety of articles in the B & R. This responsibility, I feel, does not lie entirely with the staff, however. It lies with the entire student body. For the B & R to truly repre­ sent the diverse literary talents of Northwestern College, it must receive manuscripts from non­ staff members also. I hope it is not the case, as an editor of years past put it, that “the only song of the Sirens which would incite many. . .to write, would be a promise of a mark on their report card. The normal motives of pride, duty, and privilege would not allure them...” How boring our “college park” would be if there were not such a wide variety of trees growing in it. The same could be true of the B <6 R if a variety of writers do not con­ tribute to it.

And now with all this talk of trees and greenery, I will step down from my printed soapbox and turn my thoughts to summer, that great hill which annually permits us to more easily look backward to paths well beaten and forward to goals yet to be achieved. Best wishes to the seniors as they proceed upward and onward toward their goal. I will also take this opportunity to wish all our readers a relaxing and blessed summer.

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Compu/ & Clcw/room T t’s time once again for Campus and Class­ -room, i.e., the collegiate “Chatterbox,” i.e., the “Rona Barrett Sin and Share It Campus Gossip Column.” This month’s entries: -Severe cases of schizophrenia seem to be cropping up on campus. Scott Mosher thinks he is a dandelion—watch out for stiff winds and Scott’s Turf Builder, Scott. Ross Henzi believes himself a garden hose.. .But a garden hose with a separated nozzle? Really, Ross, this is getting out of hand.

-Joel Smith and Keith Schreiner have reached new heights in golf achievement. Their scores have been equaled by none—except maybe the Philadelphia 76ers and the Mil­ waukee Bucks.

-Third floor Wittenberg has been waking up to the atonal nasal honking of Mau Schulz.

Some say it is really the mating call of an asthmatic whooping crane, but if so, Mau hasn’t seen any results yet.

—Jeff Limpert wanted us to mention his name so he could be popular on campus, too.

Come on, Jeffie-Pooh, we all love you, -Steve Hein, Dan Drews, and their cars have always been such a humorous part of Campus & Classroom. Then again, so have dead horses.

But it’s time to get off the dead horse-or to kill a new one. The new C & C crew is here, ready for a new year of sheer cheer, queer humour, fearless satire, and sneering at our peers. We’ve even changed the logo which heads up our column. Actually, we didn’t

change much; all we did was replace Carl Balge and his blackboard with Ricky Russow and his. The time has come to retire Carl’s jersey into the NWC Drop-Out Hall of Fame.

Will the Campus & Classroom cameo jinx do the same to Sticky? Where would we be with­ out our precocious little phlebitis-afflicted meter mermaid?

Campus and Classroom has come to the rescue of the unfortunate chronic classroom sleeper. We realized that there isn’t much fun in classroom sleeping, mainly because the student misses so many vital tidbits and also because he can be subjected to professorial rebuke and classmatorial ridicule. So to provide at least some entertainment for the dozer in the doldrums, we have devised a point system which should throw a little fun into your class­ room crash. We like to call it the “Score Your Snores When You’re Bored to the Core, Moored to the Floor, and Can’t Stand No More, Schlaf it for Profit Point System.” The idea is to see how many points you can compile in one day. First of all, score 10 points for any time you drift off into the Land of Nod. Score 10 extra points if the prof calls you twice before you respond, and 20 extra points if it takes a classmate’s jab to finally stir you.

Score 25 more if you wake to find a long, wavy pen mark straggled across your paper.

Score 30 more if your face gets a crease in it.

Score 40 more if most of the class is out of the door before you wake. Score 50 more if a sud­ den action-dream-induced lurch knocks pens 11

and pencils off your desk and gives the whole class a hearty chuckle. Sharing and comparing scores with friends and neighbors should bring hours of happiness.

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The formation of a girls' track team on Phone campus has precipitated a dramatic increase in (414) coed weightroom usage. There has also been a 261-9400 significant rise in collegiate weightroom usage in recent weeks. Some campus cynics immed­ \‘A miles north of WATERTOWN on Hwy. 26 iately speculated that the two increases were directly related and more than coincidental.

We here at C & C take strong exception to that notion and wish to set the record straight once and for all. As everyone knows. Coach Thomp­ son has been teaching a physical fitness and first aid class for two years now. Not surpris­ ingly, some of his physical fitness philosophies are now taking hold, and the increased weightroom usage by collegiates is merely a positive response to Coach T's instruction, and nothing more. But then again, that still doesn't explain .. .and sundaes, sodas, the sudden mad rush to be the next person on shakes, banana splits,... the leg press after Chris Weigel.

Another encouraging response to the fit­ ness class is the number of students taking instruction in the finer points of Tae-kwondo. Sleeping at night is decidedly easier when you know that there is a Tae-kwon-do expert right down the hall to defend you when life and limb arc in peril. Of course, on the other 212 W. MAIN STREET - WATERTOWN, WIS. side of the coin, you must also realize that ____________PHONE 261-4278 these same doctors of destruction could turn OFFICE AND on you in an instant to eradicate your face SCHOOL SUPPLY with their lethal feet if they don’t happen to School and Art Supplies like the color of your hair.

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MIKE BIEDENBENDER-Bieds calls Benton Harbor home. When he wasn’t blowing holes in opposing defensive lines, Bieds was playing enforcer on his 1M buckets team. It’s becoming a daily ritual for Prof.

Scllnow to greet his classes with, “Good morning, Where’s Bieds?” If you’ve looked everywhere else, there’s a good chance Mike’s stranded in New Ulm with an under-inflated tire or something equally catastrophic. Mike will pack his ever -present Hebrew lexicon along to Thiensville.

DAVE COOPER-This man is the veritable antithesis of what one expects from a five-year man-his groom­ ing habits are atrocious and his room a shambles. But what can you expect from a Texan who also rooms with Joe Dietrich? The Coops was a musical force for the big band sound of Armadillo before its tragic demise. He’s also one of the chosen few who’ve come down with a bad case of pre-Sem panic. Next year Sue will have to visit the dorms at Sem.

MARK ALBRECHT-This fine product of Onalaska is another one of those guys everybody's envious ofintelligent, talented, and plenty of pull with the faculty.

Seriously, Alby has been an important figure on campus over the years. Music has been his forte, with fine contributions in heading the organ crew, choir, conducting the Forum Christmas concert this year, and exhibiting exceptional talent on the flute. He is a veteran of the library staff, and his writing skills gained for him the editorship of the// & R. Besides all that, he managed to maintain a top grade point all through college and worked his way up to valedictorian of the senior class. Alby will be driving his Buick to Mequon, come next fall.

RANDY BADER—Randy makes his home in Valen­ tine, Nebraska. For three years, Randy donned the black and red of Turk's football team, ar.d stopped other action with his camera. Randy picked up the moniker “Grizz” as a result of a fierce but futile UMOC campaign. Grizz normally keeps a pretty low profile on campus. Of course, who wouldn't if he wrote letters addressed to Miss Claus? It’s not that Randy’s got a thing for Kris Kringle’s daughter, but he does make a few trips to the Claus summer home in Washington. Next year Miss Claus will address her letters to Wartburg Circle.

MIKE BARLOW—Affectionately called “Bamose” by Kev, his fellow Wisco graduate, Mike has busied himself trying to keep the campus fed. Although heart strings were attached to Milwaukee, Mike had to leave Wis­ consin Lutheran College to gird himself for future training at the Sem, where hell be next fall.

JOE DIETRICH-Possibly he was one of the best running backs in NWC history, but one can only wonder why Joey is so terrible at intramural buckets.

The last two years Joey has become a two-sport man, banging the horsehide around in the spring. The son of Coach Dietrich, Joey hails from Saginaw and obviously never had to share a room with anyone before he came to college, because the fact of the matter is that no­ body, but nobody, in the* world snores as loud as Joe. No wonder no one would room with him more than once. Other than that, however, Joey is a model citi­ zen, homecoming king-type guy. We all like the big fella, but not as much as Jenny does. Shell have to send her letters to the Sem next year.

JOHN BECK—Everybody’s favorite five-year man, Johnny Beck, hails from Balsam Lake and Unity High, where (if you believe John’s version) he was Mr. Everything, from captain of every team he felt like playing on, to being voted Most Likely to be a Folk Hero. J. B. has played football for parts of five years,

DAN DREWS-Oak Creek is proud as punch to call Dan her son. You’d never know it, but under Dan’s dapperly attired, svelte body lies a rather brilliant mind. DD spent a good share of two years punching the time clock at the local Pizza Hut. Dan will plug his fan and blow dryer into Seminary outlets next year.

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LEROY DUX-Roy was a stand-out on the offensive line for three years before he contracted terminal engagement this fall and was forced to sit out. An eight-year man from Neillsville, Leroy served C&C well this year with his frequent wildlife reports. Roy is getting married to Annie this summer, and we wish him well. We’re going to miss his in-depth “Fragen” at the Sem next year.

Colorado, was fortunate enough to spend five years at NWC after graduating from Fruita-Monument High School. In spite of several injuries, Kenny proved to be a valuable member of our football and track teams.

Ken also worked with the preps as an R.A, for a year.

Lest it be forgotten, Ken’s present intestinal difficulties might be attributed to his years as a kitchie. Maybe the Seminary diet will be kinder to him.

KURT EBERT—An eight-year man here at North­ western, Kurt hasn’t let his talents go to waste.

As if playing trumpet for the Jazz Ensemble and writ­ ing for the B & R weren't enough, Kurt has also managed to go mountain climbing in Colorado and canvassing in Florida. When his studies and the city life of Glendale get him down, Kurt likes to head up north to his parent’s cottage to do a little fishing, bow hunting, or just relaxing. Kurt can practice his fishing in the Pond at the Sem next fall.

DAVE FURNO-Some say Florida guys are all bums, but he just won’t agree. (But Dave, how is it you come back all bronzed and tanned after each vacation?)

Another five-year phenomenon, Dave’s claim to fame lay in a successful career as a defensive front fullback in soccer. He plans to spend an entire summer basking in that glorious southern sky, only to return to Sem next fall.

PHIL GIESCHEN-Slim comes to us from Adrian, Michigan, via MLS. He says that between rooming with Haag’s acid tongue and trying to keep his modified 747 in fuel, he’s just lost his appetite. Giesch gave football a whack thisyearafterrewritingNWC’s hurdles rccordwhatever a 440 intermediate is. Slim will take his power forward rep with him to the Seminary hard­ woods.

CHARLIE GUMM—Charlie “The Crusher" Gumm grew up in a tough neighborhood deep in the core of Milwaukee. Apparently this early adversity stood Chuck in good stead as he grappled his way to the World’s Championship at the NLCAA wrestling tourna­ ment. Charlie also anchored the Trojan offensive line and contributed schmaltsy articles to this publication.

Who can forget his fascinating "Spotlight" articles?

Charlie will be making his metaphysical contributions in a Seminary classroom next fall.

TIM EHLERS—We don’t want to say that Tim is old, but there’s a rumor about that he was a high school classnate of President Toppe. Tim has spent the last two years as a Wartburg RA, boring the preps with stories of how it was when he was in high school at MLS back in the sixties. He’s also the resident mechani­ cal guru and gets into Easy Rider leathers while cruis­ ing around on his Suzuki 5000 chromemobile. Ray’s roomie will be Sem-bound in the fall.

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RICH GURGEL-Ah, the many talents of the stout young Augsburg R.A. from Fond du Lac. Known to opposing fullbacks only as the “mad penguin,” Richie rang a good many bells during his football career.

With the possible exception of a slight miscue vs.

MSOE, Carl’s baseball career was no less sparkling.

Richie’s the guy who wrote all the neat articles in B & R Volume 84, and earned a reputation for always staying cool as a test or term paper deadline drew near. Richie will turn in his canteen key, and park his Chevy at Sem next year.

JOHN EICH—Who could forget this guy from Wash­ ington? Who doesn’t try? From the moment Itch set his Maranathic styled, collar buttoned, tie bedecked, clean-shaven, close-cropped countenance on campus, he set himself up as the obvious model of the student body. From his 4.00 GPA to his ever spic and span doubleknits, John represented the epitome of North­ western style. Fortunately, four years here have straightened him out somewhat. During his tenure here we’ve been gifted with his talents on the organ, and even on cello in a pit orchestra, and his “Joe College” campaign for UMOC will live long in the hearts of us all. Next year, Eich’s Suzuki 850 will be parked in the Sem lot-provided that his parents don’t find out about it first.

DAVE HAAG-Dave stunned the soccer world last fall by scoring five, count ’em, five, goals in one game on the way to collecting AC honors. When Dave isn’t working on Ott papers or memorizing Neil Young’s latest album, he’s usually perusing some of the leftwing literature that finds its way into his mailbox.

Dave “No bones about it, I’m the most intelligent man on this campus” contributes to C & C and carries a

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out in an acting career with Forum. He played roles in two major productions, including Cyrano de Bergerac and Shenandoah, did make-up work for two other productions, and headed improvisational work on stage. Greg plans to use his golden tenor voice in the Sem choir next year.

RICK HIMM-Ricky found his true love here in Watertown, much to the chagrin of the girls back in St. Charles and MLS. After he’s finished working at Super America, Rick busies himself with wedding plans for this summer. But all work and no play makes Rick a dull boy, so Ricky relaxes with either a few games of sheepshead with Stretch and the boys or by battling it out with his electronic games. In the fall, Ricky and wife will be at the Sem.

heavy G.P.A. Dave survived a nearly disastcrous "fall on the ice" and plans to sport his BTS duds around Holy Hill next fall.

KEVIN HANKE-Kevin came to Northwestern College from St. Paul Park, after a brief stop at Luther College out in Iowa. Though talented in many areas, Kevin's brilliance is most evident in history seminar. His reci­ tations of dates of battles, wars, and peace talks has brought frequent smiles to the face of our silverhaired professor. Kevin’s talents will he well received at the Sem.

JIM HOFF—This football star from NPS kept his fame alive on the college gridiron. Since he was a native of Brownsville, "Bubba" gained favor with Prof. Scharf quite easily. When Jim’s not stocking the shelves at Busse's with aspirin and vitamins, you might find him in the woods hunting sparrows or deer, or fishing on one of Wisconsin’s fine lakes. Unfortunately, Brenda will be left alone as Jim heads to Mecca.

KEVIN HASTINGS “Kev” or “Wastings,’’ as his closer friends call him, joined our class after playing the industrial rodent for a year. This Wisco wonder hails from South Milwaukee. Wisco can be proud of this blossoming Greek and Hebrew scholar, who plans to write a few commentaries on Hodge and Robert­ son. On weekends you’ll find Kev guarding Milwaukee from vandals with a flashlight and a carton or two of Merits. Kev will be exhausting his commentaries at the Sem.

RANDY HUNTER-Randall El-Habdid Khomeni Hunter hails from St. Paul and his alma mater is St. Croix. The Hunts was stalwart on the defensive line for the last two years, copping first team AC honors last fall. He divides the rest of his time between Ray’s Shoes and his little Puerto Rican friend. After shocking everyone by getting along with his roomie, the usually insufferable Jim Janke, Randy decided he liked the Jankes so much that he'd take little Karen under his wing, too. Pastor Janke already considers him one of the family. Next year KJ will be sending her cute letters to Mequon.

STEVE HEIN—Shteef thrives on working 40-hours per weekend down at the Welcome Inn. in order to make up for his summer unemployment. Dcr Fledermaus was a three-year starier at defensive end, as well as an eight-year star greaser, as evidenced by his hefty GPA. Wint's roomie will move his $800 Sanyo TV and his voluminous matchbook collection over to Mequon next fall, if he can figure out how to get them there.

JIM JANKE-“Janks” had to face reality after spend­ ing four years at Winnebago Lutheran Academy. He quickly proved his prowess as a basketball player, but the splinters hurt, so he opted to join a champion­ ship I.M. team. Had it not been for an untimely knee injury, Jim could be seen throwing his junk to rival swatters from the Trojan mound. Although Jim has seen a lot of beautiful scenery in Florida, he would still rather head to Buffaloland for weekend fun, if he can get away from Carpets at Large. The scenery in Mequon will greet Jim next year.

PHIL HENSELIN-It usually doesn't take too long to guess whose hair-raising side-splitting laugh is cack­ ling through the halls of first floor Witt, because Phil is the only one nuts enough to do it. He spent much of his time here studying and putting together a vast book collection, and when he wasn’t being a mechanic or riding his bike, he was singing in choir or helping on the stage crews in the music-auditorium. If he can manage to tear himself away from the pleasures of Stewartville, he'll be heading to Sem next fall.

JOHN KEHL-John became an addition to the class of '81 in his sophomore year when he rejoined the Northwestern scene after a three-year break. Being the brother of the infamous Tutor Kehl for the last two years hasn’t been easy on John because he has had to take all the abuse which should be directed towards his brother. Nonetheless, he is standing firm, busying him­ self with studies and music. He plays oboe in the band

GREG HERMANSON-An aging five-year monarch of the class, Greg is finally winding down the days of his long stay here on campus. While some of his talent was used to boost the choir, Herme's real passion came

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(much to the delight of W.B.), sings in choir, plays organ, and spent a season with the soccer squad. Now John's setting his sights on the Pearly Gates in Mequon.

JOHN KENYON-Kuke learned to kick a soccer ball in the sunny climate of Seminole, Florida. Insiders say Kuke could probably kick a soccer ball through a brick wall. Now if he could just Figure out how to get it through a goaltender. John decided this spring to warm up the "ole soup bone” and give Ed's ailing mound corp a shot in the arm. The Kenyon home is overrun every spring break by John’s friends, and there's no rest in right for Mrs. Kenyon, since John plans to rejoin his friends next year in Ozaukee County.

didn’t get around to reporting for his freshman year until a semester had already passed by, thereby becom­ ing one of the few threc-and-a-half year men in history.

His room used to be so overrun with underbrush that he and his roomie Schocssow were in danger of oxygen overdose. Dan likes to wear his full-length WW 2 sur­ plus overcoats regularly, which should come in handy next year at Sem, JOHN KUSKE-Kusk has been the gym czar for the past two years, spewing his choler upon everyone who tried to play hoops on the dark courts or who tarried too long in the showers. He has spent every one of his four autumns at NWC anchoring down the offensive line, earning all-conference mention every year. He also chucks a mean shotput and disc during the spring.

Next year will find John wearing his double-knit slacks-nice sweater-no socks and tennis shoes ensembles at the Sem. DAVE LAU-Louie was a Wisco-Prep hybrid who has spent much of his collegiate career as head Kitchie.

During the winter he spends most of his waking hours in the weight room preparing himself for the track season. That’s one of the reasons he resembles an "after" photo in a Charles Atlas ad. The Horse served as the strong-armed class treasurer this year, as well as captain of the track team. Louie is one guy who always has a smile and never seems depressed. Next year, he'll be able to work out in the Sem weight room.

RAY KIMBROUGH-Ray is an example of the scholar­ ly class in Milwaukee. Here at school he diligently researches Plato, Horace, and Livy, and at home he delves into the arts of fine bakery'. Ray has kept a low profile here, with the exception of a stalwart I.M. career and an occasional attempt to re-fro his Afro.

It’ll be back to Milwaukee for him this summer, and then on to Sem. MARK KIPFMILLER-‘‘Kipfy” left MLS and Bay City behind to come to the land of AMC’s and Holsteins. A powerful force on the I.M. circuit, Mark spends much of his time in contemplation over a bowl of Borkum Riff. Under the watchful eye of his cousin, "Kipfy” led a monastical life here on campus; but what happens when he heads out with Barlow remains a mystery. Next year Mark will be setting up his resi­ dence in Mequon.

STEVE LOCKMAN -Steve is one whom the average four-year man has just got to respect. Five years have proven him to be a conscientious, hard-working stu­ dent. With an occasional intramural appearance. Steve has pretty much stuck to the scholarly life and helped feed “Kotail,” his roomie's piranha, with defenseless goldfish. Among other things, Steve was sporadically involved in chorus and helped out on the sound and lighting crews. After a long-awaited summer. Steve will be packing his bags for Sem.

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JIM PANKOW-Jimmy Joe is an eight-year man from Hubertus, where people get most of their excitement by watching the paint peel off the garages. The Sack played soccer for four years, starting at defense this last year. Anyone who can stand listening to Ken­ yon’s guitar playing for four years deserves some kind of award. Jimmy will be making the short hike over to Mequon in the fall.

MARK KOLANDER— Koly’s an NWC institution who arrived via the playgrounds of Montello. He’s sort of like the guy in a Harlequin romance-just too wonderful to be true. He’s made AC in baseball, basketball, and football. He’s active in student government, and was no louse in the classroom. Koly does everything but date the prettiest girl in school. As soon as Turk finishes hoisting his jerseys to the rafters in the gym, Mark plans to stow his accolades away in his lmpala and head for a reunion with big brother.

JOEL PETERMANN-Joel is one guy you can count on being on the go all the time, and for good reason. he’s one really talented person. In sports he's best known for his four years as a defensive fullback in soccer, and he led the team on to a second-place finish

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JAMES SCHMELING-“Stretch” has been a source of wonderment ever since he came slithering out of Prep onto the college scene four years ago. There just must be something about living in four different states in three years that hinders every physical development except height. Jim “well, basically..Schmeling, is a defensive terror on hoops court and will be driving his dumpy-looking Vega up to Sem in the fall.

PAUL SCHULZ-A native Milwaukeean, Paul took the Wisco route to NWC. After Paul arrived here, his dormitory antics earned him the nickname of “Mao.” Besides studying, Paul spent his time playing soccer, hitting balls on the links, and scaring the children of Watertown with his bus driving. Hell be bussing seminarians next fall.

PAUL STERN-PauI’s been at Northwestern for eight years. Though he spent some time in the sugar bushes around New London, Paul maintains that Watertown is where he found something sweet. This must be true, since he chose a wedding ring instead of sem neckties. Hopefully Wanda will keep him happy as he slaves away at Keck’s for just a year. So, Paul, don’t throw your Triglotta or Arndt-Gingrich away.

DAVID PLATH-lt didn’t take long for this guy to pick up the name “Peanuts’’ his frosh year (after the infamous Peanuts Hucko and his Jazz Five), and it has stuck with him ever since. Dave has contributed to NWC his talents in the Forum Society, especially as a soldier in Shenandoah and in the Caine Mutiny Court Martial, in band, chorus, and in track. And now, just as soon as he decides to (urn in his last religion paper.

Peanuts will be setting his sights on Sem.

JIM WEILAND-This Wisco grad is best known for two things: his wrestling title in high school, and his soccer prowess in college. He spent the first half of his frosh year crippled by a football injury, but came back the next three years to become the best goalie in our soccer league, winning an all-conference award. Jimmy also did a fine job of wrestling for a couple seasons and participated in the track program. With Sue’s permis­ sion, he’ll be at Sem next year.

JACK RADLOFF -After propping at Wisco. Jack left Pcwaukee to join (lie Trojans. Though Jack tried his hand at football, he finds more enjoyment behind the wheel of his muscle car His four-wheeled hobbyhorse costs money, so Jack has to spend his weekends paint­ ing with his dad; or does he go home just to get away from Kipfy? Next year he can park the car at Sem. DAVID ROSENBAUM-“Rosie” failed to establish a Young Democrats Party here, but with glowing bumperstickers on his jacket he gave his all for Pres. Carter in '80. A product of MLS in his hometown of Saginaw, “Rosie" has strived to instill his political ideology in the Trojan mind through the long arm of student government. Hopefully, “Rosie" will find more sympathy at the Sem.

TOM WESTRA-Lefty’s the woodsman and fisherman of the class of ’81. Although he’s yet to bag a deer, Tom’s been known to haul a hefty northern or two through the ice. If he’s not in the middle of some cosmic argument with Leroy or Hein, Tom’s probably putting the finishing touches on a large, thick and chewy pizza at Pizza Hut. Plitz’s nephew, by way of Beaver Dam, is Sem-bound.

TOM ROTHE-One has to wonder what Tom might have done if he could have walked away from his Queen albums for a while. Possessor of a deadly jumper, T.R. ripped up the IM leagues for three years before finally taking his shirt. A charter member of the Freddie Mercury fan club, Tom rocks the south end of third floor Witt, every afternoon. Tom’s spent eight years on the NW campus: next year this Brown Deer boy will haul his stereo to Sem.

PHIL WILDE-Phil is another one of those Mobridge (R.I.P.) enigmas. It took his classmates a while to 17

figure out if he was a real person or just another sixand-a-half foot IBM wearing glasses and loafers. He spent two years as one of Thompson’s hoopers, got sick of life in the limelight, then retired to the more ascetic, intellectual life, taking an active part in both male and touring chorus. Forum, and even a brief en­ counter in band. He’s been a regular contributor to the B & R and also writes for Northwestern Today. Phil will be packing his entire J.R.R. Tolkien collection off to inhabit the Sem next year.

PETE ZIETLOW-The only MLA scum in the senior class, Peter heads up the formidable Zictlow contin­ gent residing at NWC. We’ve always wondered how our class president could be so good at tennis and soccer but so incredibly lousy with girls. Ziet/.y has had more “this one’s for real" absentee romances than the Dean has cigar boxes. Next year we'll get to listen to his whistling and guitar playing at Sent.

JIM WINTERLE-Wint returned to NWC hearing wedding bells after a whirlwind summertime romance with a “cute as a bug’s ear blonde” from hometown Racine. Kins teamed up with Rothe for four quasiillustrious years of IM action. Their efforts were finally rewarded this year when they took the buckets crown. Guess our loss is Janet's gain, but we’ll miss Wint.

STEVE WITTE-What can you say about a guy like this? Five years here at NWC haven’t changed him a bit-he’s still the serious, intellectual, slightly loony, ever likable scholar we all know and love. An IM basketball ace and former cross-country star by trade, he set out to establish a real reputation for himself this year by converting his room into a far-Eastem styled shrine complete with two killer piranhas (one of which became past tense recently). Unless an over­ powering love for NWC somehow consumes him this summer, he’ll be planting his roots at Sem next year.

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his year the Tau Delta Theta Award goes to Richard Gurgel. The award was established in 1965 by the Centennial class, and is granted on the basis of scholarship, athletics and campus activities. The winner uses money from a special fund to purchase books for the North­ western College library.

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c/3 0Look^ at Qraduatiori An Editorial T\ is that time of year again. Term papers are slowly but surely being finished: ban­ quets and concerts are a major part of the school calendar; semester finals are lurking ominously around the corner; and everyone is looking forward to the end of another school year. This is especially true for about fifty NWC seniors who are eagerly counting down the days until May 20th. According to custom, they have been marking the milestone during the course of the year with the appropriate parties. Invitations have been sent, private parties have been planned, and many have already started packing their bags in prepara­ tion for the great exodus from Watertown to

the promised land of Mequon. Why is gradua­ tion such a big deal? Why do we all look for­ ward to the day when we will put on the cap and gown, march into the gym. sing some hymns, listen to a few speeches, get a rolledup piece of paper, and march out again?

Some would probably claim that this ceremony is outstanding because it marks the end of an era. After four or five years of hard labor it is finally time to move on to bigger and better things the graduate has “done his time.” Northwestern, in other words, was just a hurdle to be jumped on the way to the Seminary and ultimately the ministry. As a result, graduation day is a time to forget. It is 18

and the length of time until the student actually enters the ministry appears endless.

When graduation day finally arrives, he can focus in on his calling in life, and suddenly the ministry is not so far in the luture alter all.

It will undoubtedly seem even closer next fall when the graduates enter the halls of the Seminary. There they will be getting down to the “nitty-gritty” of the pastoral ministry.

Graduation will mean something different to every person who dons the cap and gown.

Parties and merry-making will naturally play a major role. But it need not be just a time to forget the events of the past; it can also be a time to remember, and benefit from those remembrances. Then the graduate can be even more prepared to meet the bigger and better things that lie ahead. We hope he can leave NWC with more than just a sheepskin.

time to forget all those peculiar Greek and Hebrew verb forms, the challenging semester finals, the all-nighters, and the drudgery of day-to-day preparation.

Surely there are some things about North­ western the graduate would like to forget, but he might also want to consider a few positive aspects of graduation. This rite is justifiably called a stepping-stone in our education. That scroll which the graduate receives carries some significance. It indicates that the student had the intelligence and persistence to study a wide variety of subjects and achieve satisfactory grades. We would probably all agree that no matter how diligent the student, after four or five years on campus lie's bound to learn some­ thing. The fact that lie is graduating shows that he did learn at least as much as he had to, if not more, to pass his courses. The years spent at Northwestern, however, not only provide an education in the classroom, but also on the stage, in the dormitory, and on the playing field. All of these contribute to the “well-rounded education.”

The graduate should also be able to look back and see the maturity which he acquired with his education. Without trying to insult the underclassmen, it should be fairly easy to distinguish a senior from a freshman on the basis of maturity. Becoming mature is u natural process that almost every student experiences during his years here. This is not necessarily an easy process, but may come the hard way through “blood, sweat, and tears.” The average senior could probably relate a host of stories about the “thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat" which played a major role in the grand and glorious process of growing up. Even more important than the physical or emotional maturity is the spiritual maturity which hope­ fully we all acquire during our stay. Studying God s Word in the original languages is an excellent way to be strengthened in our Chris­ tian faith. Even if a graduate does not go on to the Seminary, if he can say that he received this benefit while he was here, it was well worth his time.

Another matter for the graduate to con­ sider is a rededication to the pastoral min­ istry. It is often very easy during the course of study at Northwestern to lose sight of the goal, and the real purpose for attending this school’ Several subjects may seem a little irrelevant,

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Persecution Day-Assorted staged stonings and deaths by lions highlight this day’s fcsti1 vities. In the absence of lions, faculty pets | could be used.

Eskimo Heritage Day-Students split into groups with a junior class member leading each crew in the singing of traditional Eskimo songs i and discussions of our more popular Eskimo folk tales.

I Rob-The-Cradle-Day -In the tradition of Jimmy Hoff and Mighty Gerkin, all seniors must take a Quarta coed out to lunch. If the Quarta coed population isn’t large enough to make the rounds, Quinta and Sexta are always available.

Agent Orange Day-All campus grounds and faculty yards will be defoliated and un­ wanted vegetation will be destroyed through the application of Agent Orange. Possible

Napalm bombings could also be employed.

N.B.-The school will disclaim any liability for genetic defects in the Class of 2001.

Transplant Day-Students exchange hearts, lungs, kidneys, and other vitals with each other to promote a greater sense of camaraderie on campus. Again, the school will not be responsible for injuries, lost organs, or un­ fortunate after-effects.

Hygiene Day—All students will be herded into the showers, where the janitors would hose them down with industrial-strength sol­ vents.

Till next year, a hearty farewell from Jed, Granny, Jethro, Ellie May, Miss Jane, Mr. Dryesdale, Ronny, and Davey. As they would put it: Ohhhhhhhhhhh...

Now it’s time to say good-bye to all our fans & friends.

We'd surely like to thank you folksfor kindly droppin ‘in.

You’re all invited back next year to this locality.

To have a heapin' helpin' of our abnormality.

Take your shoes off., .set a spell.. .Y’all come back now, y’hcar!

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phase the Trojans. The weather was much better for this meet, and so were the perfor­ mances. Distance ace Jay Bendewald established two school records, running the mile in 4:23.52 and the 3-milc in 14:53.14. Freshman Bob Strack set a new record of 59.18 in the 440 yd.

IM hurdles and the 4x110 yd. relay team of Strack, E. Goldschmidt, Frey and Sims just missed the school record in that event with a time of 45.8. Mike Boldt filled injured John Beck's spikes in the javelin to win with a throw of 161'5” and cleared 6’2” in the high jump to miss tying that school record by an inch.

Once again when the dust had cleared from the field of battle the little college from Watertown had won the day. Final scores for the double­ dual meet were: NWC-78 vs. Ripon—57, NWC-80 vs. L.U.-61, and L.U.-70 vs.

Ripon-66.

The Trojans’ next meet was a mid-week dual at Lawrence again. The spirit of the team was about the same as the weather; overcast and gloomy. That, along with an apparent lack of interest in training over Easter break, were probably the chief factors in their 73-59 loss at the hands of the vengeful Vikings. Jay again took the 3-milc and the mile and almost got the half-mile too but came up a couple strides short at the tape. The half is too much of a sprint for Bendi! Gene Sims took his usual firsts in the long and triple jumps with his best leaps

The track team headed down to the Windy City for what is traditionally its first meet of the season against two Concordias, River Forest and Ann Arbor. The meet is also tradi­ tionally cold and this year was no exception, with gusting winds and temperatures in the 30's, by the end of the day. The only untraditional aspect of the meet is the fact that the Trojan track men came away with a victory over both schools, perhaps the first in NWC track history!

The team’s “win mentality” fostered by five-year veteran John Beck together with its depth combined to produce the win and some noteworthy performances. Beck himself took the javelin; other firsts in the field events in­ cluded Gene Sims in the long and triple jumps and Mark Wessel in the high jump. On the track freshman Les Hasbargen came from behind to win the quarter mile, and the little man from Spokane, Jay Bendewald, beat his nearest competitor in the 3-mile by over a minute.

Final results for the meet were: NWC-7F/2, R.F. -64‘/2, and A.A -43.

The team’s next competition was up north in Appleton against Ripon College and Lawrence University. Lawrence had recently returned from its annual warm weather train­ ing, this year in the Bahamas, but that didn’t 21

of the season, 20’V£” in the long and 39’2” in the triple. The team travels the well-worn path to Appleton for its next meet, the Lawrence Invitational, which will include such power­ houses as St. Norberts and Michigan Tech.

Good luck, track animals!

GOLF In the attempt to glean some information from the golf team concerning their perform­ ance in the past two matches, this writer received only angry stares. However, one mem­ ber did suggest that I accidentally forget to include golf in this issue and another golfer added that I might direct the reader’s attention to Campus & Classroom for the results of the two matches. Obviously the Trojan golfers are not as yet hitting the ball well. In their first outing at Beloit the team finished behind Wheaton College, Beloit and Ripon. Their second attempt on the links ended after only 9 holes with the rain claiming the back 9. Once again NWC finished a disappointing last behind i Carroll and Madison ATC. We hope that as the weather improves the golf team will too.

For its fourth venture on the courts the team visited Concordia-Milwaukee and managed to sweep four of its six singles events.

Kuske and Spriggs destroyed their adversaries both 6-1, 6-0. Paul Schaefer and Bentz put in a little more time before stopping their opponents. Zietlow/Spriggs shamed their doubles rivals and the teams of Bentz/Schaefer and Kuske/Raasch came out on top in their matches too. The result of such tough playing gave the Trojans their biggest win yet, 7-2.

BASEBALL As always the baseball team missed its first few games because of the ever-changing spring weather. But when they finally got to take the field in a double-header against Madison ATC, it was well worth the wait. Two frosh hurlers pitched complete games for the Trojans and both were only three hitters. Mike Hartman was credited with the first win, in which the Trojans’ bats came alive to sock in 10 runs to MATC’s 1. Tim Soukup led the team to another romp, 7-1. The only thing missing from these illustrious victories was the hardthrowing arm of veteran third baseman Ross Henzi, who decided to scrap hardball and follow in the footsteps of Eric Heiden by taking up bike racing! We hope he’ll come to his senses and return to play next season; he’s a tough guy to replace.

The team’s next two games were both cliffhangers against Lakeland College. Steve Schmeling pitched the first game for the Trojans and was pinned with the loss when NWC dropped the game in the bottom of the seventh 3-2 on a squeeze play. The Trojans did turn the double-plays in the game, one off a fly ball and the second with bases loaded when Schmeling fielded a grounder, threw to Pitt for the force at home and Phil gunned down the batter on his way to first. The second game was no less exciting as the Trojans came from behind to tie the game 7-7 in the top of the seventh, only to lose again in the bottom of that inning when they couldn’t hold on to keep a Lakeland run from scoring. Three pitchers took the mound for NWC in the losing cause, starting with Jim Weiland, then John Kenyon, and finally Mike Hartman, who received the loss. With four games played, Phil Hirsch leads

TENNIS Except for losing its first non-conference match against the U.W.-Whitewater JV’s, the tennis team remains undefeated. The first opponent to fall before the hard-hitting Trojans was Lakeland College by a score of 6-3. No. 1 singles player Pete Zietlow and no. 6 player Charlie Raasch let their rivals take the match to 3 sets before putting them away and Martin “Howard” Spriggs and Jon Kuske came up with singles wins also. The devastating duo of Zietlow/Spriggs crushed their doubles foes 6-2, 6-2, and Kuske/Raasch clobbered theirs 6-0, 6-2.

The team headed over to the Capitol City to take on MATC in its next match and served up a defeat to them too. Spriggs took his singles match in the third set 6-0, and Martin Bentz, Jon Kuske and Joel Petermann also triumphed. The consistent NWC doubles teams came through again to clinch the victory with all three conquering their opponents in some hard-fought contests. The final results showed the Trojans out ahead, 6-3.

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the Trojans with a .533 average. If the rain will let up long enough for the team to get in some more games, there is no doubt they’ll improve on their .500 record. We’re all looking forward

TODD GOLDSCHMIDT

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ANNIVERSARIES

-Pastor Norbcrt Gieschcn (’52) was installed as pastor of St. John’s in Fremont, WI, on April 5, 1981.

-Pastor Allen Klcssig (’69), from Mar­ quette, MI, was installed as pastor of Calvary in Abrams, WI, on May 3, 1981.

—Pastor Timothy Meier (’72) from Messiah in Shiocton, WI, was installed at Zion in Peshtigo, WI, on May 3, 1981.

—Pastor Daniel Schaller (’73) was installed as assistant pastor at Salem in Owosso, MI, on March 15, 1981.

—Pastor Paul Schmeling (’74) was installed at Hope in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, on March 1, 1981.

—Pastor Thomas Kutz (’73) formerly of Glencoe, MN, was installed at St. Paul’s in North Mankato, MN, on May 3, 1981.

-Pastor Daniel Nitz (’73) formerly of Aurora, NB, was installed at St. Luke’s in Grand Rapids, MN, on May 3, 1981.

-Pastor Dale Schiiewe (’73) of Hudson, WI, was installed at Mt. Olive in Graceville, MN, in May.

-Prof. Oscar Siegler (’37) of Prairie du Chien celebrated his 40th year in the ministry on April 26, 1981.

-Prof. Herbert Jaster (’52) of Prairie du Chien celebrated his 25th year in the ministry on April 26, 1981.

—Pastor Edward Zell (’42) celebrated his 35th year in the ministry and his 35th year of service at Lola Park (Detroit), MI, on April 26, 1981.

DEDICATIONS —Gethsemane of Kansas City, MO, dedi­ cated its new worship-education-fcllowship unit on March 22, 1981. Pastor E. Stroh (’74).

-Cross of Christ in Liverpool, NY, dedi­ cated its new worship facility on May 3, 1981.

Pastor of the congregation is Kenneth Kappel (’71).

—Calvary of Eaton Rapids, MI, just com­ pleted a new worship facility. Pastor of the congregation is Curtis Holub (’71).

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-Bruce Bitter (’80) is engaged to Jill Werre.

A June 13, 1981 wedding is planned.

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RETIREMENT -Pastor William Lange of Wisconsin Rapids, WI, will be retiring effective June 30, 1981.

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BIRTHS —A son, Nathan Andrew, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Lance Hoff (’72) on March 13, 1981.

-A son, Michael James, was bom to Vicar and Mrs. James Fischer (’78) on April 7, 1981.

—A daugher was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Glen Hieb (’76) on April 1, 1981.

—A child was born to Pastor and Mrs. Ronald Raddatz (’72) during March.

—A son, Philip Andrew, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Dennis Hayes (’65) on March 29, 1981.

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1 Even this noise ceased when Nazi heels clicked, throwing sparks, and the doors were opened.

The electricity filled the concert hall, making the piano on stage glow in fearful anticipation. Two names rose silently on each pair of lips, poised fora second, and faded away unsaid-Picrre Chanson and Louis Tabouret.

Several blocks away Louis sat trembling in his one-room apartment at the Paris Conservatory of.

Music. Although..his hand held a small canary, his mind dwelt solely, on the other name, Pierre, for this would be fife first concert since the death of his closest friend. A shudder swept through Louis’ body once again as he remembered the execution. It had been so sudden-the swift command, a hail of bullet?, and Pierre was gone. They had made an ’example of him; by playing patriotic French music at a public concert he had committed high treason against the Fuehrer-oi so they said. Louis had run from the awful scene, panic overtaking His entire body. He could fcoi the pain and the torture, the hopeless despair of that moment. A sharp cry from the canary, nearly squeezed to death, brought him out of his dream, and he spent an entire precious minute comforting the bird before returning it to its cage.

“Why, oh, why, my dear little pet, should / be faced with this terrible decision? Look at this manuscript-do you see it? Pierre left it on his. desk—what? Yes, I know you’ve seen it often. Do you remember its title? Of course, “LibcrtS, Egalite, et Fraternity.’’ Just like the French national motto. What should I do? Pierre would have wanted me to play it, you know. But my life—I can­ not just give it up! Who would take care of you! Who would see that the music of Motherland France never dies? I’ve worked all my life to preserve our precious music, and now it comes to this.

Who? I cannot. But I must! There has to be some way-” A sharp knock on the door brought an abrupt end to his speech. The knock was repeated, exactly the same, and Louis knew that jt was time to leave for the concert. Quickly he gathered his music, but before he was finished, his eye lit on a little piece of red, white, and blue cloth lying on the table-a small facsimile of the French flag. Stuffing this in his suit coat pocket, he opened the door and was escorted by a Nazi military guard to the waiting limousine.

Three weeks ago he had submitted the list of compositions he would play for the concert honor­ ing the fourth anniversary of the Nazi occupation of Paris. It had been innocuous, although at that time he had already considered playing patriotic French music. Pierre would never forgive me, he • ' thought. These barbarians all around me-they care nothing about music. They care nothing about

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Established in 1897. contributions Literary from undergraduates and alumni arc invited. All literary material should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chicf. Subscrip­ tion, $4.00.

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‘The Fuehrer thanks you.”

So short had the interview been, so abrupt the officer, that Louis had not even had time to offer any impassioned pleas. He was half way to the concert hall now, and the same physical reactions he had experienced after the execution were resurfacing: sweat trickling down his forehead, a pounding heart, and a nervous energy that forced his fingers into dancing on his knee. No impassioned pleas would help him now either, because these men were simply machines, programmed to do their duties with as little emotion as pos­ sible. Cursed robots, Louis thought. He fingered the piece of cloth in his pocket, and it gave him hope. No mindless machines could take apart the hundreds of years of history that this flag stood for. If only they could not take apart his life.

They arrived at a side entrance of the building, and the master-pianist hurried to the little cubicle they called his warm-up room.

He did not need to warm up, for he knew the piano on stage well; he and Pierre had helped in its construction. The face of the dead man floated around him, first accusing, then crying out in anguish, and finally warning of the consequences of his decision. “There is glory in death,” it cried. “Glory in death...”

Louis could feel the energy in the packed auditorium as he walked down the hall toward the stage door. Inside, the lights were dimmed, the spotlight switched on and the doors closed.

No one moved in his seat, for each was well aware of Louis’ difficult decision. There was no doubt where the crowd’s sentiments lay— Pierre was already secretly revered as a local hero. Every man, woman and child wanted to see the Nazis embarrassed; Louis Tabouret was one of their few chances.

The best pianist at the Conservatory, the fervent lover of France, had come to a decision.

Roaring applause met his appearance on stage, but when he sat down at the piano, the charged silence once again was overpowering. He lifted his hands and touched the keys. Beautiful, stirring chords rang from the walls—chords of a Bach invention. Grown men wept.

my France. Pierre cared, but they don’t. I had to turn in that list of Beethoven and Bach pieces. They coerced me...

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“You will turn in a list of compositions within ten days. Is that clear?”

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Professors Schmidt and Kruse I n his novel, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. m Salinger states, “You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher.” Whether or not this principle is true as a whole, we’ll let you make your own decision. As for North­ western College’s two new professors, John Schmidt and Jerome Kruse, the principle cer­ tainly isn’t true. We found both men to be most interesting and thought-provoking.

If you’ve seen Professor Schmidt around campus or have him for a Greek class, you’ve probably noticed his smile. Professor Schmidt’s smile is part of his positive attitude toward life, always striving to be mindful of the mani­ fold gifts that God has given him. One such gift is his family. He and his wife Linda have four children: Jeffrey (age 8), Jason (age 7), Jody (age 5), and 11 month old Jill. The three oldest now attend St. Mark’s Lutheran School here in Watertown.

Professor Schmidt was bom in Fond du Lac on September 10, 1947. After completing his elementary education at St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Brownsville, WI, and his high school

education at Lomira, WI, Public High School, he planned on attending the University of Wis­ consin at Oshkosh to study mathematics. But during Professor Schmidt’s senior year in high school, partially because of a social studies class, he decided to study for the preaching ministry. It was during a discussion on a religious topic in that social studies class that Professor Schmidt realized that many people have deep and troubling questions concerning their faith in God. ‘That made a deep impres­ sion on me,” he adds, “and I thought that if I could do something to change that I should.”

Having played football and baseball here at Northwestern, Professor Schmidt fondly recalls Coach Umnus’ “gentle words of encourage­ ment” in football. He also remembers the conference championship won under Coach Pieper in baseball during his senior year. Pro­ fessor Schmidt had the privilege of attending NWC for an extra year, thanks to the five-year plan, and graduated in 1970. In 1974 he graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. : He spent his vicar year at St. Paul’s Lutheran 27

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Professor Schmidt’s seven years in the ministry were spent as pastor of the dual parish of St. Paul’s Lutheran of Grand Junction and St. John’s Lutheran of Montrose, Colorado.

During the early years at St. Paul’s in Grand Junction, the parsonage was used as the church building. The living room was used for the church service itself, being equipped with pews, altar, and a piano; meanwhile, the kitchen was one of the Sunday school rooms.

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The second man joining our school’s faculty this year is a familiar face to most of us here at Northwestern. Professor Jerome Kruse has been called to teach mathematics, to coach basketball and track, and to assist Coach Thompson with the football team. His is a familiar face because he has spent the last seven years as athletic director, coach, and math teacher at Northwestern Preparatory School.

Our two new professors have something in common, for both were bom in Fond du Lac on September 10th (Professor Kruse in 1935).

After spending his elementary and high school years at Oakficld Public School, Professor Kruse went to the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. “When I went to the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh,” he recalls, “1 originally enrolled in engineering, because I like math and science. But in my junior year up there I switched to education.” After serving in the

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Although it has been a few years since Professor Schmidt last studied Greek here at NWC, he says that his insistence upon always studying the Greek and Hebrew texts in his sermon preparation will benefit him in recalling the Greek verb forms and syntax. His optimism and zeal will also surely aid him in brushing away the cobwebs from his classical Greek.

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Professor Kruse brings with him an interest­ ing and refreshing concept in the teaching of mathematics, stating that a math course that is required for a degree from NWC ought to include many practical elements. “In my courses.” he adds, “I have included such practi­ cal things as computing income tax for a family, financing, budgeting, and so on.”

When not teaching math. Professor Kruse spends considerable time coaching. He will coach both track and basketball this year. As for the basketball team. Coach Kruse looks forward to a good year. He says that the addition of Lakeland and Concordia to our conference will make for a tougher level of competition. “As the level of competition goes

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Last season was a big year for Coach Kruse at NPS. His football team won the Private Schools, Class B, State High School Championship and his basketball team won the Lutheran High School Tournament. In fact, Coach Kruse says that last year’s basketball team was probably the best team he has ever coached.

Although Professor Kruse says he has no ambition to coach the Green Bay Packers or do a Lite Beer commercial, his goals and objec­ tives here at NWC are certainly ambitious and praiseworthy. We wish both he and Professor Schmidt the Lord’s blessings upon their work.

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when Michael Woldt entered the world, that some short twenty-six or so years later he would not only be controlling three floors of collegiate pandemonium, but also be coaching tennis and at the same time be trying to teach innocent young Sextaners the ins and outs of that distinguished dead language called Latin?

Certainly his parents, Ruth and Alfons Woldl (the Executive Secretary of the Special Minis­ tries Board for the Wisconsin Synod), had no premonition of the impending destiny of their eldest son. Even Tutor Woldt himself, through­ out his younger years, did not envision that he would be cast in such a role as he has now obtained. His lifelong ambition was to become a teacher. From grade school at Atonement Lutheran in Milwaukee, through two years of high school at Wisconsin Lutheran and through his final two high school years at Michigan Lutheran Seminary, his career aspirations were directed toward the teaching ministry.

However, when the senior year came, and most of the male graduates intended to attend Northwestern College, Michael Woldt decided to go along and found himself in the beautiful and enlightened hub of Midwestern culture called Watertown. (And that was even before it had a Burger King!)

Watertown, yes, what an alluring site!

The pull to come here is almost irresistible.

"What be this vicious cycle?

This eternal fire that burns— That the tutors do return?"

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As the black darkness of the cold night follows the bright sunshine of the warm day, as the violent storm of destruction follows the peaceful and wondrous calm, as the blistering winds of winter follow the mild and pleasant breezes of autumn, so the new guard of student control follows the unrestricted freedom of summer vacation. Yes, it is the office of the Northwestern College tutor. Every two years, somewhat magically, just when the student body has found relief in the fact that they have worn out their present tutors enough to have them depart-presto chango!-fresh troops arrive (two in number) to replace the ancient regime. Then the cycle begins anew: the endurance of the tutors vs. the tenacity of the students. Will this senseless warfare never end?

Will this objectless conflict never be resolved?

Naw! That would take all the fun out of it.

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But you know what they always say: “Once a Watertonian, always a Watertonian.”

It just seems natural that Michael Woldt should be in Watertown. Accordingly, he is here, a dominant force in the society, government and culture not only of Northwestern College, but also of WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN. Let us not forget, however, the other tribal chieftain who completes the new military command here at Northwestern-that modem day Pancho Villa, admirer of martial law, and force majeure—Tutor James (Tiger) Connell.

Architecturally opposed, so to speak, to the Wittenberg fortress of his compatriot Michael Woldt, Tutor Connell operates a tight ship within and without the gates of his Wartburg Hall. Within are the unleashed warriors of the freshmen class and scattered remnants of mercenary sophomores crying out for leader­ ship to captivating Kaiser Connell. Without are

the untrained legions of History-Religion pupils in the Quinta class and the unruly gang of kick­ ing combatants known as the soccer team, both looking toward Commander Connell for guidance, direction, and a good laugh once in a while.

Life began for James Connell in the sterile environs of a hospital on December 9, 1953, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Life continued, as it often does, via the educational process.

After refusing several football scholarships from local grade schools, Jimmie kept his profile low and attended Emanuel Lutheran Grade School in St. Paul. As a result, the NFL did not draft him straight out of eighth grade as they might have if he had gone to a big name grade school. Jimbo thought it better to attend St. Croix Lutheran High School right in St. Paul rather than to be making lots of money as a tight end for the Rams. By the time J.C. graduated from high school, he was too old for the pros and so decided that the only way he would get to play was if he paid the team instead of getting paid. It worked as he came to Watertown to play with the North­ western College Trojans. His contract ran out after five years with the team, and by then he was out of ready cash to negotiate a new agree­ ment. Besides that, the management subtly hinted that he should leave by giving him a concisely worded certificate of “graduation” as they stated, although Jim knew it was just a ruse to get him on his way. But just as always and forever, James Connell eats his oatmeal with or without lumps. Hence he hit the road to Mequon and prospered without organized football at the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary.

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Married life will most likely be more fulfilling than passes, receptions, tackles, and victory marches.

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above, and below our consciousness, accepting the fact that James Connell and Michael Woldt are the leaders of the pack, the vanguard you might say, the disciplinarians, the men who quit themselves like men, associates and comrades in arms, philosophers and strate­ gists, counselors, teachers, preachers, medicine men, and distinguished scholars. Our friends, the tutors.

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Bursts of patriotic fervor splash against the sky, Explosions, as it seems, set off on cue.

A thousand burning splinters far outshine the stars for one brief moment, perhaps for two.

The crimson glow of revolutionary flares The sparks of half-remembered bombs are captured in the eyes of those who watch, Who feel a certain hazy courage a dust-covered pride a forgotten closeness.

But soon, too soon, the colored embers lose their fire and charred remains hit waiting waves and hiss.

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accreditation, NWC’s credits arc readily trans­ ferable to other colleges and universities, a feature especially useful to graduates who need to do graduate work at other schools and to those at NWC who change their minds about preparing for the ministry and wish to transfer to other colleges. Government grants and aids also become available to students through accreditation.

Those for accreditation also stated that the college would benefit from the comments and criticisms of the NCA because “we see our­ selves most objectively through the eyes of others.” Many helpful suggestions have been received through the accreditation process along with much praise for NWC’s strong points. Those in favor asserted that the NCA has no official educational philosophy to which its members must subscribe. It recognizes the “unique and diverse character of its many individual institutions” and “each institution must be judged against its own stated purpose.”

Furthermore, criticisms expressed by the NCA are not prescriptive and the college may take them or leave them, explaining why it would rather do things its own way. It was also ob­ served that DMLC, also recently accredited, states, “the entire accreditation process has been an exhilarating process from which the college has profited a great deal.” NWC’s not accepting accreditation “might be looked upon

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The resolution adopted does have some teeth in it, however. The NWC Board of Con­ trol and faculty, together with the Synod’s Commission on Higher Education (CHE) must “carefully evaluate any and all recom­ mendations from the NCA in light of the goals, objectives and philosophy of NWC.” In addition, the resolution says, “If at any time the NWC board and faculty together with the CHE become convinced that continuation of accreditation by the NCA requires us to violate any Scriptural principle or the goals, objectives, or philosophy of NWC, at such time NWC must withdraw from the NCA.” These provisions in the resolution reflect the debate over the pros and cons of accredi­ tation which took place on the convention floor. Most of the sentiments expressed are summarized in a report submitted by the faculty to the college board and printed in the convention’s Book of Reports and Memorials.

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The final and most important point made in favor of accreditation is that the process so far has not required violation of any Scriptural principle. The NCA is a voluntary non-govern­ mental agency and NWC may withdraw at any time should any such principle or the college’s stated purpose be violated.

Those against accreditation feared that such a withdrawal would become increasingly difficult as the college became dependent on accreditation for student financial aids and for academic respectability. Accreditation could thus cause compromises in its educational philosophy and established purpose.

Most of the arguments against accredita­ tion centered around the “secular influences” accreditation might have on the college. The NCA has, for example, suggested that NWC “appoint young professors with extensive graduate training from major universities.”

The NCA has also advised that the North­ western professor “maintain a double profes­ sional commitment-to his Christian calling and to his calling as a liberal arts professor.”

(The NCA feels NWC has not placed enough emphasis on the latter.) Visitors from the NCA also observed that “too many hours were spent by the students in the classroom.” They encouraged devoting more time to “extra­ class preparations” and “the pursuit of in­ dependent curricular interests.” The negative portion of the faculty statement contrasts these suggestions with an excerpt from the Seminary’s Self-Study: “Research and reading have their proper place in the indoctrination process, but the primary form of exchange between teacher and student remains in the classroom.”

It was also noted in the faculty report that others from outside of the school have had apprehensions about the “secular influence” involved with accreditation. One instance is an educator in the ALC who comments that as Lutheran colleges have tried to be more “American,” they have “sought to live up to the standards not of the Book of Concord but rather of the American educational accredi­ tation agencies.” Another is an article from Christianity Today quoting Dr. J. Preus who implies that the Missouri Synod’s slide from orthodoxy has been caused in part by its men

acquiring “other ideas at non-Missouri gradu­ ate schools.” A centennial history of the WELS

by M. Lehninger is also cited which comments that because of the special nature and purpose of NWC, it has never sought accreditation in the past. Lehninger continues, ‘The school has never been willing to submit its teachers and its course to the judgment and evaluation of these agencies, because it is hardly within their province to judge the fitness of teachers and courses that prepare men for the Chris­ tian ministry.”

It was also expressed that NWC does not need accreditation, since over 90% of its graduates go on to the Seminary and ultimately into the Synod’s pastoral ministry. NWC has given its graduates “a quality education with­ out being accredited for over a century.”

At the convention voters were reassured that the differences among the faculty anc board members over the issue had not been ol a doctrinal nature, but merely differences in Christian judgment. The report of the faculty stated that it is united “in its determination to be guided by the Word of God.” In addition, “Whatever choice the board and the Synod make, we pledge our own continuing commit­ ment to the mission which has been assigned to Northwestern College: helping to prepare men for admission to the Seminary and for service in the Christian Gospel ministry.”

The road to accreditation began in August of 1975 when the WELS at its convention authorized NWC to explore accreditation with the NCA after it together with other regionally unaccredited colleges in the State of Wisconsin had been asked to do so by the University of Wisconsin System; otherwise, NWC’s credits would not be acceptable to the UW-Systcm. The college made application for candidacy for accreditation with the NCA and was granted this status on July 21, 1976.

Prior to this, at the time of application, an advisor from the NCA was assigned to NWC, and self studies were submitted in November of 1975 and 1980.

Visitation teams arrived in 1976, 1978, and 1981; a consultant, in 1977. In general, these teams recommended that the college improve in the areas of curriculum; separation from NPS; faculty preparation, development, and teaching loads; and library. The consul­ tant remarked that “too much of the learning 33

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college’s financial status and a progress report is to be filed with the NCA in 1984.

Ed. Note: Action in other areas relating to NWC was taken at the August convention.

Student marriage policies have been reviewed and a resolution was passed that places in­ creased reliance on counseling undergraduates planning to be married rather than on regu­ lating the marriage of such students. The policy, however, remains highly restrictive.

The Bethany Program of special preseminary training for those who decide for the ministry later in life will continue at Bethany College of the ELS, Mankato, MN. Voices had been raised in the past to absorb this program into NWC’s curriculum, but disadvantages such as costs, housing, and curriculum adjustments made this unfeasible.

goes on in the classroom” and added, “Were students taught their subjects fewer at a time with more concentration.. .they could well learn more and still have time for more sciences and social sciences.” The later visitation teams noted the progress the college was making in these “areas of concern” and praised the college in such areas as clearly stated goals, the quality of the physical plant, fiscal soundness, efficient organization, faculty dedication, stu­ dent morale, and vocational awareness.

The 1981 visitation team remarked, ‘The student body must be considered an instituf tional strength. Students were a delight to engage in conversation and their morale was t} obviously high....” This team recommended i i NWC for accreditation with a comprehensive ; review to be scheduled in 1983-84. A report J including an externally prepared audit of the

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st years have seen revisions in the advising/ counseling system at Northwestern College.

The faculty has made conscious efforts to match their programs with student needs.

To encourage further growth and expan­ sion of capabilities, two members of the Faculty Development Committee, Professors Eickmann and Plitzuweit, together with Professors Lindemann and Baumler set up a workshop-retreat that was held on August 17, 18, and 19, at the American Baptist Assembly in Green Lake, Wisconsin. The theme for the retreat was: “Advising and Counseling at NWC: Defining our Role!’

Under the present advisor system, each student on campus is assigned to a faculty advisor. The basic role of this advisor is to care for the student’s academic wants, needs, and problems. The student is encouraged to go to any faculty member in whom he has confidence to discuss personal problems that might be putting undue pressure on him.

The Faculty Development Committee felt that perhaps more could be done, thus improv­ ing and expanding the advising system. This feeling was borne out by a poll taken at North­ western College by both faculty and students.

A large majority (82% of the faculty and 78% of the students) felt that the faculty advisor ought also be a personal counselor as well as an academic advisor, with 75% of the students feeling that the faculty, in this way, ought to help the Dean and tutors. In this connection it is interesting to note that 64% of NWC students considered all faculty members to be their “pastors on campus.”

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While the students were divided as to whether or not their advisors spent sufficient time with them, 55% of the faculty felt they spent too little time with their advisees, and 75% wanted to spend more time with them.

In dealing with academic advising, Dr. Milt Hillery, Regional Director of the Educa­ tional Services Division of American College Testing (ACT) spoke on the usefulness of the ACT college entrance exam in advising. The ACT, he said, shows general intelligence in the various areas of education as well as the personality traits and special interests of the student. This presentation was followed-up by a round table discussion on the value of the ACT at Northwestern as compared to other schools.

Professors Sellnow, Spaude and Fricke discussed the differences in advising at various stages of student life, from the special care given to the freshman and beginning special students to the more easy-going advising nec­ essary at the upperclass level.

A role-play of a “Dorm Bull Session” was enacted by Tutors Kipfmiller, Connell and Woldt on the various attitudes toward advisors that are found in the student body, ranging from disdain to an acute sense of need.

It was recognized that the tutors, who have more of a peer relationship to the students than the faculty, play an important part in communicating with and counseling the stu­ dent.

Listening is obviously one of the most crucial aspects of counseling. In order to im­ prove listening techniques, Mr. John Juem

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from Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Service in Milwaukee discussed “Active Listen­ ing.” Mr. Jucrn stressed the point that as a counselor, the faculty member must show his concern through his method of listening.

Allowing distractions to interfere, lack of eye contact and gestures of acknowledgement can lead a student to the conclusion that the advisor isn’t really concerned.

While 75% of the faculty felt they wanted to spend more time with their advisees, the students should understand that the profes­ sor is caught in a battle of priorities. As a pro­ fessor, is it right to take time away from class preparation to engage in counseling? Should a professor spend more of his free hours in oncampus locations so that he is available for counseling? Of course, the answer lies with each individual professor as to how much time he needs for careful class preparation work. At present, 39% of the students feel that the personal counseling system serves adequately, while 45% feel it, in some way, does not serve them well.

Pastor Carl Mischke, President of the Wis­ consin Synod, addressed the topic, “Counseling Onward and Counseling Out,” in which he shared some perspectives on what qualities and characteristics a counselor should look for in a prc-Seminary student that would or would not make him a good candidate for the ministry.

Is the student “moderately gifted,” able to communicate and meet people, or is he a boor, a loner, and a constant malcontent? The faculty wishes to and ought to be able to say of each student going on to the Seminary, “There goes my pastor!”

To talk about the results of this workshop in concrete terms is impossible. Each faculty member was enriched in a different way.

Perhaps some changes have been noticed already. Most importantly, we should realize that the faculty is not stagnated in archaic counseling methods, but is actively looking for ways to improve their counseling so that as many qualified men as possible reach the ministry.

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This is a new column of the Black & Red in which you, the Northwestern student, get a chance to speak out on various topics.

QUESTION: Do you find the NWC library to be an adequate facility?

MARK HAYES-SOPHOMORE The library is adequate for our school's purpose, but that is about it. I don't think that it is adequate for many English assignments because of the variety of topics which must be researched. It also lacks many of the books and periodicals needed for “recreational reading’’ (hobby magazines, outdoor magazines, etc.).

KELLY POCHOP-SENIOR It is adequate in providing information; however, as far as seating, noise level, and easy access to the stacks, it could be improved. It needs carpeting and individual study carrels. 1 would like to spend more time there, but the overall atmosphere doesn't lend itself to studying.

JOHN PARLOW—SPECIAL III For what we are here for it is (adequate). If you came here to study science, there isn’t anything there for you. But for our purposes, it is good. If I had to improve it (the library), I would add more periodicals.

MIKE KUBE-SENIOR I see many areas in which it could be improved. We need comfortable places to study which are somewhat secluded-perhaps carrels with comfortable chairs. We need carpeting, nice lounging chairs, and longer hours. Maybe a door could be added in the basement to stop the noise from coming in from the town girls’ room. The periodical room’s accessibility could be enhanced. In general, a more homey atmosphere in which to study. I also think it would be nice to be able to wear shorts in warmer weather.

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If such procedures are employed in courses dealing directly with doctrine or in courses using exegetical study of Scripture texts, there could, of course, be serious problems.

Nor does such self-directed study lend itself well to the lower levels of language study where rote memorization of vocabulary, syn­ tax, and forms is the norm.

Discussion and student research do fit well into most other areas of the liberal arts curriculum, however, and they should be employed even more at Northwestern wherever possible. Whether examining the cause and effect of some historical event, analyzing the implications of Plato’s Cave Allegory or under­ standing the theories of the Romantic age of literature, music, or art, reading and exchang­ ing points of view broaden the student’s under­ standing and allow him to form his own opinions and make sound Christian judgments with Scripture as the authority. More know­ ledge is likely to stick with him rather than bounce off because he has worked for that knowledge. Discussion and individual study especially when used in conjunction with lec­ ture periods force the student to review, sort, and assimilate information. It becomes a part of him, not just his recent memory. Here the essay method of testing is an advantage, for it measures how well and how much knowledge has been sorted and absorbed.

orthwestem is an accredited college.

During the process leading to accredita­ tion, many recommendations made by the accrediting agency have been studied. Some have been accepted resulting in positive changes for the college. Others have been rejected because they would upset the delicately balanced duel purpose of NWC: that of being both a pre-professional theological school and a liberal arts college. Still other suggestions are under current study and are being carefully weighed against the philosophy and goals of NWC. One such area under study is the “approach to learning” applied at NWC. It has been said that “too many hours are spent in the class­ room” and not enough in discussion, inde­ pendent study, library research and outside reading.

This criticism has been addressed in the past, and the faculty is to be commended for the action it has taken in response to it. Discussion periods accompany some courses; more independent study involving outside reading and library research is being assigned; and the science course now includes a laboratory period.

Yet, progress in this area has been cautious.

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Such modes of teaching need not by-pass the professor and his authority. He is the stimulus, the director, and the seasoner of the learning. He must make certain that the judg­ ments are sound and in accord with the values set forth in Scripture. The professor might also benefit from the experiences of his pupils and be compelled to broaden his own horizons and deepen his own understanding by doing original research. The benefits can be mutual.

Reviews

MOV1ES Coming out with the recent wave of sci-fi movies this year is an unfortunately mem­ orable film called “Clash of the Titans.” The idea behind the flick is promising: drawing upon the rich stories of Greek mythology and using today’s special effects to produce some top-notch entertainment. If only the movie would have accomplished at least one of those aims. The movie is based very loosely on the story of Perseus and Andromeda, but the only hint of that story are the lead characters’ names. Perseus is played by a no-name John Travolta look-alike with the brains to match.

Flying in the face of the Greek tradition in heroes, this Perseus doesn’t have an original thought in the entire movie. It may be a trifle hard to swallow, but the special effects were even worse than the acting. At least, it could have come up to the standards set by Japanese B-movies in the Fifties. The monsters look like plated mechanical dolls, which takes some doing because they’re actually actors in make­ up. Still, if you’re really desperate for enter-

Teaching students to read on their own, do independent research, and to make sound Christian judgments will have far-reaching effects. In the ministry that former student will, by force of habit, keep himself informed as to ideas and practices in his world and make evaluations in accord with Scripture. To make his assessments he will not always have a pro­ fessor to instruct and guide him. He will, how­ ever, have God’s Word.

tainment and have a few dollars to burn, put the four bills in an ashtray and set them on fire. It’s better than wasting your time with this movie.

Well, “Tarzan” has been done again. John and Bo Derek have tried to remake one of the classic films of all time, and failed miserably.

One minor problem is that the film is not about Tarzan. They should have named it, “Jane, The Not-So-Fully-Clothed Swimmer.”

The major problem is that the production credits read like a Derek family home movie.

Bo is producer and starlet—the production was at best the pits; her acting and line delivery have been outdone in entertainment value by watching paint dry. John Derek, director and photographer, probably couldn’t take good films of a grade school football practice. The two fight scenes, with a boa constrictor and a huge Negro with a Mohawk, were filmed in swirling slow-motion, an interesting concept to start with, but it was highly overplayed and drawn out. The only redeeming quality was Richard Harris’ portrayal of crazed explorer James Parker, but even this got tedious even-

tually. On a scale of one to ten, Bo is still a ‘10’, but this movie is a zero.

Hey, we’ve got a good one! Walt Disney has come out with a fantasy movie that actually follows closely the legends of the Middle Ages. . For those of you who arc interested in tales of dragons, heroes, and pretty maidens, “Dragonslayer” is the catch of a lifetime. It is a wellplotted tale of a small kingdom beset by a cranky old dragon, complete with ancient wizard, evil warriors, and good knights. The special effects arc Disncyish, but very effective, with some excellent first glimpses of the big lizard. The sub-plots are well-worked in without , being so numerous as to be confusing. All this plus some good acting makes this an awesome movie to see if you can still catch it somewhere.

JON TESCH RECORDS Come in out of the darkness-and experience a little night music with Stevie Nicks. Her solo effort, Bella Donna (Modern Records), gives us further insight into the beautiful, mysterious woman who has lent her haunting melodies and vocals to such Fleetwood Mac Classics as “Rhiannon,” “Dreams,” “Gold Dust Woman,” and “Sisters of the Moon.”

Stevie often seems to be describing herself in her lyrics, as the kind of woman that will haunt you, the bella donna, fragile yet danger­ ous. She is more expressive on her own without the restricting influence of a band and the ideas of other band members vying for attention.

Here Stevie is free to run the show, and it is her personality that shines through, despite the strong back-up personnel, including Tom Petty, Don Felder and Don Henley of the Eagles, and Waddy Wachtel, lead guitarist with Warren Zevon. Even if you’re not a Stevie Nicks fan, this album could turn you into one.

A definite departure from the sheer beauty J of a Stevie Nicks are Dusty Hill, Billy Gibbons, and Frank Beard—the rather seedy-Iooking lot who call themselves ZZ Top, with their new disc El Loco (Warner Brothers). They may not be pretty, but they do play some good getdown music. The ‘Tube Snake Boogie” may just be the best thing to hit the radio since The Shadow. Buy it, tape it, beg it or borrow it, but by all means listen to this record and have a “Party on the Patio.”

Zimmy is in seventh heaven—the Stones have a new album out. Tatoo You (Rolling Stones Records) is a bit out of the usual mold for rock’s oldest band. Side one is normal— and awesome-enough, picking up where Emotional Rescue left off. “Hang Fire,” “Slave,” and “Neighbors” are among the best the Stones have ever done. But the flipside is somewhat of a departure, slowing down the tempo with songs that are more lullabies than Stones tunes. Could it be that they are showing they have mellowed with age?

At long last Greg Kihn has been recognized.

As a concert performer he has been rated right up there with Springsteen, but his albums never seemed to make it. Next of Kihn and With the Naked Eye, his last two efforts, were hailed by the critics but failed miserably on the charts. Well, if you keep making good music long enough somebody is going to start buying it, and it finally happened. RocKihnRoll broke the barrier for the Greg Kihn Band, with two smash singles, “The Break-Up Song” and ‘The Girl Most Likely.” The music is a bit on the pop side, but very easy to listen to and not nearly as obnoxious as most of the tunes you hear on AM radio.

The new effort from the Kinks is called Give the People What They Want (Arista), and that is exactly what this album docs. “If the people want a new Kinks album after a two-year silence, that’s what we’ll give them, even if it’s not our best effort.” Ray Davies’ vocals seem to be degenerating, the arrangements arc muddled and sloppy, the songwriting is dis­ appointing in comparison with their past efforts. Yet, there are a few bright spots, most notably “Predictable,” “Destroyer.” and “A Little Bit of Abuse.” This could have been a good album with a few more months of engineering and polish.

Once again, ladies and gentlemen, here is the last album from Little Feat. Hoy! Hoy! (Warner Brothers) is the second Feat record to be released after band leader Lowell George's death, and probably the last. There can’t be much Little Feat music left to put on vinyl, for this is a double album collection of pre­ viously unreleased recordings and assorted different versions of Feat classics, some of which sound like the original demo tapes recorded in somebody’s garage. Don’t bother with this one unless you’re a bona fide Feat freak.

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And finally, for something completely different, it’s The Secret Policeman's Ball (Island Records), recorded at the 1979 Amnesty International Comedy Gala at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. (Bet you didn’t think one could use that many capital letters in one sentence, eh?) The record consists of a pair of poor songs by Tom Robinson, a comedy ditty from Neil Innes, and some intriguing cooperative efforts between Pete Townshcnd and classical guitarist John Williams. Townshend sings Who standards “Pinball Wizard,” “Drowned,” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” to the solo accompaniment of Williams’ acoustic guitar. A very unique recording, to say the least.

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Have you heard the one about Kermit the Frog trying to get a loan? That’s right, it seems Kermit found the perfect home, a $25,000 lily pad, and needed a loan to make the down-payment. So he went to his bank and was directed to the loan officer, Lionel T. Paddywack. “I’d like to take out a loan,” Kermit declared.

“Well, Mr. Frog,” Paddywack replied, “do you have any collateral?”

“Hmmm, I don’t know. Let me go home and see what I can find.” Kermit searched and searched for something of value as collateral, but all he could find was a miniature gold figurine of Miss Piggy. So he tucked it under his arm and went back to the bank.

“Mr. Paddywack, this little knick-knack is the only thing I could find for collateral.”

“I don’t know, Mr. Frog,” Paddywack answered him. “I’ll have to ask the bank president if this is acceptable.”

So, Paddywack went to the president’s office with the statuette of Miss Piggy. “Sir, I’ve got a Mr. Kermit Frog outside who needs a loan and would like to use this little statue as collateral. Is that kosher?”

The president was quick to reprimand him.

“Why, of course, silly! It’s a knick-knack, Paddywack-give the frog a loan!”

Pretty good humor, huh? It’s too bad we aren’t writing jokes for Jolly Good soda instead of a college magazine. Oh well, at least with these jokes we can elude the splintering meatcleaver of the censors (that’s somewhat akin to Beaver Cleaver, but with more punch). It’s all just to make sure that the final packaged pro­ duct you get is genuine, 100% Grade A pork wieners (with no rat lips added, mind you).

Every year the campus seems to get a bit of a facelift, adding a few new wrinkles here and there just so the students don’t cast her aside like an old girlfriend. How many of you have noticed the fresh paint-job in the stair wells, for example? The cafeteria always does its part with stunning new innovations like the rolling salad bar and the nifty iced tea machine.

The most notable recent addition to our hallowed grounds is, of course, the brilliant new marquee lighting up the southwest corner of campus. Rumor has it that Mrs. LoisStrobel, a housewife and secretary from Watertown, Wisconsin, won it as a prize on The $10,000 42

coupon packets. Up until now, the NWC stu­ dent body was not welcome in the Watertown community. But put away the sackcloth, put away those ashes, for the lonely days of exile are over. Look forward to a sharp reduction in verbal assaults by ceeps and don’t be too sur­ prised if a Watertownite, a total stranger, stops you on the street and invites you over for a cocktail, because we arc welcome now.

The first month of school has revealed a dramatic improvement in study habits in the dorm. The tutors are pleased to report that no stereos have been played after 8:00 p.m. on weeknights, and that most students have been polishing off their homework by 10:00 or 10:30. You would expect a senior slide to be in progress, but quite the opposite is true. Why the sudden turn-around? Well, much of the credit has to go to Matt Crass. Matt has taken it upon himself to check rooms each night to

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One of the more interesting developments this year is the scandal surrounding the resig­ nation of Humphrey, alias Bob Burdick, as head of the custodial staff. Humph will return to his free-spirited existence of former days.

This left the coveted position of No. 1 Jani up for grabs, and the applications began to pour in. The job went to yet another from the Mobridge unemployment lines, Mr. Bauer. If he has any of the intimidating height of a William Birsching or the presidential good • looks of a Wayne Ten Broek, he should do just | fine. (We asked ace student jani Brett Voigt for some further insight into this story, but un­ fortunately he could not be revived for com­ ment.)

Last week Paramount Pictures announced that they had purchased the television film rights to Jerome Kruse’s autobiography. The film, tentatively titled Supergreat, Coin’ to State, will star Ernest Borgnine in the lead role as Coach Kruse. Shaun Cassidy is putting on some weight to play the role of linebacker Paul Lindloff, and Fred MacMurray will play Coach Hahm. Supporting characters include Bea

Arthur as Miss Lenz, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello as Dave Rothe and Jenny Reul, John Candy as A1 Zahn, and Dean Gabb as himself.

Last year one of the greatest all-stars in teaching mathematics retired and was inducted into the Professors’ Hall of Fame in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. We are speaking, of course, of our dear departed Edgar Pieper. We at the Black and Red felt serious guilt-pangs for having failed to pay tribute to this large man last year; so without any further ado, We hail thee, Big Ed! Prof. Piepcr’s retirement to raise tobacco in Chaseburg spurred us to speculate what occupations some of our other revered peda­ gogues will seek after they hang up their chalk­ boards and their lecture notes: -Prof. Sellnow will break all existing money-winning records playing on the Legends of Golf tour.

-Prof. Scharf will purchase a villa near Milan, where he will busy himself weaving elaborate wreaths for the Sistine Chapel’s Christmas celebrations.

-Prof. Sullivan will serve as a translator at the United Nations. His principal function will be interpreting for German, French, and Polish diplomats, but he will also spend some of his time tearing old treaties and embargo declarations in half so the blank sides of the half-sheets can be used for vocable quizzes.

-Prof. Quam will win a Tony award and wow audiences across the country starring as Puck in the touring production of A Mid­ summer Night's Dream.

-President Toppe will not retire.

-Prof. Franzmann will build the first great pyramind on American soil, which will serve as a mausoleum for all former members of his Art elective.

-Prof. Spaude will go on the road as light­ ing and sound man for the 1994 tour of the Rolling Stones.

-Prof. Schmidt will do commercials. To advertise the American Express Card, he will look to the camera and say, “Do you know me?”

And finally, no Campus & Classroom column would be complete without a section of sordid gossip: Did Chuck Wolter really injure himself by attempting to consume an entire bottle of ale through his hand? Where does Jon Ladner go at night? Does Debbie Ross 44

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season as a club and that, together with the fact that they are only a two-year college, makes it tough for them to field a topnotch club. They did have some well developed players this year, however, and showed a marked improvement over last season. By next season they hope to become members of our conference, the Wisconsin College Soccer Conference. NWC’s J.V.s accounted for at least half the team’s goals.

The following week the Trojan kickers more than met their match against the Car­ thage College Redmen down in Kenosha.

Taking advantage of NWC’s early game jitters, the Redmen’s attack tallied two quick goals.

The Trojans picked up the tempo, holding Carthage scoreless for the remainder of the half, but failed to capitalize themselves, thanks mostly to superb saves made by the opponent’s goalie. In the second half the Trojans came out smokin’ and peppered that same goalie and as a result Kelly Pochop came up with the team’s first goal. The Redmen answered with a score of their own making it 3-1, but the Trojans kept the pressure on and Jon Bitter managed to put another ball into the net. Carthage was not be be denied on their home turf, though, and added a penalty kick and another goal to

For the first time ever, NWC’s soccer team has the distinct honor of being a varsity sport.

In past years as a club the turnout for the squad often came close to competing in num­ bers with the football team, but this year was the smallest group in at least four years—around thirty players. Still, the coaches feel a trimmeddown squad is easier to work with. Speaking of coaches, the team also has its first faculty coach this season. Tutor James Connell, a graduate of last year’s Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary class. Though a football player during his stay as a student here at NWC, the new coach is excited about directing soccer and is optimistic about the team’s prospects.

Three student players are also helping with Kelly Pochop, coaching responsibilities: Jeff Schone, and Todd Goldschmidt, all starters. Other starters include Jon Bitter, Eric Goldschmidt, Jon Kuske, Mark Henrich, Joel Nitz, Roger Knepprath, Jon Balge and Tim Nommensen.

In their first outing of the season the Trojans met a fledgling Wisconsin Lutheran College team and handed them (or kicked them) an 11-0 defeat. This year is WLC’s second 45

win 5-2. NWC seemed to dominate the second half of the contest, but just couldn’t put it all together. The team is already looking forward to avenging their loss when the Redmen come to Northwestern in October.

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Following in the footsteps of last year’s track team, the cross-country team took the meet for the first time ever. The order for the Trojans’ top seven finishers went as follows: Jay Bendewald first, Mark Paustian third, freshmen Andy Bauer and Dennis Rardin fourth and seventh respectively, Randy Loux ninth, Paul Birsching eleventh and another frosh, Howard Mohlke. fourteenth. Bendewald's time for the four-mile wooded course was 21:25. Scoring for the event ended up as follows: NWC 24. U.W. Sheboygan 46.

M.A.T.C. 73, and Holy Redeemer 92. Besides the team’s top seven runners, other men who fill out the club include sophomores Dennis Krieger and Mark Westendorf and freshmen Dan Helwig and Brad Pearson.

The second contest of the season took place the next weekend at Yahara Hills golf course in Madison and was sponsored by M.A.T.C. This time the field was a little larger, the competition a lot tougher and the course a niile longer. Still the Trojans managed to come up with a respectable fifth place out of a dozen teams participating. Once again Jay took the blue ribbon with a time of 25:46. making up for his seventh place showing at the same meet last season. Mark Paustian also ran a commendable race to finish seventeenth.

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Milwaukee schools. The first game took place here at NWC over Labor Day weekend against Concordia Milwaukee on a cool, overcast day. There were definitely some clouds over the Trojans’ offense too. They managed to generate only three points during the course of the afternoon, and those came on an excellent 47 yard field goal by freshman Chuck Wolter in the opening quarter to pul NWC on the scoreboard first. Four minutes later the Fal­ cons went ahead on a two-yard run: with the extra point the score stood 7-3. Milwaukee.

Two minutes later Concordia got on the board again with a 31 yard pass play and another conversion. The second and third quarters remained scoreless for both teams, this speaks well for the Trojan defense. With a little under

two minutes left in the game, however, the Falcons ran back an interception for eleven yards and another TD. Final score for the game: Northwestern 3. Concordia-Milwaukee 21.

The following weekend the Trojans traveled to Milwaukee to take on the Marquette Warriors football club. This time the weather was sunny and hot and so w-as the Trojan offense. They gained 193 yards on the ground and balanced their attack with 135 yards in the air for a total offense of 327 yards compared with 192 the week before. Freshman Dave Rothe The football team started out the season got the scoring started w?hen he hit Phil Hirsch with two non-conference games, both against 46

with a 21-yard pass off the halfback option to put the Trojans up 6-0. Toward the end of the quarter, Tim Soukup added six more on a four-yard run, and this time Dan Reich added the point after to put the Trojans up 13-0.

The defense was NWC’s strong point the second quarter, and safety Gene Sims’ two interceptions were sore spots for the Warriors.

The offense received good field position off one of those pickoffs, and freshman quarter­ back Duane Rodewald was able to drive into the endzone with four minutes remaining in the half. Marquette was only able to come up with one first down before the halftime whistle and left the field down 20-0.

After the break the Trojans started out slowly but were able to recover a fumble which turned out to be another costly mistake for the Warriors. The same play that started the team off in the first half was again successfully utilized, and Phil Hirsch found the endzone again, this time on a 23-yard play. The ensuing kickoff provided Marquette’s only score of the aftemoon when Bob Durrett sped down the sideline for 88 yards and six points. Less than four minutes later the fourth quarter got under­ way with the Warriors down 26-6. Two more of their passes found their way into the arms of

Northwestern defenders Charlie Raasch and Jack Korfmann, thus stopping Marquette’s only two encroachments into the Trojans* half of the field. Rodewald was able to come up with another TD pass of 7 yards of Mike Schultz, and Reich’s conversion proved to be the last point of the game. Trojans win it 33-6.

Holding down the offensive line again this year are seniors Dan Marshall and Eric Zimmer­ man (cf. S.I., Sept. 21 ed., p. 92). Leading the Trojans in rushing and total offense so far this season is Tim Soukup with 153 yards followed by quarterback Mike Nitz with 105 yards total offense. Mark Wessel and Phil Hirsch are running a close race for most yards on recep­ tions with 76 and 69 yards respectively.

Defensively, Todd Zietlow leads the Trojans with 13 unassisted tackles and 6 assists followed

by Marty Bentz with 5 solos and 6 assists.

Mark Lindloff helped out on 11 tackles this season and Karl “Tower of Power” Schmugge has 16 tackles to his credit. Coaches for this year’s team are Lloyd Thompson, head coach and defense, Dean Edward Lindemann, offensive backfield, and last season’s head coach of the state champion Northwestern Prep team, Jerome Kruse, as offensive line coach.

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-Pastor Norman Paul (’62), formerly serving Christ the King in Palatine, IL, was installed as pastor of St. Paul’s in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, on September 13,1981.

-Pastor James Naumann (’69) will be installed as pastor of Christ the King in Pala­ tine, IL, on October 11,1981.

-Pastor David Kipfmiller, (’75), former NWC tutor, was installed as associate pastor at Eastside in Madison, WI, on July 19, 1981.

—Pastor David Aderman (’71), formerly serving a mission in Dubuque, IA, was in­ stalled as pastor at St. Paul’s, Ridgeland, WI, on August 2, 1981.

-Pastor John Zarling (’72), formerly pastor of Shepherd of the Verde Valley in Sedona, AZ, was installed as professor at Arizona Lutheran Academy this fall.

-Pastor Mark Lenz (’65) of Urbana, IL, was installed as a professor at DMLC on August 23, 1981.

-Pastor Percy Damrow (’65) of Mishicot, WI, was installed as pastor of St. John’s of Hastings, MN, on August 30, 1981.

-Pastor David Kehl (’75), former tutor at NWC, was installed as associate pastor at St. John’s of Redwood Falls, MN, on August 2 1981.

-Pastor Roy Rose (’67), formerly of Trinity in Bangor, MI, was installed as pastor of St. Paul’s in Green Bay, WI, on June 14, 1981.

-Pastor David Pagel (’69). who served Triune God in Ramsey, NJ, was installed as pastor at St. Matthew’s in Appleton, WI, on July 12, 1981.

-Pastor Charles A. Schlei (’47), formerly a Civilian Chaplain in Europe, was installed as an instructor at Manitowoc Lutheran High School on August 31, 1981.

-Pastor Howard Russow (’36) of Sleepy Eye, MN, was installed as pastor of Calvary in Glen wood, MN, on August 30, 1981.

-Pastor Glenway Backus (’52) of Hastings, MN, was installed as pastor at Emmanuel in Hudson, WI, on July 12, 1981.

-Pastor Walter Davidson (’74), formerly of Oskaloosa, IA, was installed as pastor of Salem in Loretto, MN, on June 21, 1981.

-Pastor Dale Schliewe (’73), formerly of Hudson, WI, was installed as pastor of Mt. Olive in Graceville, MN, on June 7, 1981.

-Pastor Roger Wahl (’72) was installed as pastor of St. Paul’s in Broken Bow, NB, on May 24, 1981.

-Pastor Jonathan Schultz (’75), former MLPS tutor, was installed as pastor of Peace in Boulder, CO, on July 19, 1981.

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-Pastor Thomas Lindloff (’75), former tutor at MLPS, was installed as pastor at St. Mark’s in Sutton, NB, and First in Aurora, NB, on July 26, 1981.

ANNIVERSARIES -The following celebrated 25 years in the ministry during the summer: Herbert Lichtenberg, Allan P. Zenker, Roland F. Zimmermann, Paul A. Manthey, Robert Baer, Reinhard Bittorf, W. Koclpin.

-Pastor Hogey Bergholz celebrated 40 years in the ministry on July 19, 1981, and retired from full-time service on July 1, 1981.

He is now serving as senior assistant at St. Paul’s, Appleton, WI. -Pastor Lyle Koenig celebrated 40 years in the ministry as well as his 40th wedding anniversary on June 21, 1981. He serves Bethany in Appleton, WI. -Pastor Karl A. Gurgcl of St. Peter’s, Fond du Lac, WI, celebrated 40 years in the ministry on May 17, 1981.

-Pastor Herbert Lcnike celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination this summer.

—Pastor Raymond Zimmermann celebrated his 50th anniversary in the ministry at Grace in Glendale, AZ. -Pastor Milton F. Weishahn (’38) celebrated his 40th anniversary in the ministry on August 8, 1981.

-Good Shepherd of Burton, MI, celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 31, 1981. Pastor of the congregation is the Rev. H. Bimer (’38).

-St. Peter’s of Plymouth, MI, celebrated its 125th anniversary on November 23, 1980.

The pastor is the Rev. L. Kocninger (’42).

Pastor E. Schulz (’44).

—Martin Luther Church in St. Louis, MO, dedicated a new church on May 31, 1981.

Pastor Roger Zehms (’62).

—Salem in Escanaba, MI, dedicated a new church building on May 24, 1981. Pastor Paul Wilde (’49).

—Immanuel, Route 1, Appleton, WI, dedicated a new school building on August 23, 1981. Pastor Gerhard Schapekahm.

-King of Kings in Little Rock, AK, dedi­ cated a new worship-education-fellowship unit on May 24, 1981. Pastor John Gawrisch (’74).

-Redeemer of Hastings, NB, dedicated a new church building on June 7, 1981. Pastor Gerhard Eckert (’38).

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-Calvary Lutheran Church of Eaton Rapids, MI, dedicated anew worship-educationfellowship facility on June 21, 1981.

-Peace Lutheran School Federation, com­ posed of Faith, Reedsburg; St. John’s, Rock Springs; St. John’s, Hillpoint; and Trinity, Lime Ridge, WI, with pastors David Krenkc (’58) and Dale Tollcfson (’72), dedicated a new school on August 9, 1981.

-St. Peter of Monticcllo, MN, dedicated a new parsonage on August 2, 1981. Pastor Thomas Frey (’70).

-Grace of Hutchinson, MN, dedicated an addition to their church on August 16, 1981.

-Pastor Immanuel Boettcher (’21), Insti­ tutional Missionary from Neenah, WI, retired on July 1, 1981.

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ENGAGEMENT -The Rev. Gregory Gibbons (’75) is engaged to Wanita Sanchez, and a wedding date of October 11, 1981, is planned.

MARRIAGE -Pastor Michael Plagenz (’76) married Pamela Abel on July 25, 1981.

DEATHS -Prof. Philip Janke (*47) died on May 25, 1981. Funeral services were held at Immanuel, Manitowoc, WI, on May 29,1981.

—Pastor em. R. F. Bittorf (’26) died on June 1,1981.

BIRTHS -A son, Matthew, to Pastor and Mrs. Richard Kanzenbach (’74), bom August 1, 1981.

—A daughter, Marie, to Pastor and Mrs. Mark Lindner (*74), bom July 27,1981.

—A son, Nathan James, to Pastor and Mrs. Paul Scharrer (’74), on June 24,1981.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST -Philip W. Koehler (’42), Director of

Facilities Management at the University of Hawaii, received a Meritorious Service Award, the highest honor from the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges at their annual meeting in Okla­ homa City in May, 1981. Mr. Koehler has served on the APPA Board of Directors since 1972, and served as the 1980-81 President.

-Dr. David Schmiel (’53) has accepted a call to serve as dean of instruction and profes­ sor of historical theology at Concordia Semi­ nary, St. Louis, MO. After his graduation from NWC, Dr. Schmiel studied at the Oberursel Seminary in Germany and graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 1957. He earned his degrees from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, with a major in church history and a minor in systematic theology. In recent years he has concentrated his studies in late medieval, Reformation, and American Lutheran church history.

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Here is a light-hearted glimpse into Northwestern’s not so serious past. This issue’s article comes from the Black and Red, Vol­ ume 4, Number 9 (February, 1901).

“On Corns” “Corns are of two kinds: vegetable and animal. Vegetable com grows in rows, and animal com grows on toes. There are several kinds of com: there is unicorn, capricorn, popcorn, com dodgers, cornfield, and the com which is the com you feel the most. It is said 50

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IMODERN AMT AT NWC W n a comer of Northwestern’s library reading room hangs a modest, unimposing, and famous m work of art. It may not be readily noticed, as the huge portrait figures near the ceiling compete for one’s attention. It may seem simple, even crude, at first glance. But it is a masterpiece of modem art, done by the only one of the first-line ‘Moderns’ whose work reflects a heartfelt Chris­ tianity.

Notes below the frame on the library wall say this is an original print from a series of 58 aquatints, or copper etchings, a series named Miserere (Latin, to have compassion). The artist is French-born Georges Rouault (Roo-OH). Four hundred-fifty prints were made from each of the 58 copper plates, so there are a total of 450 complete sets of Miserere. The monetary value of Northwestern’s “original” is not overwhelming-perhaps $1,000 at the most. What is more valuable about print no. 4 of Miserere, entitled, “Seek refuge in your heart, poor wanderer,” is the faith of Rouault and the hearts of those who brought the print to Northwestern.

The library wall note names as the donor “Leonard Scheller, a Milwaukee newspaperman.”

Scheller, a bachelor at 74 and retired since 1975, says his love for the work of Rouault began one Friday in ’56. “It was my day off from the Milwaukee Journal,” he says, “and I was ‘loosely’ clean­ ing house.” He was watching a local TV show “and there was a man showing prints from the Miserere.”

They were to be exhibited at Marquette University. An alumnus and well-known booster of Marquette, Scheller went to see the Rouault exhibit. ‘The whole series of fifty-eight was there on the wall,” he says. “It was a terrific sight.”

Miserere pictures are based on themes of human nature’s attitudes and actions, the suffering human spirit, the perfect suffering of Christ and the comfort that is ours through Him. There are scenes and portraits of prostitutes, corrupt judges, hypocritical women of high breeding, beggars, convicts, generals in love with war; and, clowns who live behind masks to bring moments of pleasure to others. Fewer in number are the pictures of the silent suffering of Jesus, the example followed by those who have the comfort of salvation. They are pictured, too, in contrast with the unregenerate individuals whose sorrows and comforts do not reflect Christ.

Len Scheller was captivated by the art of the devout Roman Catholic Rouault, who in simple lines captured much of human nature and, as much as an artist can, the love of Christ. The artist treated the sin themes not so much with bitterness and judgment, as with compassion.

Scheller was particularly drawn to picture no. 8, a portrait of a world-weary clown, entitled,

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Modem Art at NWC

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Run of the Mill

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM

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Campus Comments

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Autumn Fire

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The cover-“Seek refuge in your heart, poor wanderer.” This print of an engraving by Georges Rouault hangs in our library.

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“Who does not paint himself a face?” He later put “Rouault’s Clown” first on his list when he began to look for original prints to buy. Today it is the most valuable picture of the series; it sells for over S3,500. An entire Miserere set is worth over $9,000. But when Mr. Scheller began buying original prints from Paris art houses in 1956, most prints went for S50-S100.

For fifteen years he invested in individual prints and a few complete sets of Miserere.

However, Scheller has never had all of his Rouault acquisitions at one time, because in 1958 he began to give them away. Marquette,

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He no longer has a full set of his own, he says, because he has given parts of it away to colleges and high schools.

By 1974 Scheller’s talent for getting rid of great art had gained the attention of Northwestern’s own Professor Elmer Kiessling, who retired from the English department in ’73.

Kiessling (“Rex” to friends and “Doc” to students-he has a Ph. D. in Church History), who has written for The Milwaukee Journal's

book review column for 44 years, knew Len Scheller, who was a Journal copy editor.

Kiessling approached Scheller about donations and asked, “Have you ever considered North­ western College?” Eager to promote the appreciation of Rouault's art on the college campus, Scheller invited Doc Kiessling and his wife to choose one of several Miserere prints.

It was no. 4 that the Kicsslings took to a Milwaukee framer, and which now hangs in our library.

Len Scheller has two goals as an art enthus­ iast: “To give a Rouault print to every Wis­ consin college and university; and, to give prints to every Jesuit college and university in the United States.” Like Georges Rouault, Scheller is a devout Roman Catholic.

Rouault grew up in late 19th century France, a time of civil war and hostility with the German state. The image of the militaris­ tic Prussian, with his designs on French terri­ tory', saddened and embittered the young artist. Resentment of this militarism, and a zealous concern over the decadence of France during that time, is reflected in much of his early work. His Catholic faith was a large influence and helped to tame some of the anger in his work as he matured. From a family of craftsmen, Rouault turned, to painting and engraving after a successful apprenticeship in stained glass work. He developed a personal, highly expressive style, but his integrity kept him from rushing to belong to the modern trends and schools of art. His art had a message, but it wasn’t political, romantic or scholastic.

The world is sad and vain; Christ is the only true comfort. “Jesus on the Cross will tell you better than I,” he said of Miserere, The work of Miserere was spread over thirty years of Rouault's life, and the copper plates from which prints are made were worked and reworked by the artist. By 1948, when Misere.e was published, Rouault’s art was known and loved by much of France, especially those close to the Church. When he died in 1958, he was given a state funeral by the French government.

The NWC library has a book with pictures of the Miserere series. The book’s commentaries

by Frank and Dorothy Getlein are helpful and enjoyable, although the print reproductions are poor.

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Then siml Now t the time of the German Reformation, the German people were probably the most vibrant people in Europe. They were a rather unique mixture of piety and sensuality, allow­ ing legal prostitution in what was, generally speaking, a time of moral laxity. Even though bathing was a national passion (unlike many societies before) and dress was grandiose, manners became coarser with time. Almost ironically, family life also nourished as house­ holds with as many as fifteen children were not uncommon. The discipline administered both at home and at school was firm. Will Durant, a well-known historian, writes, “All in all the picture is one of a people too vigorous and prosperous to tolerate any longer the manacles of feudalism or the exactions of Rome.” The causes of the Reformation were, of course, much deeper than merely a vigorous nationality.

Educational theory and practice prevalent at the time played a large role in putting the German Church in need of a reformation.

Scholasticism, a philosophical ideology combining religious teaching and philosophy, was popular in Luther’s time. Within the ranks of scholasticism two distinct approaches developed. The first, called the via moderna, played upon the thought that universal have no reality outside man’s mind and are merely names. The second, named via antiqua, based its philosophy on the idea that reason and a knowledge of nature are necessary for under­ standing Scripture and theology. Some from this second division became able preachers of repentance and social reform, though they mistakenly based their hopes for change on the Law. The Platonic Academy also had a great impact on late fifteenth Century thought.

The interest in this school of thought was brought about by the recovery of some early Greek manuscripts. The people were intrigued 54

by Plato’s attempt to bring all material and spiritual things into one great unity of ideas, this “unity of ideas” being Plato’s concept of god. This emphasis on secular philosophical learning led to a strong secular spirit, even in the church.

The religious atmosphere in Germany ai the time of the Reformation was also peculiar.

Outwardly, the land of Germany seemed quite devoted to the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope felt sure that Germany was an unending source of money for him as the Germans showed an almost feverish enthusiasm in the use of the Roman Catholic “Means of Grace.”

The Germans bought indulgences, went on pilgrimages and built an unusually high number of churches. For example, in the city of Cologne at the end of the fifteenth century there were 11 great churches, 19 parish churches, 22 monasteries, 12 hospitals and 76 convents. It has been estimated that more than 1000 Masses were said in that city in one day.

Religion, so to speak, was flourishing in Ger­ many.

With the rise of universities, the German people began to think independently, that is, without Rome. More and more the Roman Church became like a shopping mall—one large structure with many smaller “buildings” within it.

One of these “buildings” was mysticism.

Basically, mysticism tried to make religion “feel” beneficial by making religious satis­ faction dependent upon holy living and feeling personally “close” to God. This tended to personalize religion, while it also over-em­ phasized inner spiritual “feeling.”

Another of the movements was Christian humanism. Essentially, “all Christian human­ ists were motivated by an optimistic belief that they could reform society and restore the unity of Christendom by means of the New

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The good which resulted from this move­ ment was a knowledge of primitive Chris­ tianity—religion before the Roman Catholic Church and its leaders claimed absolute rule in all spiritual matters. Some of the followers of this movement saw the Roman Church as a vile corruption of true Christianity. They tended to minimize the importance of the frequent church festivals, the use of images, statues, the elaborate liturgy and even some of the seven Roman Catholic Sacraments. This group, however, never separated from the Roman Church because it felt that reform could be accomplished best from within the framework of the traditional church. Their hope, however, was based on the misguided belief that man is basically good and has no original sin.

Meanwhile, the Roman Church was answer­ ing the people’s call for scenic display and magnificent processions by performing miracles plays at their many church festivals. To a small degree, these plays served as instruction insofar as they were based on biblical scenes and history, though one might question how accurately these plays represented Scripture, especially as many of them degenerated into nothing more than a series of dirty jokes.

One procession, held on the Feast of the Ass, commemorating the flight to Egypt, is particu­ larly notable. A beautiful girl would be seated on a donkey which was standing in the church garden. The donkey, with girl on top, would be led into the church where the Mass was finished by the people braying.

Preaching was very shallow in pre-reforma­ tion times. Very little Gospel was included in most sermons. The art of preaching had become nothing more than trying to tell the people, by means of the Law, to correct the moral laxities prevalent in German society.

This outward religion apparently was not followed very closely in the home. It seems that religion in the home was caught between the Roman Church and simple evangelical training. In some homes the Ten Command­ ments were taught as well as the Lord’s Prayer,

and some homes dared contradict the Pope and believe that faith is what saves, not member­ ship in the Roman Church. Even though this element of evangelical belief was there, it was often lost among superstitions to which many Germans clung.

The faith of most Germans was based on fear. Fear led them on pilgrimages in an attempt to atone for some of their sins. Indulgences were popular things to buy. Fear led them to embrace astrology. Fear led them to seek refuge in relics. Jesus became the picture of a fierce Judge who would come to punish the evildoers. Mary soon became the intercessor between the people and Christ, the Judge, In order to have Mary intercede, the Romanist would have to approach her through some other lesser saint, and so the cycle begins.

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grew. This “new religion” had a financially beneficial effect on the clergy and led to fur­ ther corruption among their ranks. This cor­ ruption is one of the things that led to the revival of monasteries and convents just before the time of Luther. Some of the more con­ scientious clergy were attempting to find a purer environment.

Some Germans led the way in an alternate belief. They were a quiet yet growing group throughout the Reformation They were religious, yet despised the clergy. This move­ ment was most concerned with the bettering of society and led to some charitable organiza­ tions being left to lay management.

In all of this educational and religious tur­ moil the people were not encouraged to read their Bibles, even though translations were available; at most it was tolerated. Knowledge of Scripture by laymen was almost deemed heretical. Consequently, many of the German people were illiterate in regard to Scripture.

This is, perhaps, where the clearest ray of light shines from the Reformation. The 55

ways to improve his life as well as the lives of others. The humanist also believes in the evolu­ tion of life—man is continually evolving into a better being. Modem art is generally humanistic because man is the heart and core of most present artistic endeavors. Much of modem music strikes a harmonious note with the doctrines of humanism due to the enormous use of the theme of the wonder of human love.

By centering on man’s struggles, thoughts and deeds, literature has also been led into the humanist camp.

The dangers to the church are almost self-evident. By continual contact with human­ ism, the Christian’s acute sense of need for God is lessened. The replacement of God’s commands with situation ethics in many aspects of life is also a commentary on the inroads humanism is making.

Our time is also the grandest age of mater­ ialism. We have known more material things than any other people has. It is not necessarily wrong to spend money on cars, stereos, sport­ ing equipment, etc., but the spirit of material­ ism spends funds on “human needs” to the exclusion of spiritual things. The damage to the church can be seen within our Synod, when we consider that only about three percent of the members’ income is used in Christ’s work.

As a result there has been frightening curtail­ ment in our mission and special ministry pro­ grams, as well as in other areas.

The difficulties rationalism presents to the church today are numerous. Rationalism is defined as “the principle or practice of accept­ ing reason as the only authority in determin­ ing one’s opinions or course of action.. .in theology, the doctrine that rejects revelation and the supernatural, and makes reason the sole source of knowledge.” Rationalists tend to deny biblical miracles. In many ways, science is the god of the rationalists. Since the miracles of Christ and his disciples were performed before the “Scientific Age,” the rationalists feel that calling these happenings “miracles” is merely a superstitious explanation of natural occurrences. Jesus, however, performed miracles (Matthew 11:4-5). Rationalists subsequently must also attack the inerrancy of Scripture by pointing out what seem to be contradictions in the Bible. Because of rationalism, there is a great distrust of Scripture, so that many believers are being led astray by means of some

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reformers literally demanded education in the home, designating the household as the ideal place for the child’s first contact with Scripture.

Luther’s parish visitations bore out the fact that greater knowledge of the Bible was necessary and to that end encouraged not only home Bible study (as well as Catechism study), but sought to make preaching meaningful again as a medium for the message of the Gos­ pel. The people needed to get beyond the milk to the meat of Scripture.

To Luther, the family’s fellowship in Chris­ tian instruction was the heart and core of any reform and the only way the believer could remain close to Scripture. It was the Hausvater who ought to teach by both example and instruction. Believing a faith and living a faith are brought closer together by domestic Scripture study.

But what happened? All too soon the flowering enthusiasm for Scripture faded.

Why? First, we must note that zeal for God’s Word was present until the people felt that they had “settled into” orthodoxy. It was then that indifference crept in. Secondly, when the church assumed some of the burden of teach­ ing, the parents gradually let instruction at home come to a virtual standstill. No longer was personally sharina their faith and know­ ledge of Scripture with their children a vital concern for them.

Our time and our society have many interesting parallels with the German world of Luther’s day.

The spirit of humanism is still around and growing progressively stronger. The first humanist, the fifth century B.C. philosopher, Protagoras, says, “Man is the measure of all things.” Philosophically, humanism is a theory of life centering on human nature. Each human being is viewed as a unique individual filled with inherent goodness who is looking for 56

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A culmination of humanism, materialism, and rationalism is found in secularism. As people turn from God and His Word and find satisfaction in humanistic ideals, material goods and the power of reason, it is natural that life should become more secular. The German philosopher Nietzsche, with his “God is dead” philosophy, urged the world to accept a secularist ideology by living life without a concern for God. Today we also must face the anti-Christian force of syncretism. Very simply stated, syncretism “is the attempt to combine unlike and irreconcilable beliefs for the sake of religious unity.” Think, for a moment, of the strides ecumenism has been making in our day.

But syncretism isn’t new. Aaron was a syncretist when he believed that the Israelites could worship both the Lord and the golden calf (Exodus 33:1-6). In the time of Jeremiah, the people worshiped idols soon after offering their sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Romans considered the Christians repre­ hensible because they would not include the Roman gods in their religion. The early Chris­ tians clung to the words of Paul in Romans 16:17: “I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.”

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the basic unit in the church, and for that reason stressed the importance of Christian education in the home. That is a large part of our Reformation heritage. Is it deserving of more of our attention?

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And yet after some reflection nearly every­ one agreed that this was completely true to Dr. Baldwin’s character. Baldwin was a man of enormous social conscience, in addition to being unquestionably the outstanding scientist of our age. Upon the completion of his life’s work and his retirement, he discovered that his theories on matter in the universe, though a tremendous boon to his professional colleagues and the learned of the world, were a serious

stumbling-block to the common man. They had nearly kicked to bits every previous idea of man’s place in the scheme of things; every religion, every creed, every philosophy that the working people of the world had used to support themselves in their isolation, they all but had yanked out from under them. Millions were left stranded in the void of existence with nothing to bear them up. And so Dr. Baldwin considered it his duty to create a new code of ethics, a new philosophy under­ standable to everyone and yet profound enough to include the learned, one which re­ defined morality and meaning in existence.

And after much consideration he decided that the best way to present such a philosophy was in a series of myths and fairy tales for modem times, simply and cheerfully told, yet pregnant with lessons to be learned which would fit men for the new age he had single-handedly ushered in.

If the reader would indulge me so far I would like to relate one of these fairy tales now. It is short, as are most of Baldwin’s, and its point is far from subtle. It is a pleasant and light-hearted little piece entitled, “The Aerie.”

Once upon a time, high up in the Colorado Rockies, a white-headed mother eagle sat in her nest, her brood squawking noisily at her feet. She was anxiously awaiting her husband’s 58

return; he had gone off to find the children a bit of supper, and since he had already been gone far longer than usual, the hunting must have been very bad indeed. The sun was sink­ ing lower and lower in the western sky when suddenly a black speck appeared against the

found it.”

After much discussion, the eagles agreed that the child would have to remain in the nest, at least that night. Amazingly enough, the child showed no fear of the young eagles, or even of the two larger birds, but crawled over toward

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the mother eagle and touched her wing with a chubby hand, gurgling happily. “I cannot deny that this creature has certain endearing quali­ ties,” the mother bird said as the family settled down for the night, the child snoring softly in their midst. Her husband nodded, then yawned in eagle-fashion.

The child remained in the nest the next day, and the next, and the next. The eagle parents enjoyed watching it crawl back and forth across the rock floor, and they began to experiment with different kinds of foods in an attempt to get it to eat. They discovered that it had a fondness for raw fish and small rodents, and the child thrived on this diet, growing stronger and larger with each passing day.

The reason for this was simple: the child was not hampered by the ridiculous culinary prejudices which enslave our own culture.

Science shows us that almost any living thing can profitably be used for food, and yet we refuse to eat anything which is not traditional

horizon. The old mother eagle recognized her husband; he flapped ever nearer, and as he did so it became evident that he was carrying an enormous burden in his talons. She could not make out what on earth it was until at last he flew up to the nest and deposited it at her feet. There in her nest was a tow-headed little baby boy.

“I really don’t believe this, husband,” she said, her eyes wide with indignation. ‘‘You know very well that we are not supposed to eat things of this sort.”

“I’m sorry, my dear; it was all I could find.”

He scratched at the bare rock on which the nest was built, not raising his eyes to hers.

“Well, you can just take it back and find us something else,” she said.

“I couldn’t possibly take it back. The moment its parents saw me set it down, I’d be blasted to pieces. Besides, it’s almost too dark to fly already, and I’m not at all sure of how to find my way to the place where I

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Western table fare. In an age of burgeoning population and dwindling food supplies we might well take a lesson from the eagle parents and learn to subsist on whatever is handy, before we are forced to do so. But to continue.

The child grew. The nest afforded him little opportunity to stretch and use his legs, and therefore these muscles remained small and weak, but he soon acquired tremendous upper body strength. At the age of two years the child could chin himself on the edge of the nest, and the young eaglets no longer made sport of him or poked him with their beaks.

He seemed to grow at a greatly accelerated rate, due to his proximity to a species which is known to do so, and achieved sturdy— albeit short-manhood at the age of four or five. He took to wandering back and forth outside the nest on the edge of the huge cliff where it was built, always careful to stay far from the brink, somewhat wistfully watching his surrogate parents fly to and from the nest.

As time went on the young eaglets too grew into fine representatives of their species, and the day came when it was time for each one of them to learn to fly. Their parents began by teaching them how to move their wings and by demonstrating how to take off from the nest. At long last the boldest of them toddled to the edge of the cliff and launched himself into the air, screaming with terror.

He remembered perfectly how to move his wings and find an updraft, and after a few anxious flutters he was soaring across the chasm which the nest overlooked. One by one, over the next few days, his brothers and sisters followed suit, and as each one left the nest the child watched, sighing softly. Now and then he would gaze at his short, featherless arms with an expression of complete disgust.

Time passed. Gradually the occupants of the nest flew off, found mates and started nests of their own, eventually leaving only the two eagle parents and the young man-child.

The eagles went on feeding and caring for him, for by now there was simply nothing else they could do.

One day, when both eagles were off hunt­ ing, the child wandered to the edge of the cliff and stared off into the cloudless, deep blue sky. Sudden determination seized him. He took

halting, hesitant steps toward the edge of the cliff, until he stood with both feet on the very brink of the chasm. Then, suddenly, he gathered himself and leapt into the air, beating his arms furiously. Harder and harder he flapped, but his arms were far too short and too narrow to catch the updraft, and he began to plummet downward at a gradually increasing rate. Undaunted he waved his arms with all the fervor he could muster, but he could not slow his descent. He rocketed downward faster and faster until at last he was dashed to bits on the rocks below.

The moral of Dr. Baldwin’s story should be evident to all. Men are not eagles. They can not, do not, will not fly, without the use of some contrivance to bear them up, any more than an eagle can drive a car or wield a paintbrush.

Environment, training, background aside, men cannot fly, and they can do no better than to be content with that which they can do and keep ridiculous ideas of this sort out of their heads.

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,ver the past few years Christians in America have heard much talk about the “cult explo­ sion.” Books such as Kingdom of the Cults and Those Curious New Cults have trumpeted their warning. Americans watched in horror as Jim Jones’ Guyana debacle unfolded in the media. Rarely do we walk through an airport without seeing or being confronted by a moonie selling flowers or a Hare Krishnite selling the Baghavad Gita. Yet cults are no recent phenomenon. The 1800s saw the advent of Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science movement and Joseph Smith’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Earlier this century Herbert Armstrong founded his Worldwide Church of God. All of these have gained some level of respectability in the American society of 1980, but each was regarded as a cult when it was established and each has claimed the New Testament as its own testifying witness.

The Mormons teach that the New Testament and Book of Mormon are companion volumes in full agreement. Herbert Armstrong takes the “supportive” quotes for the articles in his magazine Plain Truth from the Scriptures, particularly the eschatological books. Like­ wise it is in the Book of Revelation that a man named Benjamin Purnell claims to have found the inspiration for the establishment of his cult in the year 1903.

In the year 1789 a young British woman, claiming to be the first of the seven messengers prophesied in Revelation (Ch. 10), gathered quite a following behind her and began making prophecies. She was subsequently followed by five others who professed themselves to be the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth messen­ gers. Just before the turn of the century, a man who assumed the role of seventh messen­ ger set himself up in the Detroit area with

about 200 loyal followers. Among these was the now infamous Benjamin Purnell. Charges of fraud and other crimes befell the little cult which had demanded all the belongings of its members as well as “purification rites” from its young women. In the year 1902 their leader was sent to the state penitentiary on the charge of rape made by one of its former members. It was on the night of his conviction, at a prayer gathering of the cult, that the still-young Benjamin claimed to have been “seized by the Spirit.” Foaming at the mouth, he hurled him­ self into the middle of the tent and rolling upon the dirt shouted out that he had been chosen as the new seventh messenger. It was not one of Ben’s more convincing performances and he was promptly removed from the tent.

It was also in 1902 that Ben, with the dozen or so followers whom he had convinced of his calling, began his trek toward Benton Harbor for the founding of the “New Jerusalem,” (Rev. 21). Spurred on by the 1875 prophecy of the Australian “sixth Messenger,” James Jezreel, “O happy Michigan, out of thee shall come a star,” some of the Australian cultists began to take interest in Benjamin’s House of David.

Late in 1902 Benjamin embarked upon his trip around the world, visiting the holy land, sailing down the Nile, preaching in India, and everywhere gaining new converts for the “in­ gathering.” It was in Australia that he made his biggest catch. Most of these had been followers of James Jezreel and his predecessors. When Benjamin and his “Israelites” arrived in New York by ship, they were met by three train cars bearing banners marked “Israelite In­ gathering at Benton Harbor.” They were transported to the promised land where they arrived on March 7, 1903. Not only had the 62

largest portion of these converts come from Australia, but this continent was to provide a steady stream of newcomers for the next twenty years, and it was here that Benjamin set up a branch colony in the city of New South Wales.

The colony at Benton Harbor grew steadily.

With new converts turning all their wealth over to “King Ben,” new buildings began popping up left and right, all built by members.

Israelites also farmed the colony’s acreage and did all the other necessary work in a communis­ tic effort. A shrewd businessman, Benjamin wanted the colony to turn a profit, so he directed the pooled funds of his followers toward building a large cold-storage plant. It was his goal to make the House of David the

been put there as a test of their faith.

Everything seemed to be going Benjamin’s way. Membership was increasing, buildings were being erected with such grandiose names as Jerusalem and Shiloh. A House of David Baseball Team was organized which achieved a high level of success and acclaim, playing exhibition games against major league teams.

The fruit distribution enterprise was becoming a great monetary success. The farmland was producing bounteous harvests. But then the complaints and police reports began to surface just as they had twenty years earlier in Detroit.

Women began accusing Benjamin of rape, referring to his “purification rites.” Charges of fraud were filed along with suits from former members wanting to get back their monies and

House of David Colony Entrance midwest’s center for fruit distribution, capital­ properties. Family and friends of some izing on the large fruit industry already in the members filed charges of abduction when, as area. Next King Ben turned his attention to the they tried to visit them, they discovered they building of the House of David Amusement were nowhere to be found. A local Benton Park. Until the late sixties thousands of visitors Harbor grave digger aroused suspicion of mur­ would annually flock to this amusement park der when he was burying a woman, listed as to ride the famous little trains, as well as to eighty years of age on the death certificate by see the numerous other attractions and curBenjamin’s personal physician and closest iosities, not the least of which were the cultists adviser. The gravedigger’s assistants reportedly themselves, who ran the park. The members dropped the coffin, and the lid popped off themselves were never allowed to participate revealing the body of a teenage girl, wrapped in in the fun. King Ben claimed that the park had newspaper with what appeared to be strangle 63

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marks around her neck. At this time the police no longer assumed the complaints were merely from disgruntled ex-members, and they issued a warrant for the immediate arrest of Benjamin Purnell. When the police arrived at the House of David, they were informed that he had gone on a “missionary trip” to Canada. For two years the search was unsuccessfully conducted, and the uproar gradually began to quiet. In 1925, however, the police received an anony­ mous call informing them that Benjamin was hiding out in the basement of the building Jerusalem and had been there for the pasftwo years. They found him sick and in bed in his private chambers, being attended by two young women. He was led away, calling down the wrath of God upon the police, but they made it to the jail without so much as a flat tire.

When the trial began, Benjamin had to be carried into the courtroom on a stretcher, an emaciated shadow of the husky man he had once been. He was banished from the House of David and died soon afterwards of venereal disease, a lonely and desolate man. After Benjamin had been embalmed and placed in a glass coffin on the House of David grounds, a great power struggle erupted which resulted in the split of the colony. Benjamin’s physician took over the House of David, while Ben’s wife, Mary, began a break-away group known as the Israelite House of David as Reorganized

by Mary Purnell. This is the situation in which the cult remains today, although there is cooperation between the two groups. They are comprised of about forty people, mostly old and about half of foreign birth. Every year the number dwindles as more members die of old age. The buildings are crumbling and many have been condemned and tom down. The last remaining attraction at the amusement park closed down four years ago. The souvenirs sold in the gift shop, which opens only on weekends now, are leftovers from the late sixties and earlier.

Yet, the peppery forty have not lost their hope. Ezekiel, the old man who runs the gift shop, says he expects the throngs of tourists to return and membership to rise again. He gleefully displays a post card as he begins to tell the rudiments of his faith, offering to sell Benjamin’s Little Book, Flying Roll, or the Book of Jasher. One can even pick up such “interesting” reading as the pamphlet Where

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If ever there was a truly child-like faith, it belongs to these remaining members. To be­ lieve in the teachings of Benjamin one must follow blindly every whim of what he said and wrote. His doctrines changed continually to suit the situation, and consequently his own writings contradict each other. He originally taught that his followers would never see death, but when his own daughter was killed in an explosion, he had to do a little redefining.

This was naturally easy, since Benjamin, as “God’s messenger,” claimed for himself the authority of final interpretation on all Scrip­ ture. His theology, therefore, if one dare call it that, was a mishmash of contradictions with Scriptural interjections taken ignorantly and blasphemously out of context.

For example, Benjamin would not allow members of his cult to cut their hair. He gives this reasoning: “Short hair is a figure of being

cut off from the life of the body. The soul’s salvation is a free gift of grace, without works (Eph. 2,8) and can be obtained, hair or no hair. But those who arc seeking to be the bride of Christ, and to be like him, must keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus Christ (Rev. 14,12). John says ‘His head and his hair were like wool,’ (Rev. 1,14)— showing that he still had hair. The Bridegroom has long hair, and the bride must be like him— having their vile bodies changed and fashioned like unto his glorious body (Phil. 3,21).”

This example of his doctrine, argumenta­ tion and misuse of Scripture is no exception.

Vegetarianism, forbidding of marriage, the immortality of the body, the literal 144,000, and thousands of other obscure falsehoods are purported and defended in the same way.

It was indeed a sad experience for this writer to read some of Benjamin’s literature, research his cult’s history and interview mem­ bers of his following. Seeing people so utterly deceived, many of whom had grown up in Christian homes, was at the very least dis­ heartening. Sadder yet is the thought that today, seventy-eight years'after the founding of the House of David, young Christian men and women are still being deceived in record num65

(Primary sources used for this article were: American Communities and Cooperative Colonies by William A. Hinds; The King Who Haunts the House of David” by Clarence Petersen from The Chicago Tribune Magazine; “The King of Benton Harbor” by L. Quainto from Lake Michigan; House of David: Hoax or Heaven? by Roger Rosenloher; and personal interviews with Ezekiel, Mary, and Menasseh.)

bers by teachings of those like Benjamin: Hare Krishna, Sun Myung Moon, Joseph Smith and others. John’s admonishment is remark­ ably pertinent: “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

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odd renowned Luther scholar Dr. Roland Bainton decried fundamentalism at an ecumenical assembly in Japan at Tokyo Union Church. Bainton, 83 year old author of the famous Luther biography Here I Stand, is a historian at Yale University and is noted for his “moderate” theology.

According to an article in Missouri in Per­ spective, Bainton commented that fundamental­ ists “assume that every word in the Bible is correct and is the Word of God, but that is not early Christianity.... As for the Reformation Period, Luther said, The Bible isn’t the Word of God. The Word of God is Jesus Christ and the Bible is the manger in which the baby lies. And there was some straw in the manger, too.’ He had a scale of values in the Bible, and I don’t know who in Luther’s century did say the Bible is the Word of God.” He continued, “Biblical infallibility is as much a problem as papal infallibility. As one Catholic said to me, Papal infallibility doesn’t mean a thing because

of the ambiguity of language. There is no infallible way in which the infallible pope can infallibly communicate his infallibility....’”

Either Luther was schizoid or Bainton is not playing above board. Luther used the terms “Bible” and “Scripture” and “Word of God” quite interchangeably. He did not be­ lieve that the Bible merely contains God’s Word, for he realized the problems connected with this view. He said, “For he who despises a single word of God will, of course, not con­ sider any word of importance.” In another in­ stance he plainly stated, “The Holy Scripture is God’s Word, written and, so to speak, lettered and put into the form of letters (gebuchstabet und in Buchstaben gebildet), just as Christ, the eternal Word of God, is clothed in humanity.” When comparing the Bible with classical literature, Luther said, “It must be noted that this book has a different Author, who is without a doubt, the Holy Spirit.”

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is, nevertheless, somehow connected with the salvation story and it remains the Word of God. The problem with historical-critics such as Bainton is that they sit in judgment over the Bible trying to determine which parts of it arc God’s Word, and which parts are not. After their theological reasoning is complete, finding the Savior in Holy Scripture is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

of doctrine; Scripture says this of itself.

I have no difficulties with the statement that regards the Bible as “the manger in which the baby lies” and which says there is “straw” in that manger. While it is true, as Luther says, “It is beyond a doubt that the entire Scripture points to Christ alone,” yet there arc some things in the Bible which play a lesser role in pointing to the Way of Salvation. This “straw”

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Last month’s record reviews were com­ prised of some fairly popular FM rock music, never veering too far from the middle of the road. This month I’d like to take you out on the soft shoulder, the loose gravel fringes where punk hairdos grow; back across the road for some basic rock ‘n’ roll; and finally to the other extreme, the perfectly molded concrete median of AM candied pop.

I’ll start with the best and move along to the progressively worse. Pretenders II (Sire), the new effort from Chrissie Hynde & Co., is striking. It has all the frantic emotion of punk without the senseless rage; the solid substance of conventional rock without the predictabil­ ity; the inventiveness of New Wave without falling into fads or pretentiousness; the spirit of the blues without wallowing in self-pity.

The Pretenders are in a class by themselves, a band that refuses to conform to anybody’s rules, playing tenacious rock that grabs you and refuses to let you go.

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Chrissie, who leads the band on guitar, is a force to be reckoned with; singing intensely, her voice is tough yet vulnerable-a voice of experience flavored with both pleasure and pain. She has been through the gauntlet and has survived to write about it: Jealous dogs always on the alert territorial rights they'll take your back and leave your shirt.

Chrissie’s lyrics are from the heart, not just syllables riding the current of the music. Yet the music is equally powerful and intense.

The Pretenders cannot be played as back­ ground Muzak; they must be listened to.

The Pretenders is a band not to be taken too seriously or too lightly. Pretenders II is definite­ ly a Real Record.

This next disc is not brand-spanking new, but I just bought it, which makes it a new acquisition for the Idi Amin Memorial Record Library, Room 307 Witt, so it is worthy of note. The album I speak of is the debut from the Romantics called, appropriately enough,

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degrade. Well, when you have a sister who is a sophomore in high school, you don’t have to look too far. Little sisters usually giggle a lot and have absolutely the pits for a record collection. Hence, the latest addition to sis’s library of three is Private Eyes by Daryl Hall and John Oates.

Now really, both of these guys must be at least thirty years old, and still they’re writing preppy music, using foreign titles like “Mano a Mano” to be chic, and basically just trying to be cute. The liner photos are cute; labelling the flipside “Side A” and “Side One” is cute (endless hours can be spent at a slumber party trying to decide just which side actually comes first); and above all, the music is cute.

But cute sells, so they keep on grinning and reaching into teenagers’ pocketbooks.

As far as quality goes, well.. .should I be kind or should I be truthful? Hall and Oates use the basic musical principle of repetition and contrast, made famous by Bach, Beethoven, Birsching and others, only they forget one important part: the contrast. Every song is the same format: a few lyrics with a chorus that repeats indefinitely until finally the needle tires and the song fades out. The guitar licks hit the speakers with all the driving force and clarity of a lump of Play-doh, or perhaps Silly Putty. And Daryl Hall’s keyboards are stunning. He knows only two chords-not even the traditional three—but he punches those two chords with tremendous feeling. As for lyrics, an example may be the best form of criticism:

The Romantics (Nemperor). A quartet of baby­ faced pretty boys sporting mod cropped hair­ styles and red leather leisure suits, the Roman­ tics follow in the tradition of other punk imitators with that same slicked-back cock­ roach air: the Sinceros, Split Enz, and Gary Newman, to name a few. Whereas the Pre­ tenders are original, these guys are just pretenders. Their lyrics are not extremely imagina­ tive; for example, “I love the girl next door”...

“I just can’t stand the pain”.. .“I won’t mis­ treat you-Gimme one more chance.” Their vocals sound like a few former Vienna Choir boys after voice changes and a couple years in juvenile prison.

Don’t get me wrong—the album is not without merit. “What I Like About You,” the stand-out cut, features a tad more creativity than the rest of the songs and adds some awe­ some harp jamming to boot. They also do an excellent job of covering Ray Davies’ “She’s Got Everything.” In fact, the Romantics’ sound is quite similar to that of Davies’ Kinks in their early days. The songs are repetitive and quick-hitting, simple with heavy drumbeats, harking back to the original days of rock and roll. The Romantics arc not New Wave—they are old waves who traded in their curls for a shock of unkempt punk hair.

Even though the album has its flaws, the numerous spots where they do really cook make the Romantics worth at least one date.. . but I wouldn't dare start thinking about any long term Romantics romance.

Last night I happened to catch Charlie’s new album, Good Morning, America, on the late night radio. Most NWC students would cringe at the thought of an album which begins with an alarm clock, haunted by half-awake hallucinations of first-hour Hebrew class. But you guys might just like this one. It’s straight­ forward and simple, just the type of middle-ofthe-road that’s so popular on WMAD and in many Wittenberg dorm rooms. The title tune is a hot track, and “The Girl Won’t Dance With Me” isn’t bad either, but on the whole the album is just too conventional and unchalleng­ ing for my tastes.

Last, and by far the least, we move now to the completely revolting. Tired of reviewing only discs which I purchase-and I try not to buy an inordinate amount of trash—I had to search elsewhere for a truly pathetic album to

So ifyou can, you talk about some men Ifyou can, you can talk about some men Baby ifyou can, you can talk about some men Ifyou can, you can talk about some men.

Oh, by the way, that song is entitled “Some Men.” There are, in my mind, only two passable cuts on the album. One is ‘Tell Me What You Want,” a reggae-flavored tune with a somewhat Monkeeish chorus. But then I always was a Monkees fan. The second is “Your Imagination,” which starts with a pretty catchy rhythm and throws in a few well-placed saxo­ phone riffs for good measure. However, I’m certainly glad I don’t have to hear it more than once lest the sheer repetitiousness event­ ually give my eardrums the hiccoughs. Who­ ever said, “Once is never enough,” obviously never listened to a Hall & Oates album.

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On a good night you might even catch a Malaysian prayer chant. There is also the 9:00 pm Access Hour, during which a listener is allowed on the air to play whatever he wishes for an hour. As I write this, that wish consists of sixty minutes of non-stop Elvis Presley, and I’m loving every second of it. Give WORT a try, and join the Aural Majority.

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Each member has distinguished himself in the field of music. Robert Cole, the flutist, played in the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet. Glen Bower, the Clarinet player, is a master of music and a doctor of musical arts. He has also taught in a number of major universities. The oboist, Mark Fink, has been in Tokyo to play in the Japanese Philharmonic and also has earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in music.

The bassoon player, Richard Lottridge, played seven years for the Chicago Symphony Or­ chestra. He too has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree. The final member is Douglas Hill, the horn player. He has made an international

CONCERTS On the night of Thursday, October 8, the students of NWC received a welcome break from studies as the Wingra Woodwind Quintet from the UW—Madison School of Music per­ formed in our Auditorium. The group origi­ nated in 1965 and is now one of the longest standing quintets associated with a major American university. The members are per­ formers in chamber and orchestral groups, as well as soloists and teachers. At times they tour high schools and colleges, where they offer individual clinics. They have recently made appearances at Carnegie Recital Hall and the National Music Educator Conference in 69

On the evening after the Wingra Woodwind Quintet came to NWC, the Bohemian Virtuosi of Prague came to Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, courtesy of the Community Concert Association. This fourteen-piece chamber orchestra, in existence since 1974, is famous the world over for its fine quality and clarity of style.

Their tuxedoed attire and musical excellence did not seem to fit the unrefined surround­ ings of the Wayland gym. Nevertheless, the musicians created their own atmosphere, producing some of the best sounds that can possibly come from strings stretched over delicately carved hollow wood. Everything from the brisk I Violin solos in the allegro sections of Corelli’s “Concerto grosso in C minor” and the brightness of Mozart’s “Diverti­ mento in D major,” to the mellow pizzicato chord blends of Rossini’s “Sonata No. 3 in C major” and the raw violin tones of the “Serenata II” of Martind was “perfect.. .be­ yond criticism,” as the Copenhagen Folkeblad once remarked. But the virtuosity of these performers was displayed above all in Tchaikov­ sky’s “Serenade for Strings in C major” where the familiar main theme alternates between the violins, cellos and bass. The fast, but smooth waltz section and boastful finale were a grand way to end an evening.

The conductor, Tom; Koutnlk, had com­ plete and utter control over every note the players produced. The exact feeling, mood, and emotion demanded by each piece were con­ veyed by his movements, often little more than the twitching of a finger, or the raising of an eyebrow.

Except for an occasional stray scratch from the cello section and an over-zealous bass, the Bohemian Virtuosi of Prague are worthy of their name. They possessed the richness of a full orchestra with little effort, atypical of common chamber musicians.

name for himself as Guest Artist/Clinician at three of the Annual International Horn Work­ shops, and at the First European Horn Work­ shop, in West Germany.

The quintet opened its concert with a piece called, “Sinfonia (1949),” a so ft, pleasant piece with which to begin. It then proceeded with a lengthy four-part number called, “BlSserquintett Es-Dur Op. 88, No. 2,” written in 18th Century Germany. It began with a soft bassoon solo backed up by the other instru­ ments and later concluded with a brisk finale.

Next, the group played a three-part piece from 19th Century France, entitled “Trois piecds br6ves.” The number opened with a powerful, syncopated rhythm played behind a beautiful horn solo. During the finale the musicians seemed to be racing with each other to the end of the number. There was a flurry of sound, yet the effect was pleasing to the ear.

After a brief intermission the quintet con­ tinued with “Quartet No. 6,” during which the oboist was absent. The bassoonist introduced the piece by saying, “We’re going to ham it up now.” Seeming to anticipate the excite­ ment which they would generate, he said, “If you want, you can shut the doors.” The num­ ber began innocently enough with a mellow rhythm, but in the second part it suddenly exploded into a scries of solos. Each member seemed to be playing his heart out and trying to outdo his associates. This piece dispelled the opinion that concerts such as this one must be thoroughly stuffy and dull. Their final number was called the “Taffanel Wind Quin­ tet.” The member who introduced it senti­ mentally referred to its composer as his “grand­ dad.” It opened with a light, melancholic horn solo melody and concluded with a furious finale. Suddenly there was a pause, and then a measure or two of loud, crisp notes, ending the concert. The musicians exited with an appreciative round of applause from the audience.

The Wingra Woodwind Quintet provided for its listeners a relaxing, enjoyable evening.

Those few students who attended the concert returned to their studies refreshed. We are grateful to the Wingra Woodwind Quintet for their performance, and look forward to appear­ ances by other members of the fine arts community in the coming months.

JOHN MILLER Ed. Note: The opinions expressed in this column are those of the individual contribu­ tors. They do not necessarily represent the positions of the Black and Red staff and the student body of Northwestern College. In order to cover a wider spectrum of music and the other arts, more student input is needed to keep the column running.

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HOUSEPHONE LANGUAGE DECIPHERED Watertown GClp) - Last week Wittenberg linguistics experts deciphered a new language, which to the best of their knowledge exists only in spoken form. In tackling their nemesis, they concentrated on one barely audible

phrase-“See secli, cotoolah; see seeli, cotoolah,” which was eventually determined to mean, “Steve Schmcling come to the lobby; Steve Schmeling come to the lobby.” The team of linguists hailed the interpretation as a major

breakthrough comparable to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and credited much of their success to the great frequency with which they were able to hear the phrase.

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Expenses Behind $10,000 Sign Divulged NWC ($$$) - Amid popular uproar over the $10,000 price tag of Northwestern’s newest placemarkcr, the Northwestern administration released an expenditure summary which more than explained the seemingly exorbitant cost and left former critics of the project mar­ velling at how low the cost actually was. “Do you mean they got all that stuff for only $10,000?’’ was a typical comment among the newly un*disgruntlcd.

The cost broke down as follows: $4,300 — Basic materials collection. Concrete chips from the sidewalks of the birthplaces of every student who ever attended Northwestern College were collected for the bulk of the sign. Then the chips were painstakingly shaped so that the original students’ chips were the largest and the present students’ chips the smallest. The intervening students’ chips were also scaled by relative age. Such precision chip-shaping ensured that as the concrete was poured, the oldest students’ chips would settle to the base of the sign, forming a firm founda­ tion, which would then be symbolic of the deep roots of tradition at Northwestern. The present students’ chips would be at the top of the sign, where they would bear the bulk of nature's assault on the sign. This placement is intended to be symbolic of the storms of

studying and the hails of homework which the present student must endure. $1,100 — Heliographical survey of site and shape of sign. We haven’t had the chance to appreciate it yet, but the new sign is position­ ed and sculpted in such a way that the shadow it casts at 3:30 P.M. on the Summer Solstice of each Leap Year forms a rough silhouette of the state of Wisconsin. The symbolism here is too obvious to warrant explanation. Just sit tight until June 21, 1984, and you’ll be in for a real treat. $600 — Interment of Prof. Scharfs pet pigeon.

“Coo,” in the center of the sign. Rumors had abounded that several of NWC’s ex-janitors would be interred in the sign, just as bodies of workers were entombed in the Great Wall of China during its construction, but these rumors proved unfounded. $2,000 - Spelling verification. $2,000 may seem a little steep just for the verification of two words, Northwestern and College, but it’s always better to be safe than sorry. The admin­ istration also reasoned that as long as $8,000 was going to be spent on the sign itself, $2,000 would be a small price to pay for accurate spelling. Sealed bids from various dictionary o

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publishers were submitted, and Random House’s bid was accepted. Bids were also taken for verifying the spelling of “and Preparatory School”, but the cost was determined to be prohibitive, so the sign was left as is. $1994 - Bronze cross purchase. A handsome bronze cross designed to fit into the concrete gaps in the sign was purchased and shipped, but unfortunately lost in transit and never re­ covered. The gap will have to suffice until the necessary funds can be raised for a new cross. $2 - Band-Aids. Individual scrapes and cuts incurred during construction were quickly patched up with bandages. Such pre-planned first-aid measures were typical of the great foresight and efficiency with which this pro­ ject was executed. $4 — Lemonade and Mountain Dew for the work crew.

All in all the project was hailed as a rousing success, and tentative plans for future pro­ jects were made. These plans include the con­ struction of twin $3000 pedestals for the two dumpsters and genuine mink doormats for all of the building entrances.

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Taves had stayed up alone in his room on a beautiful Friday night last spring and pain­ stakingly recorded Bruce the Boss’s entire collection, A-Z, off of the radio. Such dedi­ cation was unmatched by any in the competi­ tion.

Anecdotes regarding Taves’ devotion to Springsteen were also examined. One judge told of the time Kris had locked roommate and Lakeside pal Ken Brockmeier out of their room because he had played a non-Bruce cassette on their stereo. Taves mellowed only when Brockmeier stood outside the door, hummed the opening chords to “Bom to Run,” and then sang, “Krissy, let me in; I wanna be your friend, I wanna guide your dreams and visions...”

Sports GREEN BAY ACQUIRES JEFFERSON GREEN BAY (WI) - As if every other news media hasn’t overplayed the signing of star receiver John Jefferson by the Green Bay Packers, our sports editor feels it is our duty to also mention it here. Now Green Bay can make fools of themselves in the Black & Blue Divi­ sion (or was that pink and turquoise?) with two all-pro wide receivers instead of one.

MARTIAL ARTS MOVIE IN THE MAKING NWC LINEMEN RECOGNIZED KOREA (M*A*S*H) - Two of the most brilliant Tae-kwon-do experts—and worst actors-of all time, Jon “Bruce Lee” Tesch and John “Chuck Norris” Parlow have donned their tunics and sparring pads to begin rehearsal for their next martial arts spectacular, The Remedial Dragon. Asked why they came to NWC to make a martial arts film, Tesch replied, “One reason is the continual practice I can get by single-handedly beating up on ceeps.. .And they make great film extras as well.” Parlow quickly added, “And don’t forget all the pretty girls around here. They will really help our box office ratings.”

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NEW YORK (SI) - Sports Illustrated finally acknowledged NWC as a major power in small college football, printing a letter by C&C’s own Ron Balge (cf. SI, Sept. 21, 1981, p. 92). Linemen Dan Marshall and Eric Zimmerman were given special notice. Let’s hope this doesn’t go to our gridders’ heads.

Next thing you know they’ll be doing Lite commercials with Billy Kilmer.

DARK WEEK FOR MICHIGAN FANS

WITT 311 (PQ’d) - The week of Septem­ ber 12-19 was not a happy one for the usually TAVES CITED AS TOP “BOSS” FAN IN SYNOD contented Michigan sports fan. First came the chilling upset of their No. 1-ranked Wolverines, ASBURY PARK (NJ) - Judges in the and then the shuddering TKO of Detroit’s own “Who in the Wisconsin Synod Loves Bruce Thomas Hearns at the hands of Sugar Ray Springsteen the Most Contest” admitted that Leonard. As if to add salt to the gaping wound there were some interesting entries, including in the Michiganite hearts, the Tigers managed Mrs. Edith Thompson and Jason Plitzuweit, to lose a few games, too. MLS frosh reportedly yet there were no legitimate threats to Kris thought of quitting school to return to their Taves’ supremacy. The judges pointed out that homeland, which they somehow felt they had 73

let down by attending school in Wisconsin. Jon Rockhoff donned sackcloth and wore it for ten days, taking time out from the ordeal only when ne was studying, watching TV, checking rooms, going to classes, eating, or sleeping.

Little brothers Roger and David could only sit and tell each other, “It’s just not fair, it’s just not fair.” Perhaps the big guy, Dan Marshall, took it the hardest. Dan was discovered face down on his bed with red eyes after the HeamsLeonard fight. He claimed that the red eyes were just from inhaling Zimmy’s new allergy medicine, but his cracking voice betrayed his lie. Things could be much worse though, for in that same week a Michigan youth advanced to the quarterfinals of the Greater Midwest Disco-Rollerskating Championships.

WEIGHT CLUB PLANNED MUSCLE BEACH (USA) - Seniors Dave Ehlers and Steve Soukup have spearheaded a campaign to bring a weight gym to NWC. Soukup, a weightlifter as well as a patron of the arts, said a facility with free weights is essential to healthy body-building, and that the Universal weight machine in the gym-

nasium just doesn’t cut it. Already almost fifty young Olympians have signed up to join the weight club, which will cost in the vicinity of $2000 to equip.

The tentative name for the new weight­ lifting facility, which will be located in what is now a Wittenberg basement storage room, is the Mike Turany Spa & Health Club. Initially only weightlifting will be offered, but a pool, saunas, and racquetball courts are in the plans for the future.

Letters KEEP IT IN THE CLASSROOM Dear C&C: I am a diligent student of Prof. Franzmann’s art class. I enjoy the course immensely and work hard at it, but when I’m outside the classroom I don’t inflict my enthusiasm for art on those around me who couldn’t care less.

Unfortunately, some members of Prof. Scharfs history seminar don’t share my views. I speak in particular of two roommates whose main passion in life is Dungeons ’& Dragons, and a

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that I fear a food fight is in the offing. This irrational behavior must stop! Can’t they keep their debates within the bounds of the class­ room and the war game table? Must our lunches be constantly disturbed by a French dictator whose corpse has lain rotting in the grave for almost two centuries?

third rather spindly, pod-like companion (in other words, Tiny, Petersen, and Nowicki).

Every time our section eats in the cafeteria after art class, we are forced to listen to their boisterous, boorish discussion on the age of Napoleon. Everyone in the dining hall with half an ear is subjected to this inhuman form of punishment. They become loud and obnoxi­ ous, often growing so angry with each other

Classifieds HELP WANTED We are interested in one sweet but qualified girl with Bette Davis Eyes, Far Away Eyes, but by all means not Sad Eyes (Neil Sedaka never was tops on our list) to serve as typing secretary for Campus & Classroom. Contact Ron Balge or Davey Sellnow, Rooms 307 & 308 Witt, irrespectively.

WANTED: A few good men. See Jerome Kruse, basketball coach.

A concerned art lover and cafeteria connoisseur

WANTED: A fresh supply of excuse cards to replenish the stack Zimmy has used up this fall. See Tutor Mike Woldt, Wittenberg.

WANTED: More free hours. Wittenberg Bed Association.

FOR SALE FOR SALE: One perfectly healthy car battery, suitable for mind-expanding experiences.

Robert Foy Raasch, 305 Witt. (You’ll find the battery beneath the cloud of fumes in the hall­ way).

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WANTED: A few good women. See Every­ man, NWC.

Paying top dollar for any brain cells returned to the Senior class. Many were lost in the vicinity of Hall and Main Streets.

HELP WANTED: Assistance needed in handling the job of Music-Auditorium checker. The end­ less hours and difficult working conditions are putting a strain on my otherwise cheerful personality. Steve Nowicki, Rm. 302 Witt.

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RIDERS NEEDED: Every weekend from here to New Ulm for the rest of the year. Jon Rockhoff, 207 Wartburg.

DESPERATELY NEEDED: Several containers of Renuzit Solid Air Freshener, the sooner the better! Bill Michel and Keith Petersen, 324 Witt.

RIDE NEEDED: Return trip from either Milwaukee or Madison on almost any week­ end throughout the year. Jon Tesch, the Grey­ hound Connection, 211 Wittenberg.

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A Pioneer score brought some of the starters back in, and Jon Bitter glanced a rebound shot off the near post to score NWC’s third and final goal of the game. Just as in the Milton game “Roget,” “Ron,” “Sugar Bear” and “Ivar” formed an almost inpregnable defen­ sive wall. The Trojans won it 3-1.

The next day the team again took the muddy field in the morning drizzle and met Holy Redeemer in a tough contest. NWC got on the board first when a headball from T. Goldschmidt found its way to Kelly’s foot and from there into the back of the net.

Shortly thereafter, an infraction in the penalty area cost Redeemer an indirect free kick. They broke their hastily formed wall prematurely, leaving a clear path to the goal. The ball never left the ground, but managed to find the path and bounce off the goalie’s hand into the net.

T. Goldschmidt got that score, which gave the team a 2-0 halftime lead. After the break the game became a little slower and sloppier but the Trojans were still able to control the flow.

They outscored their opponents 2-1 the second half. E. Goldschmidt put in a penalty shot and “Bits” added an unassisted goal from his left wing position to help the team

SOCCER Four days after the soccer team lost to the Carthage Redmen they came back strong to redeem themselves in a 4-0 victory over the Milton College Wildcats, a team whose size attested to the fact that it was made up of redshirted football linemen. For example, the Trojans’ first goal came about ten minutes into the game off a penalty kick taken by Kelly Pochop who had literally been tackled on a breakway play. Minutes later Eric Gold­ schmidt burned the Wildcats’ defense and pumped a shot under Milton’s airborne goalie for NWC’s second goal. Jon Bitter added a third score off a long cross from Todd Gold­ schmidt to put the Trojans up 3-0 at the half.

In the second half the team worked hard to score but it wasn’t until midway through the period that the Goldschmidt/Bitter combina­ tion hooked up again to provide the fourth and final goal of the game for the Trojans.

Goalie Tim Nommensen made some excellent saves to keep the game a shutout.

Two days later the team took on Northland B.B.C. in a torrential downpour. The weather didn’t dampen the Trojans' spirits though, and they used the muddy, slippery pitch to their advantage. T. Goldschmidt started the scoring out early with a shot across the goal mouth that just caught the comer of the net. From that point on the Trojans applied the pressure, 76

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After winning three games in four days the Trojans were setting their sights on last year’s conference champs and cross-town rivals-Maranatha. Some slow, cold practices during game week seemed to take the edge off the team’s hunger, though, and when Saturday rolled around, Northwestern came up short. Not that it wasn’t a hard-fought contest. The defense allowed only 2 goals, but the offense just couldn’t seem to get their passing attack down or generate shots. The Crusaders scored both of their goals in the first half, when the Trojans actually seemed to be dominating the play. In the second half both teams rushed their game more and, as a result, neither club came up with a score for the entire 45 min­ utes. The Crusaders won the game 2-0 and re­ mained undefeated in conference.

Time now for revenge on the Redmen!

This time the Trojans were on their home turf and looking for a win against their Neme­ sis. Things looked grim from the onset when the Redmen swooped down the field and scored a quick goal early in the period, remeaiscent of the season’s first game when Car­ thage scored on its first two attacks. The Trojans remained undaunted and fought fire with fire by adding a tally of their own minutes later. The score came off a comer-kick from Todd Goldschmidt to his brother Eric, who headed it past the goalie and into the net.

Not long afterwards Kelly Pochop caught a rebound in front of the goal and pumped into the comer to put the team up 2-1, a lead they held until halftime. The next 45 minutes was more of a defensive contest with neither team scoring for quite some time. Finally the Trojans were able to clinch the game when Tim Poetter scored off a pass from T. Goldschmidt.

Credit has to be given to midfielders Mark Henrich, Jon Kuske, Eric Goldschmidt and A1 Horn for all their hustle in this game and in previous ones. Ray Bell did an excellent job of filling injured Roger Knepprath’s shoes at fullback position.

Quarter-break weekend found the Trojans down at the Janesville-Craig H.S. soccer field for a match with the Milton Wildcats, a team name that more than adequately describes their style of playing. Still, our kickers were ready for a physical contest, and their 5-1 victory proves that they weren’t intimidated.

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The team came out fired up for the second half after an inspiring pep talk from Coach Connell. T. Goldschmidt dropped a pass over the Wildcat defenders and Kelly Pochop dribbled it across the front of the crease and put it past the keeper for the team’s second goal. E. Goldschmidt got the next one off a pass from Todd by hammering a shot right under the goalie’s arms. By now a good share of the substitutes were in the game and doing a remarkable job. Left-wing Joel Rakos sent a low driving comer-kick to Jon Kuske, who headed it into the net. Goalmeister Tim Poetter came up with another one when the keeper went one way and his shot went another on a perfectly placed penalty shot. The Wildcats did come up with a goal some time during the period to let the Trojans know they were still in the game. Tim Nommensen deserves credit for stopping a number of shots that could’ve gone in.

of football. The Concordia St. Paul Comets stopped a Trojan comeback in the final frame to win 17-12. The Trojans, hampered by a soggy field and strong wind, were unable to put together any kind of offensive attack until the fourth quarter. But it was too late, since the Comets had built up a 17 point lead. The Comets got on the board in the first period on a 17-yard pass from Bill Brooks to Brian Osladil for a 6-0 advantage. Concordia con­ tinued to keep the pressure on the Trojan defense as they picked up 200 total yards in the first half. But in the Comets’ only other scoring attempt Hans Zietlow picked off a Brooks’ pass in the end zone to end the half.

Concordia had the advantage of the wind in the third quarter and used it to build up their lead. Brooks picked up the Comets second TD on an eight-yard play. Russ Schwich tenberg passed to Scott Schwecke for th< two-point conversion and a 14-0 lead. The Comets’ final score came after a punt by Northwestern failed. Tom Hardin kicked a 23-yard field goal. The Trojans came alive in the final frame behind QB Duane Rodewald, who combined with Mark Wessel on five passes for 79 yards to set up a 24-yard TD run by Tim Soukup. Rodewald and Wessel again hooked up to put Northwestern in scoring position. This time Phil Hirsch got the six points on a 2-yard pass play. The team’s final drive was stopped

by Concordia at their own 30-yard line after a costly delay of game penalty against the T rojans.

CROSS-COUNTRY The weekend of September 25 found the cross-country team up in Baraboo for the Barron Invitational. The field consisted of 3 UWC schools and 3 private colleges. The weather was cool with light rain falling. Jay Bcndewald led the team over the 4-mile course to a thirdplace finish. He couldn’t quite lead the pack this time, though, and finished 45 seconds behind the leader with a time of 22:14-must not have been getting enough enorphin. You see, researchers in Boston have discovered that runners get euphoria from all their exercise due to a natural pain killer called enorphin.

The feeling isn’t there if they skip a day of practice. Now I’m not insinuating that Bendi would miss a workout, but maybe he just ran 5 miles one day instead of 10! Now the happy harriers have taken to calling themselves “enorphin addicts” and are working extra hard to reach that feeling of euphoria. Mark Paustian finished a half-minute behind Jay in 5th place and Trojans Randy Loux, Denny Rardin and Andy Bauer placed 14th, 15th, and 16th respectively.

Well, the Trojans must have kept their enorphin level up the following Saturday because they finished a respectable 4th place out of 9 teams at the Wombat Invitational in Sheboygan. Bendi was back in front with a first-place time of 25:42 and Mark Paustian was only two places back from him again.

Other Trojans who finished strong over the 5-mile course were Randy Loux, Andy Bauer and Dan Helwig. A week later the team was on the road again down to Beloit. The conditions were fast and dry, but there were a few added obstacles to slow it down. Log and creek jumps indicative of English style cross-country were added to make the course more challenging.

With around 200 runners vying for the lead.

Jay still came out of the pack and over the barriers to finish 3rd in 25:56. Mark P. placed 14th and the Trojan squad was 8th out of 12 teams.

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Dad’s Day at NWC was a different story.

Phil Hirsch caught 4 passes for 60 yards and 2

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TD’s and Mark Wessel added 88 yards on 8 catches, one for a score, to lead the Trojans to a 24-16 upset of the perennial conference champions, Mt. Senario College. The offense finally came out of its shell, picking up 344 total yards, 183 on the ground and 161 in the air. Meanwhile, a fired-up Northwestern defense put a stop to the Fighting Saints i offense, holding them to only 175 yards. And it was the defense that started things happening j early when Hans Zietlow picked off a Blane Senn pass on Senario’s first possession to set up the Trojans’ first score. Quarterback Mike Nitz then hit Hirsch with an 18-yard scoring pass. Dan Reich’s kick gave the Trojans a quick 7-2 lead. The Fighting Saints grabbed the lead at the 12:15 mark of the second period when Senn dove into the end zone from one yard out. Vernon Robinson ran in for the 2-point conversion and an 8-7 advantage. Their lead was short-lived, though, as the Trojans moved downfield quickly with Hirsch picking up his second score on a 19-yard halfback pass from Dave Rothe. Reich’s extra point made the score 14-8. With time running out, NWC moved in for another score, but a goal-line stand by the Saints ended the scoring for the half.

The Trojans picked up their final touch­ down in the third period when Duane Rodei wald, who replaced an injured Nitz, con­ nected with Wessel on fourth and one at the 1-yard line. Fullback Craig Wiebusch set up the score with a 55-yard run. The Fighting Saints closed the gap to 24-16 with 7 minutes to go on a 7-yard run by Jeff Burger. He also dove across for the two-point conversion. Mt. Senario held the Trojans and started another drive, but the NWC defense was ready and Charlie Raasch picked off a Saints’ pass.

Raasch came through again as time was running out with his second interception to shut down Senario.

The Northwestern College Trojan offense exploded for 408 total yards in their next game in route to a 56-26 whitewash of Pillsbury College. The Trojans utilized two Pillsbury fumbles, recovered by Karl Schmugge and Phil Pitt, to set the pace of the game. After the first fumble, Phil Hirsch scored the TD on a 37-yard pass from Mike Nitz. Dan Reich’s first of four point afters made the score 7-0.

The second fumble led to a 14-0 lead when Gary Jeffers capped a short drive on a 1-yard dive into the end zone with 8:54 to go in the first quarter. One minute later Tim Soukup gave the crowd a thrill by returning a Pillsbury punt 55 yards for a score. The Comets finally got on the board with a minute left in the period when Ron Dufrene crashed in from 3 yards away. The extra point made the score 21-7 at the end of the first quarter.

The Trojans didn’t let up in the second stanza as Jeffers went in from 3 yards out with only 2 minutes expired in the quarter. Dave Rothe passed to Hirsch for the two-point conversion and a 29-7 advantage. Mark Wessel added a TD on a 33-yard pass from Duane Rodewald to give the Trojans a 36-7 edge at the half. Again, Northwestern wasted no time in scoring as Soukup broke loose on a 72-yard scoring run with only 18 seconds gone in the second half. Martin Bentz added the first of his two extra points. The Comets closed the gap slightly to 43-14 on an 18-yard pass from David Ronan to Jim Gordon as the third period drew to a close. The Trojans added v 7 r-r, K..-. ' s'

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Northwestern closed out their scoring with one minute left on another 1-yard run by Nitz.

Nitz had set up the score with a 49-yard pass to Mike Schultz. Pillsbury made the score 56-26 with no time remaining after inter­ ference was called on the Trojans in the end zone. Steve Sinclaire went in for the Comets.

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CAHPtS QUESTION:

COMMENTS

The Legislature in Wisconsin is currently considering a proposal to raise the drinking age. What are your feelings concerning any change in the drinking age9

HOWARD MOHLKE—FRESHMAN I think it stinks! To be honest with you, I kind of enjoy being able to go down and get a beer. I'm 18 y^ars old. I’m old enough to vote and to go die for my country if I want to. I can be prosecuted by the law on any crime. Why am I not responsible enough to get a drink?

MARK GASS-SOPHOMORE In a way it is good, if they do it right. If they make it so that you can buy liquor for yourself in a bar at 18, but you must be 19 in order to take it out.

In that way, it would keep it (liquor) away from the high schools. Another thought that I had was that you’d be eligible to go into bars when you graduate (from high school).

JAY BENDEWALD-JUNIOR In all other areas-draft, marriage, etc.—you’re considered an adult at 18. I should think that drinking would be listed under those adult activities. For safety reasons, I can see moving it up to 19 or even 21. In Washington, where it (the drinking age) has always been 21, the death rate caused by drinking is much lower than in Wisconsin. The death total in Wisconsin is close to 800, with about two months to go in the year. In Washington, it averages that per year. There are about the same number of people in Washington as in Wisconsin.

ROBERT RAASCH—SENIOR It all comes down to whether or not they want beer legal for high school age. I don’t think that’s a good idea. I don’t think it’s good that some of your peers (in high school) can be drinking and you can’t. You can’t split down peer lines like that. Either you all go out or you don’t. Personally, I thought it was great.

You come here, you’re 18, and you’re in college. It fit in nicely with the fact that you’re in college, and this is another responsibility you now get.

Is there a question which you would like to see in this column? Would you like to "speak out ” and be heard? This is your chance! Please submit questions (local, national, or world-wide) to Ray Bell, Wittenberg Hall

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40th anniversary in the ministry on September 27, 1981, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, West Mankato, MN. -Pastor Waldemar Hoyer celebrated his 40th anniversary in the ministry on Octo­ ber 4, 1981. He is now serving as Hospital Chaplain in Rochester, MN. -Gloria Dei of Grand Blanc, MI, cele­ brated its 10th anniversary on October 11, 1981. M. Schwertfeger (’74) is the pastor.

—Manitowoc Lutheran High School, Mani­ towoc, WI, celebrated its 25th anniversary on October 4, 1981.

—Pastor Maurice L. Hoppe (’70), formerly associate pastor at Mt. Olive, Appleton, was installed as pastor of St. John’s, Mishicot, and St. John’s, Two Creeks, WI, on September 27, 1981.

-Pastor Elmer J. Zehms(’37) has accepted a call as senior assistant pastor at First Luther­ an, Green Bay, WI, and was installed on Sep­ tember 20, 1981.

-Pastor Norman Paul (’62), formerly of Christ the King, Palatine, IL, has accepted a call to St. Paul’s, Wisconsin Rapids, WI. He was installed on September 13, 1981.

-Pastor John Schmidt (’70), formerly of St. Paul’s in Grand Junction, CO, was in­ stalled as professor of Greek at NWC on Sep­ tember 13, 1981.

-Pastor Richard Kogler (’71), formerly of Divine Savior, Belleville, IL, was installed at Northland Lutheran High School on August 30, 1981.

-Pastor John Ruege (’53), formerly of Oakfield, WI, will be installed as pastor of Our Savior, Bismarck, ND, on November 1, 1981.

DEDICATION -Grace Lutheran of Hot Springs, SD, dedicated a mission chapel on September 27, 1981. The pastor is Bruce Wietzke (’75).

DEATHS —Pastor Erwin Froehlich (’31), died on October 2, 1981. Funeral services were con­ ducted on October 5, 1981.

-Pastor Herbert Koehler (’36) died on September 27, 1981. Funeral services were conducted October 1, 1981, from Christ Lutheran Church, Pewaukee, WI, the congre­ gation which Pastor Koehler had been serving

ANNIVERSARIES -Pastor Martin Birkhote celebrated his 82

since 1973.

Baumgart (’64), on August 27, 1981. Pastor Baumgart is presently serving Faith, St. Peters­ burg, FL.

BIRTH -A son, John, to Pastor and Mrs. John

TIM ZARLING

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This month’s selection is entitled, “Hermit Life in Colorado,” and is extracted from Volume 4, Number 7 (December, 1900).

“Human nature in Colorado presents many types and varieties. Among her men individual­ ity is strongly marked. But this peculiar cast of character can be easily accounted for. Peculiar conditions attract a peculiar class of people.

Wild and remote, it attracted in early days an even more marked type of man than it does today, when the advent of numerous rail­ roads has brought the state within the bounds of advanced civilization...

Colorado today is not devoid of elements of adventure. There still exist within the boundaries of the state vast solitudes of both mountain and plain beset with dangers for the lonely adventurer; bleak and lofty steeps, where the unwary traveler may be buried by i

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Thousands of young men bid farewell to their sweethearts and came here to carve their for­ tunes. .. .A horse or a donkey may be their sole companion, and upon the back of one of these animals the sum of their earthly possessions may be packed in one bundle.

But you mustn’t deceive yourself with the idea that hermits are savages. There are many occupations that supply food and raiment and the poorman’s boon of pipe and tobacco.”

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BELLE PLAINE, MINNESOTA

ENGAGEMENT DIAMONDS J. LITTLE PHOTOGRAPHY 117 N. 8th St. Watertown

261-6607

Quality Senior Portraits

SAUCK

SHOP at SEARS and SAVE

Jewelers

QUALITY UNSURPASSED

SINCE 1853

WATERTOWN

SCHNEIDER JEWELRY Student Gift Headquarters Accutron — Bulova Caravelle Watches Columbia Diamonds Expert Watch Repair 309 E. Main Street

Dial 261-6769

WATERTOWN BOWL-" 18" 102 W. Cady Street Phone 261-1796

PRICES TO FIT EVERY POCKETBOOK

Phone 261-3880

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We know what you're looking for

IN WATERTOWN Fashion Headquarters FOR YOUNG MEN Edward E. Hotter i: E.

Realtor & Broker

HOFFER 261-4654

FARMS - HOMES BUSINESSES

REALTY

GENERAL INSURANCE 128 South Church St — Watertown, Wis. 53094

Open Daily at 1 p. m.

Art's Shoe Service BOWLING

SHOE REPAIR

PRO SHOP

Fast Service - Reasonable Prices

BILLIARDS

514 E. Main Watertown Washington Hotel

FIRST STATE SAVINGS

KECK FURNITURE COMPANY

COMPLETE

home furnishers

FOR OVER A CENTURY

110-112 Main St. - Watkrtown PHONE 261-7214

"Your Savings Insured up to $100,000" Downtown or Shopping Center

FISCHERS THE DEPARTMENT STORE OF WATERTOWN

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Milwaukee Cheese Co. 770 No. Springdale Rd., Waukesha, Wis.

TRI-MART CORPORATION WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR

MANUFACTURERS OF

BEER KAESE & WUNDERBAR BRICK CHEESE

Tobaccos, Candy, Fountain Chemical and Paper Supplies

COMPLETE LINE OF

301 CLARK ST.

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Institutional Food Products PHONE: 261-4941

These are our friends. . .

SCHUETT'S Radio & TV "DOWNTOWN IXONIA"

— Your Headquarters For —

FREEDOM WHEELS INC. HONDA & SUZUKI 311 South Third Street Watertown 261-5930

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RCA - PANASONIC QUASAR - KELVINATOR Modules - Components - TV’s Appliances

HARDWARE

HOUSEWARES

APPLIANCES GIFTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS

ZWIEG/S GRILL Fine Food Open Daily

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108-112 W. Main Street 261-7122 WATERTOWN

BREAKFASTS - SANDWICHES PLATE LUNCHES - HAMBURGERS BROASTED CHICKEN & CONES MALTS & SHAKES 904 East Main Street Phone 261-1922

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OCONOMOWOC SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. 808 Main Street Watertown, Wis. 261-4520

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PICCADILLY BOOK & SMOKE SHOP 406 Main Street 261-6027 Carole & Dawn Schumacher Complete line of: Jewelry Paperbacks and Monarch Notes Pipes, Tobacco, & Smoking Supplies Open Daily: 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

(Fri. til 7:30 p.m., Sat. til3:30 p.m.. Sun. til 11 am)

Bus. Phone 261-2770

OFFICE AND SCHOOL SUPPLY School and Art Supplies Cards—Gifts Watertown 261-3671 407 E. Main MINAR MJS/NKSS MACHINES TYPEWRITERS-CALCULATORS SALES-SERVICE-RENTAL 111 N. 4th Watertown 261-8600

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ROGER'S TV & APPLIANCES

MALLACH CLINIC PHARMACY Michael L. Chandler, R. Ph. 123 Hospital Drive Watertown, Wisconsin Phone 261-0242

JfeUi's

Hitachi-Sylvania, Stereo & TV Norge, Gibson & Crosley Appliances Kitchen Aid Dishwashers Jenn-Air Ranges

Smart Clothes for Men

402 Main Watertown Phone 261-3385

Formal Wear Rental 107 Main Street Dial 261-4174

COMPLIMENTS OF Your Walgreen Agency Pharmacy

The Busse Pharmacy go trojans a AL SHUMAKER and andy

mallach’s book store 107 north third street watertown, Wisconsin 53094

McFarland

Electrical Contractors Electric [Wl IRING [Si ERVICE

Oconomowoc 567-7566 Watertown 261-3755 Milwaukee 367-6008

phone (414) 261-0804

jeannine mallach, bookseller . . .Give them a call or visit

Advertise in the Black and Red. . .

KUESTER PLUMBING 222 S. First Street

Phone 261-2709

WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

SHARP CORNER INN Full Menu Excellent Sandwiches Fine Cocktails and House Wines

"The Latest in Motion Pictures” 308 E. Main Street (414) 261-1692 WATERTOWN, WIS. 53094

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES ★ A Daily Newspaper Since 1895

Accommodations for Parties up to 30 People 261-5259 Within Walking Distance of the Campus At the comer of MAIN STREET AND COLLEGE AVENUE

l\/|&l Bank of Watertown "The Bank Behind the Town" at 205 No. Second Street

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

Watertown

Phone 261-3011

Watertown DODGE "New and Used Cars”

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Dial 261-3870

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MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

SAVE NEWSPAPERS AND ALUMINUM CANS FOR THE MNEMA Newspaper pickup Tuesdays (Profs, first Tuesday of every month 10:00 a.m.-l:00 p.m.)

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HOSE'S BARBER SHOP POTATO CHIPS

New Concepts in Haircutting & Styling — Wigs —

POPCORN

Appointments — Closed Mondays Open Fri. to 9 p.m. — Sat. to 3 30 p.m.

102 S 4th Street

Phone 261-3646

MALLACH PHARMACY

114 W. Main Street — Watertown

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OF WATERTOWN, INC.

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315 Main St.

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WATERTOWN

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COMFORTABLE LODGING FACILITIES DINING ROOM SPECIALS EVERY DAY Fridays — Seafood Buffet Sundays - Sunday Brunch

COCKTAIL LOUNGE Monday Night Football

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NOVEMBER TIME

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National Cat Week (Another way of saying cat-hunting season takes a week off)

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Election Day (No big deal this year)

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B & R Day of Reckoning

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National Nothing Week (It’s about time Nothingness gets a little recognition.)

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Martin Luther's Birthday!

(He’s 498 today. Should really be a school holiday.)

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Veteran’s Day. Full Moon.

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Student-Faculty Discussion on Alcoholism (in Auditorium).

13-14

WELS Contemporary Sacred Music Exposition at Wisconsin Lutheran College.

(Check your NW Lutheran for details.)

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Basketball season opener at George Williams College

7:00

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Basketball home opener against the Sem.

7:30

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More home buckets action against Gateway Tech.

7:30

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Thanksgiving Vacation.

(Also known as ‘Turkey and Football Weekend.”)

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Home basketball against WLC JVs. Mark Twain's Birthday.

9:00 P.M.

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Quotation of the Month: All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

—Mark Twain

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Published monthly during the school year by the students of Northwestern College 1300 Western Avenue Watertown, WI 53094

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A Peculiar People...............................

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Man of Flesh and Blood.....................

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A Roadmap to Bar-Mitzvah: Tracing Jewish Education

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A Rainy Day in October.....................

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Your Best Bet for Banking...............

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Slaughter of Innocence....................

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.......... John Miller . .Paul Workentine ..........Jeff Schone ............... Ray Bell Eric Goldschmidt Phil Lueders Joel Nitz Leon Piepenbrink Joel Thomford .............Jon Balge David Sellnow .......... Tim Zarling Todd Goldschmidt .... Tim Buelow Brad Ragner .... David Zahn . . . .Kenley Mann . . r. Ken Chemey Paul Prange . Scott Carmichael Scott Licht

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IJiddcn away in small rural communities ^throughout the American Midwest is a conservative religious group that has become famous not for what they do, but for what they don’t do. They refuse to conform to the lifestyle of the modern, progressive society by which they are surrounded. As a result, they are an easy group to identify, since they are always dressed in the latest fashions of the 1700’s and get around by means of the horse and buggy. They have received much pub­ licity and admiration from people all around the country for their unwavering religious devotion. This group is commonly called the Amish, and in particular, the Old Order Amish of the Mcnnonite Church.

The Mennonite Church is found all over the world, and includes hundreds of subgroups that vary greatly in their degree of conservatism.

The Mennonites came into being shortly after the Lutheran Reformation. Melchior Hoffman, originally a follower of our own Martin Luther, became the leader of a small reformed group in northern Europe. In spite of his connection with Luther, Hoffman and his followers listened more closely to Zwingli, who was igniting the Swiss Anabaptist Movement. Eventually a man by the name of Menno Simons came to the helm of Hoffman’s growing sect, and so the title “Mennonites.” Already in the 1500’s the Anabaptists stressed separation from the world, nonviolence, and a simple way of life.

But in the infancy of this large reformed group, disagreements arose concerning church doctrines. Simons’ group continued to be one of the most conservative factions among the Anabaptists, and this gradually led to a major 86

conflict concerning the matter of “shunning.”

This was the process by which the church dis­ ciplined radical and delinquent members. A man by the name of Jacob Ammann took a strict, hard-line approach by insisting that such members be excommunicated. Only a few hundred ultraconservatives followed his stance.

The other conservatives went on to form the Mennonite Church, but Ammann and his ultraconservatives officially broke away in 1693 to form their own sect-the Amish. Immediately under Ammann’s leadership the customs of dressing in the old style, keeping beards un­ trimmed, and rejecting progress were deeply instilled.

Just a few decades after their break with the Mennonites, the Amish were looking for a new place to continue their unique religion without persecution. William Penn wanted people to settle his new colony, and so the Amish got their start in Pennsylvania. Being a rather mobile people, however, they soon expanded to Maryland, Virginia, and the midwestern states. Schisms plagued the growing church body concerning the degree of con­ servatism and the rejection of modem society they should enforce. The latest division came in 1923 when a group of Amish under the leadership of Moses M. Beachy moved farther to the liberal left than the Old Order could tolerate.

Today there are about 15,000 Old Order Amish living in the farmlands of more than 20 states. They are especially concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. To find them here in Wisconsin, you would have to

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look in the towns of Curtiss, Spencer, and do not proselytize, the only way to acquire Amherst in the Stevens Point area, or in more members is by having more children.

Cashton, Wilton, and Wcstby around La The Amish insist on an eighth grade educa­ tion, but certainly no more. The only accept­ Crosse. So much for the background.

The Amish have one of the most stringent able occupation is farming, so after eighth moral codes of any religious sect. Comparing grade the process of “learning by doing” is pursued. During those eight years in the Amish themselves with the Israelites of the Old Testament and all of their ceremonial laws, the parochial school, the children learn arithmetic, Amish consider themselves part of God’s reading, spelling, and language-practical skills which a good farmer needs. No music or art is chosen people. As such they intend to live up taught. High schools are deemed unnecessary to I Peter 2:9 by distinguishing themselves as a and detrimental in that they provide evil in­ “peculiar people” in every sense of the word.

To do this they reject both the modem con­ fluences such as intellectualism, social inte­ gration, individual achievement, evolution, and veniences of American society, and all the the study of human anatomy. While some worldly possessions which they think have an evil influence. Included on the “Verboten” Amish teenagers experiment with cars, movies, list are modern tractors, automobiles, tele­ radios, and alcohol, only about 15% will leave visions, radios, telephones, electrical appli­ the Old Order, and most of those that leave ances (gas appliances are acceptable, though), move to another Amish group that is more jewelry, and secular books. They are also for­ liberal. Marriage is held in high esteem, and bidden to spend money on haircuts or cos­ divorce is unheard of.

Church services are the biggest social events metics, as that would be too much glorifica­ tion of the body. Commercial entertainment, in the Amish community. They are held only such as movies and sporting events, is also out every other Sunday, and take place at the of the question. Generally speaking, all contact homes of members-no separate church build­ with the outside world is either forbidden or ings exist. There may be more than 100 people avoided as much as possible. Out of necessity in each “congregation” and attendance is al­ ways 100% unless there is an illness. Those who they will sell their surplus grain to businesses in town, and they permit professional medical are not at the service have their names recorded help in cases of serious illness or injury. But if a in the church newspaper; the sickness they were suffering from is also identified. The member dies, the Amish handle the burial themselves. Furthermore, the Amish will not service begins at about 9:30 with the singing of three hymns, without musical accompani­ take an oath either in or outside of the court­ ment. Each hymn could last as long as 20 room, and they absolutely will not bear arms minutes, since they like to sing slowly. While either for their own personal protection or in the assembly is singing, the church leaders and defense of their country. “Turning the other district bishop are deciding who is going to cheek” is taken very literally. give the sermon that day. After the singing is Every aspect of Amish lifestyle clearly over, a preliminary sermon is delivered, followed reflects their conservative views. The family by a prayer and Scripture reading. Then the unit is the sum and substance of the entire society, and is always a very close unit. Love grand finalc-the main sermon. This can last and concern for fellow family members as well as long as an hour and a half with no intermis­ as for fellow church members is quite natural sions, in spite of the fact that the preacher had and expected. After all, the Amish have no one no time for preparation in advance. The ser­ else except each other to look to for help and vice is over by noon, so the congregation sticks support. Keeping the words of Genesis in around for dinner. On those Sundays when mind, “Be fruitful and multiply,” the average there is no service, a Sunday school may be family will have seven to nine children. Living held for both children and adults. Here they On the farm, the children are also considered study the New Testament, chapter by chapter, an economic asset. In addition, since the Amish until they have completed it. Then they start 87

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The symbol of the city, cold steel, in unin­ telligible form, no sense, just staring. And looking but not seeing, straight ahead, on and on. Statue sits in big, empty space, empty and cold and square. Empty brown chair can be filled, not like empty brown statue. The chair beckoned, and Archie lowered his tired body into it, but did not fill it. Filling was only possible in happier days.

There had been happier days once, days of both laughter and quiet joy. Elizabeth had been little, and the chair was filled with a father and his daughter and contentment.

Never much money, but who needed it?

Every day to the railroad station, every night home to Elizabeth and Mama’s hot meal. The heat worked, the room was warm, hearts glowed with affection. Love at home, love here that worked. Still works. Elizabeth still loves me. And now another of her letters.

Odd-the address is typed. Usually Lizzie writes, not types like the endless list of diesels

“Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of dark­ ness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost. ” —Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life When the wind howls down the length of an avenue embraced on both sides by tall steel, it continues straight and chilling. So like the people of tall Chicago, guided in every move­ ment by tunnel vision. From the city of the big shoulders comes the city of the cold shoulder, bristling with wire and locks and men with badges. Even the tomcat in the alley works with single-minded purpose-survival.

Enter Archibald. Old, slow, gentle Archibald and Chicago were never brothers; at best they co-existed warily on opposite sides of a bolted door. And slowly, incessantly, Chicago wore away its side of the door, scraping, scratching, until the day of confrontation.

“Here he comes, man. Look at that head shine. Hey man, you wax it every morning?

Where’s your woman? She slide away, huh?

Or are you really as gay as you look? Maybe you-”

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Shiny letter opener in hand, envelope ready, flash of steel—stop. I, I give in-take it, take the money, there, wallet, please don’t hurt. All I have-never any more. No-ouch.

Please, sir, my daughter Lizzie needs her papa to be—oh. Yes, sir. Don’t know you, don’t want to know you, never knew anything about you. Yes, you have a nice day too.

“It’s a nice afternoon at beautiful Wrigley Field, where a large crowd is on hand to view the game between our Cubbies and the St. Louis Cardinals.” Bleacher tickets available and popcorn, popcorn, get your popcorn here.

This is how to write it: 3 is the first baseman, dear. Warmth in the sun and in the scat and in the little girl next to me, in the ninth inning.

3-3, it’s hit way back, back to left field, he’s on the vines, back, hey-hey, on Waveland Avenue!

The Cubs win 4-3. ..

43. That’s the right box number, but it’s typed. No matter. Open box, no, open

envelope, paper inside. Paper from Lizzie like paper in second grade in cold February: I want to be your valentine, Daddy. Love, yes I love you dear very very much. And all of the papers you bring home with shiny gold stars and shiny gold stars in your eyes too, always shining even when glistening wet. Your papa wants you to be a good girl, always good, always star. You shine at the podium, sixth grade teacher says, “So proud, so proud,” and near the flag there my eyes glisten with stars. Sit and stand and clap and cry, so much proud. Speech where? Folded up and put away in the special book. Folded paper from Lizzie.

The light outside the window dimmed.

White walls reflected the gray carpet, the brown chair, the old lamp beside. Its light exposed the cold black letters, typed, un­ movable: ----- ELIZABETH WE REGRET TO ANNE................. - PASSED AWAY - -SINCERE CONSUDDENLY- - FUNERAL...........

DOLENCES-----AWAIT REPLY. The wind raged, the tomcat prowled, and finally, finally, Archibald shut his eyes.

PAUL PRANGE

A Road-map to Bar-Mitzvah:

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p IBhilo, a Jewish historian/philosopher, wrote I that the Jews ‘‘were from their swaddling clothes...trained to recognize God as their Fa­ ther, and as the Maker of the world,” and that “from earliest consciousness they learned the laws, so as to have them, as it were, engraven upon the soul.” These two short phrases from a first century B.C. historian paint an accurate picture of Jews not only of that era, but of Ju­ daism in general. Jewish life was centered around a good education, especially a solid reli­ gious education.

Hebrew society always put great emphasis on the family. Any attentive reader can see the strong desire for children, especially males, throughout the Old Testament. The absolute head of the Hebrew family was the father, and he had almost unlimited power over his chil­ dren. To the Jewish child, cursing or assaulting his father was a crime deemed worthy of the death penalty. The family was also considered patriarchal because all privileges and impor­ tance of family in the community came through the line of descent of the father. To this end, if a woman’s husband died before they had children, the husband’s brother, through the Law of Levirate Marriage (Deu­ teronomy 25:5; Ruth 3:9, Ruth 4:10), was to have children in his brother’s name with his brother’s wife to perpetuate his brother’s fam­ ily line.

The central position of the family unit in Jewish society as well as the spiritual atmos­ phere of the nation heralded the need for a good system of education. Hebrew educational philosophy deemed it necessary that “school­ ing” begin early in life. At first, the burden of instruction was on the mother. Timothy’s mother Eunice and grandmother Lois (2 Tim-

othy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15) followed this Jew­ ish practice. All education, to some degree, was centered in the religious realm.

As soon as the child could speak, he began memorizing those portions of Scripture the Jews used in their liturgy. These small sections of Scripture, such as the “Shema” (Deuterono­ my 6:4), roughly parallel our creeds. Soon af­ ter these were memorized and mastered, the child began to learn other short passages and prayers along with selected sayings of the sages. Even as this basic learning was done in the home with the mother, so it is today. Who taught you your first prayer?

Each child had a ‘‘birthday verse,”-a verse which began or ended with the same letters as his name, which he would memorize and in­ clude in his daily prayers for the rest of his life.

Hymns, in the form of Psalms, were also taught. The Hallel (Psalms 113-118) were the first to be learned because they were used dur­ ing the Passover celebration each year. As can clearly be seen, cultivation of memory and retention capabilities were a large part of Jew­ ish education.

Because education before the exile was confined almost exclusively to the home, an important question arises: How much of the Scriptures did the average Jewish family have?

In the early days, great efforts were made to keep the copies of the Scriptures free from careless copying errors; accordingly, it was unlawful to copy any portion of the Old Testa­ ment except those portions the children studied, such as: the account from the Creation to the Flood; Leviticus 1-9; and Numbers 1-10:35. By the time of the Macabees nearly every family had at least parts of the Old Testament, if not the entire Old Testament, 91

either in Hebrew or in the Greek Septuagint Version, available around 175 B.C. While the mother was in charge of the child’s early education, it was the father who was ultimately responsible for the child’s over­ all education, especially in the Torah. It was the father who faced disgrace in the communi­ ty if his son was not well educated practically and religiously.

The father tried to promote in his children an ethical, religious personality, teaching his son an avoidance of vice as well as the. practice of the positive virtues of gentleness, honesty and strict discipline. He also tried to inculcate the child with a continual desire for knowl­ edge, so the child would not stagnate intellec­ tually when he reached adulthood.

In the days before the exile, education at home was also rich in the practical. Because the Jews lived in an enrivonment of continual change, they developed an occupational educa­ tion program that provided a process of adjust­ ment according to the social and economic at-

The father tried to promote in his children an ethical, religious personality. mosphere of the nation. In their nomadic days, the children were taught the art of shepherd­ ing. In days of warfare, battle tactics were taught, and after the conquest of Canaan, when Israel was basically agarian, farming skills (as well as other “settled” occupations) were taught.

Originally the Levites, through worship in the tabernacle or later the Temple in Jerusa­ lem, played an important part in teaching the children the laws, history and literature of the Jewish people. In the days of Ezra (450 B.C.) however, the class of scribes arose and assumed the teaching duties of the nation, confining the priests to their Temple functions. At this time the Torah became the predominant object of study. Along with the synagogues, schools be92

gan appearing for the purpose of training chil­ dren in the Law. By the time of Christ most cities and towns had schools, and education was compulsory for every child over six years old. Jewish tradition claims that it was unlawful to live in a place without such a synagogue school.

Learning at the synagogue school was somewhat different from education today.

Many of these schools were operated on an “open-air” basis—the classes were conducted outside. The students would sometimes stand or be seated in a semi-circle facing their instruc­ tor. The discipline was strict. The actual learn­ ing was accomplished, to a great extent, by i free discourse of questions and answers from the teacher and students (cf. the boy Jesus at the Temple, Luke 2:42-52). School was in ses­ sion all year, though hours were shortened dur­ ing the summer season.

The course of study at these synagogue schools, once their development was complete, followed a regular pattern (years after the time of Ezra). The preschool education, as already stated, was in the hands of the mother.

Between the ages of five (or six) and ten, when formal education began, the child was taught exclusively from the Bible. After the book of Leviticus, other parts of the Penta­ teuch were studied. The prophets and their in­ spired writings were studied next, followed by a course in the Hagiographa (‘The Writings,” books like Job, Psalms, 1 and 2 Chronicles).

From age ten to fifteen the Mishnah, or Jewish traditional law-laws in addition to those contained in Scripture, was studied. The Mishnah is half of the Talmud, which is defined as, “the authoritative body of Jewish tradi­ tion.” The other half of the Talmud is called the Gemara, which is a commentary on the Mishnah, containing even more guidelines and regulations.

After the age of fifteen, if the student was capable, he entered into higher theological dis­ cussions. These were no longer part of the syn­ agogue school system, but were known as rab­ binic schools. Jesus never attended a rabbinic school (John 7:15), perhaps because they focused on the discussion of man-made regula­ tions and the fulfilment of human traditions.

In Jesus’ time, when a male reached the age of thirteen, he was received into the adult religious community through the initiatory

rite known as the “Bar-Mitzvah,” by which he became, as the name suggests, a “Son of the Commandment.” This ceremony first appears among the traditions of the Talmud. At the time of Christ the rite was for males only, though in more modem times a ceremony has

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developed for twelve-year-old girls. The BarMitzvah marks the assumption of religious re­ sponsibility on the part of the child.

The actual ceremony is very simple. It be­ gins with a prayer of thanksgiving spoken by the father of the child. The son then reads a section of the Torah in the original Hebrew in that part of the rite known as the “Baruch

Shepeterani.” The initiate then gives a short ad­ dress (Derashah) to the assembly. Then follows the Seudah or festive meal. With that, the cere­ mony is complete, and the child is a fully re­ sponsible individual in the Jewish community.

We can learn more than just these basic facts from a look at Hebrew education. We can learn, for example, the value of an enthusiasm for learning, especially religious learning. We can admire the Jews for this, even if their zeal is ‘‘without knowledge” (Romans 10:2). Per­ haps the value of an early education in the home can be seen most clearly through the lives of the Jews.

A more basic lesson can be derived from the strong sense of “family” evident in Jewish society. The concept of family ran hand-inhand with their religious life, and it was through the family and its connection with the Word that Israel was kept strong. When the Jews severed the connection with the Word or destroyed the prominent role of the family unity, it was then that Israel grew weak. The family is perhaps the key to understanding Jewish education.

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A fiaiijy ©ay ip October rom time to time my thoughts drift back to a certain rainy day in October. The passing years have not erased from my mind the events of that day. I remember the rain-slickened roadway on which we were traveling, the large puddle that seemed to engulf half the road ahead of us, and my friend’s efforts to maneuver his vehicle around that puddle. I remember the vehicle spinning out of control, flipping, and then rolling over and over again.

Most of all, I remember my thoughts upon hearing that my friend almost died that night on the operating table and perhaps faced a life of partial paralysis. The whole thing seemed so stupid. “What possible good could come from this?” I asked God in prayer.

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“Will he ever walk again?” someone asked me.

No one knew at that time, except the Lord.

And I kept asking God, “What possible good could come from this?”

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. returned to life on the operating table (his heart had stopped temporarily during the long hours of his double brain surgery) were the speculations as to what extent he might recover.

But as the days of his hospital stay accumu­ lated, increased hope began to fill the air. My friend was writing short notes on pieces of paper, slowly recovering his ability to pro­ nounce words, and even beginning to walk!

With the passing days came steady recovery.

Soon he was even allowed to go home, the doctors hoping that the warmth and security there would encourage him as he continued to fight the hardest battle of his life. Every day he had to return to the hospital for fur­ ther rehabilitation work, attempting to regain full use of his arms and legs. One day I stopped at his house before he returned from his daily hospital visit. Beckoning me to come inside and wait, my friend’s sister told me that he would be home any minute. I remember walking into his bedroom and seeing his old leather basket­ ball lying on the floor of his closet. Somehow it seemed impossible to imagine that he would ever again acquire the skills and coordination needed to play basketball, especially as I saw him slowly walk into the room and say, “Hello.”

His body was weak and his speech somewhat slurred. His arms and legs didn’t always seem to do what he wanted. I once again asked the Lord, “What possible good could come from this?”

As his health improved, one continually recurring statement seemed to stick in his mind. “It’s a miracle,” friends and relatives frequently told him. His doctors reiterated this, saying that his recovery was a millionto-one shot. Yes, my friend completely recov­ ered from our accident, his body slowly re­ gaining its old strength; meanwhile, he kept hearing that phrase from those who heard the details of the accident, “It’s a miracle!”

My friend had never been very “religious,” so to speak. He was a Catholic by member­ ship, but knew precious little about Scripture.

So it seemed peculiar to me when his talk steadily became flavored with very deep and thought-provoking questions concerning God. He had a profound thirst for Scripture which soon led him away from the Catholic Church.

He continually wanted to know more about this Individual who saved him from death on the operating table and paralysis afterward.

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Thoughts of his ‘‘special miracle” and the love of God that it displayed led my fnend to attend the adult education class at my home church. He simply wanted to know more about Jesus.

Months passed and he was still attending that class at my church. After sitting through two, four-month sessions of ,the class, U- my friend was obviously a changed man. His me had been tenderly touched by the hand of his Lord, and he knew it. His zeal for the Lord, when contrasted with the apathy of several months before, amazed those close to him.

I remember with great joy the time my

friend told me that he wished everyone could experience the happiness and comfort he had found in Jesus. I remember the day shortly thereafter, when he and I got the old leather basketball out of his closet. As my friend quickly dribbled the ball around me, leaping toward the basket and laying the ball in the hoop in one fluid motion, I remember thinking that my prayer had been answered. 1 now knew what good came from that rainy day in Octo­ ber. Several months later my friend became a member of my home church and was married there last summer.

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Now, there are five banks in Watertown which advertise year after year in the Black and Red. Are you interested in getting a little

more out of your money? Take a look at the deals offered by Watertown’s banks, all within easy walking distance of the campus.

First State Savings-633 S. Church—FSS M & I Bank of Watertown—205 N. 2nd—MIB Marine Bank Watertown—500 Main St.-MBVJ Oconomowoc Savings & Loan-808 Main-OSL Valley Bank of Watertown—104 W. Main— VBW TWO AND ONE HALF YEAR MONEY MARKET CERTIFICA TESWith only a $500 minimum, this new investment plan is within the range of many Northwestern College students. You purchase one of these certificates payable back to you at a rate that changes every two weeks. Once you purchase your certificate, your rate is frozen. The current rates for early November are printed below: FSS—12%, MIB—15.3%, OSL-15.55%, MBW-15%, VBW—13.5% 95

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REGULAR PASSBOOKIf you need a bank here in Watertown to handle your regular passbook account, check out these interest rates: FSS-5.5%, MIB—5.25%, OSL-5.5%, MBW-5.25%, VBW—5.25%

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CHECKING— Now let’s imagine you want to open a checking account. Oconomowoc Savings and Loan doesn’t offer checking, so they’re out of the running. Most banks have $300 or $400 minimum balances required, so they don’t impose a service charge; a typical student’s budget can’t take advantage of their offer.

Marine Bank and Valley Bank, however, do not make service charges if you have $500 invested anywhere else in the bank. Marine calls that their Flagship account. The only NOW account (checking with interest) in the range of the typical student is at First State Savings, where the minimum balance is only $300. At most places it’s $1000. Finally, there’s a pretty good deal down at Valley Bank. They call it their New Outlooks Club.

For a flat monthly fee of $4 you get free checks, traveler’s checks, no minimum balance, one year free safe deposit box, no charge for any banking services, $10,000 accidental death insurance, rent-a-car usage, and other goodies.

It doesn’t sound too bad.

Watertown’s banks are all very friendly and helpful, with nice atmosphere inside and at a convenient distance from the campus. Why not go down to visit and find out how to make your money work for you?

PAUL PRANGE

g>mofeeles& Tobacco s the first rays of light break through the bleak, oppressive clouds of dawn, the grim executioner leads a blindfolded captive towards a restless firing squad. While the executioner positions the man before the firing line, he inquires of the man whether he has any last requests before he dies. Does the man foolishly ask for one last smoke? Does he endanger his life and the lives of those around him by re­ leasing the nicotine and tar-laden smoke contained within the thin, white cylinder? Of course not! Instead, with a square chin and a wiry smile upon his lips, the sentenced man only requests one last “dip” from his beloved snoose can; and thus as the man cashes in his

chips, he enjoys the long-lasting pleasures of smokeless tobacco for the last time. Although this man’s tobacco loving days are finished, he has demonstrated that even in one’s dying moments, he can reap the advantages and pleasant satisfaction of smokeless tobacco.

Even though not everyone faces life and death situations in everyday life, the use of smokeless tobacco is becoming increasingly attractive to nicotine lovers in a society where more and more nonsmokers are vocalizing their dislike of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke given off by the smoking faction of our society.

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there are at the same time a great number of people who do not and will not appreciate the smoker’s practice, nor do they wish to accom­ modate the fumes and gases exhaled by their counterpart. This objection is well-founded, since medical science has determined that the smoke discharged by cigarettes, pipes, and cigars is not only dangerous ana undesirable for the smoker himself, but is equally if not more dangerous and undesirable for those nonsmokers who happen to be in the immediate vicinity of the smoker. This is due largely to the fact that when in close proximity to a smoker, who usually breathes filtered smoke, the nonsmoker has no choice but to inhale the unfiltered smoke. Although a law requiring public establishments to provide specific areas

friends and. neighbors have all disappeared, but the gratifying savor is still present. Redman, Redhorse, Union Station, Copenhagen,* Gold River, and many other brands all offer a tobacco user a large, varied selection of tobacco with varying degrees of flavor. Whether one prefers chewing tobacco or plug tobacco, leaf-cut or western-cut, snuff or snoose, regular or wintergreen flavored, each one provides an excellent tobacco taste without the hazardous smoke. Of course, nicotine is still present in all of these, and granted, it is a type of toxicant.

But by absorbing the nicotine through the skin rather than through the bronchi, one is able to enjoy the effects of the nicotine without endangering his lungs or, for that matter, the lungs of others. One local long-

of smoking and nonsmoking did allow a nonsmoker some alleviation from his plight, a designated area still does not totally isolate him from the smoke of another’s cigarette. Con­ sequently, nonsmokers are growing resentful of the smoker’s habit, because it places their lives in danger. Wives cease to speak to their husbands, bosses reprimand their employees and friends and neighbors drift apart. Nonsmokers are no longer bashful when expressing their rights to breathe clean air and adamantly refuse to put up with the smoker’s habit.

Must a tobacco-loving man forever relin­ quish his satisfaction and contentment in order to give his friends and associates peace of mind?

Take heart, tobacco-lovers. It takes only a pinch between the cheek and gum, and a whole world of tobacco satisfaction opens up for the tobacco-loving .man. The smoke, the fumes, the dirty looks, and the acid comments of

time Copenhagen user states his case, “It doesn’t mess up your lungs like those grenadier green labels.” The conspicuous cloud of smoke that endangers and infuriates friends and sur­ rounds your head is replaced by a slight, hardlynoticeable bulge in the lower lip. The small amount of tobacco (or “dip” as it is called) sits between the cheek and gum, excreting a flavorable tobacco taste into the mouth.

Nobody breathes any smoke, nobody throws a dirty look, and nobody even realizes the chewer is enjoying himself to his heart’s con­ tent. Whether in the classroom or in the dorm, at a sporting event or a concert, at home or at work, living or about to die, smokeless tobacco provides fulfillment for those seeking a higher tobacco taste.

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ccasionally a phenomenon springs up with­ in our circles which has been referred to by at least one pastor as “the Bible cell.” A Bible cell is usually a small group of members from a particular congregation which regularly gets together and studies the Bible on its own without the aid of the pastor or a representa­ tive of the congregation to guide it. These people usually possess an honest desire to dig more deeply into Scripture and to grow in faith and knowledge with their fellow believers.

They are dismayed to leam that usually their activity is not sanctioned by their church because it is not guided by the qualified man whom they, through their church, have called to minister to them.

This phenomenon has not passed by our own campus. It has happened in the past that a few students have decided to meet to study Scripture or perhaps to pray, only to be greatly disturbed when they leam that such action, when taken in small "private” groups, is frowned upon by school officials. I too par­ ticipated in such a group and could not under­ stand why the meetings were “verboten.”

“Northwestern needs more opportunity for spiritual growth,” we said. “Are you putting chains on the Bible as there were in Luther’s day?” We asked, “What harm can a group like ours do to the school, ourselves, or our fellow students?”

I don’t think anyone can deny that such

Bible study and fellowship groups can do much good. Small, informal groups allow each per­ son to participate actively, sharing his insights while learning from the contributions of the others. Following some reliable printed format can give direction and depth to reading and discussion, keeping it “on the track” to make best use of the time allotted. Knowledge of Scripture can be expanded, spiritual growth can be fostered, and faith can be shared and can increase.

Objections to such meetings are also valid, however. There is a danger of false doctrine appearing, especially when no real guidelines are followed and there is an incomplete under­ standing of what is being discussed. The danger of pietism is also present when those in the group look down on others who do not wish to join and they consider themselves more “spirit­ ually mature” than those who don’t partici­ pate. If an individual Bible cell would grow to encompass a significant percentage of the stu­ dent body, or if there were several Bible cells involving a large number of students, serious division and controversy could result.

The good must be measured against the bad. Those whom we have called through our synod to be our spiritual advisors on campus have weighed the pros and cons and have decided that the dangers connected with such groups are risks not worth taking. Whether we agree or not, we must in humility respect this 99

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What channels are left for those students who feel a need for more opportunities for spiritual growth? First of all, care should be taken that the opportunities which are already available are used to their fullest potential.

Most easily taken for granted are our two daily chapel services which are led by a variety of individuals—faculty, dorm staff, and students alike—and cover a variety of topics relevant to the Christian’s life. Also “bless­ ings in disguise” are our religion classes. In the upper levels, Scripture is studied in its original languages, a type of “Bible study” that is a rare benefit and one which deserves more of our attention. Our dormitory council sets up several “student-faculty discussions” each year, often dealing with controversial topics that are of special interest to us. A faculty com­ mittee has developed a “ministry enrichment program” which invites pastors from the field to speak to the upper classes on items relative to students and the Ministry. Of course, the best alternative to Bible cells is personal Bible study. If some problem in understanding comes up, there are numerous qualified men avail­ able for help on or near campus.

While not open expressly to students, there arc other opportunities for growth which do pertain specifically to Bible study. One is the Bible Institute which meets each Wednes­ day evening in fall in our auditorium. All of our churches in town also offer Bible study groups at various times and on various portions of Scripture. NWC students have been invited to these functions both directly and indirectly.

Perhaps some feel there should be even more opportunities, a possibility suggested by the “phenomenon” of Bible cells itself. In an article on the subject published in the Lutheran Educator, Pastor Mark Braun gives advice to the pastor who is confronted with Bible cells in his own congregation. Pastor Braun states, “The first thing to do would be to give these Bible cells better competition..Is there enough competition at NWC? I would like to see the creation of a “com­ mittee on spiritual growth,” made up of a few members of the dormitory council. Such a committee would study this matter of “com­ petition” and work with the Dean of Men in expanding the present opportunities we have to grow spiritually while investigating new ones.

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chapel services and special events, coordinate the activities of our college with those of the WELS Campus Ministry, and perhaps even sponsor informal Bible-centered meetings on campus, held by selected faculty or dorm staff members. Such a committee, comprised of students, could see that the talents of as many students as possible are used to the glory of God, especially in the area of music and music composition. It could help satisfy some of the needs of those who feel Bible cells are a desir­ able means of spiritual growth.

When it comes down to the basics, all at NWC are concerned about the study of the Word and its proclamation; both “sides” of the Bible cell question have only the good of the church and His Kingdom in mind. Let’s show that common concern by working to­ gether in finding new ways to grow spiritually while effectively using the ways we already have. Both we and His church will benefit.

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They said it could never happen, but An American Werewolf in London came to Watertown. (Actually no one ever said that, but it was a great introductory sentence anyway, not so?) When a movie’s leading players are Jenny Agutter, whom I’ve been in love with ever since Logan’s Run, and David Naughton, alias the Bepper from the Dr. Pepper TV commer­ cials, how can it possibly go wrong?

Well, this movie definitely does not go wrong. It assuredly ranks among the best films of the year, which is quite an accomplish­ ment for a movie that tries to be a horror film and a comedy at the same time. The astounding part is that it succeeds, through the combined efforts of a good script and some fine acting. Naughton and Agutter play their roles smoothly and naturally. Naughton plays David Kessler, a tragic figure as an American tourist in England who is attacked by a werewolf. When the wolf is shot in the middle of the attack, Kessler survives and un­ willingly becomes the next in the bloodline, hence an American werewolf in London.

Jenny Agutter as Alex Price is a beautiful young nurse who falls in love with Kessler and continues to love him even after knowing the truth that he is a werewolf.

American Werewolf features some fantastic cinematography, relying mainly on dream

sequences and sudden heart-stoppers for scare tactics. It is a stunning suspense/horror film, but at the same time includes some scenes that will have you rolling in the aisles with laughter. Not even Shakespeare had comic relief this good.

For instance, after Kessler's first murder­ ous rampage under the full moon, he wakes up in his human form in the wolf cage at the zoo.

The transformation does, of course, leave him unclothed, and the nearest thing he can find to cover himself with is a young boy’s bunch of balloons. As Kessler runs off, the boy strolls over to his mother, and with straight face and British accent declares: “Mummy, a naked American man just stole my balloons.”

But why should you listen only to what I have to say about the movie? Go see An American Werewolf in London for yourself, but stay off the moors and beware the moon.

DAVID SELLNOW RECORDS I think I can count the Elvis Costello fans at NWC on the fingers of one hand. With a little luck, though, Costello’s new album, Almost Blue (Columbia) is going to change that. You see, Almost Blue is a genuine 101

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If you think Elvis can’t write country music, you’re probably right and apparently Elvis agrees. All of the music on this album has been penned by such country greats as Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Charlie Rich, and others. The album opens up with a rip-snorting version of Hank Williams’ “Why Don’t You Love Me (like you used to do)?”

With “Sweet Dreams” the record slows down to a pace that belies the title of the album.

This stuff isn’t almost blue, it’s blue all the way. Nobody sings about heartbreak like Elvis, and no genre writes about it like country.

Although Elvis may not be a traditional country vocalist, the voice that made “Alison” the love song of the century is well suited to the selections on this record.

In fact, if it weren’t for Elvis’ distinctive voice, Steve Neive, of Elvis’ band, the Attrac­ tions, would steal the show with his superb work on piano and organ. Sometimes Neive’s keyboards blend into the background, adding punch when needed. At other times they go off in directions of their own, coming back to the basic melody only reluctantly. Neive shines brightest in “Success,” “Honey Hush,” and “How Much I Lied.” If the most valuable instrumentalist award goes to Steve Neive, at least an honorable mention must go to special guest John McFee. McFee’s pedal steel guitar may sound like a cliche, but without it this record would sound like almost any other album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

It’s John McFee that makes this a country album. The Attractions’ rhythm section, comprised of Pete Thomas on drums and Bruce Thomas on bass is disappointingly limited by an unfamiliar genre. The two of them do little more than give the music a solid base to build on. It’s a shame-they can do much better and have in the past.

Many things can be said about Elvis Costello (and believe me, I’ve heard plenty of things said about him), but after hearing Almost Blue, nobody can say he’s stuck in a rut. If you like country, if you like Elvis Costello, or if you just like good music, give a listen to Almost Blue. It just may be the most enjoyable case of the blues you’ve had in a long time.

PETE LEYRER

There are those who believe that former counter-culture hero and ungodly rock star Bob (Robert Zimmerman) Dylan cannot really be committed to Christ. The appearance of two secular songs on his latest album, Shot of Love, might add fuel to that opinion, since his previous two records, Slow Train Coming (1979) and Saved (1980) had only religious songs.

The song “Lenny Bruce” makes little sense, at first, from a religious point of view.

Dylan gives tribute here to the profane comedian, a heroin addict who died of an over­ dose. But it seems that he knew Lenny Bruce personally, and is moralizing on what he feels is overly harsh criticism of Bruce’s life.

“Heart of Mine,” a fine, lighthearted ballad with extra percussion added, is the other “secular” song on the album. Along with “Lenny” it is one of the more moving melodies.

Ringo Starr is listed for percussion on this one.

Several cuts on Shot of Love are simple blues/rock jams. Most of the lyrics are quality Dylan, but the music lags in places. In “Dead Man, Dead Man” the reggae beat lacks life.

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drags on “Watered Down Love,” though the tune is nice and the lyrics, closely based on I Corinthians 13, are of interest.

Bob Dylan offers some of his lesser work on this album, but some of his very best is here, too. In “Property of Jesus,” Dylan tells unbelievers why they feel and act the way they do toward the lone Christian in their midst.

And on the final song, “Every Grain of Sand,” the “new” Dylan offers some of his most moving lines: "There’s a dying voice within me Reaching out somewhere, Toiling in the danger, and in the morals of despair.

Don’t have the inclination To look back on any mistake, Like Cain I now behold the chain Of events I have to break...

I gaze into the doorway, of temptation’s angry fame.

And every time I pass that way, I always hear my name.

Then onward in my journey, I come to understand.

That every hair is numbered, Like every grain of sand...

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This is going to be a review of a Devo concert, but before I start I think I’d better explain something. Namely, why did the night of October 17 find me standing in the rain in downtown Milwaukee waiting to see a band that most of my fellow students equate with five idiots in silly costumes who can’t play the guitar-or any other instrument-to save their warped little lives? Fair question. The reason I enjoy seeing Devo is because they’re just a lot of fun. Fun has, until recently, been their entire reason for existing as a band. Take, for instance, a song like “Space Junk” from their first album, which concerns itself with the tragic result of a piece of orbiting “space junk” landing on earth. What does it mean? You guessed it—absolutely nothing. Music like this has no deep message for the world, none of the sappy, ethereal philosophy that oozes out of

so much of the empty-headed drivel now jamming our airwaves. Music like this needs no excuse to have fun.

Back to downtown Milwaukee and Devo.

In lieu of a warm-up act, the show opened with a series of short films which set the mood for the concert and got the crowd rolling with the band’s unique sense of humor. One of the highlights of this audio-visual extravaganza was a lover’s spat between Ken and Barbie to the tune of “Love Without Anger,” a song from Devo’s latest album. The last film, how­ ever, changed the mood sharply with an eerie rendition of “Beautiful World.” As the sar­ castic words “it’s a beautiful world” filled the theatre the screen gave graphic testimony to frightening scenes of violence and brutality.

The crowd stopped laughing and I had to wonder whether Devo had actually taken itself seriously enough to try to present a message.

The answer is yes. And no. Although the song “Through Being Cool” on their latest album, New Traditionalists, seems to say that Devo is now ready to say something to the world, they rocked their way through two sets of music, one costume and set change, and two encores with such a sense of fun that any message was lost somewhere between the amplifiers and my vantage point in row X seat 5.

The music was performed well and came through remarkably clearly considering the acoustic limitations of the high ceilinged River­ side Theatre. The stage lighting and well choreographed stage antics made a dazzling combination, especially during the synthesizer solo in the song that asks the musical question, “Are we not men?” (Yes, folks, that one started with Devo, not NWC pep rallies).

There were some changes made from previous concerts, however. The costumes were a little more conservative than we’ve come to expect (although their plastic wigs added a bizarre touch), and a few previously unheard of solos were injected into the performance. The ninety-minute concert did not include such old standards as “Satisfaction” and “Come Back, Jonee.” All in all, the concert lacked some of the energy that was evident in previous shows.

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CAHPIS QUESTION:

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At the Synod convention held last August, a resolution was made that WELS look into producing or adopting a new hymnal. Do you feel a new hymnal is necessary?

STEVE SOUKUP—SENIOR I don’t think a new hymnal is necessary; however, I do think that it could be revised. As far as the hymns in the hymnal are concerned, I know that some people want to put in modem music and things like that. I don’t agree with that entirely. I think that the music in the hymnal fits the atmosphere of the service pretty well. As for the prayers in the beginning (of the hymnal), some of the language could probably be revised. By doing this you would be putting it (the hymnal) more in line with the NIV, as long as we’re switching over to the NIV pretty much anyway.

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MARK HENRICH-JUNIOR One of the biggest problems with the hymnal is some of the melodies of the hymns. I think that all the texts are okay, it’s just the melodies. There are only a certain number of hymns that everybody knows how to sing. We just don’t use the rest of them because the melodies are too obscure. Pastors don’t want to use them because the congregations can’t sing them. Some hymns just aren’t appropriate for smaller churches.

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The music isn’t offensive and many of the words are just as good as those written a couple of hundred years ago. Probably the greatest problem that would arise would be in getting the congregations to accept them (the new hymns). But there are solutions to that, too. This could perhaps be done by telling them that the hymns do agree with what we believe and that the doctrines contained in them agree with the doctrine of the hymns written a couple of hundred years ago. jr

ROBERT RARDIN-FRESHM AN Yes, I think a change is necessary. The old hymnal is forty years old and there are a lot of hymns in it that aren’t used. There are also a lot of hymns that have been written since then that are good hymns and could be used, but they aren’t in there (the hymnal), and so nobody gets a chance to use them.

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little less energy than before, no “Satisfaction,” could it be that-goodness, let’s hope notDevo is maturing?

PETE LEYRER Reclusive in his private life, guarded in press interviews, singer/writer Bob Dylan has always had an air of mystery about him. But his performances and recordings of the past three years have made plain a remarkable new commitment, and his recent concerts in Mil­ waukee and Madison bear this out.

Dylan opened his 1981 U.S./Canada tour with concerts at the Milwaukee Arena, October 16 and 17, and at Madison’s Dane County Coliseum, October 18; several of his songs contained a clear Christian message.

The October 17 and 18 concerts were prac­ tically identical in content, even in the order of the songs. About two-thirds of the songs were

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nia, he had played only religious songs in concert, angering many unsuspecting fans.

Now he is playing more of his secular material, and unbelieving fans are willing to sit through the Christian songs, waiting to hear their old favorites. Judging from the October concerts, Dylan has chosen non-religious songs that are not in direct conflict, philosophically, with his Christian witness. Some of his old songs were plainly blasphemous, as anyone can hear who listens to the album Highway 61 Revisited.

The audience was orderly, overall; many fans moved toward the stage during the encore, but Dylan’s music was never the kind that drives audiences off the deep end. Applause and cheering were strong for the older songs, but not by much.

The last song before the encore was a shining rendition of “In the Garden,” which starts out slowly and builds in emotion as it asks the listener to recognize Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. It begins; "When they came for him in the garden, did they know.

Did they know he was the Son of God, did they know that he was Lord, Did they hear when he told Peter, 'Peter, put up your sword ? ”

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(from the album Saved, 1980) Many of his old folk-blues songs have been rearranged for live performance, in a style which combines rock music with a black “gospel” sound. A trio of female backup singers adds brassy harmony with a heavy vibrato. A1 Kooper, from the days of “Like a Rolling Stone,” is back on organ for this tour.

Dylan played rhythm guitar and a weak lead on “It’s All In the Game,” an old pop hit. He also played his trademark harmonica on several songs, and acoustic guitar on a solo perform­ Bob Dylan Photo by Phil Lucdcrs ance of “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” in the encore.

The overall sound could have been cleaner.

At times certain instruments or vocals were lost old Dylan “standards,” like “Biowin’ In the in the mix. Dylan tends to slur some lyrics, Wind,” “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” “Knockin’ On especially in his older, more familiar songs. He Heaven’s Door” (these made up his encore), still has a billy goat’s voice, which is a thing of “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall,” and of course, beauty to true fans, but causes headaches in “Like a Rolling Stone.” unwilling hearers.

Scattered throughout the concert were Yet, Dylan put a lot of feeling into his numbers from Dylan’s last three albums, singing, and used perhaps more vocal range which have been described as “gospel dom­ than he has shown on his last half dozen inated.” albums. He didn’t say much between tunes, In 1979, after his conversion and three but the audience was given a show worthy months of Bible classes in a church in Califorof a “legend.” The song “You’ve Got to 105

Serve Somebody” started the concert, followed by the ballad, “I Believe in You.” Other religious songs, “In the Summertime,” from the new album Shot of Love; “Man Gave Names to All the Animals,” with its childlike simplicty and Jamaican rhythm; and “Solid

Rock,” all demonstrate the singer’s belief. He may not have had the best instruction, but the “legend” is now a witnessing Christian.

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Another autumn has passed through our campus and the annual super-necessary leaf cleanup is over except for the shouting. (Craig Wiebusch still has to shout, “Where are all the leaves that I was going to frolic in?”) In years past, this happy-go-lucky, turf-tidying task has been criticized as being frivolous, so this year the jannies have turned over a new leaf and given the project an important purpose.

This year all of the leaves are being piled up at the base of the water tower in order to provide a safe landing for any of the water tower painters who might slip. As an added safeguard, all of the professors along Tower Road have taken the cushions out of their sofas to spread all around the tower. The painters really appreciated these measures, 106

and they cheerfully unhooked their safety lines. Business Manager Glen Pankow then alertly filled out an order form for 25 spatulas, which he hoped would arrive in time for the Arbor Day cleanup, just in case anybody missed the cushions in their fall. Yes, there was a great deal of graffiti to cover up, and un­ fortunately much of this graffiti was done by members of the Northwestern family, students and professors alike. (Even the best families always have a few skeletons in the closet.)

But before the words of wit and wisdom were covered, C&C recorded some of the more memorable slogans for posterity. Here dey is: “Attic Greek Rules” “Give a Fig” (done in the unmistakable spray can style of Prof. Eickmann) “If Not You, Who?” (Apparently Prof.

Baumler got carried away with his new assign­ ment as recruitment officer.)

“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns” (Stu Freese must have been the culprit there.)

“Get High, Smoke Borkum Riff’ (We can’t be sure, but Davey says this one looked alol like his dad’s handwriting.)

“Get Plitzed, take Euripides”

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“Chevy Power” (Why, we’re not sure, but this one was obviously Prof. Sullivan’s script.)

“Party till you Scharf’ “Support your local choral fest” (The clear, concise lettering on this one could only belong to Chuck Westra.)

“Surfs up, hang Ten Broek” “Preps are No. 1” (scrawled in the gutty, determined hand of Coach Kruse) “Disco lives” (done in the stylish hand of either Steven Fromm or Andrew Schaefer, we’re not sure which) “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” (That crazy Stu was at it again.)

Sign language classes are now being offered on campus, and the possible ramifications of such a course are only beginning to be realized.

Besides the obvious uses of sign language, we envision other positive offshoots from the course, such as using the language to send in the next play from the sideline during football games. Just think of how many more games we might have won in basketball last year if Coach Thompson had “signed” instructions from the bench. “Signing” couldn't have been drowned out by the roar of the mercury vapor lights, like his voice was. In the dorm, signing could be used to ask people to turn down their stereos. Signing will also make it possible for two signing students to talk behind other students’ backs right to their faces. Well, enough said. Let’s just suffice it to say that signing is a good thing as long as it doesn’t get out of “hand”.

They did it again! Lion-heartedly braving the autumnal chills of the big-shouldered city, “Lewis” Franzmann and “Clark” Kirst have successfully led their classes in and out of the Chicago wilderness. We at C & C salute these two reckless adventurers who each year lead expeditions of knowledge-hungry frosh and sophomores in the Windy City. These courag­ eous soldiers of fortune, armed only with a 1954 AAA highway map and three boxes of cafeteria lunches, somehow manage to steer their classes past the myriad temptations of big . city culture and shepherd them toward the museums and planetarium. Hats off to these two wild, woolly wayfarers, without whom we would wander woefully with worry. (Holy alliteration, Batman.)

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ONE FELL INTO THE CUCKOO ’S NEST They’re out there. Black boys in white suits who are up in the middle of the night to hose patients down with fire extinguishers and get it mopped up before I can catch them.

They’re mopping when I come out of my room, all three of them sulky and hating everything: the time of day, the place they’re at here, the languages they got to learn when they don’t even know English yet. When they hate like this, it’s better if they don’t see me.

1 creep along the wall quiet as dust in my Converse All-Stars I’ve had since high school basketball, but they got special detectors what sense my fear and they look up, all three at once.

“Here’s the Chief, fellas.. .01* Chief Broom.

Here you go, Chief Broom. ..”

Stick a mop in my hand and motion to the spot they aim for me to clean today, and I go.

One swats the back of my legs with a broom to hurry me past. The black boys laugh and talk. They don’t bother not talking out loud about their hate secrets in front of me ’cause they think I’m deaf and dumb. Everybody thinks so. I’m cagey enough to fool them that much.

A key turns in the lock, the familiar twist of many years practice, and I know it’s the Big Nurse. Nurse Hatchet’s been on this ward longer than anybody, even me, an’ I can’t remember how long I been here. Big Nurse got leathery skin with varicose veins and wire, hom-rimmed glasses and hates rock an’ roll music. She been workin’ this outfit till she got _ it running like a fine-tuned machine. Gets so sometimes you can hear the machinery humming in the background. She controls the ward, including the doctors. So many doctors - gone through here I can’t count ’em.

She hunted long and hard for those black boys, too. Got all of ’em from Michigan. The Rooster one of them is called. He’s tall and wiry and black as the ace of spades. Can’t nobody understand him ‘cause he talks so much ghetto slang even Richard Pryor can’t keep up. The other two, Mash and Zimbob, they bigger than a man would believe. They got thighs like elephants and hands big enough to strangle a buffalo.

The morning routine starts up right on

schedule. Nothing ever changes. It’s like a cartoon comedy, or even an electronic football game—nobody lifts their feet, everybody just shuffles about as if maneuvered by some powerful magnet in the floor.

The showers start up for some of the guys who still bother staying clean. Most of us don’t care no more. Living on an all-male ward we got nobody to look pretty for. Some, though, they got a hygiene fetish—in and out of that shower six or seven times a day. Then there’s the electric whirr of the shavers and hair­ dryers. Most don’t shave but once a week, though. Lots of scraggly neck-beards growing in this place. Still, there’s always a few that gotta look pretty. Ladner will spend a good hour drying his hair. Won’t touch it with a towel, just blows the protein right out of it with thousands of watts of electricity. Then there’s Tim Mills, who needs industrial strength combs to stand up to as much primping as he does. But it don’t matter for him. He don’t realize nobody cares what he looks like.

7:45 comes along awful quick, and by then everybody’s gotta be up and ready, ’cause MisteRoger’s Jewish Neighborhood comes on the TV then and the Big Nurse makes sure we don’t miss a single show.. .well, almost. Every­ body gets one cut a season, but only when it’s a rerun. But one cut sure ain’t enough to keep from driving everybody’s minds into the Land of Make-Believe. If you aren’t insane when you walk into this asylum, won’t be long till they make sure you get there.

Pretty soon they pass out the mail at the nurse’s station, and we all gathers round, but nobody ever gets nothing. A few magazine subscription offers or Sears & Roebuck credit card applications, but that’s it. And who’d ever give a credit card to a mindless idiot anyway? It’s kind of silly.

The intercom comes on and the voice says, “New Admission. Please come sign him in.”

Big Nurse and the black boys go out and all the patients stop their activity to watch who comes back through the door with them.

Most of ’em when they come in is real scared and shy and kind of cling to the wall till the black boys grab ’em and skeek ’em down the hall to the showers, clean them up, and put them in their institutional uniforms.

But today is different. The new guy comes in hootin’ and hollerin’ and payin’ no never-

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“Thank you, boys, but I’m clean enough.

Don’t need none of your silly black and red jumpsuits neither.” This one is pretty sure of himself, I’m thinking. Not like most of the admissions that come in here. Now he starts to meet the rest of the men...

“Momin’, men, how d’you do? McMerfer’s the name-R. F. McMerfer. Gamblin’, wine, and women’s the game. Hooee! you boys look even crazier than I thought you’d be. Looks like a friendly bunch, though. What’s your name, buddy? Love your skull cap and shades.”

“Iver Nitz. I kind of dig your hunting cap, too, man.”

McMerfer makes the rounds and shakes everyone’s hand. Scotty Mosher, a schizo­ phrenic who thinks he’s a baby fur seal, wouldn’t let go of McMerfer’s hand till he gave him his watch so Scotty could take it apart. And4?l’ Colonel Michel kept trying to tell McMerfer about all his battle experiences. Once ol’ Michel gets started he won’t stop for nothin’, so McMerfer just walked away and the Colonel never noticed. He just kept spoutin’ off about Hitler and those ol’ Germans.

McMerfer’s just about made the rounds here, and he comes along to me. “Hoo, boy!

What do we got here?”

One of the guys says, “That’s old Chief Voigt. He can’t hear nothin’, he’s deaf and dumb. We call him Chief Broom since all he does is push a mop around all day long.”

But McMerfer gives me a wink and says, “I think the old Chief here knows a lot more than he lets on,” and I wonder if he’s in on my secret already.

Then he looks around and says, “Okay, who’s the bull goose loony in this outfit— you know, the guy who runs the show?”

We all look at each other and finally says, “Well, I guess that’d be Zerbutz, he’s president of the Patients Council.”

Look bere’ Zerbutz,” McMerfer thunders, if I m bound to be a loony I’m bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one. I been bull goose duck-plucker, bull goose floor-stripper, U e°?Se yaniIla Thunder basketball

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loony win.”

“Sounds fair to me.. .1 listen to the Talking Heads and the Fabulous Poodles. You can’t get much crazier than that.”

“I listen to the mating calls of wood ducks and the songs of the humpback whale,” McMerfer answers.

Zerbutz: “I write Campus and Classroom.”

“Oh yeah, well I write papers for Sy Quam.”

Zerbutz surrenders. “I take off my hat,” he says. ‘That is definitely the mark of a mad­ man. I dub thee bull goose loony.”

The intercom comes on and says, “There will be a Patients’ Council meeting at 10:00 p.m.

Again the intercom says, “The canteen 'is open. Special on cans of Teem and eight-weekold yogurt. Nommie, your pizza’s done.”

And the intercom says, “Steve Schmeling, come to the lobby. Steve Schmeling to the lobby.”

And the black boys go, “Doot, da doot, da doot, doot da doot, doot...”

Time rolls around for the Patients’ Council meeting. Actually it’s nowhere near 10:00 yet, but the Big Nurse manipulates the clock just to make sure nobody on the ward gets enough sleep. Soon as we’re all in bed she turns the dial to 7:30 and the whole day starts over again.

Everybody gathers round for the big Patients’ Council meeting. Used to be we ran the meetings ourselves and tried to make changes on the ward, but didn’t take long we realized no one paid any attention to us, that the Big Nurse was going to run things her own way no matter what, so we pretty much just sit around and discuss each other’s problems.

Zerbutz figures it would be a good time for the new resident to tell us all a little about himself and how he got here.

“Well, y’all know my name is Robert Foy McMerfer. I been a drifter most of my bom days, driving around the country and dazzling the women wherever I go. I got sent here ’cause the courts ruled me not guilty by virtue of insanity. I got myself arrested by the game warden at the Horicon marsh. Seems he

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guns I had mounted in my duck blind. Shoo, man! That’s the only way I can ever hit anything! Anyway, the doctor’s diagnosed me as a psychopath. Seems I fight too much, breakin’

jaws and such, so they sent me up here. I am crazy though, I’ll guarantee you that.

The meeting soon degenerates to mindless pandemonium. Ronny and Zcrbutz try to write it all down for their column in the hospital newsletter, but Nurse Hatchet snatches it from them and tears it up. “We can’t let the Out­ side know what really goes on on the Inside,” she says.

Well, it don’t take long and McMerfer decides he’s not taking orders from nobody, not even the Big Nurse. He sensed it would be an all-out power struggle, and he starts taking bets. “I’m a gambling man,” he says, “and I’ll wager any man here that I can get that Nurse’s goose by the end of the month. I’ll get the better of that gal or my name ain’t Robert Foy McMerfer.”

Well, the guys all placed their bets, ’cause they seen the Big Nurse at work and they know ain’t nobody gonna be able to take her. My money’s on McMerfer, though. Ain’t never seen anybody crazier than him. Maybe just crazy enough to do it.

What McMerfer did was to organize a theft of about 500 spoons from the cafeteria. The Big Nurse was sure flamin’ mad when she found out so many spoons were missing. First

she had the Patients’ Council set boxes out by the nurses’ station for us to return stolen spoons into, but of course that didn’t work.

So she called us all out of the dorm and lined us up for inspection. First the black boys searched through our rooms, tearing every­ thing apart, but they didn’t find anything.

Then she had them frisk us all to make sure we weren’t hiding them on our persons. Well, they found six packs of Marlboros, two cold Tombstone pizzas, several Homeric Dictionar­ ies, the German department’s missing film, a portrait of Dr. Ott, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Titanic, six Nazi war criminals, Howard Hughes’ will, Atlantis, a braunschweiger sandwich, Elmer Spredemann, Dan Marshall’s football cleats, a sabre-toothed tiger and a hairy masto­ don, two Japanese infantrymen who didn’t realize World War II was over, a Soviet sub­ marine, Patty Hearst, Idi Amin, and Jimmy Hoffa, the Twilite Zone, three light bulbs, a banana, and a way to beat inflation. They didn’t find no spoons, though. McMerfer had shipped those off to Mequon with a friend of his by the name of Carl Balge.

By this time the Big Nurse has figured out that McMerfer’s behind all these shenanigans, trying to disrupt her smooth-running machine

with his flakier than normal lunacy. Only one way to get rid of him, and she knows it. Got to declare him fit for society and graduate him. So she gives him a little rolled-up scroll of paper that says, “Summa cum Loony” on it and ships him Outside. The rest of us j'ust stay trapped Inside frying our brains and watching MisteRogers Jewish Neighborhood.

Life will be a tad lonely here next year without McMerfer around, but you’re never alone with a schizophrenic, so we should survive. It is going to be hard to find another bull goose

loony quite like McMerfer, however. Makes no nevermind to me. I’ll still be here sweeping my floors and losing my mind.

(What’s the matter: you expected maybe a good ending? Get real, would you.)

The moral of the story is this: Don’t mess with the Machine or more than likely you’ll end up getting skeeked down the hall.

RONALD, DAVID, & KEN KESEY

Sport/ time the substitutes were taking the field and, in the end, the entire squad managed to see After a long day of Tuesday classes the playing time. Joel Drews came up with the soccer team headed to Holy Redeemer for team’s fifth and final goal, which was answered what proved to be a very enjoyable game. The by a single Redeemer goal. When the final whistle sounded the Trojans left the field and weather was excellent and the field in top notch condition. The Trojans got going early in boarded the bus for NWC-victors by a score of the half when Kelly Pochop gave Todd Gold­ 5-1. schmidt a quick lead pass which he controlled Four days later the team’s biggest game of and put past the keeper for the team’s first the year took place: Homecoming against un­ score. Not long afterwards, Goldschmidt sent a defeated, conference champion, and crosstown cross to Jon Bitter who was streaking down the rivals, Maranatha Baptist Bible College. Already left sideline, and he brought the score to 2-0. last season their coach had remarked that this The Trojans weren’t finished though, as Kelly was the game, above all others, that the Crusa­ Pochop added a solo goal from his center posi­ ders wanted to win. They wanted it badly but tion to put NWC up 3-0 at the half. not as badly as the Trojans, who played their The starters came back on the field for the best soccer of the season on that freezing Sat­ second_ half and Mark Henrich sent a pass aurday morning. Senior fullback Joel Nitz got cross the pitch to Todd Goldschmidt, who pro­ his first assist of the season early in the game ceeded to score the Trojans’ next goal. By this when he passed the ball up the sideline to Todd Ill SOCCER

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Goldschmidt, who made a long, crossing shot in front of the crease which caught the top left comer of the net. The team and fans were ec­ static, and the Trojans kept giving them some­ thing to cheer about. Jon Bitter assisted in the team’s second goal by passing to Kelly Pochop, who rifled the ball past the Crusader keeper.

Shortly before the end of the half, Kelly called for the ball in front of the net and Todd Gold­ schmidt managed to get it to him so he could score again. ’Natha’s rallying cry was, “They’ve got three, we can get five!” Sorry, no. It re­ mained 3-0 at the half, and the Trojans had outshot the Crusaders 12-4.

The second half was a tough defensive con­ test and both teams played well. Goalie Tim Nommensen came up with a phenomenal save on a Crusader penalty kick to help the Trojan cause. The Crusaders managed to score their first and only goal of the contest, and for a minute they felt they were making a come­ back. The outcome remained 3—1, however, and Homecoming belonged to the Trojans. It was the first time in three years that they had beaten the Crusaders, who ended up winning the conference with a 7—1 record. NWC took second place with a 6-2 record in conference and a 7-3 overall record. Their third loss came the following day in an anti-climatic game against the Sem men. Apparently our brothers from Mequon had actually played a few games

prior to this and their practice paid off. They managed to come up with their first win ever against NWC in a 2-1 victory. It certainly was a weekend of broken traditions.

The only event remaining for the Trojan soccer team, besides their yet-to-come annual 112

party, was the post season banquet with the football team. All-conference honors were awarded to Seniors Kelly Pochop and Joel Nitz, and Juniors Todd Goldschmidt and Tim Nommensen. Junior Jon Balge received Honorable Mention. Congratulations to them, Coach Con­ nell, and the entire team for an outstanding season.

FOOTBALL ‘Trojan title hopes fade at Roseville” read the headline in the Watertown Daily Times.

Heading into their game against NorthwestemRoseville, the Trojans were optimistic about their chances to win the conference-and with good reason. The previous two Saturdays they had upset the perennial conference cham­ pions, Mt. Senario College 24-16 and crushed Pillsbury 56-26. The Trojan offense just couldn’t seem to get going against Roseville, though, and by the time the third quarter rolled around, they found themselves down 29—0. Freshman Dave Rothe finally got the team on the board with a 5-yard TD run. Mike Nitz hit Mark Wessel for the two-point conver­ sion. Roseville answered with another touch­ down and two-point conversion of their own in the fourth quarter to make the score 37-8.

NWC’s offense eventually picked up but it was a case of too little too late. Nitz hit Roger Rockhoff with a 12-yard scoring pass, and once again Wessel added two more. Phil Hirsch came up with the ball and a TD on a 10-yard pass from Nitz and Rothe ran the ball in for the Trojans’ third two-point conversion of the game. Final score: Roseville 37, NWC 24.

Well, the Sem came up with their first vic­ tory ever against the NWC soccer team on Homecoming weekend and unfortunately the DMLC Lancers came up with their first victory ever against the NWC football team on the same weekend. The Trojans dominated the en­ tire first half of play and jumped out in front early on their first offensive drive when Tim Soukup scored on a 13-yard run. Toward the end of the same quarter the offense came alive again as Craig Wiebusch caught a 4-yard, TD pass from Mike Nitz. With two minutes left in the half, Nitz connected with Roger Rock­ hoff on a 28-yard scoring pass to put the Tro­ jans up 19—0 at the half.

The second half belonged to the Lancers, though. Kevin Keller capped off a DMLC drive

with a 2-yard TD run, and Scott Hcrrewig added two more by diving over the goal line for the conversion. A missed field goal killed the Trojans’ only drive of the quarter at the 2-yard line. DMLC narrowed the lead when Scott Huebner scored on a 5-yard pass from Herrewig. The extra point attempt failed and the score stood at 19-14. The Lancer defense pulled through to stop some promising Trojan drives, and their offense came up with another TD on a 24-yard pass from Herrewig to Eric Ziel. Herrewig then hit Keller for two to bring the score to 22-19. The Trojans made one last comeback attempt that had the fans on the edge of their seats, but they weren’t able to come up with the big play they needed. The final score remained 22-19 in favor of DMLC. The following weekend the Trojans trav­ eled across town to take on Maranatha. To say the team was fired up is indeed an understate­ ment. They were dressed to kill and they did just that, slaughtering the Crusaders by a score of 49-22. Freshman QB Duane Rodewald threw three touchdown passes in the course of the afternoon. Two connected with Phil Hirsch and one with Craig Wiebusch. Wiebusch added two more TD’s to contribute to the romp. The Trojan defense helped set up the scores by

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The gunshot rang encouragement to arthritic limbs as the horde of harriers began to skate their way around the five mile course. Trojans Jay Bendewald and Mark Paustian claimed conference honors by placing first and seventh respectively. Freshman Andy Bauer (ninth), sophomore Randy Loux (fourteenth), and senior Paul Birsching (seventeenth) rounded out the freezing five. Freshman Howard Mohlke, a native of the Minnesota tundra, crossed the finish line sighing, “How can the Vikings play in this stuff?!” A team score of 48 was low enough to give the Trojans a welldeserved second-place finish.

In the same race a time-tested tradition dating back to 1980 was continued. NWC defeated archrival DMLC and claimed rights to ‘The Brick,” a traveling trophy fashioned of one brick from old Summit Hall and one from

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old West Hall, inscribed with the words “Build­ ing Friendship and Respect.”

The “endorphin addicts” ended their season with a second-place finish in the NLCAA computerized tabulations. Small college teams around the country sent in each varsity runner’s best five mile time which the NLCAA adds up and thereby determines a national champion. NWC missed the national championship by a mere six seconds!

The cross-country team will miss the services of Paul Birsching and Jay Bendewald next season, but the endorphomania which has infected our campus should produce fit replace­ ments for the 1982 cross-country team.

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CALLS -Pastor James Liggett (’68), formerly of Stoddard, WI, was installed as pastor of St. John’s, Sleepy Eye, MN, on October 25,1981.

-Pastor James Korthals (’72), formerly at Mt. Sinai, Montrose, MI, has accepted a call to Northwestern College, Watertown, WI, to serve in the history department.

-Pastor David Farley (’76), formerly at a mission in Novi, MI, has accepted a call to Good Shepherd, Phoenix, AZ. —Pastor Alvin Spaude (’51), formerly at Mt. Calvary, rural Fond du Lac, WI, was in­ stalled as pastor of Christus, Richmond, WI, on November 1, 1981.

anniversary on October 25, 1981. Pastor Alois Schmitzer (’76).

—Pastor James Rockhoff (’52), of Tawas City, MI, observed his 25th anniversary in the ministry on October 25, 1981.

DEDICATIONS -St. Mark’s, Bloomington-Normal, IL, dedicated its new worship-education-fellowship building on September 20, 1981. Pastor Philip Krieger (’73).

-Peace, Loves Park, IL, dedicated a new church on October 18, 1981. Pastor A. Schultz (’75).

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ANNIVERSARIES —A son to Pastor and Mrs. Thomas Haar (’71) of Stevensville, MI, on October 6, 1981.

—On September 27, 1981, Redeemer in Yakima, WA, observed the 30th anniversary of the dedication of their church and the burning of the mortgage. Pastor Arthur Valerio (’63).

-Trinity of Bangor, MI, observed its 25th

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This month’s tidbit is extracted from Volume 9, Number 5, dated October, 1905, and is entitled, “Reading Aloud.’’

“Soon the season of the shortest days and the longest nights will come, and the leisure hours which are always given so largely to out­ door recreation during the summer will now be devoted more to indoor work and especially to reading. The occasion seems a fitting one to say a word in behalf of a practice never so popular as it ought to be, and perhaps some­ what less followed now than in former times: the practice of reading aloud. The benefits of this habit arc many. To read to one’s self is often to be satisfied with a knowledge of words as they sound. Nearly everyone will recall many words which he has long known by sight, but with which he has never taken the trouble to acquire a speaking acquaintance.

While he reads only to himself he can slur them or give them some makeshift pronunciation, which serves to identify them and saves him the trouble of consulting the dictionary. But let him adopt the practice of reading aloud and sooner or later some of these old verbal acquaintances will meet him face to face to reproach him with his neglect and shame him with his ignorance of their names. People who are not accustomed to read aloud will be surprised when they discover (by so doing) what poor readers they are. In the cultivation of the voice lies a further recommendation.

When reading to others it is not only the reader who is enriched. One can more easily distinguish whether the stress is laid on the right word by listening to another’s reading than when read­ ing to one’s self. It is one of those games at which ‘any number can play’ and in which the pleasure increases as the circle of players widens.”

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Corrupting sounds of uncompassion: Rabid speech, mournful wail, Too pointless, pointless question, And cry, and suffer, and scream— Rachel still is weeping.

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Predictably, each area has its share of religious and secular observances, but according to Tutor James Connel, who vicared in Guayama, Puerto Rico, Christmas on that island is not even the height of the Christmas season.

“The Christmas season begins anywhere from the tenth to twelfth day before Christmas, and it goes all the way through January 6th. The coming of the Wise Men is their Christmas; not too much happens December 25th,” Connell explained.

The emphasis is on the Wise Men, or the three Kings from the East, and their visit to the infant Jesus. January 6, the day of Epiphany celebration, in Latin American countries is El Dia de los Reyes, “The Day of the Kings,” also called ‘Three Kings’ Day” by some. Connell says that the gift giving and other traditions of the season center on this day. “One of the tradi­ tions is that the kids will put hay under their beds for the camels,” he said. The three Kings bring the gifts here, not Santa Claus, though the latter figure is not unknown.

‘The commercialism starts a month in advance. Before the Day of the Kings, the last week is a real mob scene.

“Christmas is kind of downplayed. They don’t go to church the 24th and 25th,” Connell said. There is a little gift giving on those dates nowadays; it is almost all on January 6. “In the traditional Christmas celebration, the people go from house to house and party.. .that’s the ‘Christmas spirit.’ Looking at it from back in the States, it’s not that much different,” he remarked, and made a reference to Christmas caroling. ‘They come with musical instruments; guitars, drums, trumpets. They stop in front of a house and wake the people up. The people invite them in and feed them, give them something to drink.

“And it can snowball.” The just-awakened hosts may join the group and march along to their next stop. The procession is known as a paranda. The music played is “party music, festive, happy. One of the songs they sing for paranda is.. .’’(here the tutor goes into a spirited imitation of singers and musicians in the paranda, performing part of the song, though failing to come up with the exact title). "I remember the first time I was awakened. After three weeks of this, it gets a bit tiresome, I guess.” Still, Connell thought that his memories of the custom were good ones.

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“Of course, the December weather, just after hurricane season, is balmy and the climate is tropical," he added. “The decorations are a little like ours, but most of the lights and tinsel go on trees and shrubs out of doors.”

The Christmas-time partying mellows out

by January 6. “Their Kings’ Day is a time for getting together with family. It is much more subdued, very quiet. That idea of the family getting together is more like our Thanksgiving.”

Sophomore John Sprain also shared some thoughts on Christmas celebration in Latin America. His father, Rev. Roger Sprain, was a missionary in Colombia, after having worked in the Puerto Rican mission field. John lived in Puerto Rico for ten years, and in Colombia for about a year and a half. He compared general religious beliefs in the two countries.

“In South America, sometimes in Mexico, some of the Indian religion is mixed in with the Catholic religion. The priests let them combine beliefs.” Sprain said he has pictures of an “Indian Catholic Cathedral,” which show a John Sprain

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the Fromm brothers, has not spent a Christmas in Sapporo or Hitachi for six years, but his reflections suggest that the Japanese engage in a great deal of commercial celebration of Christmas, with barely any religious under­ standing of the holiday at all. He said that anything having to do with Christmas, other than parties or gift giving is “just like a fairy tale to them’.’

“It’s z very shallow idea of what Christ­ mas is,” said Fromm. He suggested that since Japan is a westernized country and also pre­ dominantly Buddhist and Shinto, it has accepted some of the secular trappings of Christmas but virtually none of its religious meaning. The New Year celebration has always overshadowed Christmas (or “Xmas,” as it is most often written out, according to Steve Fromm). Yet, gifts are regularly given at

“total combination” of the two religions.

“In Puerto Rico you don’t have that so much, because in Puerto Rico most of the original culture is gone. Other than that, they’re the same,” he concluded. “There are other slight differences, but they don’t matter so much unless you’re writing a book or a term paper.’’

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“The Japanese like to give gifts. If you receive a gift, you have to give one back. I don’t know if it’s customary or just common

sense. At Christmas they give a lot of canned goods, dried seafood, and different kinds of Japanese tea,” John commented.

In the Lutheran mission, the Christmas season brought more than the usual number of people to church. “I remember when we had Christmas services, we used to get 40 or 50 kids who would come in and help out. Three or four weeks before, a lot of kids start coming in, because they know they’re going to have a lot of fun.

“It’s fine with the parents if their kids go to the Christian church, as long as they don’t get more deeply involved,” John added. There was also a nativity play, which the children enjoyed. “For the Christmas service, the parents usually get dragged along to the service by their kids, but the parents usually enjoy it.

It’s a nice time.”

“The people mainly think it’s a big party,” Steve Fromm says of Christmas in Japan.

“There are a lot of gifts, and the big thing is cakes. They sell a lot of cakes at the bakeries.

“Most people don’t have Christmas trees, but they might have a kind of plug-in orna­ ment. There are a lot of Christmas decorations.”

There are also quite a few commercial Santa Clauses who stand in front of their shops and ring bells to advertise.

“New Year is the big thing because of

Shinto (a national religion of Japan), so Christ­ mas dies down pretty fast,” said Steve, who spent the last Christmas season in Tokyo, where he went to high school, and in Hitachi.

Tim Poetter, originally from Mito, Japan, also recalls the New Year celebration. “Most of the Shinto temples have a very big gong. They rang that, on New Year’s Eve, over one hundred times. Everybody’s out for the festi­ val, a lot of people get drunk.”

Poetter hasn’t been in Japan for Christmas in seven years, but observes that “the congre­ gation knows what’s going on, but the people in general don’t know.”

The brothers Fromm are the sons of the Rev. Elwood Fromm, from Hitachi (Sapporo, previously), and Poetter’s father, the Rev. Richard Poetter, is a missionary in Mito.

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t is only natural that, with the arrival of the holiday season, our thoughts would turn to the “Wise Men from the East” who were among the first recorded worshipers of the Savior. Their stor>, surrounded by mystery and clouded by the mystical practices of the Zoroastrian religion, has been the source of fascination for many. Despite the obvious interest in these men, few people actually know much about the Wise Men. The Magi were one of the six original tribes in the empire of the ancient Medes. They were a priestly caste similar to the medicine men and Shaman groups of other ancient societies, parallel in function with the Brahmans of India and the Levites in the house of Israel.

Besides their religious duties, the Magi were also the chief supporters of art and all higher culture.

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With the change of empire came a change in religion. Zoroastrianism soon became the religion of the people. Zoroaster was a “prophet” who lived in the sixth century B.C. The religion he devised was rather simple.

There were two gods: Ahura Mazda, the god of all good things, and Ahriman, the god of evil.

As a work-righteous faith, the believer’s hope of heaven depended on whether he fought for the forces of good or the forces of evil in his lifetime. Fire was considered sacred and great praise was accorded the powers of nature.

Astrology was also introduced.

In order to survive as a tribe of priests and keep their relative importance in society, the Magi followed the people and switched religi­ ous beliefs. It was common practice in the Orient at this time that when people were conquered, they adopted the religious beliefs of their new rulers. By the fourth century B.C.,

the Magi had gained great influence in their new religion and society.

The main religious duties of the Magi under Zoroastrianism were to interpret dreams, to predict the future through astrological signs, and to serve as the only channel of communica­ tion between men and their god. They also practiced divination and necromancy by consulting cups and dishes.

The Magi who worshiped the Savior are usually thought of as being from the Orient Babylon and Arabia. But the scholarly pro­

fie number. The idea also arose that the Magi were kings. According to this theory, Psalm 72:10. “The kings of Tarshish and of distant shores will bring tribute to him and the kings of Sheba and Seba will present him gifts,” speaks about the Wise Men. In the sixth cen­ tury, names were given to the Wise Men: Gaspar, Mclchoir and Balthazar. The names were assigned because the Magi were worshiped as saints during the Middle Ages.

So much for their history. The question still remains, however: What did the Wise Men

fession of the Magi extended much farther than that. Their religious practices, astrology, knowledge of natural science, great interest in culture, and the fact that they were used, especially in Babylon, to train kings, took them all over the world. A Magus is mentioned as being on the court of governor Felix in Caesarea, and another prominent Magus is mentioned in Alexandria, Egypt. Others were said to be in Italy and Greece, and some as far away as India. Scripture, in both the Old and New Testaments, speaks of Magi. The most widely known, of course, are the Epiphany Magi, but other men like Simon Magus (Acts 8:9-24) and Elymas (Acts 13:6-11) are thought to have been Magi.

Throughout the ages, several commonly believed legends grew up and received general acceptance among Christians. Origen (ca.

185-254) originated the idea that there were three Wise Men because there were three gifts, though Scripture nowhere mentions any speci-

have to do with Christ?

The Wise Men followed a star (Matthew 2:2).

Some scientists claiming to be Christian “defenders of the faith” feel it is necessary to defend this star by saying that it was a con­ stellation or some other natural phenomenon.

The original Greek speaks of one star. This star, however, was quite unusual. First, in order to guide the Magi as far as Jerusalem, it would have to travel from east to west and then to get to Bethlehem it would have to change direction and go south. To accurately lead the Magi to Bethlehem, a rather small area, the star would also have to have been very low in the sky. The star, therefore, was prob­ ably specially made for this purpose.

The Magi were also bearing some expen­ sive gifts—gifts which literally were fit for a king. In the days of Christ, no one could approach a royal child without bringing gifts.

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image Nebuchadnezzar set up, an edict was issued that the God of the Hebrews was to be treated with respect throughout the realm.

Later, because he refused to worship Darius the Mede, who was then king, Daniel was cast into the lion’s den. The next morning, when the king saw Daniel emerge unharmed, he decreed that people should honor the God of Daniel. Because of Daniel and his faith as he expressed it in word and deed, the witness for Christ was given not only to the average person in Babylon, but it was disseminated especially among the higher echelons—the court officials, the king, and of greatest concern here, the Magian caste of priests. The knowledge of the Savior was most definitely in Babylon.

The power of the Word is what led then: that great distance to worship the Savior with word and gift. The whole Bethlehem exper­ ience centers around faith—the journey to find the young Christchild, the giving of gifts, and upon returning to their homeland, the witness they doubtlessly gave concerning the Christ.

The story of the Magi is a fascinating one.

Understanding who and what the Magi were can make the Scriptural account of their jour­ ney to Bethlehem even more interesting, and add a great depth of meaning. The Light had come for the Jews and the Gentiles!

King, the incense to Him as God, and the myrrh to foreshadow His sufferings. That the Magi intended this symbolism is highly doubtful.

Were the Magi belivers? They very well could have been. The Jews, with a knowledge of biblical prophecy, had been dispersed throughout a large area of the known world, and certainly they would have witnessed to their faith. Also, copies and some translations of the Old Testament were available. Through these two means the Magi gained their knowl­ edge and faith in the great hope of Israel.

They might have known well the prophecy of Balaam (Numbers 24:17), Jacob’s prophetic blessing upon Judah (Genesis 49:10) and of course, the prophecy of Micah (Micah 5:2).

The role of Daniel, the prophet in Babylon, dare not be diminished in considering the extent to which the Jewish faith was known in Babylon during and after the Captivity. Daniel was one of the four Jewish boys selected to receive an education at the king’s court in preparation for a life of service to Babylon.

Daniel was noted already for his wisdom, piety, and strict observance of the Mosaic Law. He became chief of all Wise Men in Babylon because he could interpret a dream that left all the other Magi stymied (Daniel 2:47). Because Daniel’s friends, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, left the fiery furnace unscathed after refusing to worship the golden

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ergei stood in the gloom just offstage, waiting to make his entrance, his stomach churning and a million thoughts chasing back and forth across his brain. He was no stranger to the anxiety that was choking the breath from his throat; the show the night before had been the same as it had the night before that and the night before that, yet somehow he never quite got used to it. Sweat dampened his brow and his lips went dry as he stood and wondered how he was going to murder Ivan Androvitch.

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taken his chair, taken part in the argument that was supposed to follow, drawn his pistol and shot, and Ivan had always crumpled in a heap on the table, always to rise once the cur­ tain was drawn. And each time Sergei had per­ formed miserably, because the shooting of Ivan posed a very unique problem for him. Ivan was played by his boyhood friend and con­ stant companion Alex Reinfeld, a man whom he found he despised more than all the evil in the entire world.

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more, had gotten up very late and had walked to Alex’s apartment. They were to meet and go downtown together for a bit of lunch.

They were strolling through a heavy mist discussing the previous night’s performance when, by unbelieveable good fortune, they were hailed and overtaken by a certain rather important drama critic who had just happened to be passing the same way with the same objective in mind. The critic was an acquain­ tance of both David and Alex, and the three of them discussed previous meetings and mutual friendships and anything and every­ thing except the show that had opened the previous night; no one was so bold as to come near the topic. Finally they turned onto the street where the restaurant they had chosen stood, and Alex requested the critic’s opinion of the play. David held his breath.

The critic thought a minute before reply­ ing. He said that Alex had truly outdone him­ self in his portrayal of Ivan; he said that after the very first scene the theater had positively reeked with the repulsiveness of Ivan’s rude behavior and obnoxious character, and that this was undoubtedly exactly what the author had intended. He went on to say, as Alex smiled and preened himself, that David had been suitably innocent and bewildered as Sergei, but that certain lines in the latter stages of the drama had been delivered with far too much stiffness and formality. He felt that this tended to stifle the play’s emotional crescendo. “I believe I mentioned that very thing to you after rehearsal last week, didn’t I, David?” Alex had said, and David had spun around and glared at him. For Alex had said nothing of the kind.

From this moment on David despised his old friend, and for this reason when they were on stage together he went into violent emotional turmoil. He was particularly dis­ tressed when the argument scene would arrive, for from the moment his hatred had begun he could no longer bring himself to shoot Ivan in a realistic and professional way. Wednesday night he had emptied his revolver into him in a bored and disinterested fashion, and it was certain that this would not do. Thursday he had tried to smile with icy hatred as he squeezed his trigger, but the flamboyant and passionate young actor was quite incapable of being icy about anything. Instead, he presented the

attitude of someone who considered the entire affair a tasteless joke that for some reason he was obliged to laugh at. Friday he had been wooden and unfeeling until the shots were fired, after which he had tried to pause with shock and hide his face in his hands, a gesture which looked to the audience like an aborted sneeze. David hated Alex, as Sergei hated Ivan, and somehow this rendered him incapable of losing himself in his character and acting out his part in a way he found satisfactory. He

could not hate the way Sergei did, because me causes and characteristics of David’s hatred got in the way. Tonight was the final night of the play, and Sergei was about to go onstage and murder Ivan for the final time, and David still had no idea what to do.

Suddenly, as he stood thinking, the sting­ ing words of the critic’s judgment rang again in Ills ears, and he knew at once what he ought to do. Sergei had been too stiff, too formal. Well, perhaps Sergei’s feelings about Ivan came off that way, but there was nothing stiff about the vibrant, steaming hatred that David felt for Alex. And thus David decided that he would leave Sergei at the curtain’s edge, walk up onstage and shoot Alex, not Ivan. If that obnoxious, overweight slob and his friend, the petty and cynical critic, wanted a lack of stiffness, if they wanted passion, then it was passion they would have. But it would be the 122

passionate hatred that David knew and not the confused mistrust of the author’s Sergei.

This would be natural; this would be true to life, an emotional, captivating, compelling tour-de-force. This would bring the drama to life, and life to the drama. David smiled, and unconsciously at first he began to drop Sergei and resume being David, and to sense his hard feeling toward Alex simmer and grow.

As he stood and the time for his entrance neared, David made no attempt to control the raging torrent of emotion inside him. Past offenses of Alex’s came back to mind: his habitual lack of punctuality, his tendency to drink too much, his childish and petty manner, his revolting beard and disgusting paunch.

David let his anger rise and his fists clench; every remark, every rebuff, every crude manner­ ism with which Alex had ever tormented him now loomed large before his eyes. His lips formed silent maledictions, and inside his fists his palms were damp and clammy. Hatred for Alex grew and possessed him, and he was ready and capable, as David, to slay his friend.

The cue came.

David swaggered across the stage and took his accustomed seat. Ivan was seated at a small table, as he had been every night, and the smoke from a slender cigar curled in the air around his chubby face and hung under his chin beneath his scrubby beard. “You wanted to see me,” he was declaring gruffly as he ground out his cigar in the ashtray and looked up. He was visibly shaken when he looked into his partner’s eyes and saw David, not Sergei, looking back at him.

“Yes,” said David. The voice was a low snarl, not the even declamation of the pre­ vious night. “I want to know where you were last night.”

“And what business of yours could that possibly be?” Ivan responded. The supercili­ ous tone that had been so effective seemed to lie prostrate before the evil that was now confronting him.

“My brother was killed last night, after he left my house.”

“You were well aware that it could come to this.”

“I was aware of no such thing.” Every­ thing was proceeding precisely according to the script, and yet the drama had been completely transformed. A hush filled the auditorium, 123

and all eyes were riveted on David and the cold light on his face.

“I demand an explanation, Ivan.”

“You have one. You know precisely what happened, why it had to happen. If you are too weak to accept it then it is no concern of mine.”

The time had come at last. David leapt from his chair, and chair, table, and ashtray tumbled across the stage. He plunged his hand into his vest, drew his pistol and emptied it into Ivan’s midsection, and Ivan slumped from his chair onto the floor. David glanced all around him and began to exit slowly, walking backward and facing the body before him. The audience was petrified; the stage hands, incredu­ lous. As David made his way to his dressing room, his part in the play over, he heard the buzz of mass conversation, and then a hush as the next scene began. Once offstage he pocketed his revolver and headed for his dressing room, wanting only only to leave the play far behind him.

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David sat in his dressing room, rubbing his face in Ills hands. A dull ache filled his temples and pressed against his brow. Deep in thought, he nearly chuckled. He had com­ pleted what was undoubtedly the finest per­ formance of his career, and all he felt was nausea.

He leaned back on a tattered sofa and sighed, gazing at his feet. Suddenly a knock came at his door.

“Come in,” he shouted, dreading the com­ pany.

“A note from Mr. Alex, for you, sir.” A stage hand held a folded slip of paper out to him through a partially opened door. David took it, unfolded it and sat on the arm of the sofa.

“Lattimore: Well and courageously acted.

Regards, Alex.”

David folded the note and slipped it into his breast pocket. He walked slowly over to his mirror and stared into it, and the image of his body seemed to diminish noticeably in size, as if the air were being let out of a great balloon.

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The Chess Club officially began on Nov­ ember 17, 1981, in the Wartburg Hall meeting room. Although only nine members were present then, the club now boasts twentysix first year members. During the organiza­ tional meeting, directors were elected to set up schedules, record results of matches, and to plan for tournaments next semester. The first director chosen was second year student, Dan Lindquist, who is also recognized as the found124

ing father of the club, Other directors arc freshman Dave Kappler, junior Bradley Ragner, and senior Paul VandcrGalien. After agreeing to meet regularly on Mondays at 5:00 p.m. in Wartburg, the meeting was adjourned.

The Chess Club is an excellent opportunity for all who are acquainted with the game to participate more actively in the world of chess.

Obligations to the club arc small and not time consuming. According to the proposed schedule, each member will play one match a week as arranged by the board of directors which will affect his rating. Members or pro­ spective members who are not chess masters

like last year’s champion Dan Lindquist or twotime senior champion Paul VanderGalien need not fear that the club is only for the expert player. The emphasis of this club is on fun and practical experience, although there will be some high-level competition. Once the members are rated, they will compete primarily in separate classes in much the same way as area high schools do for athletic events when

they are rated according to size and ability.

Next semester there are plans for several week­ end chess tournaments aside from the tradi­ tional dorm council tournament. For anyone still interested in joining the club, it is never too late to become a member. Just talk to one of the directors or come to a meeting. The only qualification is to know how to play; owning a chess board is not even a requirement.

I was riding on a freight train With one lip in my hand, When my left finger fell off, Into some distant land.

I jumped up from the train And lost one of my legs, Twas too late to notice, Where I’d left my head.

I said “Farewell my torso,” As a meat truck ran me down, My arms were crushed in a marshy mush, I hopped away to town.

Was a lonely life I led, Until I met my love, A beautiful wondrous woman With but one hand in a glove.

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Without a Crust

We didn’t need much space, To live our life of ease, She slept inside a coat pocket, While I stayed up one sleeve.

The coat was hung on a rack, In an old dry cleaning store, No one bothered us much, Except George the wild boar.

Willie was his real name, Not that I really cared, I was too busy trying to kick Old George down the stairs.

One day the roof caved in, And there was a lot of dust, I lost my woman in the glove, I hate pizza without a crust.

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n the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” As Bible-believing Chris­ tians we recognize this as the very first verse in the Bible, Genesis 1:1. We also know and believe that creation is a genuine fact, a solid truth, because we have it revealed to us in the true Word of God. But we are keenly aware that this truth is not accepted and held to by a vast majority of people today, especially among those in the study of science. Rather, the majority holds to a godless, self-seeking belief in evolution, a theory in which all things are thought to be the result of billions of years of chance occurrences, physical mutations and gradual development to the forms we are and see today. They reject the Bible account of creation by God as only so much superstition and myth, and use the hard, cold facts of scrutinizing science to prove the “reasonable and sensible fact of evolution.”

How does the Christian who believes that Genesis means what it says feel in the face of this accusation that creation is a myth and science proves evolution? Does he perhaps cower under such attacks to avoid ridicule and embarrassment? Does he sheepishly avoid any confrontation by down playing God’s work of creation and submit to the constant pressure of the evolutionary theory and its influence so as not to cause too much disturb­ ance around him? Oh indeed not, for to do so would be to compromise his faith. What, then, am I as a Bible-believing Christian to say to all

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this “evidence” that science gives for evolu­ tion? How am I to react in a world where al­ most every aspect of life is influenced by or based upon the theory of evolution? I hope this article will supply some answers to these questions.

First, we must begin with what the Word of God tells us, for this is the only true and reliable source of knowledge. God Himself tells us that He created the world and made everything that is in it in six ordinary days (Gen. 1,2; Nehemiah 9:6). What can be more sure and true than the very words of God? This is indeed the most powerful testimony of the truth of creation and, just as surely, of the falseness of evolution.

Yet the evolutionist has no regard for God or His Word; he stands by his solid scientific “proofs” of evolution. He claims that the undeniable tests and physical evidence found through science hold more proof and weight of truth than the “mere” book of the Bible.

However, the evolutionist is on shaking and unsure ground. Of interest here may be the article in Science Digest (October, 1981), entitled “The Genesis War.” It is a debate between Dr. Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research and Dr. Isaac Asimov,

famous science writer, evolutionist and bio­ chemist. Dr. Gish uses the very disciplines of science which supposedly substantiate evolu­ tion to show the contradictions of and disprove the theory of evolution. He uses the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that order and complexity decrease with the passing of time within a closed system, to show that evolution is a contradiction of all science. In science, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a most basic and universal premise. It is upheld in all disciplines of science and has been labeled as a law of science to show its absolute­ ness. Yet evolution claims to be the exact opposite—an increase in order and complexity.

If this were true, then all science must be false and the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a myth.

Dr. Gish further cites the searches of molecular biology, embryology and homology as expressing contradiction and opposition to evolution. He also uses the very field in which evolutionary theory is supposed to have its most and surest proofs-paleontology, the fossil record. As Darwin postulated the theory of evolution, there should be a continuous series of transitional forms between species as evidence of the gradual changes in evolving life. The only source of evidence for this would be the fossil record, which gives historical, documentary evidence. According to evolu­ tion, the fossil record must contain a tremen­ dous number of these transitional, intermediate forms. However, it does not. Rather, it shows sudden appearances of highly complex, unique forms of life and orderly gaps between the

higher classes of both plants and animals, without the transitional forms required by the evolutionary theory. Paleontologists themselves are aware of the overwhelming lack of transi­ tional forms and the existence of gaps between the major groups of life forms. Because of this, they are formulating new theories to try to explain them, like punctuated equilibria, where sudden changes in the environment speed the appearance of new species.

This attempt by evolutionists at explain­ ing contradictory evidence is also shown to be false by the evidence of genetics, which is the physical mechanism in plants and animals to produce “after its kind,” and not to give rise to forms of life different from themselves.

Here again, the disciplines which evolution­ ists use so adamantly to prove the theory of evolution do in fact also contradict it. They leave the theory looking like a sieve which retains very few “proofs” and lets drop through whatever doesn’t harmonize with the preconceived notion of evolution. Thus, the evolutionist is left with nothing to support his theory but vague, general appeals to his god, science, and the constant contention that it simply must be true. Then evolution is no longer a fact or a theory, but a religion which requires faith, no doubt more faith than cre­ ation requires. And what an appealing religion it is for sinful, God-opposed men, for it “frees

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them from responsibility to God” and “replaces Him with the innate principles of progress and development, of self-interest and self-improve­ ment, with man himself as the highest system yet evolved in the universe.” (Studies in the Bible and Science, p. 148) Man becomes his own god and claims responsibility only to him­ self and to the “intellectual elite.”

What are we as Christians to do, then, in response to this godless religion of sinful man?

Can we avoid it? Hardly, for as Dr. Rene Dubos stated in a lecture series of his: Most enlightened persons now accept as fact that everything in the cosmos—from heavenly bodies to human beings—has developed and continues to develop through evolu­ tionary’ processes. The great religions of the West have come to accept a historical view ofcreation. Evolutionary concepts are applied also to social institutions and to the arts. Indeed, most political parties, as well as schools of theology, sociology. history, or arts, teach these concepts and make them the basis of their doctrine. Thus, theoretical biology now pervades all of Western culture indirectly through the concept ofprogressive historical change.

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The influence of evolutionary thinking permeates every aspect of secular and, in some circles, religious life as well. We need to con­ sciously recognize this fact and maintain a solid and uncompromising resolve against this influence.

We cannot, as Bible-believing Christians, allow ourselves to become complacent and passive toward this influence. We need to be alert to the dangers of this constant onslaught of man-centered evolutionary thinking. We must always guard against falling victim to such thinking and instead ask the Lord God Who made heaven and earth to secure us in the knowledge and understanding of His Word, in all that it teaches. Furthermore, we need to seek God’s help in keeping us from compro­ mising and conforming to the persuasive in­ fluences of sinful men who believe and pro­ claim evolution. We cannot and dare not in any way allow one small concession to creep into

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our teaching and preaching of God’s Truth in matters of salvation or in the matter of God’s creation. We cannot allow the fact of creation to be placed on the same plane as the mostly unsubstantiated theory of evolution by label­ ing them both as theories. This change also denies the truth of the Bible and creation.

We must, as Paul says, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” (Colos-

sians 2:8) Finally, we need also to encourage others to maintain the Christian faith. The truth of the Bible must be proclaimed in all its parts, with confidence and sure trust, with impetu­ ous zeal and uncompromising completeness.

There is no other Truth than that which God has revealed to us in His Word. May God grant His people the courage to profess their faith in Him and in His Word until the end of time.

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nglish—the universal language. We Ameri­ cans should be thankful that we know this language naturally. A person can travel almost anywhere on earth and find people who can speak and/or understand English. This, of course, is a direct result of the tremendous influence Britain and the United States have had on other countries. It would be easy for us to believe carelessly that English is the only language we need to know in order to com­ municate with others.

Before we become lulled by that faulty idea, let us consider the second most universal language-Spanish. Spanish is the native tongue of more countries than is any other language.

Spain, Mexico, Cuba, all the countries of Central and South America (except Brazil), and many smaller islands of the Caribbean claim Spanish as their native tongue. This fact is due largely to the great amount of exploration Spain carried on during the 15th17th centuries. Furthermore, next to English, Spanish is heard in more countries where it is not the native tongue than any other language.

Altogether, over 250 million people speak Spanish as their native language, plus millions more who have learned it as a second language.

Nowhere is the universality of Spanish better exemplified than in America, the great “melting pot of the world.” During the past two decades the Hispanic portion of our popu129

lation has increased steadily. In the 1980 census 6.4% of all Americans reported a Spanish origin. That comes to a total of 14.6 million people. States in the Southwest reported a significantly higher percentage of such Hispanics. The figure is 36.6 in New Mexico, 21.0 in Texas, 19.2 in California, 16.2 in Arizona, and 11.7 in Colorado. This is not to say that Hispanics are concentrated in certain states, for you will find them in all 50 states, and every large city has its neighborhood called the “Barrio.” The influence exerted by our Spanish population is inescapable, and the high birth rate among Hispanics as well as thencontinued immigration indicates that theninfluence will grow. Some signs of this in­ fluence are very evident in Southwestern states such as Arizona, where many legislators are pushing for bilingual education in the public school system. Voting materials have been printed in both English and Spanish for several years.

The problem for the future pastor is obvious. As the Hispanic population continues to increase, and as our society continues to permit and even encourage the retention of their native Spanish, the pastor will (and should) find more Spanish-speaking members in his congregation, as well as prospective members in the mission field. How can he communicate satisfactorily with people who

have a limited understanding of English, and prefer to speak Spanish?

There is no simple solution for this grow­ ing problem. Perhaps the only feasible way to deal with it is to simply leam some Spanish.

This leads us to a proposal which has been made in the past and is even more worthwhile today—introducing Spanish as an elective at NWC. Some would probably ask, “Who would be stupid enough to take another foreign language after suffering through four others?”

One important factor to remember is that after studying Latin, a Romance language like Spanish would be fairly easy to leam. Much of the vocabulary and grammar is similar. One could almost say Spanish is the modem, living version of Latin. Another difference in study­ ing Spanish would be the approach used by the instructor. The main stress should be on the conversational aspect of the language, rather than strict obedience to forms and syntax. The purpose is not to make the student an expert translator, but a capable speaker and

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It would also be helpful if he could read from the Spanish Bible, in order to conduct devotions.

This elective may still sound like a lot of work, but its benefits would make it worth­ while. The need for pastors to be more ac­ quainted with this language is undeniable.

The Wisconsin Synod has exactly two Spanish missions in the United States-one in El Paso and one in Tucson. Only a handful of pastors are able to converse, preach, or read in Spanish.

If we are truly serious about preaching the Word to all people, we must pay more atten­ tion to the Hispanics in this country who understand Spanish more than English, espec­ ially as their number increases. A Spanish elec­ tive at NWC would be a worthwhile effort to better equip our Synod’s future pastors to meet the needs of all its members, to bring more members into the fold, and to become “all things to all men.”

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Prom the Editor I Believe In Father Christmas They said there’ll be snow at Christmas; They said there’ll be peace on earth.

But instead it just kept on raining, A veil of tears for the virgin birth.

I remember one Christmas morning, A winter's light and the distant choir.

The peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell.

The light from a distant fire.

They sold me a dream of Christmas.

They sold me a Silent Night.

They told me a fairy story Till I believed in the Israelite.

And I believe in Father Christmas; I look to the sky with excited eyes.

Then I awoke with a yawn in the first light of dawn And I saw him through his disguise.

I wish you were home for Christmas. / wish you a gr at new year.

All anguish, pain, and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear.

They said there'd be snow at Christmas, They said there’d be peace on earth.

Alleluia, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell, The Christmas we get we deserve.

Greg Lake Peter Sinfield from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Works Volume II

If any theme dominates the beautifully orchestrated strains of this Christmas song which has become popular in recent years, it is that of disillusionment. Its lyrics reflect the disillusionment felt by many in the world 131

around us at Christmas. Whether it be a snowy Christmas morning, gifts under a Christmas tree, the warmth of neighbor helping neigh­ bor, family togetherness and a Christmas at home, happiness and prosperity in the new year, joyous celebration, or a world where the threat of war does not exist, Christmas has been asked to provide much-too much. All too often the white Christmas never comes, the “perfect” gift is never found, and men become drunk and quarrel in hatred. Families become split by feuds and divorce, many do not make it home for Christmas, and some have no home at all. The new year brings only “anguish, pain, and sadness,” joyous celebration becomes hedonistic merrymaking, and threats of nuclear war grow by the day. Man becomes disillusioned. During the holiday season, suicide rates often rise, especially when people discover they are depressed at a time of the year when they are “supposed” to be happy.

Why this disillusionment? Disillusionment usually stems from illusions-creating false hopes and ideals. The things many people expect to derive from the celebration of Christmas are often nothing more than illu­ sions, visions, and dreams. And since man knows that the birth of Jesus Christ is the real reason for celebrating Christmas, he pins his illusions on Him. Christ then becomes the magical earthly ruler the Jews wanted to make Him. When He doesn’t deliver on promises He

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It is easy to create and to follow after illusions. Is the Christian following dreams and illusions? Is he selling dreams and illusions propogated by a mere Israelite with lofty ideals?

If the Church promises a candy-coated world at Christmas or at any other time of the year, it too is guilty of creating illusions and should expect to become disillusioned. That simply is not what Christ promised. The false hopes men create are nothing when compared to the real hope given at the first Christmas.

The true Christian is not selling dreams or following illusions. He is following a God who at a definite point in time and history revealed Himself, .becoming man to redeem men and bring them to salvation. Here is where the peace, the happiness, the warmth, and the love lie. The Christian does not deserve to “get” such a Christmas filled with joy and inner peace. Nevertheless, God has given it.

The Christian has a Wonderful Counselor, not a story teller. He has a Mighty God, not a deluded Israelite. He has an Everlasting Father, not a Father Christmas who pops in once a year to make men happy for awhile. Finally, he has a Prince of Peace who brought heavenly peace, not earthly dreams. In this the Chris­ tian will not be disillusioned. There are no illusions!

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ever carved in vinyl, that’s all. Stanley Clarke, looked on by his colleagues as the best bass guitarist in the business, and George Duke, keyboard player of equal acclaim, have com­ bined talents on The Clarke/Duke Project (Epic). The album, (which, by the way, is available at the Watertown Public Library), incorporates the best of both performers, Clarke’s unmistakable guitars along with Duke’s sweet melodies. The Project molds together their styles into a totally pleasing whole. Clarke’s obvious influence is apparent immediately on the first track, “Wild Dog,” a typically wild and woolly Stanley Clarke

Until now the Reviews column has con­ centrated on popular music in a variety of tastes: rock, New Wave, Devo (which doesn’t fit any classification), even some peachy-keen pop. However, we have neglected one impor­ tant genre of the popular music scene, that of contemporary jazz and soul. Say no more!

Far be it from the B & R not to boogie with the best of them.

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instrumental. But the twosome can be beauti­ fully mellow also, as on their hit single, “Sweet Baby.” Still, in my mind, Clarke and Duke are at their best when they are getting down and really funky. They have made a cover version of the old Kingsmen tune, “Louie Louie” that will melt your socks off. You’d better listen to George and Uncle Stanley when they tell you, “All right you lugs, put your mitts together and jam!”

George Benson is recognized by many as a brilliant jazz guitarist and pop vocalist ail in one. Quincy Jones says, “If George had never sung a note in his life, his guitar could have done his singing for him and certainly no one would have thought there was anything lack­ ing. But sing he did, and he showed that he is light-years beyond being a guitar player who also sings. He proves himself to be a singer of immense versatility and sensitivity who plays a kind of guitar that has made him justly famous.”

George’s latest album is The George Benson Collection (Warner Brothers), a two-record set that includes the best of his work to date, plus his fantastic new single, “Turn Your Love Around.” George’s playing and singing talents are showcased in top form in this anthology of the music that made him famous. “Breezin’,” “This Masquerade,” and “On Broadway” are among the best-known cuts included in this set. If you don’t own any George Benson music, The George Benson Collection is the album to buy.

A unique artist in the field of instrumental jazz music is Earl Klugh. Klugh makes use of all the modern electronic instruments in his compositions—synthesizers, electric piano, vocoder, and the like—but the dominant force in all of his songs is his own acoustic nylon string guitar. He ranges from very tight soul music to calypso on his fine new album, Crazy For You (Liberty Records). The most appealing cut on the record is “Twinkle,” featuring some stunning bass work by Louis Johnson. On the whole, the arrangements are precise, and the execution is faultless, making Earl Klugh’s Crazy For You a totally pleasant, melodic, and agreeable listening experience.

I haven’t really made a point of it, but all of the jazz artists mentioned so far in this review have been black musicians. But that doesn t mean you have to be black to have rhythm and soul. Tom Scott also just happens 133

to be “So White and So Funky,” as is Dr. John, who lends the assistance of his raspy vocals to the song of the same name on Scott’s new album, Apple Juice (Columbia). You may recognize Tom Scott as the former leader of the L. A. Express, the band which backed

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Joni Mitchell on her Miles of Aisles tour and live LP several years back. Scott is no longer with the L. A. Express, but his superb saxo­ phones are still in action. He did all the horn arrangements for Steely Dan on their most recent effort, Gaucho, and he is in top form on his own in this collection of new tracks recorded live earlier this year at The Bottom Line in the Big Apple, New York City. Scott’s crisp, clean sax stands out on the title tune, “Apple Juice,” as well as on other strong selections such as, “We Belong Together” and “Gettin’ Up” among them. Apple Juice is one of Scott’s best efforts ever. Give him a listen, and let him blow you away.

If you’d like to expand your musical horizons to include a little soul music, tune in to Milwaukee’s WLUM, 102.1 FM. It is more or less a top 40 station, but that means the top songs on the soul charts, making WLUM a good change of pace from time, to time. If it’s more traditional jazz you seek, try listening to “Rhythm Changes,” a one-hour nightly pro­ gram on WERM, 88.7 FM. DAVID SELLNOW Alessandro Scarlatti’s IMadrigali are among the most important works to make a late entry into the genre of the madrigal. They are now issued for the first time ever on a disc by Archiv Produktion of Germany (stereo

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listing No. 2533 300). The pieces themselves, eight in number, are undated and it is not known for certain at what age Scarlatti com­ posed them. Yet there is some consensus in the assessment that “they seem to be master­ ly pieces of occasional music written by the already famous composer” who lived from 1660-1725. Scarlatti had undertaken a singu­ lar challenge in composing these pieces. The composer, in the face of much opposition from traditionalists, was to successfully attempt through these pieces to bridge the gap between the poetic lyrics of the sixteenth century madrigal and the composing techniques of eighteenth century sacred music. Disregard­ ing the musical “rules” of his period, Scarlatti composed his eight madrigals in such a way that the music breathes the feeling of his poetry. In his own defense he argued that the music must become the “handmaiden of the poem,” a belief and practice for which he has been associated with J. S. Bach by not a few critics. In this Archiv rendition, detailed attention has been paid to interpreting Scar­ latti’s concept as the composer would have it.

The seventh madrigal in particular, “Cor mio, deh non languire,” is a vivid example of Scar­ latti’s musical “handmaiden” in practice.

JUrgen Jurgens and the Monteverdi-Chor of Hamburg admirably convey the mood of these works. This Archiv edition comes fully recom­ mended as a worthwhile addition to your classical collection.

Another release from Archiv Produktion is the six-album set entitled Musik fur Laute (Lute Music). This review will concern itself with number three in the series: Spain, (stereo listing No. 2533 183). Sold separately, the six albums of the set contain music from England, Italy, Spain, Poland and Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands, and France. For the casual listener with any affinity for the folk sound of the classical guitar, its precursor, the renaissance lute, provides fascinating listening.

This member of the set is particularly recom­ mended, for as the classical guitar lover knows, AndrSs Segovia has made Spanish music al­ most tantamount to the hand-plucked string.

The album contains works by Luis Milan, Alonso Mudarra and Luis de Narvaez, and playing the renaissance lute is Konrad Ragossnig.

The pieces included on this album are as stimulating as the tone of the lute itself. Many 134

are parodies of pieces composed for instru­ ments considered more serious at the time, such as Cancion del Emperador, (referring to Charles V). Some are interesting simply because of their titles, such as Guardame las vacas, (Guard the Cows for Me).

These Archiv releases are in keeping with the goal of the company of providing histori­ cally significant music for listeners, which would otherwise be unavailable. Archiv seeks out qualified musicians and conductors who they feel will interpret the music in the mood of its genre. In bringing this interpretation about, attention is paid to the minutest detail* For the music historian or just the passive listener, the library from Archiv is really worth looking into. Many of their releases are available by mail from the International Pre­ view Society. A more complete collection can be seen at Radio Doctors in downtown Mil­ waukee, or can be ordered from them through Music Unlimited at Watertown Square.

TIMOTHY BUELOW CONCERT The Watertown Community Concert Association presented its first performance at Northwestern College on November 17, 1981.

The event was held at NWC instead of at the public high school because of our superior musical facilities.

The guest artist was Mr. Thomas Lorango, a twenty-one year old pianist, who is studying at the Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Lorango has won numerous awards and scholarships for his piano prowess.

Mr. Lorango began with a dramatic and emotional piece by Beethoven. Next came a collection of short pieces by Robert Schumann, where the performer displayed his musical aptitude with various tempos. Debussy’s tone poems were next on the agenda, affording the audience a break from traditional numbers.

Bartok’s peasant songs added to this break. His final selection was a powerful and dramatic piece by Balakirev. Mr. Lorango set the mood for this piece by his bold and energetic play­ ing. An encore number by Chopin ended the program.

There is no disputing that Thomas Lorango is a very talented pianist, but he definitely was not polished and groomed for a concert

tour. He had little rapport with the audience.

The only words he spoke were those used to introduce his encore piece. He never introduced himself or any of his othar pieces to the audience, causing the listener to feel left out and to wonder about the “special-style” he

used in playing the piano. With age comes wisdom, and Mr. Lorango will undoubtedly improve on his weaknesses and go on to earn the credit he so much deserves.

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Gotta get down to it, schoolwork is weighing us down; Should have been done long ago; Before long you’ll lie spastic there on the ground.

Paralyzing your brain in the snow.

-Neil Young, 1981

Here we are again, my friends, slogging through the end-of-the-semester-blues, other­ wise known to the faculty as “Lotsa Luck, You Ignorant Morons” Month. You know the feeling all too well-miles and miles of alien vocables, research paper deadlines falling like consecutive tumbling dominoes, all-night study sessions becoming commonplace, and a short little professor in tweed clothing chasing you down the halls with grade-books and lexicons in hand. It becomes apparent that it is not humanly possible for any one student to meet the harsh requirements nor fulfill the myriad tasks thrust upon him by a bevy of pedagogues.

So the inevitable happens, and you must face that ever-petrifying prospect: going to class unprepared. You sit trembling in your desk, wondering if you can escape your fateful 135

doom, hoping that the watchful eye of the instructor does not expose your tell-tale heart.

Well, fear no more, oh hapless students, it’s Jim Dandy and Black Oak Campus & Class­ room to the rescue! For those of you in scholastic distress, pay attention—I say, pay attention, now, son!—’cause C&C is about to set up a clinic on the methods of avoiding scorn and embarrassment at the hands of your teachers. This could become a field of study all in itself, but we will stick to the basics: Goldbricking 01/02.

First of all, one should make a distinction between language courses and other subjects.

Naturally, it is much easier to fake your way through a thought question on the American novel than it is to sight-translate a Latin assign­ ment, unless your name happens to be Gaius Valerius Catullus. However, it is not impos­ sible to persevere through a language class totally unprepared, provided you remain un­ discovered. Here are just a few of the proven techniques for eluding detection when you have not done your homework: ESCAPE NO. 1—Sit behind someone huge, preferably a football player, slouching in your

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ESCAPE NO. 2—Obtain a “portable pony” to take to class. The infamous jimmy, slipped subtly between the pages of your text, has been an indispensable language tool for slightlyless-than-well-prepared students throughout the ages. Stellar students from Charlemagne to Erwin Schroeder even admit to the use of jimmies in their early work. It has also come to our attention that the Homer translation Prof. Baumler authored some years back is still in circulation in the dormitories.

ESCAPE NO. 5-Feign ignorance of the assign­ ment and claim to have started twenty lines further on. This will give you a few minutes breathing time before you are called on again, at which time a more formidable excuse will have to be formulated.

ESCAPE NO. 4—Answer every conceivable gimme question the professor asks, such as “When is the Ides of March?”, “What was wrong with Achilles’ heel?”, “What time is it?”, or even “Does anybody have any ques­ tions?” Your active class participation will give the impression of preparedness, and the professor will avoid you for translation.

In connection with this, another good method of presenting a facade of knowledge is by your facial expressions. A simple nod of acknowledgement as the professor makes a pertinent point will lead him to believe that you’ve studied this all before and there is no need for him to quiz you on it. And never forget to smile when your instructor glances at you, lest you reveal the paranoia that lies within you. A good hearty chuckle at a Greek pun nobody but the prof, understands will also elevate you to the level of a super-intellec­ tual in the eyes of all. Of course, this whole plan could backfire and you will be called upon to rescue the class when a really tough section comes up, but then you can always save face by falling back on Escape No. 3.

ESCAPE NO. 5—Secure a new wardrobe in the classic styling of the Paul Workentine collec­ tion: sleek double-knit slacks and satiny-silk dress shirts, with high-fashion Dingo leather boots. Anyone so impeccably dressed would never dream of being unprepared, let alone be 136

called to account for it.

ESCAPE NO. 6— Shortly before you are called on to translate, rush frantically from the room with a ghastly green expression and your hand over your mouth. Toting a jar of split pea soup along to class adds to the realism of this stunt. This trick does become suspicious, however, if you try it more than once or twice a semester.

ESCAPE NO. 7-When called on for a response, let out a bloodcurdling scream and start babbling in hallucinatory terror about the gigantic black spiders crawling around on the professor’s face. You may spend a few weeks in Mendota for this one, but it’s well worth it.

Of course, there is always the possibility of having a written assignment due for a class, but you have not completed it. What to do?

One rather novel dodge is to smuggle a wild mountain goat into the classroom. During the ensuing disturbance steal someone else’s paper.

By all means, though, do remember to change the name at the top before handing it in.

Actually, going to classes unprepared is not all that ponderous a task. In fact, it can even be fun if you just use your imagination and don’t let the bogie-man get you.

If you’re angry about paying twenty cents instead of eighteen for a postage stamp, you can take out your frustrations on Todd Zietlow.

As you all know, the Post Office charges the same rate for a letter mailed to any spot in the U.S. of A., but it obviously costs more to send a letter to Alaska than, say, Onalaska, WI. But the Post Office figures on things like that, and 18 cents was working out just fine. That is, until Todd came down to school after a summer which evidently included a little more than the usual forklifts and fish guts. Then, WHAM!, the rain, sleet, and hail guys were besieged with more letters to and from Alaska than they had ever anticipated in their wildest dreams. They had to purchase three additional DC-10 cargo planes for their Watertown-Anchorage route and build an Astrodome­ sized addition to the Watertown Post Office.

That extra two cents per letter is being directed towards those two projects. Thanks a lot, Todd. Incidentally, Todd has solved his own letter storage problem by microfiching all of his letters and storing the microfiches in a local warehouse.

Now that the Weight Club has finally materialized into a functioning organization (for a while we thought they were going to spend most of the year using Tim Mutterer’s newspaper collection as Olympic weight equip­ ment), C&C must give equal time to a newlyforming group on campus: The Chess Club.

The kings of this knightly organization are Paul VanderGalien and Dan Lindquist, and they are searching this black and red checker­ board we call home to find more pawns to rook out of their wits in a friendly game of chess. Beware of that Lindquist boy, though, he sends all his moves home to Daddy, a master chessman in his own right. Seeing how the Weight Club was granted space in the base­ ment of Wittenberg, the Chess Club is request­ ing use of the Library-Science Building’s ob­ servatory for the privacy needed in their intellectual pursuits. While the iron-pumpers are flexing their muscles, the chessmen will be groping their grey matter in intense cogita­ tion.

Clubs appear to be all the rage these days at NWC. Ever since the Soccer Club was elevated to varsity status, the path to stardom seems to lie in the formation of clubs. Who knows? Before long we may have an inter­ scholastic chess team. Campus & Classroom did a little digging and discovered there are several other clubs in the raw developmental stages.

Guy Purdue, for instance, is enlisting the aid of faculty adviser Sylvester Quam to form a debate club. Sly Guy is also in cahoots with Kenley Mann to form a typing club, perhaps even an NWC male-secretarial pool. Matt Crass and Jon Ladner were asked to organize a backgammon club, but they seem perfectly content to play by themselves, so any further development looks doubtful. Other clubs in the brainstorming stage are Art Club, Glee Club, Philatelic Society (a brainchild of Prep prof, postage-passionists Bertolus and Hahm), The Royal and Lofty Order of Ducks (with Joe Hunters Robb Raasch and Mark “Tard” Lindloff as Grand Quackers), several dance clubs vying for predominance: aerobic dance (Tim Mills, dance leader), belly dancing (Jeff Limpert), ballet (Jeff Wockenfuss, the next Barishnikov), and rhumba (Joel Nitz) and The Neck-Beard Growers of America (a sophomore class project led by Smitty, Jeffers, and Seifert).

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Muscles of steel, heart of pure gold, When they made Karl, they threw out the mold.

The millions who know him, love this big kid, The millions who don’t, wish that they did.

Widely acknowledged as the “Tower of Power,” Good men adore him, bad men just cower.

And if justice needs doing, Karl will do it, If truth is seen fleeing, Karl will pursue it.

Yes, tales are many of Northwestern’s favorite son, The sad part is this: we can relate only one.

So here in verse form is one tale of his glory, As one might expect, it’s a heart-breaking story.

It was the time of the first snow, November’s twentieth night, And Karl and his buddies had hoped that they might Find adventure and excitement by going downtown.

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But as always happens, the first girl they sighted Was fascinated by Schmugge, even delighted.

This scene to his buddies was all too familiar, Girls swooning for Karl, was none too peculiar.

Not bung one to cramp a girl’s style, “Call me ‘Chuck’ if you want,” he said with a smile.

Off into the night, they strode hand in hand, He, feeling bored; she, feeling grand.

This plea for attention gave Karl some trouble.

Gently he tried to burst this girl’s bubble.

With compassionate face, simultaneously grim, He proceeded to tell her, she wasn’t for him.

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As humanely as possible, he said, “Life goes on.”

Then off Karl walked in his faded Lee jeans, One more broken heart, one more shattered dream.

RANDOM NOTES: -Matt Rauh and Tom Johnston, who were such a hit with the Prep Color Guard at Home­ coming, have decided to continue twirling their rifles for the winter season. There is also now talk that Coach Thompson, relieved of his basketball duties, may be making a special appearance with the Color Guard for the flag presentation at Winter Carnival. We always knew he had it in him.

-Last month Bill Michel got his hair cut and trimmed his beard. Good job, Bill; as we all know, cleanliness is next to godliness, and Kenleyness is next to Mannliness. Remember that.

-Andrew P. Schaefer seems intent on bringing wholesome entertainment to Northwestern’s campus. After all, The Wizard of Oz only airs once a year, so how are we to keep ourselves out of mischief in the meantime?

The answer, according to Andrew, may lie in “flossing parties.” Get yourself loads of pop­ corn, some good old Ju-Jubes or jelly beans, and then be ready with yard after yard of dental floss to party down. Andrew com­ mented on his new campus pastime, “What could be more fun than dental hygiene?”

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And speaking of the New Year, how about a few New Year’s resolu­ tions?. ..

—Prof. Quam resolves to wear his brown corduroy Lee Rider jeans to every class until someone correctly identifies the theme of a play on the first try.

-Prof. Strobel resolves to sell all his Bob Dylan albums and give the proceeds to charity.

-Joel Voss plans to buy all his clothes with cute little alligators on the chest (a diffi­ cult task when it comes to socks and under­ wear).

-Steve Soukup resolves to spend at least one hour of daylight each day with the cur­ tains open and not in bed.

—Campus & Classroom vows to get funniej with each successive issue in the New Year (I’ll bet you’re all saying to yourselves, “Zowie!

How much funnier can these guys get?)

That’s all for this year, folks! Happy holi­ days, and we’ll see you on our return to idiocy next year.

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Brockmeier with 8 each. Hirsch controlled the boards, hauling down 11 rebounds. Plath and Wessel each had 9. The big guns for the old timers were Phil Wilde with 16 and, of course, Mark Kolander with 17. To their credit, the ever funny Norm Berger and the always witty Dave Haag put in 5 points each for the Semi­ nary’s cause. A great time was had by all.

The night before the mass Thanksgiving exodus home (or to a friend or relative’s house) found the Trojans in front of the home crowd once again. This time it was to take on the Lakers-from Gateway Tech, that is. Our crowd, by then accustomed to its new cheer­ ing section (sit elsewhere, Preps), was treated to some good basketball and an excellent dis­ play of cheerleading talent, both from Tech’s boy/girl squad and from our own seniors, Dan Marshall, Matt Crass and Dave Sellnow. Com­ petition was equally fierce on the court and in front of the stands. In both instances, the Trojans stole the show from the Lakers, winning 62-54 and coming up with some highly innovative, if not well executed, cheers to keep the fans roaring. Once again Chuck Westra led the squad in scoring, this time with 18, followed by Hirsch and Plath with 12 each and Mike Nitz with 10. “Knife” hit the boards hard again, pulling down 8 rebounds.

At the time of this writing, Jon Bitter is shooting 79% from the floor, while Nitz, Kris Taves, and Hirsch are all shooting better than 50%. Brockmeier is 100% from the line. The top four scorers for the Trojans after three games are Westra, Plath, Hirsch and Nitz. In the rebound department, Wessel leads offen­ sively with 9 and is tied with Hirsch and Parlow with 11 defensive boards each. Brockmeier and Plath follow closely with 10 each.

half, however, the opposition had managed to regain the lead and left for the locker room up 38-35. At this juncture, Plath led the club with 17, followed by Hirsch with 8. Both stars were destined to go scoreless in the second half and foul out. It remained to be seen whether the rest of the team could pick up the slack. NWC got off to a slow start after the break and found itself down by 7 five minutes into the period. Buckets were few and far between for the Trojans, and by the time half of the period had elapsed, their opponents had scored as many points as they would for the entire game. GWC never relinquished the lead, and when the final buzzer sounded the Trojans left the court with a 75-57 loss. Plath and Hirsch remained the high scorers and John Parlow tore down 6 boards with “Knife” Wessel adding 5 more. Although the team lost, the game did give the new head coach, Jerome Kruse, an opportunity to assess his team’s strengths and weaknesses.

TODD GOLDSCHMIDT Four days later, the Trojans met the ex­ athletes from the Seminary and handed them an 87-67 defeat. The Mensch managed to remain within 9 points of their alma mater, but apparently they’d forgotten just how long a basketball game lasted! Chuck Westra had the hot hand for Northwestern in this game and put in 5 field goals each half to lead the team with 20 points. The rest of the scoring was evenly distributed, with Mike Nitz adding 9, followed by Mark Wessel, Phil Hirsch and Ken 140

INTRAMURALS AND WEIGHT CLUB It has long been suggested by our students that the sports column in the B&R should include sports other than the varsity sports.

Not that anything should be taken away from the varsity sports; they will always be the cream of the crop here at Northwestern. How­ ever, there are many athletically oriented activities on campus that never get into the

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GEOFFREY KIETA-FRESHMAN As I see it, there is a lot of it (school spirit) in the upper classes. Our class (the freshman class) hasn’t developed it to that extent because we are new and many of us aren’t sure if this is where we want to be. Our school spirit becomes especially important since we really don’t have cheerleaders. The fact that we have so much school spirit gives us a personal stake in each game. It is one of those things that, even if we don’t decide to stay here at NWC, we would always remember.

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Is there a question which you would like to see in this column? Would you like to “speak out “ and be heard? This is your chance! Please submit questions (local, national, or world-wide) to Ray Bell, Wittenberg Hall.

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limelight. The premier example of this is, of course, intramurals. We have always had one of the best intramural programs around, and our program is definitely something that ought to be given more attention. There are actually five programs in all, beginning with flag foot­ ball in the fall, then indoor soccer, basketball and volleyball in the winter, and finishing up with softball in the spring. It’s fairly safe to say that almost every Northwestern student participates in at least one of these I.M. sports during the course of the year. That’s not a bad showing for a campus where studies come first.

At the present time, we are in the midst of the indoor soccer season. If you have any frustrations to get out of your system, this is without a doubt the sport Tor you. It can get fairly rough. Although about half of the regu­ lar season is already finished, three teams still remain undefeated. They are the juniors led by Phil Pitt and “Tower” Schmugge, the sopho­ mores led by Tim Soukup and Gary Jeffers, and a junior/senior team led by Craig Wiebusch and Rob Raasch. The second half of the season should be very exciting, with these three teams battling for the lead. Since this

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However, the intramural program is not the only non-varsity athletic activity on campus.

With the advent of our new weight club and the excellent new facility in the basement of Wittenberg, this section of the sports column will be used to present information about this club and its facility. The head proprietor has promised that the weight room will be com­ pleted by the time we return from Christmas vacation. It has been a long time in coming, but it will be well worth the wait.

In the future this new column may also contain some helpful items pertaining to athletics, such as nutrition, the benefits of running for exercise, and general tips on stay­ ing in shape. Anyway, check out this section in the future—it just might have something for you.

STEVE SOUKUP

LoncIon Bmdqe Is FAllii\q Down® Misty past floats its shrouded image Gutting my insides Sheltered by the cool blue interior of a Greyhound Bus. A footstep covers a milestone A soft gesture when the eyes blink One journey ends as another begins.

Smoke curls in an old cliche And chokes its messenger A crushed ice-caked unconscious soul Melts through a steel-grated sewer hole.

The purple scream of deterioration, Slight echoes of hidden streams in the forest: “London Bridge is falling down.”

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Alumni CALLS -Pastor James Werner (71) has accepted a call to serve as third associate pastor at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Watertown, WI. -Pastor James Liggett (’68), formerly of Stoddard, WI, was installed at St. John’s of Sleepy Eye, MN, on October 25, 1981.

Broehm (75).

-Bethany of Ft. Meyers, FL, dedicated a school. Pastor Robert Wendland (’54).

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-Bethany of Ft. Meyers, FL, celebrated their 10th anniversary. The pastor is the Rev. Robert Wendland (’54).

--Professor Arnold Koelpin celebrated his 25th year in the ministry, on November 22, 1981, at Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN. DEDICATIONS -Holy Redeemer of Pt. Huron, MI, dedi­ cated a parsonage, education-fellowship unit on November 22, 1981. Pastor Thomas Wilsman (73).

-Prince of Peace in Augusta, GA, dedi­ cated a new worship facility. Pastor Dennis

-Straight from the Business Office of NWC: Mrs. Esther Lehmann reports that she and her husband, Prof. Em. A. O. Lehmann are the proud grandparents of Stephen Christopher Lehmann, son of Pastor Richard Lehmann (72), of St. Paul’s, Hales Comers, WI. Stephen Christopher was bom at 5:36 a.m. on Septem­ ber 20, 1981.

—A daughter, Tami Raye, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Thomas Schmidt (’65) on November 7, 1981. Tami was their sixth child.

-A child was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Alois Schmitzer (76) on November 13, 1981.

-A son, Joel Timothy, to Pastor and Mrs. Donald Sutton (74) on November 15, 1981.

—A daughter, Diane Louise, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Stephen Lawrenz in October.

TIM ZARLING

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Volume 30, Number 7 (December, 1926) In reply to the caption heading this treatise I take leave to answer with an unequivocal “Yes.” Lest any skepticism remain in the minds of anyone so headless as to read this, I reiterate with a “yes” of unmistakable emphasis. But, someone will evidently say, am 1 not biased? Why, certainly, I am. Does not the man saved from drowning extol the virtues (hidden though they may be to the eyes of other men) of the individual who plucked the ebbing life from the briny deep? Can you convince him with mere words that his rescuer is a no account vagrant, a mendicant soldier of fortune, a despicable, vile, polluted, base

example of the Genus Homo1. Such an in­ ference would indeed be preposterous. The same applies to my case. If 1 am biased, I have just reasons for being so.

There exists a common impression that the laudable, worthwhile things originate in the East. Not so. If memory serves me right, we are indebted to a school in Oregon for the liberation of our nether extremities from the insidious yoke of the garter. Never again will the masculine of the species permit himself to be inveigled into wearing garters. Comfort won a technical knock-out against conven­ tionalism and thereby renders garters hors de Combat. Man was emancipated. The time it formerly took to dress was reduced by just 7.096 seconds. Here’s to good oP Oregon, drink ’er down. ..

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Epiphany.

Winter Retreat, “Sex is a Many Splendored Thing,” at Wisconsin Lutheran College.

Sponsored by the Milwaukee and Madison Campus Ministries.

6:00 P.M. "’Basketball game against Lakeland.

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TIThc roar of the ocean almost matched the pounding of Kori’s heart as he stood on board his A dream. Ever since he could remember, he had wanted to be with his father, out on the sea, searching for whales. Now he was twelve years old. Now he was ready to begin the life of a man in the village of Katsuura, on the island of Japan. Everything about the tiny wharf had become a part of him: the calls of the merchants hawking their wares, the more subtle conver­ sation of sea-hardened men, even the cries of the terns overhead. And always the pounding sound of the ocean, the ocean, the Pacific Sea, the most powerful sound in the world. For twelve long years he had always been too little to enter the world; he had always been an observer. At last he was an important part of -‘‘Kori, get down here and get something to eat”-of everything.

Even though Kori was beginning to grow, his appetite could not match the capacity of the men who daily battled the sea. Octopus, squid, and .rice crackers, always rice crackers, dis­ appeared down the gullets of the hungry crew. Eating was an important part of the day, but this evening meal never amounted to much. Nevertheless, the food was good. Kori savored each bite before letting it slide smoothly down. All around him men were rising abruptly and preparing to get the trip under way, each one aware that his part was crucial to the success of the voyage. Kori’s father had explained to him the ropes that the boy would be in charge of.

Proudly Kori unloosed the lines, tied all the necessary knots, and watched as the sails sprang to life. His part was over now, at least until morning, when they would be far out to sea in the prime whaling area. As he climbed below to his bunk, he felt ten feet tall. No, twelve. Kori, the twelve-year-old man.

The boy was awakened abruptly by a sharp bump on the head. He was on the floor! When he finally became aware of his sunoundings, he realized that the smooth motion of the ocean had changed to a violent rocking. Back and forth went his head, back and forth went his stomach, and all twelve feet of him suddenly shrank to less than his five-foot frame. He struggled to get a grip on the ladder and lurched upward to the deck. In the starlight he could see men rushing about, hurriedly preparing the boat to ride out the storm. There was a large barrel nearby, and Kori crawled over behind it. At least here he was out of the way. Then his eye caught a small white figure huddled on the window ledge of the cabin, only twenty feet away. He concentrated, trying to make out what the form was. It came to him—a tern, one of the birds he had struggled to capture many times on the wharf without success. It must have been caught below the storm

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Without a moment’s hesitation he picked up the nearest piece of debris and winged it with practiced accuracy. There was no doubt about its objective, and the bird dropped silently to the deck.

Braving the elements, the boy made his way over to the tern. The face of the bird was still showing, and when Kori arrived, the sight of the wounded animal made him turn away.

He looked again; his eye found the helpless, roving eye just a moment before death was in­ evitable. Kori dragged the dead bird over to the edge of the vessel and threw it into the sea.

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Then, just before noon, a cry went up from the crow’s nest'. “Whale to starboard.” Everyone jumped into action, preparing harpoons, nets, knives, and the various barrels for storing the choicest parts of the great fish. The boat turned, and the great chase began.

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This was the moment that Kori had been waiting for all of his life. As he sharpened the knife that would be used to cut through the multitude of blubber, he pictured his sister at home listening with rapt attention while he told the story of the capture, just as his father had done many times before. He could see his mother fussing over him, but he would tell her that he was a man now and could take care of himself. The boat drew nearer and nearer to its massive prey. Soon harpoons began to fly, and many began to stick home. The battle was fierce, but before long the helpless whale grew tired, and skillfully the nets were posi­ tioned to remove the great creature from the sea. Hoist, lift, and the fight was won. As Kori ran forward with his knife, a vision stopped him dead in his tracks. The eye of the whale.

The helpless, roving eye looked right at him, and accused. There was no excuse. With no place to hide, Kori stared back. In the end, the agony of death overcame the eye, and it sagged into a mass of fluid. Overcome by grief, Kori turned to walk away.

The boy’s father was standing right behind him. “Son,” he said, “I know it seems like a shame to kill such a strong creature. I remember the first time I saw it. But this is how we make our living. There are more whales in the ocean; there will always be more whales. We can’t let killing just one fill our hearts with sadness, now, can we?”

Kori’s vision was blurred. His ears heard the words, but his mind could only concen­ trate on the eye of death. Wrenching himself from his father’s arms, he began to run. When he reached the edge of the ship, he let his tears blend with the salty water. His family had always been whalers, the best in Katsuura. His mother and sister were waiting to hear how prou.dly he carried on the family tradition.

But the eye of death was there, and would always be there. There was no place to hide from it. The intensity of the boy’s sobs grew.

His cries mingled with the roar of the ocean and the cries of the terns overhead. The eye, the twelve-year-old, my son, the roar, the eye— with sudden resolve, Kori threw himself into the sea.

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I knew a stranger once; We met by Autumn’s deathbed In the bittersweet sorrow of the night.

He touched me when I was in a place I’d rather not be; When all seemed lost, he whispered cool refreshment in my ear.

His cold, crisp, cleannessHis ncamcssHis way of making bitter frost an art— All made Winter very close.

Winter’s strength lay in his stormy brow and clear, blue, brilliant face.

H's gentle fall of snow hid pain and loss, /v .d his cool wind conversation calmed and cleared by thoughts.

In my seeming loss of Autumn, Winter stood at my side.

But I, a fool, grow weary of his stay.

I forgot Autumn’s rains and bitter cold; I forgot his darkness and remembered only light.

And when Winter stood nearby and bruised my tender pride, I burned inside, I threw his joking wind back in his face.

1 turned away and bundled up in sweaters made of pride, I wore a hat of ego, and a black scarf of self, And lived alone beyond his reach— Or so I thought.

My empty room still has a draft.

The windows can’t keep seventeen degrees below completely out.

A wind chill of negative sixty-five Can still cut through my foolish pride.

I lost Autumn, now Winter too, It’s really quite amazing what stupid human pride can do!

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onvcntional shorthand is fine if you need to take down verbatim conversations.

However, brethren, you never will. What you need is something that can double your writing speed, not quadruple it. Conventional shorthand could double your writing speed, too. But it has drawbacks. Like the fact that you start out at a speed of about three mickeymouse words a minute, and practice for weeks until you can write mickeymouse words at normal speed, and for weeks more before you can write normal words at normal speed, and for weeks more before you can write normal words at twice normal speed. Gregg shorthand requires quite a few weeks of full-time effort to master. Pittman requires months. And both require lifelong practice.

Kovo shorthand sacrifices speed for case.

You’ll never do more than double your speed, but then you don’t have to learn or practice it, cither. You just go to classes as usual, and slip in a form or two every day. Your speed starts at normal, and gradually doubles. The history of shorthand will show you how 1 invented this system, and what it’s trying to do.

Tiro relied chiefly on abbreviations, 13,000 of them to be exact. That's why his system fell out of favor. But you can still make up convenient abbreviations for your most com­ mon words, such as jfc for justification, sfc for sanctification, and the list of abbreviations in part II. Isaac Pittman thought up the first real improvement in 1837, when he introduced the principal of phoneticisin', “though” became tho, “know” became nC. (It sounds like simple abbreviation, but Tiro might have abbreviated know as kn.) Unfortunately, the symbols he chose arc hard to write.

Gregg removed the weaknesses of Pittman by making shorthand symbols more natural.

Where Pittman used sharp and unfamiliar angles, backtracking, and hard-to-write light

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Kovo has taken them one step further and applied them to theology. Like Tiro, you use abbreviations, but there are only a handful.

Like Pittman, you phoneticize, but you need not learn arcane and awkward symbols for every syllable. Like Gregg, your symbols arc more natural, but you don’t spend weeks of full-time practice learning them because you already know most of them. You do sacrifice the blistering speed a stenographer or court reporter is capable of; but if you want to invest two hundred to a thousand hours of your life to triple your speed instead of doub­ ling it, nobody is stopping you. Without fur­ ther ado, then, I present the Five Principles of Kovo Shorthand. By the way, this looks a lot better and is much simpler in handwriting than it is in print. In fact, if you will spend one hour copying down the rest of this article in your own handwriting, you will be able to begin using it tomorrow morning in class.

1. EVER Y CAPITAL LETTER SAYS ITS OWN NAME. NML means “animal”.

A Write without a crossbar, like a Greek capital lambda, to save time: dA is day.

B as in Blieve.

worry, you’ll get used to it. In both Gregg and Pittman, you’d have to get used to a lot worse.

N Not, especially as an adverbial suffix; dN means do not. Says its name, as in NML or woodN. Also used in place of “un" prefixes.

P Pre. PfX is “prefix," PtNd is “pretend,” Pc is “present" (either verb or adjective). Says its name, as in Ps. R Are, hour, our; or says its name, as in cR. S (I) As. (2) Says its name; SNs means essence. Use also the longhand capital-letter form that looks like a backwards & to say its name within letters without lifting your pen;^<?, says.

T Says its name, or equals the syllable “tre-"; TT is "treaty.”

U You, your; says its name: nU equals knew.

X Says its name, as in XSF, excessive; used for any ks or sk sound, as in “X” (ask), “Xt” (asked).

Y Why? II. MEMORIZE A DOZEN OR SO USEFUL ABBREVIATIONS a Used as a suffix, eda means “could have”, frNda means "friend of.” d do, docs, did, done, fm from h have, has, had. k can. (You save the small “c” for something else. later.)

C equals see, sea, rcCd is recede.

I will, well

D DCv is deceive.

m make; ms is makes, n in, on; also in compounds like n2, into,

F equals “if” and the syllables “ef,” “ev.” FyboD means “everybody." Notice that you drop an unneeded R. G The big G stands for God; also for Holy Ghost (HG), and in apoloG. J Jesus, of course.

M Serves as a Hcbrew-style verbal suffix, for an abbreviation of “them" or “him” (context tells you which). "Tell them” becomes tLM. Don’t

r -er, as in helpr. s is t it, at. Write without lifting your pen: A w was, were, wN, wasn’t, weren’t, y. -ly. May be dropped; posiB is “possibly.” cd could wd would

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C Send, sent; DC descend.

= equal, equals, is equal to; =y, equally.

Note: Write them sloppily, as I have done here, so you can connect them cursively for speed where possible. y ing, as

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singing.

1 one; as in 3L, someone.

& The; th-, -th. This alone is worth the whole article. O N is then; 40 is forth, fourth.

2 To, two, too; and in compounds, like n2.

4 For, four, fore; B4, before.

£ Not terribly useful, but as in %o$t .

8 Ate, gr8; fSN8, fascinate.

f ph. Not really useful, except for snob appeal.

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I use^- for Kirche, church.

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y Ps or sp; cy means either Epistle or especially; ' tf^means (Gospel; means Psalm.

* A, an. Must be well raised off the line.

(jf Hebrew Shin. Write it without lifting vour pen and connect to what follows, as in c&Zs , should. It also equals the abbreviations -tion and -tial; is nation; -p/itJ is partial.^^-is short for Schrift, Scripture.

1 at) Omega, for long O sounds, especially where you’d like to drop a silent E, as in O ws, or to distinguish nw (know) from no.

& Put below the lower-right-hand comer of a letter to indicate capitalization.

SPANISH 2 I combined their beginning and ending interroga­ tion points for the very useful abbreviation "ques­ tion.”

THE DICTIONARY CL Repeats most important word in preceding phrase.

IV. FOREIGN ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPRESSIONS:

Repeats most important phrase in preceding clause. " Repeats what is on the line directly overhead.

c Latin cum. (1) With. (2) com-, con-, cum-, co-.

(3) As it sounds: “come,” as in Be , becoming.

I began dropping the macron and And that it causes no efusion.

SCIENCE A Change. Unfortunately, a very useful abbreviation in modem theology, at least when you study other church bodies.

7T For Pistis, faith. You’re going to need this one, at least at our seminary. q Represents any relative pronoun. From qui, quae, quod; translate who, which, that, what, whom, qs means whose. ALSO the Spanish que, “than.”

So qq means “that which” and qqq means “than that which.” s. German sich. Self, myself, yourself, himself, her­ self, itself, oneself, ourselves, yourselves, them­ selves; each other, one another. s By analogy with c, “some.” aJ9y- is “something.”

Also by analogy, cust would be ^‘custom.” ^ Christ.

Now you can translate a sentence: “X N q U cT k d 4 U; X raOr q U k d r U cT.” (John F. Kennedy) V. SYMBOLS FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES THAT PROVE USEFUL: MATH + Plus. I use * for “and” and^for “also.”

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PICTURE LANGUAGE t Cross, across.

C? Heart; hard, heard.

CLOSING HINTS Drop doubled letters and unstressed vowels.

Connect letters and words as often as possible; <W, doesn’t; Si , essay, takes less time if you don’t lift your pen. Drop letters from diph­ thongs; you don’t need a “u” in round. Drop consonants, especially liquids, if possible; abbreviate aB V8 by dropping the “r”.

And finally, don’t give up just because it takes a few hours to get the hang of it. You will save that amount of time over and over again (I use shorthand every week in my exe­ gesis notes), and you would spend between one hundred and a thousand times the effort on either Gregg or Pittman.

^f"he December 11 passing of NWC Professor Emeritus Elmer C. Kicssling, at age 86, calls forth time-tested phrases like “end of an era,” and “a gentleman and a scholar.”

“He was associated with this school for most of this century,” noted Northwestern’s President Carleton Toppe. Most of the pastors in the Synod had Prof. Kicssling as an instruc­ tor, Toppe said.

Prof. Kiessling taught English composition and literature at Northwestern College for 46 years, from 1927-1973. He was a 1917 graduate of Northwestern. After completing his seminary work, he served St. John’s Lutheran Church in Libertyville, IL, until he accepted the call to this campus. In 1930 he was married to Esther Brockmann. (Mrs. Kiessling presently teaches a class in sign language at NWC.) Prof. Kiessling accepted a fellowship from the University of Chicago in 1935 and took off that year from teaching to earn his Ph.D. in English. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Known to his English students as “Doc,” his friends knew him as “Rex.” Professor Toppe, who was a pupil, neighbor and colleague of “Doc” Kicssling, called him “a man of cul­ ture who communicated that love of culture... he was genial, stimulating, lively, scholarly.”

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and was a regular contributor to the Milwaukee Journal, having written over 2,000 book reviews in 44 years. Some of the reviews he wrote under the pseudonym “Christopher Matthew,” possibly to avoid giving the im­ pression of dominating the review page. The Journal did not hesitate to send him books for review, and one of his editors said that he never had to make a correction in any of Kiessling’s articles-except for the time that he called up Kiessling and politely asked permis­ sion to insert a comma.

The Watertown Community benefited from Kiessling’s interest in literature and history.

He was a member of the Watertown Public Library board, and President of the Watertown Historical Society.

For the Bicentennial year he wrote the book Watertown Remembered, a history of the Watertown area written in a light, entertain­ ing style. It is informative, and stocked with anecdotes, valuable pictures and folklore. A native of Jefferson, Prof. Kiessling’s personal acquaintance with the area served as back­ ground to his extensive research in writing this gem.

Centennial Memoir, a one-hundred year history of the Northwestern College Alumni Society, was authored by Kiessling. He was also the Mnema adviser at NWC. He re-edited “You and Your Synod”; and his doctoral

thesis, “The Early Sermons of Luther,” was picked up by a book company and is still in

print.

The Black and Red had Kiessling as its editor in the 1916-1917 school year. Looking back into the B & R archives, one might find his poems, stories, an essay on “Henrik Ibsen and the Rights of the Individual,” or perhaps a Shakespeare/Christopher Marlowe dialog-satire entitled, “What Shakespeare Might Have Said Were He Prevented From Taking an Active Part in the Editing of the First Issue of His College Paper by an Unexpected Illness.” In Elizabethan style, Kiessling’s Shakespeare responded to the nagging of his wife, Anne: “Via! Aroint thee, thou guiled wench. Thou drawest the thread of thy verbosity finer than the staple of thy argument.” Yet, a certain

German influence emerges as Marlowe up­ braids the ailing Shakespeare, “Ach, Willie, why be in awe of such a thing as thou thyself?”

Even his college-level writing reflected a wide body of knowledge and experience, a quick, effective humor, a professionalism and authority which would later enrich his pupils and readers. His editorials show a concern for literacy and scholarship, especially in the minister’s command of Scripture, and a high regard for school spirit.

Although today’s students of Northwestern College were never in “Doc” Kiessling’s class­ room, some of us did get to know him, if only briefly. But if we could not be his pupils, we were still happy to be his admirers and to think of him as a friend.

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drienne tossed the Register into the comer land sighed heavily. She was despondent again, almost melancholy. The depression had crushed her unbearably the last few weeks, not simply because it was the “down” part of the year-that void after the holidays that drones on until March-but because she had suddenly realized that she couldn’t teach.

The article in the newspaper hadn’t helped any. Addy stared at the headline, still pain­ fully visible from the crumpled paper on the floor: Would a Soviet-style curriculum empty American high schools? Her eyes watered at the sight of it. While she watched American education go nowhere, the Soviets were sur­ passing Americans at a phenomenal speed. The number of science and advanced math courses that they required for graduation left America in the dust. And still they maintained a 97% graduation rate.

It wouldn’t work here, she thought. We can’t even hold that rate now. She could see the students leaving the school in droves.

“Nobody’s gonna make us take all those courses. Who needs two years of calculus, five years of physics, four years of chemistry, a year of astronomy, five-and-a-half years of biology? I’m no scientist. I wanna play foot­

ball.”

Her lips gnarled up in a bitter pucker.

They’d forced Mrs. Hanson into retirement because the students wouldn’t take her classes.

Cut the English department. Students don’t like English anyway, and especially when a teacher makes it difficult. Students drop out.

They drop out. Like those two pouting primadonnas in Addy’s Advanced British Lit. course. A couple of bright kids who didn’t want to do A work, but wanted A’s just the same. “B-! R-minus!" She’d already inflated their grades two marks, but they didn’t care.

They kept on pecking until she had to shut them up. But she scalded them well enough, one scathing remark was all it took...

One scathing remark was all it took to drive them out of the classroom. When she was mad, it seemed funny watching the two girls pick up their lower lips and fly from the room cry­ ing, “She can’t say that to me!” Now Addy was back on Earth, and it didn’t feel so funny at all.

It was the second time she’d alienated a student. It hurt. Very much. Addy always considered a teacher as a student’s friend, not an enemy. But that didn’t work, either. When­ ever she tried to be friends with students, they 152

no one knew the answer, maybe no one cared.

Depression was dusking in on her again.

Got to do something. With a heave she dragged herself out of the chair and began cleaning up the room, for lack of anything else to do. A pile of college publications by the window caught her eye: old psychology leaflets she hadn’t read in ages. There had always been something more pressing to do. “Why do I even keep these things?” They were probably outdated anyway. She stared at them. A look of shame and sadness swept her face. The papers were worthless. With a half-hearted toss she dumped a large handful into the waste­ basket. She didn’t even look at them, but went on cleaning.

The top one had said, “Effective Teaching: the Firm Response and Approaches to In­ dividual Motivation.”

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shied away. Students don’t trust friendly teachers. The only way that really works is being firm until they want to learn. Only then could she relax her tight grip.

But the administration wouldn’t give her a chance. Too many complaints. The kids ran home to mommy, mother screamed at the superintendent, the super got on the princi­ pal’s case, and he came down on her. They wouldn’t give her time. She just needed time, until the kids decided to learn... .

Addy wondered if that would ever happen.

Would anyone in a stagnant educational system ever want to learn? She slumped over in the arm chair, her head in her hands, and stared at the mirror. “What’s wrong with me? I always wanted to be a teacher. Am I?” An expression of doubt and confusion darkened her eyes. The mirror didn’t answer back; there was no one there to reply. Maybe

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The falling curls of Christmas snow Sent swirling in and out Between the bent, flocked boughs That shelter silent chickadees Who hide inside their snow-white breasts And know the cold.

A fire dances in the grate, A warm impassioned crackling dance Where yellow boots kick flashing sparks Up, up a hollow chimney.

Rising slowly they reach the night And there meet laughing snow flakes Who take their hands and whirl about And dance a flurried step or two Before they rush away and vanish In the dark.

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he arrival of Lent summons us once again to a study of the various aspects of our Lord’s Passion. We study the people, the attitudes, the prophecies and the places of our Lord’s Passion. One of the most dominant groups of people involved not only in Jesus’ Passion, but also in His entire ministry as well as in the growth of the early Church is the Sanhedrin. The ire system of Jewish courts, for that mattei help us understand the Passion and provide a frame in which we can view a portrait of Hebrew society as a whole.

The Jewish judicial structure was encased in two separate, yet not entirely distinct, judicial and political bodies.

The Sanhedrin in Jerusalem was the supreme court. Below it, however, were numer­ ous smaller, local courts which usually con­ vened at the gates of a given city. God estab­ lished these courts in the days of Moses as the Scriptures say in Deut. 16:18: “Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you.

It is this same local court to which Boaz pleaded his case concerning Ruth (Ruth 4:1-12).

Apparently these courts remained essentially unaltered throughout Jewish history, for the prophet Zechariah (8:16) portrays an arrange­ ment very similar to that found in Deuteron­ omy.

Membership in this institution was re­ stricted to the elders of the cities—the patri­ archs of the prominent families or those men distinguished by their gifts of intelligence and leadership.

This group, which might appropriately be called the Court of the Gate, had a wide range of power and authority. It had the power of religious (moral) judgment (Deut. 17:5,21:19; 22:13-15; Josh. 20:4) as well as criminal punishment (Zech. 8:16). Absalom used this court during the rebellion he staged against 155

his father David. The jurisdiction of this court was, however, only on a local level. It was located in the most important part of the city, the place where public meetings were held and where much of the local business was conducted (Genesis 23:10; 34:20).

Some alteration is apparent in the Court of the Gate from Old to New Testament times Later developments in Jewish law made it man datory that a city, in order to have such ?. court, must have at least izu inhabitants.

Most cases were tried at the local level, so that the Sanhedrin, in this regard, assumed the role of a court of appeals. All cases that might have involved the death penalty had to be referred to the Sanhedrin, the only council with the authority to pass the death sentence. In New Testament times, court sessions were held on the second and fifth days of the week.

The Sanhedrin was, however, the pre­ dominant Jewish court. Its origin is ascribed to Numbers 11:16-24, where 70 elders were sought by the Lord to assist Moses in the administration of his tasks. These elders were to occupy a place in the Tent of Meeting, a part of the portable tabernacle. Their title and location suggest moral and civil responsibility.

The membership was probably arranged accord­ ing to the tribes and leading families in the house of Israel. The functions of this body ran a close parallel to those of the smaller courts, though it appears at a higher level. This council also seems to have remained close to its ordained structure and duties from the time of Moses until the exile to Babylon.

Ezra is the man who reorganized the San­ hedrin after the return from exile in Babylon.

Ezra 7:25-26 shows that, as there were “mag­ istrates and judges to administer justice,” strong civil authority was given to this group.

This blends well with the strong prophetic leadership of the era, the prophets serving as

the pivotal part of Jewish religion. Ezra 10:14a would also suggest a close relationship with religious matters. To the Jews of both Testa­ ments, religious and civil life were almost in­ separable. It is also evident that at the time of Ezra the Sanhedrin was the supreme power of i judgment among the people. Ezra 10:14b s points out that the people who had married into heathen families were to appear before ! the chief court while being accompanied by the leaders(elders) of their respective cities.

The strong, centralized spiritual authority of the Sanhedrin is also emphasized in the story of Ezra. God wanted the Jewish race kept as that—a people set apart, from whom the Savior of the world would be bom, and the Lord administered His Will through these, His human representatives.

When the Greeks ruled in Judea (ca. 330200 B.C.), a council called the “Gerousia” was permitted to exist. This was the Sanhe­ drin. Its membership was drawn from the aristocratic higher classes. To the Greeks, the central purpose of the Gerousia was to serve as the council which would represent the Jews, as a nation, to its surrounding Gentile nations. In the first century B.C., for the first time, the name “Sanhedrin” was applied to this council of seventy. During the period of Greek domination the Sanhedrin was given a free hand in administering the internal matters of the nation.

When Pompey and Crassus jointly ruled the Roman Empire as consuls, there was an especially strong Roman influence in Palestine.

Pirating of the trade ships on the Mediterranean Sea was too popular to please the Roman consuls, and to remedy the situation, in 67 B.C. the Gabinian Law was passed, which gave Pompey complete authority to clear the Med­ iterranean of pirates. This emergency dicta­ torial power also included supreme power over the governors in Palestine. The Sanhedrin was watched strictly and was somewhat limited in authority, though the exact extent of the censure is unclear.

As a rule, great deference was shown to the Jews. Emperor worship was not as strictly demanded in Palestine as in other provinces of the Roman Empire, though sacrifices for Caesar and the Roman people were required twice a day. The Jews, thankful for this free­ dom, freely offered occasional special sacri­ fices for Caesar.

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At the time of Christ, the power of the Sanhedrin waxed and waned according to the political relations with the ruling authorities, although the Jews typically had more power of self-rule than any other nation under Rome.

The personal character of the ruler was crucial to the smooth operation of the Sanhedrin.

In time, probably during the reign of Herod the Great, the Sanhedrin lost the right to pass and execute the death penalty. For civil cases, the Roman court was the sole body capable of sentencing someone to death. If a Gentile entered the Temple areas forbidden to him and thereby desecrated it, the Sanhedrin could pass and execute the death sentence, but only with official Roman approval.

Herod himself was put on trial by the Sanhedrin for the many atrocities he performed against the Jews under his jurisdiction. Numer­ ous threats were made against the High Priest, promising reprisal if the Jewish Court did not acquit the Edomite. The Sanhedrin sentenced Herod to death; the High Priest advised him to flee, but he died before anything happened.

The control of the Sanhedrin varied—the Sadducees and Pharisees constantly vied for dominance in Christ’s time. The High Priest still served as president of what proved to be a rather elite group, containing only the most “important” and influential elements of society, most of whom were from Jerusalem itself. Even while working within the frame­ work of the same organization for the same cause, party distinctions were vigorously main­ tained. Their constant bickering can be seen in the numerous disagreements to which the New Testament draws our attention.

A person didn’t become a member of the Sanhedrin through democratic elections; the representatives were appointed, and remained members for life. The entire memebership did not have to be present for the discussion of every case or matter; it appears that the San­ hedrin had divided itself into two or three sub-committees authorized to deal with certain particular situations.

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supreme religious authority, influencing not only the Jews in Palestine but, also in a smaller way, the Jews who had moved throughout the world. This council produced their own calen­ dar and schedule of new moons. It was, as stated before, the sole Jewish organization that had the right to pass the death penalty, and served as the principal institution in representing Jewish national opinion to other nations.

Under the supervision of Pilate, the San­ hedrin managed to have Jesus condemned to death and, in fact, initiated the action against Christ. Before the Jewish Council He was con­ demned as a false teacher and was found worthy of the death penalty for the sin of blasphemy. When sent to Pilate, the Sanhe­ drin was forced to charge Christ with a politi­ cal crime becau ■ none of the religious crimes unmitted were worthy of Me had suppose death, and the Jo-. new they would not get Pilate to concur with their sentence of death.

Finally, the Jews had to pervert Jesus' claim of Kingship to show Me was a rebel and insur­ rectionist against the Roman government.

Pilate crumbled under the pressure and passed the death sentence. “Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified” (Mark 15:15).

Not too many years after sentencing the Son of God to death, the Sanhedrin lost vir­ tually all power. It collapsed at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. From this catastrophe the Sanhedrin never really re­ covered.

Understanding the Jewish judicial system is a complex and difficult matter. What historical records exist are vague. Yet, what knowledge is available is valuable in understanding both Testaments, especially in relation to our Savior’s Passion. One historian, S. Safrai, writes, “The development of central leadershipi.e. the Sanhedrin and the public struggles to shape it. . .may be regarded as the bond of Jewish history and culture,” and to a great extent this is true. The Sanhedrin, with its combination of religion and politics, typifies the misguided human development of Judaism, especially in the later years when The Light was so bright.

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PETE LEYRER-JUNIOR Since the professors are here to teach the students, they could probably get an idea about the effectiveness of their methods from listening to the students.

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RALPH ROSENBERG-FRESHMAN I suppose it is always a good idea to get some input from the students, but when it comes down to the final decision, the faculty has been around long enough and has the experience to know exactly what to teach.

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Prom the Editor n this number of the Black and Red we make note of the passing of Dr. Elmer Kicssling, a member of the Northwestern family for many, many years. We have lost a true scholar. He was a man dedicated not only to teaching, but also to the very pursuit of knowledge, so that he might teach in an authoritative way, whether in the classroom or in manuscript. His name joins a rather large company of names from Northwestern’s past, men in whose lives scholarship and learning played important roles. One of the earlier men was Dr. A. Ernst, the third president of the college, called by his former students “the preceptor of the Lutheran Northwest,” and, “a scholar bom to raise up a school of scholars.”

Included in such a list must also be Dr. J. Ott, the first librarian, whose scholarly activity included contributing to the Oxford English Dictionary, for which he gathered meanings and usages of some words of the Chaucerian age. Dr. Ott, in 1904, also happened to be the first to propose that Northwestern become accredited. Nor would the list be complete without such men as Dr. F. W. Notz, who became a member of the U.W. Board of Regents, Dr. Hoermann, a widely known pro­ fessional historian, Dr. A. Hoenecke, Dr. Martin Franzmann, or Prof. E. Kowalke, author of the college history, Centennial Story, and trans­ lator of Pieper’s Isaiah II. It has been said that the teacher makes the

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school. Certainly this is the case with these men who, with the help of God, built North­ western physically and academically. Is such scholarly activity at Northwestern confined to a few great men from times past? Fortunately, this is not the case. There is increased interest in scholarship, but not only as a result of the accreditation process. For example, a Faculty Development Committee has been organized which has sponsored discussions on graduate study and obligations to scholarship, in addi­ tion to other practical workshops. This com­ mittee came into being in response to a recom­ mendation of the Synod’s Commission on Higher Education to our synodical schools.

To improve teaching methodology, more classroom visitation has been undertaken by fellow faculty members, the president, and board members. Most importantly, the sabbati­ cal program for graduate study is receiving more attention. The hardest form of scholarship to measure is, of course, personal study which includes daily class preparation and additional research on topics relevant to the individual professor’s teaching field. In addi­ tion, some professors have published pamphlets, study guides, and lesson materials for use within the synod and our school.

Yet, while scholarly activity is not at all limited to a handful of great men from our history, and despite renewed interest ir. such activity in recent years, I sense an attitude of

skepticism or apprehension toward scholar­ ship, not only at Northwestern, but throughout our circles. Such a distrust did not seem to prevail in our early educators. Part of this distrust or apprehension is due to practical considerations, pertaining specifically to the time and money graduate study takes and to compensations that must be made within the school when a faculty member goes on a sabbatical. This is not a new problem, how­ ever, and it has been dealt with many other times in the past.

Actually, most of the distrust seems to stem from the concern that “secular influences” from graduate courses taught at the univer­ sities will infiltrate and override the religious aspects of our schools. Indeed, some skepticism of this kind is healthy, especially in an age when atheistic humanism and anti-Christian philosophies lurk beneath much of the country's educational system. But scholarship in itself, when taken in the light of God's Word, is not a bad thing. Rather, it is both beneficial and in­ dispensable.

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Is it only a distrust of scholarship that tends to limit higher academic pursuits in our midst? Or could it be another problem as Prof. LcRoy Boemekc of DMLC mplies in a paper prepared for a WELS faculty confer­ ence held a few years ago? Prof. Bocrncke suggests that perhaps wc have interpreted the calling to the professorate “so narrowly that wc have limited it to ‘proficiency in classroom instructing and teaching'.. .so that advanced degrees and scholarly reputation have seemed to be relatively unimportant.” Yes, the pro­ fessorate is a “part of the public ministry” as the call states. And yes, the primary respon­ sibility of the call is to “instruct and train the youth.. .faithfully in the Word of God,” in other words, to teach. Yet, in the very act of teaching, more is involved. The professor must have the background, the knowledge, and the understanding to teach.

I agree with Prof. Boerncke when he states that the professor “should see scholarship in all its dimensions as a requirement of the divine call” which he has received from those

he is serving. That is, the professor should be just that: one who professes, who is an author­ ity in his particular field. On the input side of the coin this includes personal study, research, and formal graduate study that often leads to an appropriate degree, acquiring more knowl­ edge than he will ever use directly. On the out­ put side, this involves not only effective class­ room teaching and the sharing of information with other professors in the form of convoca­ tions and papers. It also involves teaching in a different way: publishing. By publishing the professor reaches out past his classroom and even past his own lifetime. By publishing he presents a Christian witness and perspective that is desperately lacking in published materi-

MOVIE John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd made Saturday Night Live a household word (actually three household words) with their madcap humor. Belushi’s raucous Animal House was a box office smash. The two teamed up again as the Blues Brothers to produce two record albums and a great motion picture successfully. It seems they can do no wrong, so with the comedy duo together again for Neighbors, another hilarious hit is on the way, right? Au contraire, my fellow movie buffs!

Neighbors may become a commercial success purely on the strength of Aykroyd and Belu­ shi’s names, but it is the worst picture I’ve 161

als today. If more Christian professors were published authorities in their field, the need for study outside of the Church where harmful philosophies appear would not be as great.

The steps our faculty and board have recently taken to “explore new and untried avenues of professional activity and growth” are an excellent beginning in following the fine examples of the men who built Northwestern.

More scholarship can only be an asset, however, if it is scholarship based on the principle that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis­ dom.” If it is true that “the teacher makes the school,” then we should be on the way to an improved college.

ever seen (with the possible exception of Attack of the Killer TomatoesV The concept of Neighbors has unlimited possibilities—John Belushi is Earl, a middleaged, middle-class, overweight suburbanite whose uneventful life is interrupted by the arrival of the new neighbors, Vic and Ramona (Aykroyd and Cathy Moriarty), who are, simply stated, on the lunatic fringe. To think of all the crazy things a comedy team as talented as Belushi and Aykroyd could do with this theme only maxes the poor scripting of the film stand out even more.

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The Black and Red has tried to present a wide variety of music in past issues, hoping to enrich and broaden your tastes, and I will attempt to continue that tradition. This month’s records range into diverse categories; let’s suffice it to designate them the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

To cue the needle onto the first platter, Olivia Newton-John is definitely not among the Ugly, but undeniably falls in with the Bad. “The Newt” can take just about any song and overload it with Xanaduish glitter and tinsel.

She could make “Back in Black” sound like a Glee Club number. Somehow, no matter how hard she tries to shed her good girl image of days gone by (when she was singing frippy little ditties the likes of “Have You Never Been Mellow?” or the all-time classic breathy vocal, “I Honestly Love You”), Olivia still can’t sing a tune without adding a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. (Or was that Mary Poppins, John? I always confuse those two.)

The mistake Olivia has made recently, and especially on her latest album, Physical (MCA), is to attempt a transformation into a female rocker. Face it, Olivia, Ann Wilson or Pat Benatar you’re not. Why don’t you just run off with Karen Carpenter and become an Avon lady? You’ve got possibly the least powerful voice in the business--Ella Fitz­ gerald on Memorex could shatter concrete before you could crack an egg shell, so why try to make yourself out to be a rock queen?

Soft pop is your strong suit; don’t fight it.

Physical is all the things Olivia should not try to be: gutsy, earthy, strong, sensual. The jacket and innver sleeve photos alone are enough to make anyone with more moral fibre than a bowl of Bran Chex blush. The lyrics arc enticing, the music rhythmic, throbbing.

It all comes across as a weak, forced front.

Apparently catering to popular decadent tastes, the girl next door hops into the water a la Bo Derek and gets physical just to sell records. 1 can’t deny her success, but I can’t applaud it cither.

I hate to pan the whole record, however.

“Landslide” and “Make a Move on Me” have possibilities, but I still don’t like Olivia’s comeon style. The one song of real merit on this record is one written by Olivia herself. “The

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Caribbean, the rhythm of the islands; sort of Promise (The Dolphin Song)” gets away from like a Jamaican Barry White. Third World is thje “physical” theme and extends an urgent one of the better-known reggae bands, not as plea to save the endangered dolphins. It is the firmly established as the late Bob Marley’s one song where the real Olivia comes out­ Wailers, but equally as talented. The Story’s sort, sweet, loving, humane. She doesn’t pre­ Been Told is an intriguing record, flavored with tend to be something she’s not, and I like that. messages of love and togetherness, abounding Still, I must give the dolphins credit for the in catchy rhythms, spiced with clever instru­ most musical talent on this production. mentals. Some of the best tracks are “Always The Commodores could also be classified Around,” “Irie Ites,” and “Tonight For Me.” as bad, but in a far different sense of the word.

If you don’t get a chance to listen to this The Commodores are the baddest, there is no particular album, try at least to get a taste of doubt. Their 1981 release, In The Pocket some reggae along the line. You will enjoy it.

(Motown), further establishes their position as the reigning dynasty in black rhythm and DAVID SELLNOW blues. In The Pocket is one of the bands funkier efforts to date, starting off with the What do you immediately think of when spicy single, “Lady (You Bring Me Up),” someone mentions the Supremes? Perhaps you with equally good numbers in “Keep on Taking think back to the sixties, to a popular, young Me Higher,” “Sa ^day Night,” and “Lucy.” vocal group comprised of three lovely ladies But by far the i it on the record is one who sold out concerts and consistently put out of those soft, bcautilul love songs that Lionel hit after hit, even though the Beatles were in Richie and the Commodores are so famous for, peak form at the time and were also topping “Oh No.” The Commodores arc a classy band, the charts. The Supremes became not only one and this is a classy album. of the top groups of the sixties, but also the “I Get Along Without You Very Well” most popular female group ever to enter the could be called the theme song of Carly Simon’s American music scene. new recording, Torch (Warner Brothers). The Perhaps you do remember the success of album is her first since her separation from the Supremes, but how many of the members James Taylor, and the sentiments of that can you recall by name? I believe I’m safe in emotional trauma are very evident. The album assuming that most of us would have to answer is a collection of bluesy love ballads from the one- Diana Ross. Not only did Diana have the past, featuring Carly's rich voice on composi­ looks to become the focal point of the group, tions by the likes of Duke Ellington, Hoagy but also the voice to sing the leads. She was the Carmichael, and Rodgers & Hart. She also adds heart of the group and possessed the talent a composition of her own, “From The Heart,” that brought the Supremes to their position at examining the cold war and strained love of the top. Eventually the group even changed her relationship with James. This is an uncon­ its name to Diana Ross and the Supremes. ventional record, perhaps not Carly’s best, There came a time, however, when Diana but it is her most personal, emotional album realized she had gone as far as she could with ever, and when this lady sings the blues, she the Supremes, and she struck out on her own. sings them well.

Since that time she has also earned her reputa­ One aspect of the music spectrum the tion as a top female solo artist.

Black <6 Red has not yet covered is reggae.

With her newest release, Why Do Fools The Story’s Been Told (Island Records) is not Fall In Love? (RCA), Diana demonstrates a particularly new record, but it is surprisingly once again that she’s got the talent it takes to good, considering I obtained it for 25 cents make good music. This is also her first attempt in a cut-out rack at Musicland. And it is reggae, ATTENTION, READERS so as the B & R spans the globe searching for new musical frontiers, Third World ought to be Don’t miss the new coupon in the ad section included. this time around from Busse’s Pharmacy. The store I don’t claim to be an expert on reggae, features a complete line of medical products, in addi­ but I do enjoy it and it is an important part of tion to magazines, cards and many other items of the music scene today, having tremendous interest-all 10% off with the coupon. Hurry down influence on England’s popular band, The sometime soon!

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Diana is definitely in top form for this album. Maybe that’s due to the final cut of the album, “Work That Body.” (Sounds like a tune Souks could use in the weight room.) This is a piece of calisthenic dance music linked to something called Diana’s Disc Aerobics. The title tune has a swing feel to it and is presently going up on the charts. “Endless Love” is sung here by Diana alone without its composer, Lionel Richie, and it contains much more feeling and emotion than does the duet version.

Another great accomplishment of Diana Ross was the discovery and encouragement of a group from Gary, Indiana, called the Jackson Five. That, however, was many years and many hits ago. They are now known as the Jacksons and have achieved a great deal of fame them­ selves. They have a new live album simply entitled, Jacksons Live (Epic). The Jacksons are known not only for their music but also for their choreography and stage presence.

Obviously this facet of the Jacksons cannot be put on vinyl. Nor can the same sounds recorded in the studio be reproduced on stage, but the Jacksons put forth their best effort at a faithful reproduction with a live atmos­ phere.

This double live album is a good collec­ tion of the Jacksons’ greatest hits, including songs from their Jacksons Five days like “ABC” and “I’ll Be There,” and their most recent lilts such as, “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Lovely One.” Also included are Michael’s 1979 hit, “She’s Out Of My Life” and “Ben,” which received an Academy Award nomina­ tion and the Golden Globe Award. Over all, this is a well-produced and well performed album.

While Stevie Nicks was home in California last year recording her solo album, Mick Fleetwood, founder and leader of Fleetwood Mac, journeyed to Ghana, West Africa to work on his own solo LP entitled, The Visitor (RCA).

Although Mick docs not write or sing, he knows how to pick a band, as was already evidenced by Fleetwood Mac. The band featured on The Visitor is comprised of Mick on drums, George Hawkins on bass, piano, and vocals; Todd Sharp on guitars; Lord Tiki on

congas; Ebaali Gbiko (children’s drum en­ semble); the Adjo group and the Ghana Folkloric Group on percussion and vocals. Guest musicians include Peter Greenbaum (former guitar player for Fleetwood Mac) and George Harrison. By utilizing both Western and African compositions, instruments, and styles, Mick was able to obtain a very unique sound on this album, making it a success.

The styles of the ten songs are very diversi­ fied, ranging from “Rattlesnake Shake” (an old Fleetwood Mac number) and “Not Fade Away” (a Buddy Holly tunc), to some original African compositions often played in a Western style and “Walk a Thin Line,” written by Lindsey Buckingham.

Lindsey Buckingham also worked on a solo project this past year entitled, Law And Order (Elektra/Assylum). All of the selec­ tions were written by Lindsey except for two songs from the 50’s and one from the 30’s.

Lindsey also played all the instruments on the album except for the single, “Trouble,” where George Hawkins played bass and Mick Fleetwood played drums.

Most of the stranger tunes that Fleetwood Mac records arc the handiwork of Buckingham.

Far be it from him to stray from his style on this album. The only difference in this case is that by making a solo album and playing all the instruments himself, he’s not held to near conformity by other band members. “Trouble,” the only single released so far, will no doubt end up being the only cut off this album to receive air time. That’s because the rest of the album is just too bizarre for radio. Lindsey does some cute and interesting things on this album, and his voice, harmonies, and guitar work are all good, but he was obviously not trying to make any money from this project.

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Any “Who” cultist will tell you that there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues, and almost any one else will tell you that there ain't even any preventive medicine foi the wintertime blues, much less a cure. But the perky little guys at C & C have done what they can to formulate some pharmaceutical aid for our winter-weary warriors. So if the nostrilhair bristling temperatures, the Wayne Gretskyapproved dorm ramps, the high-gloss side­ walks, and the navel depth snowdrifts have got you feeling low, just sit down on the perch of your choice (be it plywood, plastic, or por­ celain) and lesen Sie to your heart’s content.

If the wave of passion that has swept through the student body this winter is any indication, spring fever may reach peaks that defy measurement even on the Richter scale.

Myriad new interpersonal relationships were spawned at the Lancer Classic a couple months

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back, and Cupid has continued target practice right through Valentines’ Day. The pudgy little nudie with diminutive wings even found his mark on the hindquarters of your C & C editors, but, unfortunately, the euphoria was short-lived-Ronny's Cupcake and Davey’s Snow Queen have turned a cold wintry shoulder.

Oh, woe is we! But be off, sodden misery!

Hie thee away, misfortune, and hence all despair! We shall overcome, for we are strong, we are invincible, we are Helen Reddy.

We send our belated condolences to Mark “Doesn’t Wartburg Look Cleaner This Year?”

Lindloff, who was attacked in his garage by his own snowmobile to the tune of 30 stitches over his left eye. It seems Mark was routinely grooming his prize possession when his ordinar­ ily docile machine assaulted him. If Mark had only watched more Walt Disney animal movies as a kid, he would have known that even after several peaceful years in captivity, a beloved pet such as an Arctic Cat can regain its natural instincts and turn on its owner, and not even a rousing chorus of “Born Free” can calm the savage beast. Oh well, at least with any luck he will have a rugged Clintesque scar to show for his close brush with death.

Hey, hey, hey, here is a really funny campus-orientated joke about this fiercesome winter. Because this joke so cleverly utilizes almost all the integral parts of Northwestern's pulse of humorous life, you will probably

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Don’t miss this month’s B & R centerfold.

Inspired by the Parker Brothers, the J. Geil’s Band, and the occasional remarks by students that some big, ugly assignment is just “part of the game we gotta play,” the C & C staff has come up with a new board game which we hope will bring joy to the hearts of the young, the old, the Sun-yung, and the cold. The game is designed to keep blood from running cold, memories from being sold, and six profs in our centerfold. Play it again and again, Sam. You say you need a little something more than a dumb board game to get you through this winter? Well, what could be more warming than a congenial cup of tea in the amicable atmosphere of the cafeteria? Far too few stu­ dents take advantage of the excellent assort­ ment of teas which our cafeteria provides, perhaps because of their unccrtainy over which tea is appropriate for their situation and mood.

To guide you in your selection, here is Ronny LaRue and Davey DcFricasee’s Gourmet Guide to Cafeteria Teas. (You might want to clip and save this deliverance from dietary dilemma.)

LEMON LIFT-You just got dumped by your girlfriend, you missed a layup in I.M.’s that would have won the game, your car won’t start, and someone stole your autographed photo of Robby Benson.. .You need a lively cup of Lemon Lift to get you through the day.

PLANTATION MINT—A Friday tea if there ever was one-when you’re done with classes,

you've cashed that Duraclean check, and are feeling grand, let that bulge in your wallet and Plantation Mint Tea put a Song of the South in your heart. Zip-a-dcc-doo-dah!

EARLY RISER —When peer pressure prods you to patronize the popular establishments on Thursday night, Early Riser may be just the peppy picker-upper you need to make it through that First-hour class on Friday.

ENGLISH TEA 77A/£-When ye don’t ’ave th* time to ’op down to the local pub, matey, ’ave a touch of this tea. Makes the average bloke feel right royal, it does.

PEPPERMINT STICK AND CINNAMON STICK—When you’re meandering down memory lane back to the times when Stick and others were around and the days were more flavorful, mix up a cup or two of these teas.

CONSTANT COMMENT-U you ever get stuck sitting by Kenley Mann and need something to take your mind off his incessant yummering and yammering, cook up some Constant Comment and try not to listen.

MINT MEDLEY-A “must” tea before any Community Concert or Chorus practice. This blend of the harmonic herbs and Renaissance relishes creates an optimum mood for true music appreciation.

FEELING FREE-That dreaded term paper is finally completed after two consecutive allnighters, your BEOG grant came through, your least-loved prof has a note on his door saying he will not meet with his classes this month, and Nancy Westerhaus just said, “Hi.” There’s no doubt about it, you're feeling free, and it’s time for a spot of the tea by the same name.

(NOTA BENE: If you hang glide or ever plan to ride a Harley Davidson motorcycle across the Great Plains in search of America, this tea is also an excellent choice for you.)

APPLE ORCHARD-You just shaved off that futile three-month mustache attempt, you took your second shower since I.M. soccer season ended, you’re wearing your snappiest shirt and sweater combination with your only pair of cords, and you have gotten more than five hours of sleep. The only thing that could make you feel fresher than this would be a stroll through an apple orchard in spring. It’s not spring, so brew up some Apple Orchard tea and savor the moment.

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TAKE A BREAK-You've got two tests, two auizzes, and no free hours tomorrow; Scotty Mosher has declared your turntable irreparable; and tutor just told you to meet with the Dean after chapel, but you don't know why. We’re talking pressure and anxiety, baby. You’d better mix some Take a Break, prop your legs up on a chair, and watch the coeds go through the scraping line for a while.

That’s all for now, campers. Until next

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■ BASKETBALL It’s been a long time since you faithful readers of the B & R have been blessed with an issue, and we’ve got a lot of catching up to do in order to bring you a little more up to date with the sports scene. The first weekend in December the Trojans traveled to New Ulm to take part in the Lancer Classic. Most of you will recall that our team didn’t fare well against the Lancer onslaught the previous season in the Trojan Classic. This time the Trojans were looking to redeem themselves, and they did just that. For the most part, they stayed a bucket or two ahead of their rivals, occasionally widening the gap, and the contest was close right down to the wire. NWC managed to retain the lead and came out on top by a score 167

of 62-57. Hot hands for the Trojans included Chuck Westra with 16, followed closely by Tom Plath and Mike Nitz with 15 apiece.

Plath also proved to be the team’s top rebounder, especially on the defensive end of the court, where he pulled down 9.

The following evening the Trojans came up against the lean, mean Bethany Vikings. Al­ though they played tough, they couldn’t keep up with these giants. Chuck hit from the out­ side again and managed to come up with 21 points, while Plath had 11 and Wessel added 10. Despite Bethany’s height advantage they just barely out-rebounded the Trojans. We also hit 74% of our shots from the line compared with their paltry 40%. The telling point seemed to lie in the Vikings’ quickness, coupled with a little better shooting from the floor. Bethany

won by a score of 88-73 and took home the championship trophy as a result of their vic­ tory.

Three days later the Trojans headed way up north to secluded Northland Baptist Bible College and proceeded to rout the Tigers. The entire Trojan squad saw playing time in this one, and virtually everyone added at least thentwo points worth. Team leaders again included Westra, Plath, and Wessel, but Kris Taves came through with an impressive 10 points and Phil Hirsch, Ross Henzi and John Parlow each added 8 for the Trojan cause. Final score: Trojans a whopping 84, NBBC a trifling 44.

After the Christmas layoff, the team took to the court again on January 9 against an over­ powering Lakeland Muskie team. They ended

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The Trojans’ next game was against Madison Edgewood, and it was some contest. When the final buzzer sounded at the end of regulation time, the score stood tied at 76-76. Wessel came up with a pair of clutch free throws in the OT to put the team up 82-80. The Tro­ jans didn't relinquish the lead from that point on. In fact, they held Edgewood scoreless for the remainder of the period and added 6 more of their own to win by a score of 88-80.

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Hirsch had another good game, leading the team with 21, and the always consistent Chuck Westra added 20. This was perhaps the Trojans’ best effort of the season in the rebound depart­ ment. Wessel pulled down 13, Hirsch and Plath both came up with an even dozen.

WEIGHT CLUB How many times have you been playing basketball and didn’t get that rebound? How many times has your shot been blocked be­ cause you didn’t jump high enough? If you could only add a few inches to your vertical leap! If only you were just a little faster, just think how good you could be in track or foot­ ball! If onh you were a little stronger, those home runs and quarterback sacks would come so much easier!

There is a way that you can attain some of your desires: Lift weights. It’s a little work, but it’s the best way to actually get better at what you do. Year after year, the football players on our varsity team who work out in the weight room are the ones who do the best on the football field. Ask former student Joe Dietrich, MVP two years in a row. how much weight lifting helped him. But lifting weights does not only improve skills used in football.

You can design a weight progi*,m to fit any sport or improve any skill.

Since it would take far too much time to cover every sport, the best way to describe a program is by general skills. If a particular skill applies to your sport, develop it.

The first place to begin developing is the legs. The legs are without a doubt the founda­ tion of almost ever)' sport. There are basically three things you call upon your legs to do: push, jump, and stops or starts (cuts). The push is used in such sports as baseball, tennis and golf, but especially in track and football.

These sports require a hard drive and tremen­ dous speed. The jump is obvious. Everyone dreams of floating through the air and smashing that orange globe through the steel rim. There’s one basic exercise for both of these—it’s called a squat. Put the barbells across your shoulders and go from a crouch to a standing position as many times as you can. It’s a guaranteed suc­ cess. The squat is probably the one exercise from which you’ll notice the most improve­ ment the fastest. If you do a lot of quick stopping and starting as required in basket-

ball, football or soccer, the leg cxtension/curls and lunges arc the exercises for you. Although the extension/curls usually require a special machine or a weight boot, there arc machines in the gym and in the Wittenberg weight room that are more than adequate.

Next comes the upper body: the chest, shoulders, upper arms, back and stomach. The upper body is used much more in specialty skills than the legs. Throwing is a good example.

For you pitchers and quarterbacks, there are some very good exercises to develop your throwing arm. Tricep extensions with a special tricep bar, or dumbbell curls will help you im­ mensely. Pushing and lifting also require upper body strength. Fighting off blockers in foot­ ball is perhaps the best example of these skills.

To improve in this area, bench presses, chinups, and dead lift' will really help.

All this, of urse, only scratches the sur­ face. You can apply weight lifting to anything from bowling to golf, and with a little work you will almost certainly be better than you were before. Perhaps you don’t play any sport at all, but have always wanted to. Weight lifting can get you there. Whether you join the weight club (already numbering almost forty members), or choose to use the facility in the gym, give it a try.

There's one more vital point that should be made before concluding. There is absolutely no better way to prevent an injury in any sport than to have strong enough limbs to take the punishment. Weight lifting is without a doubt the best way to develop stronger limbs.

It’s better to think about that weight program now, rather than after you’re suffering from pulled muscles, strained ligaments or even worse, knee surgery.

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Adding to the continually increasing num­ ber of clubs here at NWC is the resurgence of the hockey club. Yes, the fastest sport around has again returned to NWC after an absence of a few years. Led by Tutor Connell (a member of the earlier club), the club has organized and holds practice twice a week at Riverside Park.

Practice has been a problem at times because of the weather, but that hasn’t dampened the guys’ enthusiasm.

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At this point, the only games scheduled will be played against the Watertown Park and Rec team. An attempt is being made to get a few more games lined up, however. Key players include Tutor Connell (wing), Hans Zietlow (center), John Liebenow (defense) and Dan Reich (goalie).

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jj on December 6, 1981.

—Pastor David Sternhagen (’71), formerly of Christ Our Savior in Springfield and Mt. Zion in Jacksonville, IL, accepted a call to be a missionary in Africa and was commissioned October 18, 1981.

—Pastor Roger Plath (’72) was commis­ sioned at St. Paul’s of Litchfield, MN, on December 20, 1981, to be a missionary in Hong Kong.

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-Pastor Kurtis Mau (’67), formerly of Jehovah, Altura, MN, and Trinity of Rollingstone, MN, accepted a call to Good Shepherd of Beaver Dam, WI, and was installed on November 22, 1981.

-Pastor Stephen Valleskey (’62), formerly of Washington, MI, accepted a call to Houston, TX.

ANNIVERSARIES -Pastor Raymond Frey of St. John’s in Battle Creek, MI, celebrated his 40th anni­ versary in the ministry on January 10, 1982, and began his retirement from full-time service in the ministry.

—Pastor Henry Peter (’52) celebrated his 25th anniversary in the ministry on October 18, 1981.

-Pastor Arden Stuebs celebrated his 40th anniversary in the ministry on December 6, 1981, at Grace in Le Sueur, MN.

COMMISSIONS -Pastor Richard A. Froehlich (’68), formerly of Christ and Emanuel congregations in Denmark, WI, was commissioned as Civilian Chaplain to Europe at Christ, Denmark, WI, i

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—Pastor William Wiedenmeyer celebrated his 40th anniversary in the ministry at Bloom­ ington Lutheran Church. Pastor Wiedenmeyer serves as Twin Cities Hospital Chaplain.

-Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Neenah, WI, celebrated the 40th anniversary of its organization on December 13, 1981.

Pastor of the congregation is the Rev. G. Jerome Albrecht (’46).

DEDICATIONS —A new parsonage was dedicated at Holy Cross of Standish, MI, on January 10, 1982.

Pastor Theodore Frey (’41).

-Trinity in Kiel, WI, dedicated a new pipe organ on November 15, 1981. Pastor Richard Wamke (’65).

-Zion of Egg Harbor, WI, dedicated a new school building on December 6, 1981. Pastor Paul Sciltz ('62).

-Martin Luther of Neenah, WI, dedicated a new pipe organ on December 13, 1981.

Pastor G. Jerome Albrecht (’46).

-Mt. Olive of Monroe, WI, dedicated their newly purchased church building on January 17, 1981. Pastor Kenneth Kratz (’72).

-Reformation, of Genesee Depot, WI, dedicated a new church on November 15, 1981.

Pastor Duane Tomhave (’58).

-Hope of Louisville, KY, dedicated a new

church on December 6, 1981. Pastor Edward Meier (’73).

DEATHS -Pastor Jeff Hopf (’67), pastor of Peace in Otsego, MI, was killed in a car accident on December 22, 1981.

—Prof. Victor Weyland (’37), died on December 21, 1981, at New Ulm, MN. He was a professor at Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School.

BIRTHS —A son, Andrew Thomas, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Peter Naumann (’68) of Sauk Rapids, MN, on November 27, 1981.

—A son, Micah Benjamin, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Terry Yahr (’72), on Novem­ ber 20, 1981.

A NOTE OF INTEREST -Dr. W. M. Heidtke (’20) reports that he and his wife made a trip to the Soviet Union during 1981. They visited the cities of Moscow, Leningrad, and, of special interest, Sochi, a health resort on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. They met with a friendly reception throughout their trip.

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Ash Wednesday.

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The Long-Awaited End-of-Third-Quarter Vacation and Spring Break.

(Time to cure that cabin fever by migrating to warmer climes.)

Mar. 1—6

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National Procrastination Week. (Dates are subject to change.

A good time to put off all those things waiting to be done.)

7:45 A.M.

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Once again classes resume.

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Full Moon. (“That he is mad,’tis true;’tis true’tis pity; and pity ’tis ’tis true.”)

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Ides of March. (Beware of riotous toga parties.)

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Community Concert features the ragtime music of Max Morath.

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St. Patrick’s Day. (Green is in.)

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Milwaukee Campus Ministry is sponsoring a spring retreat with the topic “Christian Sexuality.” Watch bulletin board for more details.

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First day of spring.

J. S. Bach’s 297th birthday.

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Faculty-Student Discussion conducted by Prof. Lawrenz on LCMS—WELS split.

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Just 50 days till Graduation ’82!

Quotation of the Month: I like work; it fascinates me. / can sit and look at it for hours. / love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

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Iphonse, the black and white hamster, put his forepaws against the glass wall of his c.;-. iuI • mrose up, balancing himself on his hind legs. “Hey,” he called across the room to the ily.ii-c slouched in the wide-backed wicker chair. “What are you watching?”

The figure rolled sideways in the chair and leaned on the arm. ‘“Laveme and Shirt.

Vnl me to bring your cage over?”

“Are you kidding, Michael? I’d rather watch the smokestacks.” Alphonse’s car.e ; on a shelf next to the window, the view from which was dominated by a huge gray found,;.- i-\ dte somewhat-distance. Three smokestacks grew out of it, and when the weather was fait they belched smoke in black mushroom-shaped clouds. On this particular evening a gcnrie raw. was falling, and the stacks were lifeless.

“What’s that in your hand? I can’t see. Are you reading something?” Alphonse usi.cti.

“Just the paper tonight, Alphonse,” Michael replied, tossing it on the coffee table \vl: oh ::v between him and the TV. “There’s nothing really worthwhile in it,” he added in anticipation of Alphonse’s next question.

“Oh.” Alphonse dropped down on all fours and sat down. “What’s up tonight? Going any­ where?”

“Nope.”

“You never go anywhere.”

Michael laughed. “You should talk,” he said. “You live in a cage, and spend your time watching smokestacks.”

“So do you,” Alphonse replied softly, and turned his head to watch the rain outside that was darkening the sidewalks and deepening the gray of the foundry.

“I’ve been known to watch the smoke, yes. I see things in it. Lots of people look at clouds for the same reason.”

“I was talking about your cage, Michael.” Alphonse swung around and looked at his owner, who noticed something decidedly defiant in the high, squeaky voice. Michael braced himself for what was sure to follow: a quick self-improvement course, tips on what was wrong with Michael’s life, introduced by paradox and revealed by hamster. Alphonse was over-prone to sermonizing, and Michael more often than not had to admit that in spite of his rather limited experience the hamster was very perceptive. However, to act on Alphonse’s suggestions, to look for a new job or to read different books or to try and meet a new girl, these were more than

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Professor Korthals to Join the “Big League”. . .

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Run of the Mill..................................

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“You never said anything about that Michael thought necessary. To listen to a before,” he said thoughtfully. “You never hamster was one thing; to take his advice was mentioned wanting to get out. I thought you something else. loved your cage.”

“My cage, Alphonse?” Michael replied, Alphonse was uncharacteristically slow to knowing he was taking the bait. “This apart­ answer. ment, I readily concede, is a dump. It’s tiny, “Michael, I’ve been thinking,” was what he and it’s in unquestionably the crummiest finally came up with. neighborhood in town. I also admit that I tend Michael laughed. “You, my friend, arc not to leave it very often. But one thing you constantly thinking.” will undoubtedly notice is that it does have a “I was thinking about my thinking. I was door, through which I can come and go as I thinking about how, since I’ve lived with you, please.”

I’ve done nothing but think, and all I have to “Your cage, Michael, is a lot more than think about are the most abstract, cerebral your apartment. It includes your work, your ideas. I can think about the rain, the side­ lifestyle, the people you know, the things you walks, the smokestacks, but I've never felt or think about. You have shrunk your cage down seen any of them close up, and my concepts of to the size of your own body, and made it them arc so vague I never know where my form-fitting and stretchable, so that it goes thinking will end up. I want to stop thinking wherever you go and does whatever you do. for a while, and start sensing.”

And because of this you have created for your­ Michael thought that over. “It’s no big self the illusion that you have no cage at all, deal, Alphonse. The sensing.” when it is all around you even as you speak, “If a bird told you that flying were no big when it determines for you the things you will deal, would that make you want to try it any think and read and do and say. It is I who have less? Please, Michael! I’ll be gone for a couple the advantage. My cage is large enough to let of hours, at the most. We both have cages, but me move around inside it, and it is not so you can help me get rid of mine, for a while. cleverly constructed that it tempts me to pre­ tend it isn’t there at all.”

Please!”

Michael winced, leaned forward and swung If Michael was wavering because he feared his wicker chair away from the TV to face that something would happen to Alphonse, the Alphonse’s cage. Something was bothering his reference to cages stung him enough to put friend, it was clear; his tirades had never been that out of his mind. “All right,” he said. this intense, this personal. “In the first place, He got up and crossed the room to Al­ Alphonse, my feeble human brain is incapable phonse’s cage and took him out. Then cradling of comprehending a cage which is completely him gently in his left hand, he slid the window open and set his friend on the outside window indiscemable, and if such a thing exists I find sill. Alphonse, without a word, crawled back no reason to concern myself with it. In the and forth on the window sill. Then he crawled second place, I am beginning to wish you would keep your recommendations to your­ over to the downspout that ran next to the sill and climbed down rear-end-first like a koala self. Just because I’m not gregarious, because I bear on a eucalyptus. He reached the bottom like to come here and relax after a hard day’s and disappeared into the gentle rain. work and not go to art exhibitions and plays and political rallies and what not, doesn’t Michael turned from the window, and mean I’m trapped in your form-fitting Calvin noticed the blare of the TV set for the first Klein prison.” time since Alphonse had addressed him. He “Oh, no?” Alphonse asked, a little bit sat down and watched a succession of sitcoms icily. “Then prove it. Do something really and one documentary. It grew dark, and the radical. Show me that you aren’t afraid of any­ rain seemed to be increasing outside the open window. Now and then Michael would glance thing, Write an editorial for the paper. Join the nervously at the empty cage. A street light Y. Enter a dance marathon. Let me outside my cage for a while, just for once.” In this last shone through it into the room, and seemed to shout that Alphonse wasn’t there, and to accuse suggestion Michael heard something of a plea, and a little bit of desperation that made him Michael. He looked alternately at it and at the pause before answering.

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He awoke with a start at a ridiculously loud thunderclap which seemed right out­ side his window. Looking in its direction, he saw the smokestacks illuminated by a flash of lightning; then thunder again. The rain was pouring down. “Oh, great,” he breathed, getting up.

Michael leapt to the window, calling, “Alphonse!” before he even reached it. He gripped the shelf, and noticed that it was dripping wet all around the cage. “Alphonse!” he screamed as loud as he was able.

“You don’t really need to shout,” a little voice said just below him. Alphonse sat on the window sill, his back to the apartment, gazing at the storm above him. At last he turned and looked at Michael, blinking as water ran down his face. “Would you please help me inside?

It’s the craziest thing. I just crawled up four feet of aluminum downspout, but now that I’m here I can’t seem to plant my feet firmly enough to climb over the window frame with­ out sliding off.”

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Michael did. “I was asleep because I’m exhausted. I was worried, and I stayed up as long as I could. But you never showed up.

Do you know what time it is?”

“No.”

“It’s—holy cow, it’s almost three! You’ve been gone for over eight hours!”

“I lost track of time. Besides, I...”

“You what?”

Alphonse grinned sheepishly. “I got lost.”

Michael shut the window and lifted Alphonse off the carpet into his cage again.

Alphonse scurried back and forth in the cedar shavings, and kicked a pile of them into a cor­ ner, where he finally curled up.

“I can understand now, Michael.”

“Understand what?” Michael asked, know­ ing that he was biting again.

“I can understand why cages have certain... attractions.” Alphonse looked up at him, and his small round eyes were moist.

“No, my friend. You were right. Can you think about smokestacks better now?”

Alphonse thought a moment. “Yes, I think so. Of course, my old concept of them was perfectly adequate...”

“But not true.”

Alphonse paused again. “No, not true,” he said, and went instantly to sleep.

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station and thought that the idea might work in selling shaving cream. Clinton didn’t think so, but gave him two hundred dollars for the project just to shut him up. In the fall of 1925, a crew put up the signs on two roads out of Minneapolis. One road was Route Sixty-five to Albert Lea. The other was the road to Red Wing. Between ten to twelve sets of signs were put up on these roads, all proclaiming: SHAVE THE MODERN WAY / FINE FOR THE SKIN / DRUGGISTS HAVE IT / BURMA-SUAVE. If the jingle seems crude, so were the signs. The boards were secondhand. With nail holes in them, they were sawed into thirty-six inch lengths, painted, and letters were applied by brush using thin brass stencils. But the results were astounding, Burma-Vita started receiving its first repeat orders ever, and all from drug­ stores serving people who traveled those two roads.

Unfortunately, the Burma-Vita Co. was broke. So Clinton Odell took his busted com­ pany, with its product that was relatively un­ known and an ad idea that ad experts said wouldn’t work, and incorporated the busi­ ness, selling forty-nine shares of stock in less than three weeks. In 1926 Burma-Shave set up its first sign shop and made silk screen signs, a little more refined than the first signs.

A1 went out and bought locations while his brother, Leonard, led the crew that put up the

magine that it’s the fall of 1925 and you're driving pa’s Dodge one last time before the snow flies. Sharon is snuggled up next to you. You’ve just come out of Minne­ apolis, on your way to Red Wing, Minnesota.

You admire the Pierce-Arrow ahead of you and the Packard behind. Then you glance past Sharon to the roadside as she reads. SHAVE THE MODERN WAY / FINE FOR THE SKIN / DRUGISTS HAVE IT / BURMA-SHAVE. Burma-Shave? Yes, you have just read the very first of the Burma-Shave signs, an ad idea that kept American motorists smiling until the demise of the signs in 1963.

It began when a Minneapolis lawyer made a potent concoction, which he called liniment.

His sister once burned her hand, and in despera­ tion she stuck it into the liniment. Not only did the pain stop immediately, but the hand also healed with no blisters or scars. The lawyer’s son, seeing a good thing on his hands, started the Burma-Vita Co. to feature this liniment, now dubbed “Burma-Vita.” Since business was slow, the product was altered to something that had a more universal appeal.

Following the pattern of Lloyd’s Euxesis, the original brushless shaving cream from England, the company started producing Burma-Shave.

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Burma-Shave entered into an era in which advertising was composed around the “reason why” concept. With the beginning of the Depression, products were sold on their worthi­ ness. But with humor like: HE PLAYED / A SAX / HAD NO B.O. / BUT HIS WHISKERS SCRATCHED / SO SHE LET HIM GO, Americans were attracted to the product. The signs were startling at first sight, some were absurd and unexpected, but all were captivating: DOES YOUR HUSBAND / MISBEHAVE / GRUNT AND GRUMBLE / RANT AND RAVE? / SHOOT THE BRUTE SOME / BURMA-SHAVE. THE ANSWER TO / A MAIDEN’S / PRAYER / IS NOT A CHIN / OF STUBBY HAIR (nota bene).

Another force behind the success of these signs was the way in which they were placed.

With six signs placed one hundred paces apart, it took about three seconds to go from one sign to another, traveling at thirty-five miles an hour, or eighteen seconds to go through the whole set. Every sign in the set had to be read to get the humor PITY ALL / THE MIGHTY CAESARS / THEY PULLED / EACH WHIS­ KER OUT / WITH TWEEZERS. One missed sign left the series meaning nothing and the driver wondering what the jingle was supposed to be. When approaching a set of signs, the car would slow down and often the whole car­ load of people would chant: BENEATH THIS STONE / LIES ELMER GUSH / TICKLED TO DEATH / BY HIS / SHAVING BRUSH. Family quarrels erupted over reading privileges.

Some passengers were assigned the duty of reading the signs that faced the opposite direction: OF THEM FOR SEED / TO LEAVE ONLY HALF / YOU DON’T NEED / WHISKERS / WHEN CUTTING. The humor caught the eyes of the literate populace and eventually the wallet of the shaver.

Another theme that Burma-Shave dwelt on was the war against the competition. Often a customer would come into a drugstore not remembering exactly whar the brand name of the product was that he wanted, and an “enemy” clerk would deal him a jar of the competition. In the print media, products exhorting, “Accept no substitutes,” would get virtually no respect from readers, but Burma-Shave’s humor told the reader: GIVE 176

THE GUY / THE TOE OF YOUR BOOT / WHO TRIES / TO HAND YOU / A SUBSTI­ TUTE. Burma-Shave also went for the youth market, mainly the eligible bachelor. Engraved on the minds of many Americans is the alltime classic from 1934: HE HAD THE RING / HE HAD THE FLAT / BUT SHE FELT HIS CHIN / AND THAT / WAS THAT. The Odells composed the first jingles that appeared on the American roadside. At the end of the twenties, however, the Odells were drawing from a dry well, so they turned to an annual contest, paying SI00 for each verse accepted. Entries poured in by the thousands, and Burma-Vita hired experts to sift through the entries until they whittled the entries to a smaller number. Each member of the board of directors would then select 20 or 25 of his favorites and argue for what he thought were the best. Quite often it took several weeks to agree on the next year’s crop of jingles. Most arguments dealt with the taste of the jingle and keeping boy-girl jingles clean.

Burma-Shave held two memorable contests on their signs. They were bogus contests, but a few wise guys always seemed to show up. The first contest read: FREE OFFER! / FREE OFFER!! / RIP A FENDER / OFF YOUR CAR / MAIL IT IN FOR / A HALF-POUND JAR. Burma-Shave soon became the owner of all sorts of fenders, some even from match­ box cars, others from junkyard derelicts. The next contest seemed safer: FREE-FREE /

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A TRIP / TO MARS / FOR 900 / EMPTY JARS. In Appleton, Wisconsin, a Red Owl store manager named Arliss “Frcnchy” French took Burma-Shavc up on the offer. In the end, Bunna-Shave and Red Owl (also getting publicity from this stunt) sent Frenchy and his wife to Moers, Germany. Frenchy was given full jars of Burma-Shave to barter in Deutsch­ land. When the Frenches arrived there, Moers held a Dreitag Fest. Even though BurmaShave lost a little by giving away the free jars and paying for the trip, the publicity it received was worth it. But Burma-Shave never held another roadside contest.

Burma-Shave became an advocate of high­ way safety. This could be attributed to the fact that they wanted all the business they could get: DONT TAKE / A CURVE / AT 60 PER / WE HATE TO LOSE / A CUSTOMER. PAST / SCHOOLHOUSES / TAKE IT SLOW / LET THE LITTLE / SHAVERS GROW placed awareness on Burma-Shave’s future. Neverthe­ less the signs did work, as drivers would slow down to catch all of them. A study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania reported that no other device slowed down cars better than the jingles. SLOW DOWN, PA / SAKES ALIVE / MA MISSED SIGNS / FOUR / AND FIVE. Burma-Shave also reached other areas of public service. As famous as Smokey the Bear was. MANY A FOREST/USED TO STAND/ WHERE A / LIGHTED MATCH / GOT OUT OF HAND. The Navy also benefited from BurmaShave's thoughtfulness. One sailor wrote home that after passing through the Bering Strait, he saw a set of signs on an ice floe, the first five in Russian, the last proclaiming BurmaShave. Another sailor, who knew a little Russian, said it was a witticism on polar bears.

The signs, placed as a practical joke, helped ease homesickness.

The Navy later requested three sets for their South Pole base to help keep up the morale of the men. One set was the admoni­ tion on forest fires. The next told of the bcwhiskered appearance of those on the conti­ nent: DEAR LOVERBOY / YOUR PHOTO CAME / BUT YOUR DOGGONE BEARD / WONT FIT / THE FRAME. The third faced the fact that the female gender was not allowed in Antarctica: USE OUR CREAM / AND WE BETCHA / GIRLS WONT WAIT / THEY’LL

COME / AND GETCHA. When placing signs for advertising, one just doesn’t put them any old place. First, BurmaShave hired a secretary to keep track of all the maps, route lists, and files. She could tell in a minute which jingle was where. If ever a ques­ tion arose, the instinctive reaction would be, “Ask Fidelia.’’ The secretary was Fidelia Dearlove, and for thirty-three years she organized the crews and routes on their yearly migration to replace and set up signs. In setting up the signs, an advance man would first go out, pick suitable sites, and secure permission from the farmer. Then a crew of PhDs (Post-hole Diggers) would come along and put the signs in place.

In the decade following the placing of the original signs, the verses sprouted up in Minne­ sota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. They cost $25,000 in 1926. Sales, however, had grown from virtually zero to about $68,000. Stretching from sea to sea in 1930, the Burma-Vita Company grossed more than $3,000,000, protecting Burma-Shave from the Depression.

Four states did not sec the invasion of the red and white signs: Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico (insufficient traffic) and Massachusetts (loo many winding roads and not enough suitable sites). Only in South Dakota, which had a law reserving red for danger signs, did there appear any white-on-blue signs.

All things must come to an end, and so did the “verse by the side of the road." Sales started to decrease as the cost of the signs in­ creased. The woes may be read by the jingle: ALTHO / WE'VE SOLD / SIX MILLION OTHERS / WE STILL CANT SELL / THOSE COUGHDROP BROTHERS. All signals at Burma-Shavc indicated that the magic was vanishing from the poetic signs.

Some thought the signs lost their effective­ ness because the highways and autos became too fast for the traveler to be able to read them.

Others thought that the fun had gone out of the signs. Whatever the reason, Burma-Shavc could not continue its costly and increasingly ineffective signs.

On February 7, 1963, the Burma-Vita Co. announced the sale of the company to Philip Morris, Inc., to be an operating division under American Safety Razor Products. They were the last of the original “big four brushless soapers" to sell out. The new owners sent the trucks, still bearing the signs “Cheer Up, 177

Face,” on their routes one last time to retrieve the signs. Many fanners were saddened. They said it was like losing an old friend.

The Smithsonian Institute was presented a set of signs proclaiming, ironically: SHAVING BRUSHES / YOU’LL SOON SEE ’EM / ON THE SHELF / IN SOME / MUSEUM. But may this forever reside at Northwestern: COLLEGE

BOYS! / YOUR COURAGE MUSTER / SHAVE OFF / THAT FUZZY / COOKIE B&R DUSTER / BURMA-SHA VE. JOHN HOH (principal source: The Verse by The Side of The Road by Frank Rowsome, Jr.)

Electives: A Harder Choice Than Voting for President? ^ophomores are always such forlorn, be^vvildered creatures. This year I had dozens of these lost souls (well, at least six) asking for my fatherly advice when the time came for them to make their elections for next semester.

I was flattered, of course, that they would approach me for counsel, and at the same time grew troubled over the nature of their plea.

“Perhaps more should be published about the electives,” I mused, “so that every student can choose the electives best suited to his inter­ ests and abilities.” Aha! The brainchild of a new project had been spawned. Quickly I sat down at my typewriter—actually Robb Raasch’s, since I am too pauperized to own one-and rapped out a questionnaire which would give juniors and seniors an opportunity to expose the electives for what they are, to air their likes and dislikes, to challenge the system, to go boldly where no man has gone before! ...

Here, then, are the results of that semicontroversial survey. Fifty-six question sheets were returned from the junior and senior classes in Wittenberg; RA’s are in exile and 178

townies never can be located, so they missed out. The results are difficult to analyze, since little information is available if a particular elective was not taken by anyone participating in the survey. By the same token, this tally speaks only for the last two years, so what is shown here is not a general time-tested trend.

Rather, the point of this article, if any, is to give the wondering student a better idea of what to expect from various electives, as seen through the eyes of this year’s two upper classes.

First of all, the sheer popularity contest: which electives are picked by the greatest num­ ber of students? The reigning monarch in this category, and has been for decades, is Prof.

ScharFs Reformation course, History 52. Other hot numbers include History 55 seminar (Scharf again), American History, the 50/51 combo, World Drama, Hellenistic Greek 60, Philosophy 50, Hebrew 50, History 53, and Plato. On the other spectrum, a select few brave warriors have undertaken to study the poetry of Homer and Hesiod (Greek 56), Ecclesiastical Latin, or Music Seminar 52. Out of those surveyed,

with the easy-going nature of some electives, and that is grading. Some feel there are not enough concrete assignments, and grading be­ comes overly subjective.

One of the questions frequently raised by students seeking advice on electives is, “How hard do you have to work?” Everybody wants a free ride. Well, if it’s a bit lighter workload you seek, Philosophy, Logic, Biology, Reforma­ tion History, Art and Modern Drama are recommended, as well as just about any German elective. Of these, Biology and Reformation History seem to turn students on the most, but that can only.be an indication of what you look for in a course. If you don’t plan to work, you probably won’t learn.

Electives are not designed to be filler courses to waste our time, but classes you take because you want to and will enjoy working at. If you are willing to work, Prof. Sellnow’s American History, Scharf seminars, and Hebrew 50 were rated high on the effort scale, but the benefits reaped are in direct proportion, most students labelled these electives as extremely valuable.

Some electives are considered so valuable, in fact, that many of those polled suggested they be made required courses. American History 50/51, for one, because of our national heritage; Reformation History 52 (even though nearly all students elect it), because of our Lutheran heritage; and Hellenistic Greek 60 because of the knowledge gained concerning koine Greek. This would mean switching Hellenistic texts into Greek 30, and making poor Homer an elective. Impossible? Hardly.

American Literature has been elevated to a required course and Milton demoted to elec­ tive status. There are other courses the students feel would serve better as electives as well.

Topping that list-heaven forbid!-is Shake­ speare. The old dramatist would turn over in his grave to hear that popular opinion has turned against him. Fifth-year Latin has always been a thorn in the flesh, and sophomore German gets no vote of confidence cither.

Suggestions were also made in the survey for additional electives some would like to see on campus. I will only list the most sensible here-bizarre concepts like “History of Motion Pictures” don’t quite deserve mention. The biggest push came for adding more science electives, recommendations ranging from ad­ vanced math disciplines to computers to

several courses also got blanked, particularly in the Greek department, but this could be only because they have not been offered of late.

My feeling in this study was, however, that some of the less popular electives may not be getting all the attention they should be. So I asked each person to rate the electives in his repertoire. The results were a bit alarming.

Despite the sheer numbers popularity of World Drama and Philosophy, a major portion of those enrolled (56% from Drama, 37% of Phil­ osophy) found these to be their least favorite courses. Sociology fared poorly as well, but the fractional number of individuals who have taken that course make the figure questionable.

On the other hand, other highly-populated electives fared well; 47% of the students in Hebrew 50 rated it as their best elective; History 50/51 got 44% of its vote; Hellenistic Greek 60-29%; and the two history seminars with Prof. Scharf, in addition to being wellattended, seem to be well-liked and many say that they learn more in a seminar-format course. But now a couple of surprises: English 22, Prof. Quam’s intermediate class for those who had trouble with Freshman composition, was a big favorite with those who enrolled in it. And though no tremendously long queues form for admittance into Biology 50, 40% of those who did take the plunge said it was the best move they ever made. The fact that small numbers have chosen an elective docs not rule out the course’s value. The point is that all electives have plenty of good to offer; it all comes down to personal preference.

What about the professors themselves?

Does the image they project in their required classrooms remain constant in the electives?

Usually not, the consensus states. Most seem to mellow out-“laid-back” was the term most often used to describe the elective atmosphere.

“Your opinion [of the professor] is bound to change,” one student wrote, “because in the more casual format of an elective, you get to know the prof, better as a person.” One English prof, is hailed as being “much less of a taskmaster” in electives as opposed to freshman and sophomore required courses. Concerning another professor, the comment was made: “He’s scared lots of freshmen,... [but he] is a prof, who gets along very well with his elective students.” There is one problem which arises 179

political science. But we must ask ourselves if this is in keeping with our purpose here in training future pastors. Some of the better ideas which would also be useful to us in our ministry are these: some sort of business/ money management course; at present the only classroom offering any type of financial know­ how is Prof. Kruse’s freshman math which includes a unit dealing with budgets and tax forms. Spanish is another frequently requested elective; the obvious usefulness of such a wide­ spread language speaks for itself. Many students would also like to sec some electives in the field of psychology, particularly the psychology of education-how do we teach?

One other oft-asked-for elective is sex education, but actually we already have such a course-the Inst portion of Biology 50 is devoted to sex education. Perhaps the most interesting suggestion for elective is Chaucer (Eng-

lish 51). Says one student, “I wish they would just once OFFER the Chaucer course which the catalog says they do!” Frankly, does any­ one remember Chaucer Finding a spot on the roster . . . ever? In the end, though, we must realize that the faculty has a lot more experi­ ence than the students, so they will be better judges of curriculum than we.

I hope this report has helped some of you who feel lost filling out an election sheet. I also hope I haven’t disappointed those of you who looked for a more sensational, fiery and controversial article. I do want to graduate, you know. If you still have one elective to fill and aren’t sure where to turn, let me quote one upper classman’s advice: “Everybody should take Sociology just to try and (sic) figure out B&R (Prof.) Sullivan’s mind.”

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Professor Korthols to Join the Big League baptized and confirmed in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Chaseburg, Wisconsin. His parents, John and Alice Korthals, arc the proud parents of six children and are still farming in Chase­ burg.

It was in sixth grade, when most boys are still dreaming of professional careers in base­ ball, that our new professor had his first thoughts about becoming a minister. This desire soon led him to Luther High School, Onalaska, Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1968. He then enrolled at Northwestern College and graduated with the class of 1972.

Of his four-year sojourn at Northwestern, Professor Korthals has many fond memories.

Besides remembering his four-year member­ ship in Arnie's Army and his two-year stint with the Black & Red, Professor Korthals remembers battling Professor Sellnow and the rest of the professors' teams in intramural bowling. He also remembers his many electives in history, Greek, and Latin. The two elec­ tive courses which he took in Latin, Professor Korthals jokes, qualified him for psychoanaly­ sis. But most of all (take note all you “un­ hitched” NWC gents), Professor Korthals remembers a blind date he had for the 1969 New Ulm homecoming. His date that weekend

Vl/hen the famous Yankee slugger Lou Gehrig took himself out of the lineup on May 2, 1939, he ended a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played. For the first time since June 1, 1925, the powerful Yankee ball club took the field without Lou Gehrig. A man by the name of Babe Dahlgren took Lou’s place on that fateful day. A very similar transition took place here at Northwestern this past January 31st. That day marked the installation of James F. Korthals as a member of the North­ western College faculty. The man who is removing himself from the lineup, a man Professor Korthals describes as “a legend in his own right,” is Professor Erwin Scharf. But Professor Korthals’ introduction into the “big leagues,” so to speak, must wait until next fall, when he will be filling the vacancy occurring in the history department by Pro­ fessor Scharfs retirement.

Since Professor Korthals was one of the youngest, if not the youngest man on the list of those nominated for Professor Scharfs position, he was very much surprised when he received the phone call from President Toppe informing him of the call. In fact, Professor Korthals was born just 32 years ago in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 2, 1950. He was 181

was Jean Kobleska, of rural Tomah. They were married on June 29, 1974, and have three children: John 416, Peter 3, and Rachel Wi. Our new history professor enrolled at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in the fall of 1972. His vicar year brought him to North­ western Lutheran Academy in Mobridge, South Dakota, where he taught English and Latin. His first call after graduation from the Seminary in 1976 was as assistant pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Stevensville, Michigan, a church of approximately 1400 souls. And then in January of 1980, Professor Korthals accepted the call to become pastor of Mt. Sinai Lutheran Church in Montrose, Michigan. It was from there that the Lord directed Professor Korthals to come to North­ western.

Although he is spending the remainder of this academic year in the “minor leagues” brushing-up on his fundamentals-Profcssor Korthals is currently taking graduate courses at U.W. Oshkosh. He is anxiously awaiting his “big league” debut next fall. Professor Kor­ thals admits that his first few years at North­ western will be a learning experience, noting that teaching history takes more than a head

knowledge of facts and figures. Rather, Profes­ sor Korthals states that a good history profes­ sor must develop a feel for history over a period of time. One of his goals as a professor, besides making it through the first year, is to give the young men at Northwestern a feel for what they’re going to be involved in when they become ministers. “It is important to remem­ ber that the foundation you receive at North­ western,” Professor Korthals advises, “will be serving you for the rest of your ministry. It is important that you get a good foundation now, because it is going to serve you in good stead a long time.”

Professor Korthals admits that Professor Scharf is leaving a very large set of shoes to be filled. In fact, our new professor says that he didn’t come here with that idea in mind, but rather of growing in his own shoes. “Professor Scharf was my professor for a good many courses while I was here at Northwestern,” greatly states Professor Korthals, “and appreciate all that I learned from him. And I think I learned a lot more from him than just B&R facts and figures.”

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D&D. As sales increased, new and more complex rules The roll of the dice determines a great deal in were added. A complete set of Advanced D&D rules D&D. The dice decide all the basic strengths and weak­ now includes a 120-page Player's Manual, a 250-page nesses of a player’s character, such as intelligence, Dungeon Master's Guide, and three bestiaries. Other strength, and dexterity. If a player is lucky, the dice playing aids include modules, maps, charts, “hex” may allow his weak character to destroy a strong pads, and dice of every imaginable geometric shape. monster. But if he is unlucky, the dice can also let a That is all quite surprising, considering D&D’s weak monster kill a strong character. When any ele­ meager beginnings. Its creator-with-reservations is a ment of luck or fate is involved, a die is rolled and its former shoe repairman from Lake Geneva, Gary numbers can mean victory or defeat.

Gygax. In the late 60’s and early 70’s, he and another Fate does hot depend solely on the dice, how­ wargamer from the Twin Cities, Dave Ameson, made ever. For one, the player chooses what profession or jeertain emendations to a system for medieval warfare class his character is to be. If the character is strong, formulated by Gygax, which resulted in D&D. Amehis best bet is probably to become a fighter. But if he son’s adyance was the concept of “role-playing,” in fa weak in the strength department and pretty intelli­ j: *hich 1 Pkyer directs the actions of an individual gent, he would probably make a better magic-user than character, much as a-puppeteer would manipulate a fighter. Other classes include thieves, clerics, druids, marionette. Nearly every other development of D&D, and so on. The player also decides the alignment of his however, such as its system of combat and the idea character. The choices are basically “good,” “evil,” that a character oan increase in skill .through experand “neutral.” The game lends itself best to “good” jence and knowedge gafaed.during adventures, wa8 characters. In other words, ff-jmu have a character that Gygw. Ameson did receive co-billing as author for is a bit weak but quite smart, he would probably do the fir* few printing*. He was later phase* out enbetter as a good magic-user than an ev2 fighteir-DM<

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Gygax himself admits that the rules are guidelines and suggestions, not absolutes. Therefore, the players and DM can make a game as difficult or simple as they wish.

Dungeons and Dragons was, and is, a complete surprise to the gaming community. Nothing since

Tolkien and the Vietnam War has so engrossed the nation’s college campuses. The simplicity of the concept behind D&D and the complexity of the rules needed to carry it out make it unique among games.

Yet, its versatility allows it to be played by child and Pli.D. alike. Arguments about its uscfullness and use­ lessness rage all the way from Europe to our own campus. But beneath it all, if we could strip away all the fanfare, all the controversy and all the fanati­ cism, what is D&D? A box of dice and a little imagina­ tion.

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Defended... goes on. Each spell is clearly written, every result is Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role-playing predetermined and varied by the roll of the dice. game, written by Gary Gygas, played with paper, pen­ There are no candles lit, no magic circles drawn, no cil, sometimes miniature lead figures, and a lot of arcane motions made or strange languages spoken; imagination. It lias several rule books, comprised nothing is hidden, nothing is occult. The magic is mostly of charts, graphs, tables, and descriptions. purely make-believe.

Given these facts, can one conclude that Dungeons and Dragons is an extremely violent, highly egotisti­ This leads to the second reason for condemning cal, Satanic dabbling in the occult which has no place the game: the fact that it is fantasy and escapist. Since in the life of a Christian, especially one here at North­ it is a form of entertainment, it must be escapist, for western? No. Picture this scene: six college students all forms of entertainment are escapist. Why is are seated around a tabic in the lounge. Each has a M*A *S*H entertaining and the news not? People flock to theaters to see Star Wars or go to see A Midsummer paper, a couple of pencils, and one has a book which is passed from person to person. One player has open in Night’s Dream to get away for a couple of hours from the boredom or pressures of reality. People go on front of him many books, magazines, and booklets vacations to “get away from it all.” Hundreds of screened from the others’ view. He rolls a die, and says, thousands of people go every week to see football or “Hit, for 6.” A single player slumps down in his chair, basketball or baseball or hockey games. People don’t disgusted. Sounds pretty terrible, doesn’t it? go to sports, to movies, to plays, on vacation, or to In general, there are four arguments set down bed to read a book when they want to see real life in condemning D&D and those who play it, namely: 1) action. They go to escape. the players cast spells, thus dabbling in the occult; But should we entertain ourselves with some so2) the game is fantasy and escapist, leading people called game in which people get killed, and players are from reality, 3) the game is violent, egotistical, and only interested in how much treasure they can amass? amoral; and 4) the game is an expensive waste of time.

First, no one gets killed playing D&D. It is a coopera­ The first argument is perhaps the most common tive game in which players must interact with each reason for condemning the game and its players. To other and with other non-hostile people in the campaign refute it, I need only to go to the words of Gary setting in order to be successful. No one wins, but Gygax, author of the game, and to the rules governing everyone wins, and, since all are victors, all players go spell casting in the game. Mr. Gygax writes, “Magic, at least AD&D magic, is most certainly make-believe.... away from the game happy. How many games can you think of where all the players win? “Play Risk Mildly put, I do not have any faith in the powers of or Monopoly, but don’t play D&D” has often been magic, nor have I ever seen anyone who could perform anything approaching a mere first-level AD&D spell heard by the D&D player. But what do you do in Risk or Monopoly? How do you win? You win by without props. As it now stands, the AD&D magic system is a combination of reputed magic drawn from getting the other players out of the game-yon win!

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on a stretcher as a direct result of playing D&D by the rules. But in football or wrestling or many other sports, this type of violence is all part of the game.

Finally, the time for teaching morals is during childhood, and morals should be taught by parents in the home, not by a game.

I’ve saved the best argument for last, mostly be­ cause it is the hardest to refute. In fact, it is impos­ sible to refute. The game is indeed expenave and a waste of time. An initial outlay of funds for books and materials could run over S50.00.1 estimate that I have over $120.00 invested in D&D stuff. I have indeed spent many hours writing for and playing the game.

Yet 1 feel it was well worth it. I suppose that I could have bought a cheap stereo or a black-and-white TV with the money, but which is a greater waste of money? I could sit on a bar stool for three hours on a Friday night, but instead I choose to stay in my room with some of my good friends and exercise my mind with a game that takes intelligence and common sense to play well. How stupid of me!

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Dungeons and Dragons must be taken lightly as a game, a form of entertainment, not some evil institu­ tion that it was not designed to be. It does have a potential for misuse, as does nearly everything we do for fun. One shouldn't condemn the medium for the results of its use. Should we condemn alcoholic bev­ erages because someone might get drunk? Should we ban the use of cars because someone might get hurt?

Should we get rid of football because someone gets injured? Do we get rid of TV completely because it shows war and drugs and crime? NO; if we’re afraid of getting drunk we don’t drink. If we’re afraid of getting in an accident we don’t drive. If we don’t want to get hurt playing football, we don’t play. If we don’t like what’s on TV, we turn it off. We don’t get rid of alcohol, cars, football, or TV. The same should apply to D&D-if you don’t like it, don’t play it. But don’t condemn someone else for doing it.

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My credentials for providing a critique on Dunpredisposes young minds to accept the occult.” gcons and Dragons are not overly impressive. I have Players at Northwe tern have already experienced read three instruction manuals; I have read numerous a blurred distinction bciwecn fantasy and reality after pro and con articles on D&D; and I have watched the having played D&D and have been advised by fellow game being played, but I have not played it, and, I players that they may not play. Whether those who might add, I don’t want to play it. play D$tD also become immoral and are more susMy reasons for limiting the playing of D&D at ceptiblc to the occult remains to be seen. But ChrisNorthwestern College are two-fold. In my mind it is a tians might profitably question whether they ought to tool of the occult, but I can't prove that beyond a be playing a game where this seems to be a possibilishadow of a doubt. D&D is a role-playing game in the ty or whether they ought to leave it alone, at least for world of fantasy and magic. The beginning handbooks the present, until more data can be gathered, for D&D tell how to play at killing monsters and A second reason for limiting the playing of Dunsearching for buried treasure. The game is played in the gcons and Dragons is the time involved. I am told mind, with each player assuming a role and, by the that an ordinary game lasts about four hours, and that roB of the dice and the whim of the dungeonmaster, some games may last eight to ten hours. It is also my facing one danger and obstacle after another until understanding that the dungeonmaster will spend twice they win treasure or get killenj,off. . as much time setting up a campaign, unless In the advanced stages, and it should be noted that ■ programmed campaigns are purchased. But because most players at NWC pk)T Advanced Dungeons and D&D appeals to the use of the imagination, the Dragons, the players assume the roles of monsters, dungeonmaster wiU want to use his imagination, demons, and demigods. The characteristics and powers generally speaking, to set up his own campaign, of each character are also assumed. As I understand I know fora fact that at least one young man, who it, the player must learn all this, not as you’d learn has since returned, left NWC because he spent too history, but identify with it in order to kill off another much time playing D&D. How many others wasted character. study time with this fascination with the world of My sentiments in this area are perhaps best exfantasy and magic is unknown to me. But I believe it pressed by The Christian Research Institute in El Toro, to be unreasonable to assume that this was an isolated California, “Dungeons and Dragons is dangerous becase, cause it blurs distinctions between fantasy and reality, \ One might argue that any individual might waste forces players to act out characters without morals and . precious time playing other games or doing other

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Finally, given the immense popularity of the occult in our society today, the known subtlety of Satan himself, and the fact that the battle over the use of Dungeons and Dragons in public schools will most likely end up in the courts because of parental concern for the welfare of their children, might Christians not only question but keep hands off and minds unclouded from D&D as they daily do battle with the old evil foe? I know the saying is old and trite, but “Better

safe than sorry!” I also know it is not the American way, but in this case I believe it is up to the proponents and sympathizers with D&D to prove that D&D has absolutely no connection with the occult rather than for the opponents of D&D to prove that there is a definite connection. There is circumstantial evidence.

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Whatever the nomenclature, the organized, mainline churches often find themselves under attack, especially by those outside of the church, or by those who were inside and chose to leave. Since the denominational spectrum includes the Lutheran bodies, we too are in the line of fire.

“The church is too formal, too stuffy, too systematized, too superficial, too cold and impersonal, too ‘dead.’” they say. A study conducted among Catholics found that “most of those who drop out of the church do so because they consider the teachings dull and lacking relevance to life.” These dropouts complain that the sermons are boring and that too little attention is paid to Bible study.

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Campus Ministry in Milwaukee, has been criti­ cal of American institutions for decades.

The church has not escaped his assault. In a Milwaukee Journal interview, Horton remarked that most of the ministers he used to know “were either hypocrites or were stifled by the sluggish mechanisms of the religious institu­ tion.” Horton said, “The institutions were doctrinaire, the whole kit and caboodle were limited, propagandizing to fit people into their molds.”

Others have more positively expressed their disillusionment with the existing churches by forming their own Christian communities.

These groups, which have arisen primarily from the counter-culture of the 60’s, have some interesting things to say. For example, Jack Sims of Cornerstone magazine, the official publication of Jesus People USA of Chicago, speculates that a new church will

rise in the 80’s. He comments, “The main reason for the traditional churches' lack of appeal is that they have been insensitive to the cultural uniqueness and cultural challenges which arc facing the large segment of today’s society under 35,” Sims adds, “Most of our generation never ‘joined up' with society and its traditional institutions in general. . .or with the church in particular.” According to Sims, the emphasis of this new church will be on contemporary music, praise and worship, evangelism, and on verse by verse Bible teach­ ing. It will be looking for functional, not fascinating facilities. In addition, “The seven last words of a dying church, ‘We've never done it that way before!’ will not be charac­ teristic of the church of the 80’s,” says Sims.

The judgments directed at the church must be weighed carefully. Are they merely a defen­ sive smokescreen formed by those who really want nothing to do with genuine Christianity and its values? Or are they genuine heart­ felt suggestions?

If these critics want the church to “liber­ ate itself' so that it condones and conforms with the worldly values and lifestyles we see around us today, they are dead wrong. If they want the church to place social concerns and political action before the spiritual concerns of preaching the Gospel of Christ, they misunder­ stand the entire reason for the church’s exis­ 608-222-5561 tence. If they wish to disregard pure doctrine for mere outward unity, they are in error. If they wish to revitalize the church by appealing PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY only to the younger segment of its members of Madison and consequently bulldoze over those who are P 0. Box 8006 • Madmon, Wisconsin 5370*» older in a fit of liturgical and organizational house cleaning, they arc mistaken. If they wish to overturn all order and organization, they are also incorrect in their notions. They will soon find that they themselves will need struc­ ture to operate efficiently. Finally, they can Duraclean of Watertown be misled if they in their condemnations overgencralize and fail to sec the great variation “FLOWER FRESH CLEANING” between individual church bodies and congre­ of Fine Furniture and Carpets gations.

Commercial, Industrial and Institutional Not all of the proddings of men like Hor­ Building Maintenance ton and Sims are misdirected, however. Yes, WAYNE STAUDE, OWNER criticisms against “the more traditional church R. R. 4, 140 Riverview Lane environment” often tend to leave a bitter Dial 261-3350 taste in our mouths. After all, we are con­ sidered part of this “traditional church;” we are on the chopping block. But I think we must 187

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Do we come off as “stuffy, cold, and imper­ sonal” to those who observe us in action? Do we make doubly sure that our preaching docs not become dull and lacking in relevance to daily life? Are there any “sluggish mechanisms” in our machinery that could use a drop of oil?

Could we be more sensitive to the needs of the younger members of our congregations? Are we doing enough to transcend our old German cultural leanings to relate to the other

cultures on the American scene? Could it hurt to emphasize more praise and worship, evan­ gelism, and verse by verse Bible study?

We don’t need to buy all the suggestions of the critics and skeptics, nor should we. But we would do well to ponder the questions and deliberations they raise and make changes where the answers prove to be to our disad­ vantage. Then the words, “We’ve never done it that way before,” will never be characteristic of our church either.

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All of the other profs are getting in the act as well, scrapping for popularity. Prof. Kirst will be offering a specialized astronomy elec­ tive, teaching star-gazing pupils to identify various constellations, including Cancer the Crab, Aries the Ram, Aquarius the Water Car­ rier, and Jordachc the Jeans Designer. Other scheduled electives include Music 53: Advanced Recorder (Birsching); History 56: Afro-Ameri­ can Culture in South Dakota (Ten Brock); and Philosophy 51: Personal Hygiene as a Means to Metaphysical Enlightenment (with Steve Nowicki to be called back as special instruc­ tor).

Perhaps the most practical of all the new innovations in the proposed curriculum will be

Home Economics 50, taught by our own wizard of the grill, Chef Hankc. If you fear that you will leave Seminary still wifeless and not knowing how to bake your own muffins, this is just the course for you. Chef Hankc will not only try to tempt students to sign up for his class with his tasty recipes, but will offer a bingo-type game. Build A Big Macaroni Milanaise, with cash prizes and instant winners, hoping to attract still more subscribers to his course. C & C was fortunate enough to sneak a copy of Chefs nifty game card, and we have reproduced it here. Look for other professors to come up with rival numbers games for their electives as well; a Prof. Frickc Quality in the Briefcase contest or Prof. Sullivan with Sully's Hot and Juicy Stollcn Sweepstakes.

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It took until his intramural buckets team was in the playoffs, but Eric “Let’s Get Physi­ cal” Dorow finally scored some points. Eric respectfully requested some acknowledgment for this stellar athletic achievement (which any true sports fan must regret not witnessing), and also explained that the elusive initial points would have come sooner except for the fact that, as Eric says, “I couldn’t get my rhythm down.”

Besides meriting accolades for his first intramural points, Eric is also extremely worthy of some commendation for his ex­ cellent work as Wittenberg’s “Houscphone Guardian.” Whenever mischief, mockery, maliciousness, mayhem, or monkcyshincs arc broadcast over the housephones, you can count on Eric to promptly tear himself from his TV, even if a good John Wayne movie is on, and reprimand the abusers of the dorm’s inter-floor communications system. Whether it be with a comradely “knock it off, guys;” a hip “mellow out, will you?;” a paternal “that’s not what the housephones arc for;” or a more direct “shut up;” Eric always manages to get the message across. Perhaps the most memor­ able of all of this white T-shirt clad public servant’s intercom quotes is the line, “We’re sick of ugly girls coming in here and paging our guys.” What that comment lacked in tact it made up for in brutal simplicity. And just think-Eric does all this work free of charge1.

The residents of Wartburg Hall would do well to send over one of their men to train for several weeks under Eric’s careful guidance, so that their dorm would also be able to relax in the protected atmosphere of well-policed houscphone conversations.

While we’re on the subject of housephones, we’d like to take this chance to thank those people who take it upon themselves to pick up a telephone that has been off the hook too long and broadcast the high-pitched sonic beeping over the housephones. Certainly every­ one will agree that such an obnoxious, repeti­ tive sound is a welcome change of pace in any­ one’s daily work routine, and that no one can ever hear too much of it. The noise is especially welcome during afternoon naps, when the skull-slicing sound guarantees you’ll wake up with a smile on your face saying, “Those crazy guys! We’re lucky we’ve got guys like them around to keep this joint hopping!”

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silly, this is not the “Howdy Doody Show” nor are you the Peanut Gallery, try as you might.

It’s term paper time, my darlings, that lovely season when those research projects that you’ve known about for so long but refused to embark on until the last possible instant fall due, putting more pressure on your body and brain than being in a diving bell at minus-800 feet with a Pop Warner football helmet on.

Have no fear, C & C is here, with some helpful hints and term paper short-cuts to bridge you through these troubled waters.

The first helpful hint is a recommendation to purchase a Bud's Easy Term Paper Typing Kit from our library for $1.65. The price for this bit of plastic may initially seem a little exorbitant, but we assure you that after using Bud’s Kit just once, you will be elated with the results and feel confident that you just latched onto the best bargain since Seward bought Alaska. Besides, it makes Dean Lindemann happy to see his students purchasing the typing kit he personally authored. (If you wish to have your Bud’s Kit autographed, the Dean’s office hours are posted in both dorms’ lobbies.)

This literary masterpiece is gaining momentum in national sales and is proving once and for all, as Dean himself puts it, “Dat I am both a gentleman and a scholar, baby.”

Once you have your Bud’s Easy Term Paper Typing Kit safely in hand, you have adequate groundwork laid for applying any of three shortcuts which we have devised to help you through your personal “Paper Chase” without being caught short. We like to call the first shortcut the “Footnote Quickie.” The Footnote Quickie method, in effect, leaves the writing to someone else, much in the spirit of Greyhound Bus’s “Leave the driving to us.”

With this method, all you need do is locate one or two highly regarded articles on your sub­ ject, whose word totals, of course, must coin­ cide roughly with the professor’s word total stipulation. Once you have these articles, all you must do is briefly introduce your subject, then write: “After careful reading and subse­ quent thoughtful analysis of the numerous and diverse treatises on this subject, I have decided (supply name or names of that your highly-regarded authors) said it best when he wrote concerning this subject...” Just copy the author’s words verbatim, footnote it, and you’re essentially finished with your paper.

Because the prof may consider it bad form to

end your paper with a footnote, knowledgable though that footnote may be, it might be a good idea to add a simple conclusion, such as, “Wouldn’t you agree, then, that _______ (author’s name) very accurately and effectively came to his conclusions in a way that we can all appreciate and admire? 1 sure think so."

Just slap on a catchy title, and your Footnote Quickie paper is completed.

Next we have the “Photo Flash," a short­ cut which is most useful at those times when you have frantically completed the writing of your term paper, only to find that you arc short a thousand words or so. When faced with this predicament, your initial impulse may be to run out and fire bomb the Library-Science Building and hope that the resultant chaos and mental anguish will make the professor forget that he had ever assigned a paper in the first place. Unfortunately, in elephantine manner, few profs would forget, and you would still be stuck with the paper (not to mention a whopping breakage fee). Even if a prof would forget, your euphoria would, of course be short-lived because some sickening sissy-pants goody-goody would prissily raise his hand, primly inform the professor of his over­ sight, and then proudly march to the front of the room to hand in his donc-two-wceks-inadvance, typcd-on-dollar-a-shcct-parchment, quadruplc-proofread-by-hiniself-his roommatehis-older-sistcr-and-his-mother, covcred-withtranslucent-rose-colored-plastic-protcctor term paper, thus making it necessary for the rest of the class to produce papers, also. Anyway, what your initial impulse should be is to run downstairs and grab all of the old magazines in sight. Next, take the pile of old mags up to your room and find a picture which is perti­ nent to your paper. Finally, glue the photo to a sheet of typing paper and caption it with these words: “A wise old man once said, ‘A good picture is worth a thousand words.’ Well, Prof. you’re fairly wise and really old, so I think you’ll readily agree with this wise old man and gladly acknowledge that this picture more than compensates for the thou­ sand-word deficit my paper contains." If your photo is in good taste and well-suited to your topic, this method virtually ensures an “A".

Lastly, we have the “Flattery Freebie”, a desperation shortcut which should really only be used as a last-ditch effort and never

attempted more than once on the same prof.

This method is utilized only when you are less than two hours from the deadline and all the research you’ve done consists of asking Tutor how to pronounce the topic you were assigned.

It involves neatly typing out something like (insert this: “My assigned topic is_____ your topic), which is pronounced insert phonetic representation of what the tutor told you). During the last three months I have been reading a great deal about------------(insert your topic) and have found it so interest­ ing that I plan to read even more about it in the future. (Shucks, I guess I could have figured it would be interesting, what with the topic coming from you and all. I always thought your classes were very interesting and, quite frankly, I consider your classroom pro­ cedure superior to that of the other profs.)

Getting back to my paper now, (I don't know what got a hold of me there. 1 guess praise for you comes pretty much spontaneously to anyone.), 1 was just about to write a long paper on my topic, when a thought occured to me: “Who am I, a lowly knowledge novice, trying to kid? Nothing I could write could possibly tell my professor anything he didn't already know. To try and tell that veritable fountain of knowledge something new would be an exer­ cise in futility. It would be like trying to tell Joe DiMaggio something new about hitting a baseball. [Note. It is important to appeal to the profs sense of nostalgia by naming an athlete or other personage more from “his era" than your own. This reference will then set him to reminiscing about “the good old days" and put him in a pleasant mood.J No, for me to write a paper about something which my professor is already an obvious expert in would be more of an insult than an insight for him. Owing to his exceptional intellect, his years of experience, and his already busy schedule, it would not be at all appropriate for me to hand in a paper at this time. The clear logic and simple truth of this thought really made an impression on me, and that is why you are holding a single sheet of double-spaced paper instead of the seven sheets you had requested. Please find room in your big heart to give me a good grade for this paper. I realize this is asking a lot, but if there is one person on campus that I look up to, trust and hope to be just like some day, it is you, Prof------------ 191

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ERIC DOROW 9pi CIAL III Northwestern humor is, most of all, the ability to make fun of anyone and everyone around here, even professors; then go out and mimic them in public, so that even they can still laugh at it. I think that's the main point involved here. There is a lot of little stuff that goes around, all the inside joking, that fits in. But usually it's the ability to go out and cut down the profs, and then have them there when you're doing it and laugh at it too.

KEITH SCHREINER-SPECIAL II Being able to cut down your classmates, and just having them retaliate and cut you back down too. Just the on-going process of one cut-down to another, day-in and day-out. Going to the sports events and having the sporting event be secondary. The cutting down is the main thing, like with Maranatha. Half the time you don't know the game is going on anyway, you’re just sitting there cutting people down.

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In a word, cynical. In another word, unique. I say cynical because the basis for practically every form of humor within the student body is derived from a cor­ responding form of sarcasm. This sarcasm can be aimed at almost anything, and it usually is, whether it be the classroom, dorm life, or the cafeteria. I say unique JmH because “Northwestern humor” is readily distinguishable throughout Synod circles. In my opinion. Northwestern humor is at its best when it is subtle and laid back. It should be like a canker sore, not really noticeable, but at times really felt.

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and I know I can count on you. (By the way, did you know that I need at least a “B” on this paper to stay in school? Staying in school means a lot to me, of course, but perhaps it means even more to my mother, who at this time is very sick. The doctors aren’t sure what’s wrong, but they have warned us that any small emotional trauma could do her in.) But do whatever you think is best. You’re the great­ est. Thanks for caring.”

Shameless as this method may be, it just might work. You'll never know until you try.

Okay, fellas, now you can go ahead and

read the rest of the Black and Red. Thanks again for coming to us first. We at C & C pride ourselves in being the most popular column in the school magazine, and frankly dagblast it!—we deserve it! It's good to know that humor is still // 1 on the Northwestern student's list. Comedy puts the dimples in babies’ checks, causes the lark to twitter in the tree, makes Milton Berle our Uncle, and puts the squeeze in the Charmin. So keep squeezing B8cR till next month!

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Sport/ BASKETBALL

Sophomores Ken Brokmcier and Chuck Wcstra led the attack with 16 and 26 points respec­ tively. Seniors Mark Wcssel and Mike Nitz hit for 14 and 13 respectively. With the four of them accounting lor all but 18 of the Trojans' 87 points, the scoring wasn’t nearly as bal­ anced as the day before. Although the teams were fairly evenly matched in shooting percen­ tages, the Engineers outmusclcd the Trojans on the boards, getting seven more rebounds on each side of the floor. Still, with just under ten minutes to go in the game, the Trojans were up by seven, 73-66. MSOE chipped away at the lead and, with three minutes remaining, they went ahead 86-85. NWC’s defense couldn't stop their momentum and the Engineers went on to win by an 11 point margin, 98-87.

Three days later it was Howdy Doody time

On the 26th day of January, the Trojans once again devastated Northland Baptist, this time in front of the home crowd. Everyone saw playing time, and the bench accounted for 33 of the team’s 67 points. The scoring for the Trojans was well-balanced, with only two play­ ers, Westra and Hirsch, getting into double fig­ ures with ten points each. Tom Plath added eight more and Jon Bitter came off the bench to match that. Ross Henzi had a good game on the boards, pulling down a team high of seven rebounds. The final score was NWC 67, NBBC 39.

The next day the Trojans travelled to Mil­ waukee to take on MSOE for a tough game against the Engineers in conference action.

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With 118 left, they were down 59-52 and the Trojans’ defense couldn’t seem to stop them in the last minute. The Crusaders put in six un­ answered points, but NWC was saved by the bell to win 59-58.

Three weeks later, the team made the trip over to Crusader country and another barn­ burner ensued. In the first game, five Trojans shot 60% or better, contributing to a team av­ erage of 60.5%. In this game, only one player hit as much as 50% of his shots and the team average was only 29%. By the half time, MBBC had a ten-point lead, 34-24. In the second half, the Trojans came alive and managed to over­ take the Crusaders with 6:21 remaining in the game. With 1:11 left, things were all tied up, 51-51. One free throw decided this one for ’Natha, and they managed to come up with a 53-52 victory.

On February 1st, the team headed to Fond du Lac to take on Marian College in a high scoring contest. Westra led the Trojans with 21 points and 9 rebounds followed by Plath with 19 points and six rebounds. The game was up for grabs until the final minutes when NWC managed to take an unrelinquished lead and came out ahead by a score of 80-76. Hardly a week later, the Trojans played Marian a second time at NWC. Once again the game was a high scoring, close match. The Trojans shot one per­ centage point higher than Marian from the floor and one half a percentage point higher from the line. Both teams had fourteen offen­ sive rebounds, and Marian came up with only one more on the defensive end of the court.

With 5'A minutes left, it was all tied up 61-61 Virtually the only difference in the statistics was the fact that Marian put the ball up just enough more, especially from the line. That seemingly minor difference was enough to give them the win, 76-71.

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would prove to be their nemesis against Trinity Christian too. In the first game, the Trojans clubbed the Trolls by a score of 76-62. During the second half, NWC opened leads of up to 17 points, and never let Trinity get within ten.

Tom Plath played an excellent game, coming up with 32 points and eight rebounds. The Trolls were not to be denied on their home court a couple of weeks later, though. As in the second game against Marian, the teams were fairly evenly matched, but the Trolls went to the line 10 more times than the Trojans, sink­ ing half of those shots. A few more buckets from the floor was all it took for Trinity Chris­ tian to walk away with a 57-78 victory.

The Trojans also came up against an always tough Cardinal Stritch team in February for the Winter Carnival game. Westra, Hirsch, and Plath accounted for all but 15 of the Trojans’ 74 points for the afternoon. A little more bal­ anced attack would have helped the team’s cause, but those three were the only ones who seemed to be able to make their shots count for NWC. The Trojans outrebounded Stritch, but even that didn’t help them take the lead.

The final score was Cardinal Stritch 82, North­ western 74.

The Trojans finished out the season with an 11-10 overall record and they were 5-7 in con­ ference action. Two players, sophomore

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They ended up 3rd, 4th and 5th in scoring respectively. Hirsch scored just over 200 points and had 105 rebounds, while Wessel led the team in both steals, with 55, and in assists, with 74.

Coach Kruse commented that although the talent might be available to fill these seniors’ spot on the court, it will be tough to do with­ out their leadership qualities. He cited Hirsch and Wessel as particularly invaluable team leaders, both on the court and off, saying of Hirsch, “He made it easy on me as a coach and easy for the players.” Coach Kruse compli­ mented Nitz for his ability to come off the bench and get the job done when he had to.

“Henzi didn’t use a lot of playing time but his knowledge of the game is perhaps the best on the team. His knowledge was put to use helping out with the J.V. squad and in other coaching aspects.” Next year Coach Kruse will be looking for Westra and Plath to lead the team.

He said of Brokmeier, “Ken was probably the most improved player on the team. He really worked hard to become an all-around ball

player and his hard work payed off.” If Rodewald and Rothe continue to improve, Coach Kruse added, the team will be very tough in the next two years.

Coach Kruse seemed particularly impressed with the team in two areas: attitude and team play. I suppose the latter would be a product of the former. “This team was a great bunch of young men. I don’t think I’ve had a more en­ joyable time coaching than 1 have the past two years,” Kruse added. “On the court, the guys played exceptionally well as a team. Most of the time they were at a distinct height disad­ vantage, but that just made them take better shot selections.” Statistically, the Trojans showed their biggest improvement in cutting down the point difference. Last season they averaged around 19 points a game less than their opponents, while this season they outscored their opponents by an average of almost a point. One of the only real difficulties Coach Kruse pointed out for the season was the Trojans’ inability to maintain the lead: “They might have overcome this problem if I had sent them into their delay game sooner.”

Overall, Coach Kruse counted the season an enjoyable success.

All-conference honors went to Tom Plath, who made second team all-conference. Hirsch, Westra and Wessel received Honorable Mention.

Phil Hirsch also was selected for the NLCAA Great Lakes Regional Tournament Team for his play in the game against Concordia-Milwaukee. Northwestern lost that post-season game by a close score of 51-49. ConcordiaMilwaukce went on to advance to the Nationals and at this writing won their first game thereB&R

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-Pastor Timothy P. Lowry (’72), former pastor of Good Shepherd, Wolf Point, and Salem, Circle, MT, was installed as pastor of Christ and Emmanuel, Denmark, WI, on December 20,1981.

-Pastor Paul L. Sullivan (’68), former pastor of Divine Charity, Bethel Park, PA, was installed as pastor of Our Savior, Two Rivers, WI, on January 24, 1982.

-Pastor Raymond Frey (’38) of St. John’s, Battle Creek, MI, died on February 23, 1982.

-Pastor Martin Bradtke (’48) of Faith, Elizabeth, IL, died on January 21, 1982.

-Pastor em. Paul Dowidat (1899), age 103, died on February 7, 1982. Funeral services were held on February 10, 1982, at St. John’s of Minneapolis, MN, where Pastor Dowidat served from 1903-1962.

-Pastor Gerhard Geiger(’34), of Roscoe, SD, died on February 28, 1982, and was buried at New Ulm, MN, on March 4.

ANNIVERSARIES —Prof. Erwin Scharf (’28) celebrated his 51st anniversary in the ministry and his 25th year at Northwestern College on March 21,1982.

-Pastor Robert Mueller (’53) celebrated his 25th year in the ministry on March 7, 1982. He serves at Salem, Owosso, MI. -Grace, Oshkosh, WI, will celebrate its centennial during the year 1982. Pastors of the congregation arc Clarence Koepsell (’40) and Dale R. Schulz.

-Good Shepherd of Beloit, WI, celebrated its 25th anniversary on February 21, 1982.

Pastor of the congregation is S. W. Ehlke (’73).

RETIREMENT -The Rev. Ralph Unke (’39), instructor at Fox Valley Lutheran High School, Appleton, WI, will retire on August 12, 1982.

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BIRTHS -A son, Samuel Walter, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Melvin Schwark (’57), Boyd, MN, on December 29, 1981.

-A daughter, Jessica, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Michael Mulinix (’73) of Brooklyn Park, MN, on January 19, 1982.

OTHER NOTES -The Rev. Paul Wilde, (’49), of Salem in Escanaba, MI, was appointed to the Commission on Inter-Church Relations, replacing Pastor Leroy A. Dobberstein, who accepted a call to B&R Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary.

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That a man who is alone is necessarily lonesome.

That it is niggardly to ask for the return of a small loan.

That poetry is unduly effeminate and not worthy of a man’s attention.

That Northwestern should offer “induce­ ments” to athletes and keep up with the rest of the Conference.

That it is perfectly good form to discuss a professor’s taste in neckties, his car, his child­ ren, and all that is his.

That a man who leads an impeccable life is insincere.

That Co-eds are an unnecessary adjunct to this institution.

That professors ask questions out of per­ sonal malice.

That a man who smokes anything but Lucky Strikes or Camels is either conceited or crazy.

That the other man’s girl is a terrible Hop. That three-hour exams arc a man-killing strain.

That movies are an aesthetic pleasure.

That it is impossible to study on a warm night.

That tutors are always wrong.

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It was during the pre-World War I period in the rural community of Town Lomira, Wiscon­ sin, that Erwin Scharf was born on April 8, 1907. While the war was raging in Europe, he was obtaining his elementary education in one of those well-documented one-room schoolhouses.

In 1920, after the Central Powers were finally defeated, the teenaged Scharf packed his bags and came to the big city of Watertown to attend Northwestern for the next eight years. During his stay here, he was not only a diligent student, but also enjoyed extracurricular such as sing­ ing in the choruses and participating in the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society, predecessor of the Forum.

Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of Scharfs student years at Northwestern was his relationship with the great Dr. Ott. The Doctor was college librarian at that time and asked young Scharf to be his assistant, which the future professor gladly consented to do. During the six years that Scharf held this position, he became a close friend of the Doctor. They enjoyed swimming and canoeing together, as well as special book-buying excursions to Milwaukee and Chicago, where they always made a point to take in special events such as concerts and plays.

Later, Professor Scharf remembered the importance of these trips; he has done much to in­ crease our library supply, especially in the history section.

The student became Instructor Scharf after his graduation in 1928 when he accepted a two-

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cover story The End of an Era:....................... ..

Professor Scharf Retires 200 An Interview with Professor Scharf.

On God’s Wisdom & Power in the Universe. . . . 204 206 Mrs. James Fricke 1935-1982 ....

207 Campus Comments............................

208 Vinyl Concepts—The Inner Ear ....

210 The Death of Socrates.......................

211 (Yesterday).........................................

212 More on D & D....................................

213 Run of the Mill....................................

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218 CAMPUS & CLASSROOM...............

222 ALUMNI..............................................

223 What Has Happened.......................... to the 40th Anniversary Class?

225 Dummheiten aus der Vergangenheit .

226 Minutes of the 1981 Alumni Meeting 227 Alumni Treasurer’s Report 228 B & R Staff—Volume 86. . ............... 230 Index Volume 85 inside back cover What’s the Haps?.

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year assignment to Winnebago Lutheran Academy in Fond du Lac. After this worth­ while experience, Scharf entered the Seminary in 1930, just as the Depression was enveloping world economics. Seminarian Scharf used his time well in Mcquon. He even participated in some major projects during the summer, such as cataloguing the rather disorganized Seminary library and touring with a quartet that sang at various outlying churches of our Synod which were losing contact with the Seminary.

In 1933 the Synod was feeling the burden of the Depression, and only two calls were assigned, one of them to Scharf, who had graduated that spring He was called back to

Winnebago in Fond du Lac, where he had ably served a few years earlier. There he would spend his next five years teaching Greek, German, Latin, and, of course, history. Instruc­ tor Scharf had already acquired a love for history, and since it appeared that God planned to use his teaching abilities for a while, Scharf spent these five summers working for a Master’s Degree in history at the University of Wiscon­ sin in Madison.

In 1937 Instructor Scharf became Pastor Scharf as he accepted a call to serve two con­ gregations named St. Paul’s, one in Slinger, and the other in Cedar Lake. In the historic year of 1941 Pastor Scharf gave up bachelorhood to

An Interview with Professor Scharf In this interview, we asked Professor Scharf A knowledge of history will also help him ’a number of questions concerning his understand the people of Bible days and even ministry and the ministry of the future. Here of the modern church through knowing the events and cultures among which these people are the questions and his responses: t lived their lives.

Q: Of all your travels in the world, what country did you enjoy visiting the most and Q- Do you think NWC should introduce some new courses to the curriculum because of why? changes in our society? should want to say that I Prof. Scharf: thoroughly enjoyed every one of the European Prof. Scharf: If you will let me restrict your countries which we visited. 1 am inclined to question to only the History Department, think that that might have been true because there are courses which I think ought to be wherever we went, we were seeing things which added in the interest of graduating a more wellI learned about during the years of my school- informed ministry, ing, or which 1 talked about during the many 1 wish the day might soon come when NWC years of my teaching. But if i were to have my would be able to add another man to the choice for further travcL and it could be done History Department so that we might do a in peace-time, I should like to return to the better job of bringing our history courses Orient. The exotic beauty and the natural right down to the present, including a good setting for relaxed living fascinated me no end. course even in current events.

Q: Why do you feel the ministerial student Q: What has been the most rewarding part of should study history? your teaching career at NWC? Prof. Scharf: 1 believe that there are quite a number of reasons for ministerial students to know history. Knowing history will surely be an encouragement to the pastor when he knows and even sees how God shows His hand in history as He guides and protects the affairs of His church. li

Prof. Scharf: That is a difficult question to answer. There are so many rewarding experiences. If you ask me to choose, I should say that for me it was the great amount of counsel* ing which a teacher at a little college like ours has an opportunity to do-not only through being assigned as advisor of a class, but also continued on page 202

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marry Miss Irene Zarling.

The entrance of the United States into World War II would have a direct effect on / Scharfs ministry, as, in 1942, he was granted a two-year leave of absence to serve as our has taught there include comparative religions, Synod’s first civilian chaplain. He traveled the Confessions, and the Epistle to the Romans. down to Louisiana, where he would minister In 1967 a war once again affected Scharfs ministry. In the summer of that year, at an to our members at seven major training camps age when most men are planning how they will and a maneuver area. Here Pastor Scharf was spend retirement, Scharf again took up duty as introduced to some of the peculiar needs and civilian chaplain, and this time went overseas problems of soldiers, and learned how best to to Synod members stationed in Vietnam. He counsel them through the Gospel. He would stayed there from the spring of 1967 to the make use of this experience again in another winter of 1968 and returned with a treasury of war. war stories to tell. As one might well expect, In 1944, while the Nazis were going down such an adventure had a profound effect on the to defeat, Scharf completed his duty as chap­ professor, accentuating for him the blessings lain and was soon called to Zion in Rhine­ lander, where he spent the next twelve years. we enjoy as Americans. Such an impression is reflected in a letter he wrote while in Vietnam, In 1956 Pastor Scharf became Professor part of which was published in a 1967 edition Scharf when lie accepted the call to teach at of the Black and Red. In it he wrote, “Work­ Northwestern. At first he taught both for the ing with the servicemen has been most reward­ prep department and the college. In the prep department, which lie served until 1965, he ing, in spite of the fact that the conditions of taught religion (both O.T. and N.T.), Latin, war make it very trying to get to them and and all four levels of history. For the college they to me. One thing I can say in all honesty he has taught New Testament religion, sopho­ without being a bit paternal, thank God every more German, and, most of all, history. Cur­ day for the privilege you have of staying at rently he restricts his teaching to history, school and preparing for the high calling of covering all the world history from the early bringing God’s voice and truth to a world sick Roman period to the modern age (about enough to have caused what I see here in 2700 years). More than likely he will return to Vietnam. Thank Him, too, that you have been campus next year to conduct seminar sections. born an American and under the grace of the Gospel. Over here one really sees what those During his years at Northwestern, Profes­ things should mean to us. ” sor Scharf has served on a variety of com­ Anyone who has seen the photographs in mittees on campus, also retaining his love for Professor Scharfs room, or the slides he shows drama by serving as advisor to the Rostra and for his history classes knows that he has done Forum for a number of years. some traveling. His work in the Vietnam War In addition to his work on our campus, led him to Hawaii, Japan, China, Taiwan, the Scharf has served our Synod through member­ Philippines, and Southeast Asia. Then in 1974 ship on the Synod Board for Parish Educa­ he spent seven weeks on a study tour of tion, the Synod Educational Upgrading Com­ Europe, gathering informaion and pictures for mittee, the Synod Interchurch Relations Com­ his history classes. He visited Italy, France, mission, and, during the stormy ’50’s and *60’s when a split with the Missouri Synod was West Germany, the Eastern Zone, the Nether­ inevitable, on the Synod Protest Committee. lands, England, and Scotland.

Though primarily a professor for the past Recently he was made chairman of the Synod 25 years, Scharf has not lost contact with the Committee for Planning the 500th anniver­ parish ministry. He has served as vacancy sary of Luther’s birthday.

The professor has also continued to use his pastor for several congregations, and still summers constructively. Since 1960 he has preaches a sermon when called on to do so. spent thirteen summers as a visiting professor If one were asked to give the Scharf philos­ ophy for teaching history, it probably would for summer sessions at DMLC. The classes he 201

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Ever so many young men become one’s good friends by the time they graduate and con­ tinue to keep in contact even after they are out in the ministry. Such experiences give one a rewarding feeling of usefulness.

Q: What was the most rewarding part ofyour parish ministry?

Prof. Scharf: As I look back on my nineteen years in the parish ministry I find it pretty difficult to pick out one or two especially rewarding parts. To be honest with you, I pretty much enjoyed it all. Making mission calls, working with the young people, Bible classes, and preaching seem to stand out in my memory as being more favorable than things like administration and organizations. But I hope that our young men at Northwestern will find encouragement in my saying that it is truly possible to like all aspects of the ministry.

Q. Do you feel the parish ministry is becoming more challenging? What special problems do you think will face the future pastor?

Prof. Scharf: It seems that every generation has a way of adding new problems for the faithful servant of the Gospel, and it does that before the problems of the past are overcome.

While we arc still wrestling with the ecumenical movement, which for some time has been so subtly damaging for many where faith in, and testimony for the Trinity and salvation in the atoning Christ are concerned, new problems are arising. The great number of sects and cults which seem to have the intent of leading people completely away from Christ and His saving Gospel surely strike one as being one of the big problems for the future pastors.

We sincerely thank Professor Scharf for his complete cooperation in this interview and the accompanying article, and at the same time, we thank him for 25 years of faithful service at Northwestern. It is our prayer that God would bless lus retirement as richly; as He has blessed our school and our Synod through him. B&R

not be too difficult to formulate one based on certain trademarks and thematic phrases which have become very familiar to his students.

The professor’s goal, of course, is for his stu­ dents to learn history. In order to accomplish this, it is helpful for the student to be wellequipped (“Do you have your thinking caps on?”). The student should be especially atten­ tive (“Prick up your ears.”) to important statements (“pearls of wisdom”), and become intimately acquainted with key historic figures (“Would you recognize him if he walked in?”).

Never should the history student be afraid to make an educated guess (“You're on the right track.”) because it is-always possible that he might have the right answer (“Go to the head of the class.”), although a little mind-reading might be involved (“What am I thinking of?”).

Effort is expected not only from the student, however, for the professor also is doing his best (“bending over backwards”) to make history as understandable and interesting as possible through effective terminology (“to use one of your words”), visual aids (“eyes at the map”), and pertinent anecdotes (“That reminds me of a story.”). It is out of courtesy for the profes­ sor and for the benefit of the students that sleeping in class is strictly forbidden (“Let me see the whites of your eyes;” "splash "ome cold water on your face;” “do some jumping jacks in the hall.”). After all is said and done, the professor hopes that the student has come to respect the importance of history, and has developed a good working relationship with the professor (“Let’s be friends.”).

Clearly, the professor we know as the “Pope” has had an eventful, multifaceted 51-ycar ministry. Me has served as pastor to three congregations, as teacher on three campuses, as chaplain for trpops of two wars, as a preacher of the Gospel on two conti­ nents, and has toured a third to better teach its history. Few ministers experience such adven­ tures, and Professor Scharf quickly points to such variety as a characteristic in his ministry for which lie is very thankful. Northwestern, too, should be thankful because there is little doubt that the professor's experiences are benefiting the students today just as they have in the past and will continue to do in the future.

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-^-he story of the increase of Jacob’s flocks '-'(Gen. 30:37-31:13) is the object of negative comment from Bible critics, and of some confusion among believers. How did you respond the first time you read how Jacob stripped bark from tree branches and placed them before Laban’s mating flocks so that by viewing the branches they would give birth to more striped and spotted sheep and goats (to be Jacob’s wage, by agreement with Laban)?

This story was discussed by Ronald Pape, one of four lecturers at the third annual Lutheran Science Institute Seminar, held in March at Wisconsin Lutheran College.

God had promised and given to Jacob nothing but prosperity under Laban, and an angel had promised him an increase in his own flocks. Was Jacob’s method with the branches a miracle? Or was it largely a natural phenome­ non, with some supernatural assistance from God? Martin Luther believed that Jacob’s tactic was an “ingenious” act, conforming with good biology. Pape refers to the Lectures on Genesis, where Luther seeks to illustrate the soundness of Jacob’s plan:

Luther also gives other examples and cites Jerome, who told of a certain queen who bore a child which looked everything like an Ethiop­ ian, simply because she carried a strong mental image of an Ethiopian painted on a tablet near her bed. Well, the king apparently believed it.

After giving his audience a printed quiz on the Bible story, Pape said that biologically there is no validity to this particular notion of prenatal influence. Merely a strong visual image will not affect the fetus in this way. Further­ more, he said, the Bible gives no indication that God prescribed the branch-bark strategy. This appears to have been the idea of Jacob, who had on other occasions used questionable means to “help” God fulfil his promises.

God caused Jacob’s flocks to increase despite Jacob's effort on his own, Pape con­ cluded. The increase could be partially under­ stood with modern genetics, he said, and illus­ trated with a genotype/phenotype chart. But, this process was assisted miraculously by God, so that the genetic odds were tipped in Jacob’s favor. Pape did not rule out the possibility, however, that God might have acted miracu-

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lously through Jacob's method, even if God did not command that method.

The entire seminar was entitled “On God’s Wisdom and Power In the Universe.” The Lutheran Science Institute, which was organ­ ized a few years ago by interested WELS mem­ bers, concentrates largely on Creation and evolution. It is not involved in the controversy about Creation in the public classroom, but in demonstrating how observations of natural phenomena conform with the Scriptural accounts of Creation and the Flood, rather than the theory of evolution, which lecturer Robert Adickes pictured as “a tornado going through a junkyard and forming a 747.”

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view. Some of his content is found in the geology section of Prof. Kirst's sophomore science course. Adickes told of a University of Arizona geologist, Dr. Burdick, who was ignored by his colleagues when he found grains of pine pollen in Hakatai shale, rock which was supposed to be 500 million years older than the first pine trees. After showing how rock stratum thickness and the abrupt change between strata conform to the Flood account rather than evolutionist ideas of uni­ form, gradual change, he said that evolution­ ists should acknowledge these evidences, "if true science is self-correcting and objective in nature.”

For sheer beauty in sight and sound. the seminar’s highlight was the slide show "Moricon Marsh -Nature’s Wonderland,” by Dale Dobberpuhl. The Marsh is commonly known for its millions of migrating Canada geese. Moricon is less well known for its many white egrets, snow geese, great blue herons. owls, foxes, hawks, ducks and other wildlife.

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trout abounded. The prairie chicken was there. too. But the white man’s early attempts at dam building and marsh drainage eliminated these species from the area. In 1927, when the state began to purchase the land, measures were taken to make Moricon Marsh once again suitable for a great variety of species. Today it is still a fine wildlife refuge, although in recent years pesticides from surrounding farmland have caused declines in the heron and egret populations.

After seeing DobberpuhFs Moricon slides, the beautiful nature scenes of the movie "On Golden Pond” were almost a letdown. His superb photography and thoughtfully selected music and effects in the soundtrack made the program movingly beautiful. It was an effec­ tive reminder of the seminar’s theme.

Atomic dating, particularly Carbon 14, has lost some prestige as a reliable dating system, but it is still used, and many evolutionists consider it acceptable. David Golisch, a com­ puter programmer and former Wisconsin Lutheran H.S. teacher, does not accept it. He listed three faulty assumptions made by its proponents: The content of radioactive material in a sample was pure to start with.

Both the rate of accumulation and the rate of degeneration of the radio­ active element are constant.

No contamination has occurred in the sample to be dated.

Golisch pointed out falsehoods in all three assumptions, and added that even the Carbon 14 dating method, in most textbooks, is credited with accuracy for no more than 5800 years.

There is some quiet controversy over the purpose of Christians who study the Creation and the Flood from a scientific point of view,

or vice versa. It seems that some are trying to prove the validity of the Scripture accounts, to themselves or to unbelievers, by presenting scientific evidence. Others claim that as be­ lieving scientists, they are using the Creation story as a basis for assumptions, because no scientist is truly objective in approaching his work. In addition, as Prof. Adickes said in his lecture, outside of what we know from the Bible, Creationism is just as much theory as evolutionism. Theories on origins are not “truly scientific” because they are not ob­ servable today.

Whatever the true intent of individual Creationists, we must admit that the Bible is a better framework for studying nature than are the preconceived notions of the evolutionists.

And the words and meaning of the Bible must not be distorted, as in “theistic evolution,” for the sake of accommodating evolutionism.

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Nancy Kopplin Fricke, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kopplin, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 3, 1935. She married Pastor James Fricke on June 19, 1955.

The Lord blessed their marriage with four children: Deborah, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Joseph. She became a member of the Northwestern College family in 1970, when Pastor Fricke accepted a call to serve as a professor here. In the last two years of her life, Mrs. Fricke served as an example of the power of Christian faith as she patiently suffered the ravages of terminal cancer.

In his sermon based on Philippians 1:29, with the theme, “Nancy Fricke’s Two Great Gifts from God,” Pastor Werner told those assembled that Mrs. Fricke’s cancer had been a gift, for it allowed her and her family to prepare for her death, and showed what is truly important in life, namely, the peace and joy to be found in the Savior through faith. Such faith was the second great gift God had given to Mrs. Fricke.

Mrs. Fricke’s concern for Northwestern was obvious, and she particularly enjoyed its musical and dramatic endeavors. Her involvement in campus-related activities will be missed.

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QUESTION: Over the past three years, cuts have been made in the NWC athletic program due to the money shortage problem in our synod, and there is a possibility of further cuts in the future.* Cuts have also been suggested in the NWC IM program, such as eliminating the giving of awards, although no cuts have been made as yet. How do you feel about further cut-backs in the NWC athletic program and/or IM pro­ gram due to the money shortage in our synod?

DAVE HAUGLY-FRESHMAN I think that limitations should be placed on the cuts due to the financial status of our synod, but I do not feel that in any way should they hinder the zeal students have in obtaining the awards in the IM program. As far as inter-scholastic sports are concerned, I feel that our school spirit is centered around them and that limitations placed on them would contribute to the demoralization of school spirit at NWC.

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TYLER HJORTH—SPECIAL III Several things: I think that, although budget cuts are necessary, they should be made somewhere other than in our athletic programs. Athletics are very impor­ tant for us at NWC. to prevent any further “loading out.” Unless I be falsely accused, 1 was in music programs from grades 6-12, and nonetheless, I think more cuts could be made in our music department.

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JOHN SCHROEDER-SENIOR If any cutback in funding for a particular department at NWC is made, I think priorities must be assigned to what is absolutely necessary and what is not. The athletic program should be supported on both the interscholastic and intra­ mural level; but the feasibility of spending monies must be considered so that a majority can enjoy the benefits of the purchases. I hope that if any cuts are made, they will be directed toward expansion of programs and not to the pre­ sent programs themselves. We need a healthy athletic department to provide us with a chance for exercising our bodies, so that we can exercise our minds all the more in the classrooms.

•These cuts involve reducing (per season) the numbers of football games from 9 to 8, basketball games from 24 to 20. and wrestling meets from 18 to 12. Tennis has been reduced by 3 matches and track by 2 meets.

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"Morbid Metal.” The 410 Waves. Gravestone Records. JL-999,19S2.

Within easy grasp of my fingertips lie two of the most widely divergent assemblages of musical adventure that 1 have ever encountered“Paradise Reggaend” by The Psychedelic Soviets and “Morbid Metal,” courtesy of the 410 Waves. Both exist on planes of radical differentiation from mainstream vocal or instrumental form, and yet both represent heterogeneously conceived ideas and metho­ dology from each other. To play one in prefer­ ence of the other might lead a person to retch uncontrollably or revel in ecstasy, depending, of course, on his perspective. A broad-minded chap could possibly stomach each as they stand. However, be that as it may, the exploration of either, I can assure you, will enrich and expand every listener’s conscious perception of life in these modem times.

The Psychedelic Soviets proclaim them­ selves the vanguard of the avant garde-a mix­ ture of copious experimentation with musical styles and thoughtful, probative lyrical ex­ periences. Their Weltanschauung, if one can really restrict or define it succintly on account of its irregular multifariousness, consists of a neo-nonconformist reinterpretation of the 208

blues, namely, that the complexities of exis­ tence defy man’s capacity to comprehend them rationally and therefore must be subjugated to the ceaseless inquiries of human percipience through the medium of blues-inspired bc-bop jive. I realize that this brief exposition of their basic point of view only begins to scratch the surface. Their intricacies of thought reach much deeper and in many more layers of mean­ ing than can easily be particularized. None­ theless, such an explanation will suffice for the moment as an introduction and foundation for further analysis of their work.

The group itself chooses not to identify themselves individually, preferring to let the music speak for itself without the entangling egotistical labeling of its creators. They view such accreditation as a hindrance to their message, as if the simple listing of their own names would result in undue glorification of the self and distract the listener from complete attention to the music. Perhaps this thinking originates from decp-scatcd religious convic­ tions; I do not know. (According to Eon Brinkpeep of Melodic Strange magazine, they belong to a fringe left-wing association of Arizonian peyote worshipers, though I doubt the validity of that report.) Notwithstanding, whether their serious demeanour contributes to their effectiveness or not is debatable. How­ ever, all such considerations aside, their music

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The album “Paradise Reggaend” strikes somewhat of a different chord for the band.

Whereas previous efforts concentrated on criticizing the workings of society (“Idiot Savant” and “Shakespeare Was A Moose.”), this record reveals a more personal side to the group. It relates the struggles and dreams of an inquisitive fourteen-year-old boy named Joe. As I see it, Joe, the adolescent who must adapt to his changing personality and environ­ ment, becomes the Soviets’ allegory for pictur­ ing the impressions and feelings of man in a transitional state, whether from love to in­ difference, apathy to solicitude, or nervous­ ness to stability. For instance, on the track “Je Nc Sais Quois” (French for “I don’t know what.”), Joe encounters an infidel group of local toughs in the fictional town of Kjempe (Norwegian for “struggle”) who try to convince him to join their violent rampage through the streets, breaking antennas off cars. The musical setting combines beautifully the polyrhythmic pulsations of a Sioux war drum with a blazing blues slide guitar to describe the trauma of choosing either the peer-pressured path of perdition or the difficult denial of fellowship.

The song ends abruptly with the wail of police sirens, never quite revealing whether Joe crossed the Rubicon, so to speak. Perhaps “Je Ne Sais Quois” suggests that vacillation in a dangerous situation can often imply guilt by association, whether the truth defends your innocence or not. Who knows whether or when to flee or to risk remaining?

The real masterpiece of the album, in my opinion, occurs on side two with the ballad “I Like My Eggs Sunny Side Up in Georgia.”

The piece begins with a slow sitar and tabla sequence that gradually evolves into explosive measures of the electric accordion. A soft tenor intones, “Large round saucers/Back to the battles of ears/You look so sad/Of too many too much of fears./Remembering what has passed/The season’s drought appears./I like my eggs sunny side up in Georgia.”* I don’t pretend to understand the full import of the Soviets’ lyrics in this instance, but it seems plausible here that Joe is projecting the life of a waitress who serves him in a Kjempe donut shop into a different realm of existence where he can gain her acceptance by sympathizing with her apparently lonesome lifestyle. The false reality cushions the impact of the fact that a seventeen-year age difference between him and the waitress practically eliminates the dream of a romantic liason he so desperately hopes for. Then the chimera breaks like “The shattered yoke on whitened plate/The sticky face splashed with yellow fate.” The wounds of rejection and disillusionment become apparent when the waitress shuns his feeble “hello.” A searing sitar solo portrays Joe’s soulful lament, closing the tune with quixotic appropriateness.

The title track “Paradise Reggaend” finishes off the LP, a peaceful, reggae-in­ fluenced, cathartic type of spiritual song.

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circle as he finds comfort and emotional stability in the home environment. “Mama please cut my hair/It grew too long without no care/Life just, it just ain’t fair./So Mama please cut my hair.” His paradise may pass just as quickly as his recent dreams, although the firm foundations of the home will always remain a strong base to return to. “My sand­ stone foothold slipped/I reached out and I gripped / The stable sanctuary / Paradise Reggaend.”

In complete contrast to the thoughtprovoking ventures of the Psychedelic Soviets, the blood-curdling screams of the 410 Waves bombard the senses on their recent endeavor “Morbid Metal.” Decadent, depraved, out­ rageous, violent, counter-cultural, drug-in­ duced-all such terms accurately describe their approach to music as well as life in general.

I need not spend a great deal of time discussing their significance, since they have virtually none at all. But that’s what’s so much fun about hearing their music in the first place.

On tunes such as “Scratch, Scrape, Scrub” and “Needle Smasher,” one need not be con­ cerned about deep inner meaning. “Blood ’n’ guts ’n’ glory/(Hey, Needle Smasher!)/Tell me that same story/(Hey, Needle Smasher!)/ Lookin’ pretty gory/(Hey, Needle Smasher!).”* Lead singer Sour Cream is merely relating his recent experiences with the F.B.I.’s narcotics squad. Simple, direct, unambivalent lyrics

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BY BRADLEY RAGNER grey pin-striped lapels had upholstered the pavement already. Stock market crashes aren’t good for executive longevity. So far they hadn’t been too great for entertainment, either. One sky-diver had taken a rheumatic flower lady with him. Not a pretty sight. She buckled under the falling anvil and exploded like a ripe melon. She’d never had a warning.

Not this time, however. Here was a coin-clad pigeon who was giving the crowd a good look.

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fflfhe black ants rushed out of the way when X he stepped out on the ledge. For nearly half a minute every sign of life vanished until the shift of a curtain and the creak of a door saw that no one was jumping. Slowly the side­ walks filled up. Some wouldn’t come back.

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Curiosity was disappointed. The clerks, shopkeepers, and scavengers soon dispersed, leaving only the scent of their greasy hair and the singed pride of their scowling faces. Even from where they were standing they could sense the condescending gaze of the man on the ledge. They were rankled that anyone could be so totally disinterested, could make such a joke of them when they were only being concerned.

Soon the street was empty and the man stood alone on his concrete shelf. Even his fellow workers had left the window of the office in disgust. He sighed lightly and smiled as he tapped the ashes from his pipe out against the heel of his leather shoes. A thickfingered hand coursed through his greying hair and smoothed over his suit. Two stern, blue eyes soaked in the view about him with a curiously satisfied expression. “Man must know his limitations, a man cannot die like a jackal in a zoo,” he proclaimed quietly to the street before him He took a step forward and was gone.

They found his body on the pavement moments later. It looked no different from the others.

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In a play we read (Yesterday and I) about a man who was everything.

Or so he thought.

And she asked me, (Yesterday) "Are you so, too?"

I didn't quite know what to say.

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T^erhaps the majority of NVVC students thought the three articles in the last issue of the B & R were enough on D & D, and I would’ve agreed with them, except for one reason: several things were said that simply Phone aren’t true.

(414) First of all, D & D and AD & D arc basically the same game; D&D is the original game 261-9400 (1974), while AD & D is the expanded version (1978). However, players of D&D do not | miles north of WATERTOWN on Hwy. 26 assume the roles of monsters and demons, and demi-gods. Gygax himself says, “The con­ sidered opinion of this writer is that such characters (monsters and demons) are not beneficial to the game and should be excluded” (DMG, p. 21).

In fact, the game in which people play monsters is not AD & D at all, but rather a game system called Ardwin Grimoire. Ardwin Grimoire can be amended to almost any fantasy game (i.e., not only AD & D). The with purchase of l Hot Dog system disturbs most true AD & D players, at regular price because it’s a little weird. Frankly, it doesn’t belong to the AD & D system because AD & D is set under an ancient or medieval setting, but Ardwin Grimoire has futuristic elements. A character class called a ‘technician” can 212 W. MAIN STREET - WATERTOWN, WIS build such things as laser guns and atomic PHONE 261-4278 bombs. This is fantasy role playing?

Open 8:00-10:30 daily More than anything else, AD & D relics on the people playing it. The game itself is only a set of rules used to draw up the world in which the players play, and the way they’re going to play is up to them. A person can draw up a OF WATERTOWN campaign in which murder and rape are accept­ able, or even one in which a few virgins are 104 W. Main Street sacrificed for good measure. Sure, I’ve en­ Watertown, Wisconsin countered such campaigns, but I didn’t play in 261-4482 them! Nor is AD & D a game which children should play, because they aren’t able to make the proper decisions about what they should or shouldn’t play. However, an adult Christian 212

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should be able to draw up a campaign or play in a campaign that is well within the bounds of Christian decency. Such a game might resemble Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece, the labors of Hercules, or the task of the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings. In such a campaign, the Christian’s conscience should be at ease.

If it’s not, then he shouldn’t play.

AD & D is not demonic, although if a per­ son wanted to, he could turn it into such. Yet the system itself discourages such a course of action; in fact, it encourages that the player’s character be morally good. The most awe­

some monsters are good, the most powerful magic is good, and the most powerful charac­ ter classes are good. It is advantageous to be good!

Finally, it comes down to the Christian having to separate the good from the bad.

Just as he should distinguish between accept­ able literature and television programing, so he must make the decision whether he can play in a particular campaign.

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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story—and writes another and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he hoped to make it.

-James M. Barrie

With this issue, another volume of the Black and Red is about to take its place on the shelf beside the other eighty-four sentries guarding the corridors of Northwestern’s past.

Just as a man’s humblest hour is when he com­ pares his youthful goals and aspirations with his life as he has actually lived it, likewise it is humbling for us as an outgoing staff to com­ pare our volume as it is with what we hoped to make it. All too often printed realities didn’t quite seem to measure up to our gleam­ ing visions and dreams. Mental images of glossy pages wrapped in Time—£//<?-quality covers 213

disappeared when confronted with the limita­ tions of the photo-offset printing process.

Hopes of extensive ad and subscription cam­ paigns evaporated as economic conditions worsened. We had to settle for less. Some of the informative essays, thrilling fiction, and pointed editorials which we promised simply didn’t matcrilize. Yet, despite many short­ comings and failures, not all of our hopes for Volume 85 went up in smoke.

It was our primary aim that more of the Black and Red be read. We wanted to give you the magazine you wanted so that you would read it. You, our readers, told us to “be more innovative, more colorful and controversial.”

You said, “Let people air their viewpoints.

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New columns were added, “What’s the Haps,” and “Reviews” to serve you, “Dummheiten aus dcr Vergangenheit” to entertain you, and “Campus Comments” to let you air your view­ points. We believed in the firm tradition of the B&R, but we also believed in a changing magazine meeting the needs of a changing stu­ dent body. We hope we have not let you down.

No goals could have been reached without cooperation on all levels. First of all, there were the members of the staff. They were highly motivated, committed, worked as a team and worked hard. Most went far beyond the duties required of them. Some writers not only wrote regularly, but also contributed art­ work or handled the new columns. Many of the various managers, column editors, and

artists contributed feature articles, short stories, poetry, and reviews. As editor, I owe the entire staff a sincere and heartfelt “thank you.”

Secondly, there was excellent cooperation on the part of the student body. Over thirty students not on the staff contributed to the B&R in some way, either in the form of articles, reviews, poetry, art, headlines, or photography. With twenty staff members, that means that about one in five students participated in the B&R. This docs not even include those who helped in assembly, or those who cooperated by responding to our “Campus Comments” questions. Perhaps the B&R can finally print “Published by the students of Northwestern College” without recoiling in embarrassment. Tiiank you for your support.

There was also cooperation elsewhere.

President Toppc, who was especially prompt in reviewing the material, often covered a multi­ tude of my mistakes and oversights. Mrs.

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The printers went miles out of their way to accommodate me and my wacky ideas and plans. Finally, the faculty was very coopera­ tive in their encouragement and advice through­ out the year. They too deserve my expressions of gratitude.

Because of all this teamwork, most of the goals and ambitions of Volume 85 have been reached. But new goals must be set, new hori-

zons explored. The B & R must keep changing just as Northwestern, its lifeblood, must keep changing. This challenge will be met by Bradley Ragner and the staff of Volume 86 with their new ideas and enthusiasm. Now it is their story to write, their diary to keep. I wish them God’s blessings in making their volume exactly what they hope to make it. And as they pur­ sue their visions and ambitions, I hope they find the same enjoyment and sense of fulfill­ ment that we found in pursuing ours.

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Chances are that ten out of ten of you have never heard of Nils Lofgren. The greatest public exposure he’s ever had occurred a couple years ago when Bryant Gumbcl used Nils’ “No Mercy” as a backdrop for a sad tribute to Mohammed Ali going down in defeat.

But Lofgren does deserve attention. His has been a very scrappy career, putting out some awfully good music without succumbing to the pressures of popularity and commercialism.

His most recent album, Night Fades Away (Backstreet Records), is by no means his best, but it isn’t bad. Better than average are “Empty Heart,” “Dirty Money,” “Sailor Boy,” and “Ancient History.” The time has come to start supporting the starving artists rather than keep feeding the overgorged super­ groups. Do it before Nils Lofgren fades away.

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Band leader Peter Gabriel left some time ago, but these chaps still keep delivering interesting, clever music. Genesis is a truly modern band, combining rock with more avante-garde elec­ tronic tendencies. The result is a hollow, haunting sound-hollow in contrast to the deep meanings behind many of their lyrics. Genesis creates music that makes you think.

Abacab is an album in the typical Genesis mold. Abstract and eerie, some of the best tracks arc “Keep It Dark,” “Man on the Cor­ ner,” and the hard-hitting lead number, “Aba­ cab” (I’m still trying to figure that one out).

The record has only one drawback: “Who Dunnit?”, an annoyingly redundant ditty that is definitely not Genesis quality and should have been left unrecorded. But one song is hardly enough to spoil this excellent collection.

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“Sugar and Spice,” the perfect vocalization of the excitement of a new love, gets my vote for outstanding cut of the set. But that doesn’t mean the album is lacking in the least on any of the other tracks. Not at all. This is a wellbalanced, well-produced effort. Listen to Luther, and tell ’em The Hose sent ya.

Ready for some good atonal non-music?

Some hefty cheap commercialism and black leather with lots of teeny-bopper appeal?

Then you're ready for Joan Jett and the Black­ heads. Their debut album on Boardwalk Records is entitled, quite uniquely, I Love Rock and Roll. The title tune has been sand­ blasting our eardrums over the radio waves for some time now. I’m sure you’ve heard it; it’s the song that’s all chorus. The remainder of the album is little better. Recording “Nag” was the worst conceivable use for a petroleum product in the history of vinyl. They’ve even corrupted the lovely, angelic Christmas carol, “Little Drummer Boy.” But then what do you expect from a band which labels itself after a form of acne blemish? “The Blackheads!”

Really! The Electric Prunes had a more taste­ ful name! What? “BlackHEARTS?” You mean it’s the Blackhearts, not the Blackheads? .. .

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to turn 80 and is constantly preoccupied with the thought of dying. Beneath his crusty old body lies a sharp, lively mind that loves to blame anyone for everything and everyone for anything. Needless to say, the opportunities for laughter are boundless. Katharine Hepburn plays his wife, Ethel, and once again in the Hepburn tradition, she not only rises to, but also above the occasion in her role as a gentle, moderating woman with a spirited outlook on life. Their relationship is not syrupy, over­ flowing affection, yet it is a deep time-worn oond, that is intermittently alluded to through­ out the movie by the presence of a pair of loons. The Academy award winning cast is also joined by Jane Fonda, who plays their grown-up daughter, and Doug McKcon, who makes his debut in pictures as the thirteenyear-old adolescent son of Jane Fonda’s boy­ friend.

The Thayers end up spending a month with the adolescent son of their daughter’s boy­ friend, while their daughter and her boyfriend spend the summer in Europe. The relationship between a smart-aleck teenager and an octo­ genarian is well depicted in the humorous clashes and the growing bond between the two.

Even the nearly fatal boat accident and rescue seem realistic, despite the fact that the aging Hepburn dives off the bow of a boat to save the two companions. Throughout the movie, well-placed symbolism, such as the loons, the dead loon, the approaching thunderstorm, the change of the leaves, all add a great deal of depth and meaning to the story line. The climax of the movie comes when the long­ standing conflict between father and daughter is finally resolved. The movie ends just as it begins, with the Thayers left alone, except for the lake and the loons. Norman has a close brush with death, but much to the delight of the audience, he fools everybody, including death. All in all, On Golden Pond is an easy­ going heartwarming story that leaves the viewer very pleased with its reflections on growing up and growing old.

That age-old Henry Fonda and waveryvoiccd Katharine Hepburn have joined up as an elderly retired couple, Norman and Ethel Thayer, in a film that rolls in laughter, is shaded with symbolism, and is touched with a light-hearted sensitivity. On Golden Pond, nominated for ten Academy awards and winner of three, including best actor and best actress, takes place at the Thayer’s summer cabin on the shores of the lake. Golden Pond, which is JOELTHOMFORD nestled deep in the picturesque woods of northern New Hampshire. The Thayers have The decadence of our society has led many returned once again to spend a summer on people to passively accept the things that Golden Pond. Henry Fonda is at his best in his go on around them. It seems that abusive language, nudity, and violence are the only portrayal of Norman Thayer, a humorous, way to cater to our society in the film media. quick-witted, retired professor, who is about 216

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Abrahms' story is one filled with arrogance, paranoia, and discontent. He considers himself semi-deprived because he is Jewish, and he uses running to prove his value. His goal is to take everyone on one by one and “run thenoff their feet.” With these selfish motives, and a general unhappiness, he prepares for the Olympics, aided by a private coach. His charac­ ter is likable, but his glory is individual and cannot be shared by people who seek similar goals. As he himself states, “I am forever in pursuit, and 1 don't know what 1 am chasing.”

The story of Eric Liddell is certainly more stirring and motivational. Liddell plans on going into the missions of China. >t not until after the Olympics. Consequent!,, in training, he comes under fire from his sisier for avoid­ ing his duty. But Liddell says, **I believe that God made me for a purpose, for China, but he also made me fast.”

For a while the stage seems set for these two British runners to become rivals under the same flag. But Liddell cannot run. Because the heats are set for a Sunday, his religious convic­ tion prevents him from doing so. He is forced to defend his decision before the Prince of Wales, and he places his belief in God in front of his national loyalty. All his preparation does not go to waste, though, as he is allowed to run in another race on a different day.

The triumph of both of these runners is accentuated well by the Vangelis soundtrack.

The music allows the reviewer to place himself into that glorious time when men had hope in their hearts and wings on their heels.

ANDREW SCHAEFER CONCERT The evening of March 22, 1982, found the husband and wife team of Dallas Weekley and Nancy Arganbright gracing the stage of 217

Northwestern’s Auditorium. Weekley and Arganbright, as they are billed, form a onepiano, four-hand combination, performing in a medium which, as the evening’s program noted, is a relative obscurity in America, but one which enjoys considerable popularity in Europe.

The Weekleys brought a professional program replete with uncanny timing and stylized technique. Seated on separate benches and occupying different ends of the keyboard, the pianists presented a well-balanced program that included selections from Romantic, Impres­ sionistic, and Modern composers.

Beginning with two selections from Franz Schubert, they proceeded with Sonata for Piano, Four Hands by Bernhard Heiden, a native son of the Badger state. The dissonance

The Weekleys and rhythm earmarked Heiden’s work as thoroughly modern, yet it was pleasing to the e: unlike some of the modernists who seem olsessed with the shock value that their compositions can generate. The Symphony in B minor of Claude Debussy brought the first half of the program to an end with the Im­ pressionistic characteristics of variation in sonority, pedal usage and slight dissonance masterfully done by the piano-duettists.

The second half of the program started with Felix Mendelssohn’s Allegro Brillante, Opus 92, performed in a suave and elegant fashion worthy of its creator. Then Argan­ bright explained the history behind the next selection by Maurice Ravel, Mother Goose (Ma Mere VOye). A dedicatory piece to two childhood girlfriends of RaveFs daughters, the selection was divided into five distinct parts with a separate explanation for each. The rousing and fiery Mephisto Waltz by Franz Liszt concluded the formal program with a decidedly up-tempo beat. Weekley explained

that this piece was written for solo, orchestra and piano duet. The Weekleys discovered the score for this piano duet at the Weimar Castle, where Liszt spent thirteen highly productive years. They were on one of their European concert tours at the time. In response to the audience’s applause, Weekley and Arganbright gave an encore of Pachelbel’s Canon in D and an arrangement of the ever popular William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Rossini.

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audience by the duettists added to the joy of watching two performers who imparted more than an evening’s worth of classical music.

The audience of “piano duet” enthusiasts undoubtedly grew a little larger that night in appreciation of the refreshing and novel approach by the La Crosse-based duo of B&R Weekley and Arganbright.

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The coveted Academy awards have long since been bestowed on Hollywood’s finest.

But the covetousness in Hollywood pales in comparison with the covetousness in Watertown when the Northwestern Oscar awards arc announced. Without any further adieu, here are the 1981-82 winners: Best Picture Loren Steele, for his painting of Elijah the Prophet which hangs in the Chapel-Arts Building.

Best Director: Prof William Birsching (this category was unique in that there was only one nominee) Best Actor. Eric Zimmerman for his role in the tutor’s office on Monday mornings (by unanimous decision of the Excuse Committee).

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persecuted expressions and victimized cries of anguish and injustice whenever a call went against his intra­ mural team.

Best A dress Miss Lenz for acting like she doesn’t hear the raucous collegiate conversations when she comes over to get her tea in the cafeteria.

Best Sound Effects: David Rockhoff for his irrepressible and imbccilic laughter.

Best Costuming Bob Seifert, for his cameo appearances as Spidcrman and Tonto.

Best Special Effects: John Liebenow, for his highly effective simulation of the sky through the insertion of blue cellophane in the flourescent lights of third Jloor Wart during the Space Shuttle Party (A close second m this category went to Pastor Shcp, for his well-executed simultaneous utilization of two slide projectors during his convocation presentation.)

Best Screenplay: Prof. Erwin Scharf for his History note handouts.

Best Cinematography: Robert Raasch, for his Winter Carnival production of "The American Sports­ man. ” Best Foreign Language Film: Prof John Sullivan, for his Jirst semester Deutschland Spiegel, which featured highlights of West Germany's ceramic ashtray exposition and a special feature on attaching sequins to leather for that "Designer Lederliosen " effect.

Special Achievement A ward' This Oscar goes out jointly to Steve Soukup. Dan Marshall, Dave Reichel, l/ans Zietlow, and Jon Bulge, who took to the high­ ways in defiance of the emphatic advice of Dean Lindemann, Dean Zarling, the United States Weather Service and the State Patrols of Wisconsin and Minne­ sota and sojourned safely to D.M.L.C. during an intense blizzard.

Best Choreography: "King Kong vs. Godzilla” for its spectacular light scene. Runners-up were the D.MLC Pom-Pon Girls for their performance at Home­ coming. Honorable mention goes to the Northwestern College Cheerleaders for "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love in My Tummy. ” Best Original Score: Nate Krause for landing a direct hit on "Wild Bill” Birsching in the Prep Color Guard’s "Pic-In-Tlie-Face Contest."

Relatively few people attended Andrew Schaefer’s notorious Flossing Party, but Andrew really put himself on the party-maker map with his March 28 “Space Shuttle Party.”

This audio-visual extravaganza was held in the third floor Wart study lounge and featured the supersonic music of the NASA-approved band, “The Shuttlecocks.” Although the space shuttle was unable to make its landing until the following day, the standing-room-only crowd's enthusiasm was not dampened. Guests were served generous portions of Orange Tang (just like actual shuttlenauts) and were provided with equally generous portions of popcorn (which had been popped in poppers coated with Teflon, an invaluable offshoot of 219

NASA technology). Tutor Connell was on hand to draw names for the door prizes, which included two beautiful posters of the Columbia at takeoff. During the slower moments of the party, guests could peruse numerous shuttlerelated newspaper clippings which were posted on the walls. White-shirted security guards were able to control everyone, with the pos­ sible exception of Gene Sims, who made a cameo appearance as boxer Rocky’s adversary, Apollo Creed. A good time was had by all.

When David Kuckhahn missed several nights of ID checking in the cafeteria due to tennis team tryouts, the results were calamitous. On one Monday night alone, an estimated 480 unauthorized people stormed through the doors for supper. Apparently the Watertown community had been watching the cafeteria for months, waiting for Kuckhahn to miss a night. When he didn't show, the word spread like wildfire through a pre-arranged network of communication lines in Watertown, and the hungry horde descended on the cafe­ teria. Fortunately Dave did not make the tennis team, and, for a time at least, we can rest assured that the people eating with us are from Northwestern. Let’s just hope that in the future, arrangements are made before Kuck takes a night off.

Efforts towards more personal facultystudent relations took a quantum leap back­ wards a few weeks ago when Prof. Quam sent pre-recorded tapes of lectures to his Shakespeare classes and had his wife play them. Students were initially unreceptive to the tapes, but grew fond of them when they realized that they could make faces at the tape recorder without fear of reprisal.

Supposedly a paucity of showers, scarce­ ness of soap, lack of anti-perspirant, and criminal neglect to use creme rinse have given far too many Northwestern students an ever­ present, ever-permeating odor with enough punch to deaden the senses. The problem is serious enough these days that several con­ cerned campus citizens have taken it upon themselves to return a flower-fresh smell to our fair abode (no pun or reference to Wayne Staude intended). Mark Wessel. the Witten­ berg canteen manager, will soon be stocking oodles of personal hygiene products, from Suave Honeysuckle Essence to Dr. Scholl's Foot Powder (i.e., head to toe). Tyler Hjorth

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If there ever was a city in our synod that all the other synod cities should look up to and emulate, Delano, Minnesota would have to be that town. Drawing from a sparse population of roughly 2000 inhabitants, the greater Delano area is sending no less than THREE men to NWC. Think of it three from only 2000. If Milwaukee sent that kind of per­ centage, Northwestern would have over 2100 students from Milwaukee alone. And the three men Delano sent here are no bottom-of-thebarrel rejects, either. Oh. no! They're cream-ofthe-crop clergy candidates, and would be a welcome addition to any campus. Bearing this in mind, C&C has put together a “salute to the Greater Delano Area," which will give you a thumbnail sketch of each of the few. proud, the Delano boys with whom we are privileged to study, eat and live.

First. Mark Henrich. Mark hit campus in 1979 and immediately distinguished himself as one of the most enthusiastic learners in the class. His scrappy, “first the homework, then other things" attitude provided a sterling example for everyone and earned him the respect of his professors. When not studying, Mark enjoys “just browsing around" at the library and collecting different types of shampoo bottle caps. “There are a lot more kinds of shampoo bottle caps than most people are aware of,” Mark told us in his anxious-toplease manner. Presently a junior, Mark is look­ ing forward to graduation, but does lament that he can help his class build only one more Homecoming float and one more snow sculp­ ture.

After Mark Henrich came out of Delano, no one really expected to get anyone else from there, and certainly no one figured they could get another student of Mark’s caliber. But sure enough, the fall of 1980 saw Donald Windsperger's arrival on campus. Affectionately known as “Windsy," Donald soon proved that Delano success stories did not come to a conclusion with Mark Henrich. Refusing to let his superior size go to his head, Windsy good-naturedly clowns around with the guys as though they were all the same size as he. When not clown­ ing around, Windsy "talks cars," “talks chicks.” and “talks AC/DC” with his buddies, who

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stoutly testify that Windsy “lets us use his tire-pressure guage anytime we want it no questions asked. Mis heart's bigger than a 454 Hemi V-8 with a 6-paek split manifold."

Even the most optimistic among us could not envision another Greater Delano Area boy arriving in 1981. but O happy day!- it happened again: Dan Reich, (pronounced “rich" not “reik." This stems from animosity toward the Germans during World War II.). came to town. This kid was full of spirit, full of lire, and so full of pep that he earned the coveted nickname of “Rah-Rah." A high school hockey sensation, Daniel came to Northwestern and selflessly decided to help start a hockey team out of players necessarily inferior to himself. When not pursuing such noble efforts. Dan seeks excellence in what he calls the “Two A’s“ academics and an­ nouncing.

Well, there you have it. our belated, yet well-deserved tribute to the Greater Delano Area. We heartily encourage all students and professors to adjust their busy schedules enough to allow for a brief word of thanks to each of our Delano boys. The thanks need not be elaborate: a simple handshake with a straight-forward, “Iley, thanks for coming to Northwestern, man," will more than suffice.

The more ambitious among you may even wish to write a letter to the synod offices and en­ courage the funding of an accelerated recruit­ ment program in the Greater Delano Area.

The fruits of such a program could only serve to create a better Northwestern for all of us.

We’d rather go out with a bang than a whimper, but we’re fresh out of bottlerockets and we must shed a tear that our year of jubi­ lee has ended. If we failed to keep you rolling in the aisles for two semesters, we beg your forgiveness.

Like it or not. this is our last Campus and Classroom. The passing of our authorship of this column, coupled with the passing of John Belushi. combine to strike what must be con­ sidered a devastating blow to the realm of college humor. (O.K . admittedly, you may take exception to the classification of John Belushi with us. You may feci that such a comparison is unwarranted. But try to remem­ ber that despite the lack of humorous success in several of his movies, Belushi did have some good, genuinely funny moments. Just try to

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overlook the times when he was not funny, and then it will be easier to accept him and us being placed on the same plane of comedic talent.)

Hey Hoser! We’re all out of beer. We’re

JONATHAN RICHARD BALGE DAVID DONALD SELLNOW

CALLS —Pastor David B. Dolan (’67) of Palos Heights, IL, accepted a call to serve St. Paul’s, Algoma, WI, and was installed on April 25,1982.

-Pastor Robert A. Bitter (’64), formerly pastor at St. John’s, Saginaw, MI, accepted a call to serve as pastor of St. Luke’s, Oakfield, WI, and was installed on April 25, 1982.

—Pastor Mark Toepel (’74), formerly of Woodbury, MN, has accepted a call to serve as an instructor at Lakeside Lutheran High School.

District in the institutional ministry, was held at Grace, New London, WI, on February 14, 1982.

DEATHS -Pastor Victor C. Schultz (’31) died on March 2, 1982.

-Prof. Heinrich Vogel (’28), professor at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mcquon, WI, died on March 24, 1982. Funeral services were conducted at Calvery, Thicnsville, on March 26, 1982.

RETIREMENTS BIRTHS -Pastor Walter Hoepner (’34) of Zion, Mercer, and St. Paul, Hurley, WI, has announced his retirement from the active ministry, effec­ tive on July 15, 1982.

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-A daugher, Keturah Elizabeth, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Daniel Garbow (’73) on March 12, 1982.

-A son was born to Pastor and Mrs. Robert Siirila (’75) on March 5, 1982.

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Twenty-nine graduated in 1942, and twenty-five arc still living: Franklin Dobratz, Erwin Ploctz, Walter Sauer and Frank Staffcil have died. George Baer was not only first alphabetically, but was also our top scholar in the class. He has put his talents to good use as an academaniac at NPS, utilizing his outstand­ ing scholastic capability to prepare future graduates. No report has been received from Carl Baganz, but his last known address was Bowler, Wisconsin. Jimmy Bocldt is president of the Adell State Bank in Adell, Wisconsin.

Where is Adell? Why, it's south of Sheboygan.

Wally Geiger is a minister, serving a congrega­ tion in Marathon, Wisconsin, while Arvid Gullerud does likewise in Corpus Christi, Texas. Rollie Gurgel is president of the Immanuel Lutheran College in Eau Claire and is the unchallenged leader in the “progeny derby” with nine children and 31 grandchild­ ren. We think he’s personally trying to assure a good enrollment for his institution for many years to come. Ehvood Haberman has not reported in, but last reports had him serving a congregation in Watertown, South Dakota.

Sig Hillmer is at St. John’s Lutheran in Colum­ bia, Indiana.

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The Wisconsin Synod is in good hands with Elt Huebner as Executive Secretary and his classmate, Carl Leyrer, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Somewhat reluctantly, I look on Carl as a member of my family, since he now has the same address on Milwaukee’s south side that was associated with my family for years. I know of no one who has greater persistence or a stronger will, both of which Carl first displayed on NWC’s athletic fields.

Paul Knickclbein is a minister serving two con­ gregations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Until Rollie Gurgel reported in, Nick was the leader with seven children and ten grandchildren.

Because of good coaching from his dorm roommate, who stuck with him for ten years before he gave up, Len Koeninger was one of NWC’s outstanding musicians, scholars and athletes. (He’s my cousin, so I have to say that.)

He now serves a congregation in Plymouth, Michigan, when he isn’t traveling around the world as a member of the Synod’s Board of Missions. Mark Kocpsell serves a congregation in Crandon, Wisconsin. Latest reported address has Norm Maas serving a congregation in Toledo, Ohio. Juul Madson is president of Bethany Lutheran Seminary in Mankato, Minnesota, and is the only one who lias re-

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Heinie Paustian was another of the class’ outstanding musicians and scholars, plus its poet and humorist. Recognized as a great sermonizer, he was brought back to Watertown to serve as an example for NWC students.

Joe Peterson is pastor at St. Andrew Lutheran in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after serving a parish in Rochester, New York.

Jack Petrie is our class president-so popular that he has never been challenged for that auspicious office in the past forty years.

After ten years as a parish minister, he became an instructor at Winnebago Lutheran Academy in 1957. He married his organist in 1949 and has been making beautiful music with no sour notes ever since—that’s his quote. Bob Steffcnhagen is in a nursing home in Green Bay, Wis­ consin. Art Wadzinski is one of the class’ great entrepencurs and one of our “independ­ ent” souls, of which we have several. He is department head at a public high school in Green Bay and owns a leather preservative plant which manufactures what he calls, the “cadillac” of preservative compounds.

Bob Waldschmidt is serving an independent Lutheran congregation in Pomona, California, and is also teaching religion at First Lutheran High School in San Fernando. He is the only classmate who has had two wives (one at a 608-222-5561 time)-at least to my knowledge-marrying for a second time in 1979 after the death of his first wife in 1976. He is another prolific class­ PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY mate with a family of eight children. Alf Walther, known to us as “Big Alf’ to distinguish of madison him from his “little” brother Herb, serves a P O. Box 8006 • Madison, Wisconsin 5370h congregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Al­ though Ed Zell managed to thoroughly conceal his outstanding theological abilities as a stu­ dent, they were finally recognized in later life, and he is now chairman of the Board of Duraclean of Watertown Control of our seminary in Mequon. He has been with the same congregation in Detroit “FLOWER FRESH CLEANING” ever since graduation. Rich Ziescmer was one of Fine Furniture and Carpets of NWC’s natural athletes. Now he concen­ Commercial, Industrial and Institutional trates on golf and has helped the Alumni team Building Maintenance beat the NWC team every year since the WAYNE STAUDE, OWNER Selma M. Koehler Golf Tournament started in R. R. 4, 140 Riverview Lane 1977. Of course, he lives next to and manages a Dial 261-3350 golf course in Mequon and continues to dabble successfully in real estate.

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sin winters-Norbcrt to Phoenix, Arizona, and Carl to Granada Hills, California. Ed Koch is a sales rep. for Litton Industries in Eagle River, Wisconsin, and is looking forward to retire­ ment this fall.

At least six members of the class have managed to visit “Paradise” while they are still living-some people also call it Hawaii. After twenty years of wandering in the Navy, that’s where the author finally settled.

B&R PHILIP W. KOEHLER (’42)

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THE SPRINTER It seems a dirty trick indeed When he is patently in nccdTo leave him in the lurch, Forever clad in B.V.Ds, Crouched upon his hands and knees, Gazing o’er the campus trees At the Iowa Lutheran church.

Written by Martin Franzmann, this poem appeared in Campus and Classroom, Vol. 31, February 1928 (Carl Lawrenz, Campus and Classroom editor).

When all the leaves have fallen down, When lights blink coldly from the town, And snow is everywhere.

With snow upon his stony nose.

With snow on all his stony clothes, In that most inconvenient pose We sec him standing there.

And when the spring is come again, When all the world is gray with rain, O many a sparrow then has sat Upon his noble, stony hair Has sung about his mistress fair « And other deeds committed there | Less dignified than that.

One would think such things as these, Such multiplex indignities, Repeated year on year In time would make him cynical Perverted, cross, and finical Cold blooded and inimical (Such adjectives-dear! dear!)

Chorus: But kindest heaven, that protects The working girl and you; Can and will if it elects, Protect the Sprinter too.

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The 103rd annual meeting of the Northwestern Alumni Society was called to order by Pastor Robert Voss, the society’s president, at 3:07 p.m.

The minutes of the 102nd annual meeting were accepted as printed in the April, 1981, Black and Red. The roll call conducted by President Carleton Toppe showed 109 alumni and 11 honorary members present. Dr. Henry Koch from the class of 1909 was the oldest alumnus present.

Dr. Elmer Kiessling and Prof. Gerald Hoenecke represented the classes of 1917 and 1918 respectively. The reception of the fifty members of the class of ’81 followed. Received as associate members from the Prep class of 1955 were: David Schumann, Kenneth Bubolz, Le Roy Schoening, and Ralph Navarre.

The treasurer’s report was given by Prof. S. Quam (report included). It was announced by the president that Martin Kaddatz (prep class of 1932) had presented a SI,000 gift to the society. Tutors David Kehl and David Kipfmiller reported the results of their audit of the society’s financial records, with everything in good order. Their report was accepted. A rising vote of thanks was given to Prof. Quam, who is retiring as treasurer.

In the absence of Prof. James Fricke, Dean Edward Lindemann reported for the Nominating Committee, presenting a ballot which was accepted by the society. Elected for one year of office were: Robert Voss President Marvin Otterstatter First Vice President Donald Bitter Second Vice President David Sievert Secretary Treasurer Richard Strobel Armin Schultz Chronicler The Projects Committee Chairman, Pastor Alan Siggelkow, reported for his committee.

Recommendations are that the income of the society for 1981-1982 be used a. to fund the por­ trait of President E. E. Kowalke, cost $600; b. to pay off the remaining offset press debt, cost $4,036; and c. to purchase campus benches plus concrete bases, up to four in number, cost (in 1979) $350 each. The report was accepted, giving priority to the projects as listed.

Prof. Gary Baumler reported for the Banquet Committee. Tickets are available at the door at $5.00 each.

A motion was made and passed to thank all the society’s committees.

Pastor Siggelkow reported on the continued efforts of the class contact mailing program.

President William Zell reminded the group that prep graduates are associate members of the society. Prof, and Mrs. Quam were thanked by the society for their efforts in contacting alumni.

Prof. Armin Schultz, Chronicler, reported the names of those whom the Lord called to Him­ self during the year 1980.

Pastor Reinhardt Ziesemer Class of 1910 Pastor Arthur Hanke 1911 Henry Schroeder 1912 Pastor Arthur Tacke 1912 Pastor E. Walter Hillmer 1913 Pastor Alexander Hillmer 1921 Pastor Otto Henning 1923 Pastor E. F. Henry Lehmann 1923 Pastor Gerhard Schaefer 1929 Pastor Louis Vater 1929 Pastor Harold Warnke 1931

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Pastor Otto Heier 1932 Pastor John Raabe 1934 Pastor Ferdinand Weyland 1934 Pastor Norman Sauer 1939 Pastor A. B. Habben 1940 honorary Prof. Rudolph Sievert Pastor Arthur P. C. Kell honorary Pastor Marcus Schwartz presented a plaque recognizing the efforts of Prof. Arnold Lehmann in rebuilding the organ in the music auditorium. The plaque was given by the class of ’36.

Announcements were made and adjournment followed at 4:07 P.M. Reuel Schulz Secretary, pro tern

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.23,48,82, 115, 143, 170, 196, 222 ALUMNI NOTES, monthly column by Tim Zarling ............................................226, 227 Alumni meeting minutes and treasurer’s report.

223 What Has Happened to the 40th Anniversary Class?—Philip Koehler 11,41,71, 106, 135, 165, 188,218 CAMPUS & CLASSROOM (monthly column..........

by Jon Balgc and David Sellnow) .37, 80,104,141,158,192, 207 CAMPUS COMMENTS (monthly column................. conducted by Ray Bell, Joel Thomford) COMMENCEMENT ORATIONS 2 Songs of Praise from Age to Age-Mark Albrecht 4 Why Northwestern?-John Eich......................... ,50, 83, 116, 144, 171, 197, 225 DUMMHEITEN AUS DER VERGANGENHEIT ... (monthly feature compiled by Tim Buelow) EDITORIALS 6 In Defense of Liberalism-David Rosenbaum ..

18 A Look at Graduation-Leon Piepenbrink........

129 Another Language?-Leon Piepenbrink............

212 More on D & D-Keith Peterson.......................

FEATURES & ESSAYS cover, issue 1 Today the World Watched Us in Triumph-Timothy Buelow.................

8 Remember That Survey?—John Miller......................................................

13 Senior Profiles..........................................................................................

27 New Faces at NWC, Professors Schmidt and Kruse-Ray Bell.................

29 New Faces at NWC, The Tutoronic Knights—Joel Nitz........................... .32 The End of a Long Road, Accreditation Endorsed—John Miller............. .35 A Faculty Workshop—Tim Zarling.......................................................... cover, issue 3 Modem Art at NWC-Phil Lueders.........................................................

54 The Reformation—Then and Now—Tim Zarling..................................... .62 Benton Harbor’s House of David-Timothy Buelow............................... .86 A Peculiar Peoplc-Leon Piepenbrink..................................................... .91 A Roadmap to Bar Mitzvah: Tracing Jewish Education-Tim Zarling ... .93 A Rainy Day in October-Ray Bell......................................................... .95 Your Best Bet for Banking-Paul Prange............................................... .97 Smokeless Tobacco-Joel Thomford..................................................... cover, issue 5 Christmas in Missions Remembered-Phil Lueders................................. ...............119 Who Were the Magi?-Tim Zarling..........................................................

124 Chessmen of the World, Unite!-Paul VanderGalien.............................

126 Beware the Wiles of Evolution—David Reichel.....................................

148 Shorthand in One Sitting—Pastor Roger Kovaciny...............................

155 The Bond of a People-Tim Zarling........................................................

175 Burma Shave—John Hoh........................................................................

178 Electives: A Harder Choice Than Voting for President?-David Sellnow 181 Professor Korthals to Join the “Big League”—Ray Bell.........................

183 Dungeons and Dragons, Described-A Mere Regel.................................

184 Dungeons and Dragons, Defended-Joel Drews.....................................

185 Dungeons and Dragons, Denounced—Ed Lindemann.............................

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FICTION cover, issue 2 Vive la France—Paul Prange.................................................................... ,58 The Aerie—Ken Cherney........................................................................ ,89 Man of Flesh and Blood-Paul Prange...................................................

121 Coals of Fire-Ken Cherney.................................................................... cover, issue 6 Two Birds and a Stone-Paul Prange.....................................................

152 Melancholy in Amcrica-Bradley Ragner.............................................. cover, issue 7 The Prisoner—Ken Cherney................................................................... ...............208 Vinyl Concepts: The Inner Ear-Joel Nitz............................................

210 The Death of Socratcs-Bradley Ragner..............................................

OBITUARIES 151 Dr. Elmer C. Kicssling 1895-1981-Phil Lueders.................................. ,206 Mrs. James Fricke-Tim Zarling.............................................................

POETRY • 19 Resurrection-John Miller..................................................................... ,31 Stars in July—Jeff Schonc..................................................................... .51 The Dreamer—Paul Prange..................................................................... .81 Autumn Firc-J. Bendcwald................................................................. cover, issue 4 Tigress-David Scllnow.........................................................................

116 Slaughter of Innocence—Paul Prange....................................................

125 I Hate Pizza Without a Crust—The New Society Minstrel Singers ....

142 “London Bridge is Falling Down”—Jan Qucb .

147 In Search of Friends—Geoffrey Kieta.............

153 Christmas Snows—M. Sanders.........................

162 play for me—Paul Prange.................................

176 A Vacant Stare-Geoffrey Kieta.....................

180 Opus Infinity-GeolTrey Kieta.........................

198 Sin-Jesse Jones................................................

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MALLACH CLINIC PHARMACY Michael L. Chandler, R. Ph.

MINAR BUSINESS MACHINES

123 Hospital Drive

TYPEWRITERS-CALCULATORS SALES-SERVICE-RENTAL 111 N. 4th Waterto wn 261-8600

Watertown, Wisconsin

ROGER'S TV & APPLIANCES

Phone 261-0242

ff&tnrs

Hitachi-Sylvania, Stereo & TV Norge, Gibson & Crosley Appliances Kitchen Aid Dishwashers Jenn-Air Ranges

Smart Clothes for Men

402 Main Watertown Phone 261-3385

Formal Wear Rental 107 Main Street Dial 261-4174

BUSSE'S PHARMACY

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204 E. Main cards, gifts, natural foods, magazines, health aids

mallachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book store 107 north third street watertown, Wisconsin 53094

A1 Shumaker, pharmacist

Electrical Contractors Electric [Wj IRING [SERVICE

Oconomowoc 567-7566 Wate rtown 261 -3755 Milwaukee 367-6008

phone (414) 261-0804

jeannine mallach, bookseller . . .Give them a call or visit.

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Advertise in the Black and Red. . .

ENGAGEMENT DIAMONDS J. LITTLE PHOTOGRAPHY 117 N. 8th St Watertown

261-6607

Quality Senior Portraits

SALICK

SHOP at SEARS ancl SAVE

Jewelers

QUALITY UNSURPASSED

SINCE 1853

WATERTOWN

SCHNEIDER JEWELRY Student Gift Headquarters Accutron — Bulova Caravelle Watches Columbia Diamonds Expert Watch Repair 309 E. Main Street

Dial 261-6769

WATERTOWN BOWL-" 18" 102 W. Cady Street Phone 261-1796

PRICES TO FIT EVERY POCKETBOOK

Phone 261-3880

207 S. 3rd

Renneifi

We know what you're looking for

IN WATERTOWN Fashion Headquarters FOR YOUNG MEN Edward E. Hoffer Realtor & Broker

HOFFER 261-4654 REALTY

FARMS - HOMES BUSINESSES GENERAL INSURANCE

128 South Church St — Watertown, Wis. 53094

Open Daily at 1 p. m.

Art's Shoe Service BOWLING

SHOE REPAIR

PRO SHOP

Fast Service - Reasonable Prices

BILLIARDS

514 E. Main Watertown Washington Hotel

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS

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PAINTS and WALLPAPER DRAPERIES and CARPETS 302 Main Street

Phone 261-4062

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Watertown

HOSE'S BARBER SHOP POTATO CHIPS

New Concepts in Haircutting & Styling — Wigs —

POPCORN

Appointments — Closed Mondays Open Fri. to 9 p.m. — Sat. to 3:30 p.m.

102 S. 4th Street

Phone 261-3646

MALLACH PHARMACY

1 14 W. Main Street — Watertown

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OF WATERTOWN, INC.

INC.

211 Hiawatha St. Watertown, WI 53094 Phone 261-5062 261-5067

Michael Chandler, R.Ph.

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Professionally At Your Service

315 Main St.

Phone 261-3717

RESTAURANT AND COCKTAIL LOUNGE 261-9010 700 E. Main, Watertown

COMFORTABLE LODGING FACILITIES

WATERTOWN

DINING ROOM SPECIALS EVERY DAY Fridays - Seafood Buffet Sundays - Sunday Brunch

COCKTAIL LOUNGE Monday Night Football

THE STUDENT'S CHOICE >!

Our Greatest Asset Is Your Satisfaction YOU SAVE ON QUALITY CLEANING 412 Main Street — Phone 261-6851

m Best

Western

WEST ROOM

Weddings, Seminars, Rehearsal Dinners

RED ROOM

Sales Meetings and Small Family Gatherings

. . .We want to serve you!

KUESTER PLUMBING 222 S. First Street

Phone 261-2709

WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

SHARP CORNER INN Full Menu Excellent Sandwiches Fine Cocktails and House Wines

"The Latest in Motion Pictures” 308 E. Main Street (414) 261-1692 WATERTOWN, WIS. 53094

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES ★ A Daily Newspaper Since 1895

Accommodations for Parties up to 30 People

261-5259 Within Walking Distance of the Campus At the comer of MAIN STREET AND COLLEGE AVENUE

l\/|&l Bank of Watertown "The Bank Behind the Town" at 205 No. Second Street

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

Watertown

Phone 261-3011

Watertown DODGE "New and Used Cars” 301 W. Main Street

Watertown, Wisconsin

Phone 261-7102 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

ur)umUeD Paul Smebak

Dial 261-3870

WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

715 East Main Street Watertown, Wisconsin 53094 (414) 261-6519

Contact Lenses

and Eyeglaaaea

KECK FURNITURE

COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS

COMPANY

FOR OVER A CENTURY

110-112 Main St — Wati.riown PHONE 261-7214

FIRST ^ STATE 1 SAVINGS Downtown or Shopping Center "Your Savings Insured up to $100,000'

FISCHERS THE DEPARTMENT STORE OF WATERTOWN

cijemeid ter Funeral Service / Furniture

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Quality and Sender at Reasonable Prices

RAYMOND DOBIJRATZ (>07-013 Main Street

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Phone 261-2218

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Milwaukee Cheese Co. 770 No. Springdale Rd., Waukesha, Wis.

TRI-MART CORPORATION WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR

MANUFACTURERS OF

BEER KAESE & WUNDERBAR BRICK CHEESE

Tobaccos, Candy, Fountain Chemical and Paper Supplies

COMPLETE LINE OF 301 CLARK ST.

WATERTOWN

Institutional Food Products PHONE: 261-4941

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ISforthwestern College announces the One Hundred Eleventh Annual Commencement Exercises Wednesday/ ^May nineteenth ten otlock in the morning' (h the College Gymnasium

DATE

TIME

1

Baseball Trojans at Marquette.

2

More baseball vs. MSOE.

4

Baseballcrs battle the Baptists on their field.

7

The absolutely final finals begin for the seniors, (veni, vidi, victus sum)

8

Full Moon.

9

Mother’s Day. (Just think where we would be without them.)

1:00 P.M. :00 P.M.

12-18

Regular semester finals.

Exodus of Seniors.

13

Th<- bsolute end of the absolutely final finals for NWC’s seniors.

(Aui dcutsch: Dasistallcs. Ja!)

19

NWC GRADUATION. II; nd of tl. ro;1 ' he last hurrah;pay day; the final whistle; 'turn out the hghts, the party’s over;” ’’this was their finest hour.”

10:00 A.M.

List Quotation of the Month: \cvcr in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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■ Churchill

LEON PIEPENBRINK*-

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