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Monday, March 23, 2009
Don't Get A Computer Science Degree
That's my short answer to this thread on Hacker News. The long answer goes here, because I got so annoyed at Hacker News discussions that I deleted my own password. Since I use randomized, automatically-secure passwords that are very hard for humans to remember, I've effectively locked myself out. Keep this in mind as you weigh the value of my advice.
I'm not saying you shouldn't take Comp Sci classes. You should, especially if you're somewhere like MIT, whose Lisp program is legendary. I'm not even saying don't get a degree. I dropped out of school, and I know great programmers who've done the same, or never applied to colleges in the first place, but if you can get a degree, it's usually worth the effort. But don't get it in computer science. I've come to believe that a computer science degree is actively counter-productive.
A random tweet:
An ensuing conversation between a pair of bald men:
By the way, plenty of older programmers still have their hair, and might disagree with our opinions here. Please find them and ask them. If you find any statistical correlation between hair loss and appreciation for art school, please report your findings immediately.
Here's another reason to appreciate art school:
Although to be fair, computer science made it to the top five.
I spent a year or so in art and music classes, and a good long stretch of time reading on all kinds of advanced topics in programming. Both made me a better programmer, and both happened around the same time. It's fair to say studying programming made me better at how, while art and music classes made me better at why.
The fundamental question of what comes from both of those - what you build will depend on what you know is possible and what you believe is worth building. Many programmers have unambitious ideas when it comes to what they believe is worth building. However, many programmers have unambitious ideas when it comes to how, too, including the ones with comp sci degrees, because many comp sci degrees fail to teach anything about higher-order programming. As far as I can tell, art school will expand your range of what you consider possible, while comp sci classes will inaccurately constrain it.
Of course the truth is that whatever works for you may be very different than what works for anyone else. Keep that in mind too.
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Isn't Wellesley an all girls school? If so, does that make this whole virgin/non-virgin thing hotter?ReplyDelete
No one I work with (8 peeps, including me) majored in CS. Sometimes I wonder if I'm a real developer because I didn't major in CS, so it's nice to see that some don't care.
I love getting all this advice just as I'm finishing my degree.ReplyDelete
I do have a better understand of what is *going on*, but as far as *getting jobs* it does make me wish I had enrolled in photography after all.
I was a CS/Math double major. I was thinking last night, as I systemically performed a depth-first search on Vault 92 in Fallout 3, that I use more CS in games and recreational activities than what I do to make money.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed what I studied, but I do wish I had more time for art and music courses in college. Maybe I'll go back some day to figure out why my "it sounds just off enough to be awesome" definition of a Chromatic is most likely wrong.
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 at 2:15:00 AM PDT
Giles, MIT dropped its old 6.001 Scheme course a year ago. They now teach their introductory programming course using Python.ReplyDelete
Isn't Wellesley an all girls school? If so, does that make this whole virgin/non-virgin thing hotter?ReplyDelete
Heh, whoops. I wish I knew where to find better statistics for this sort of thing.
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 at 6:22:00 AM PDT
As a CS major, I instinctively want to disagree with you. But lately I've been wishing I'd majored in music instead.ReplyDelete
Still, I think there's something to be said for getting a BA in CS over a BS. A CS BS is an engineering degree, and writing software isn't engineering. (Uh, can I say that?)
Interesting discussion, but I have a semantic bone to pick: I saw the tweet about art schools and musicians a while back. While probably correct in an absolute sense, it misses the point of most music schools, which is to train classical musicians.ReplyDelete
If you looked at only the category of professional musician that music colleges are training -- classical --, you'd find that the successful ones almost universally have degrees in music.
Now, if we're talking about _all_ genres of music, no doubt there are many more success stories from non-music programs. This shouldn't be surprising. Country music isn't the same thing as Classical music, and it would be silly to think you'd learn much about it from a Classical program.
Whether or not institutions calling themselves schools of "music" should broaden their horizons a bit is a different discussion entirely, but the point is if you think you're going to learn how to become a pop sensation by attending Juilliard, you haven't done the least bit of homework about Juilliard.
It's the same thing with Computer Science and Programming. They're not the same thing. If you think you're going to learn how to design a great Rails app at Stanford, you don't have any idea what CS is. For _actual_ CS careers (think research and universities), the field is populated almost exclusively with advanced CS degree holders.
If you're only directing this post at people who want to become professional programmers, then I wholeheartedly agree with you (except the complaint about the music tweet; that still stands), but to give blanket advice against CS degrees is to miss the point of CS degrees.
*facepalm* And so now I actually go and _look_ at that HN thread...yep, it's directed specifically at people wanting to get into programming. Maybe I should try to get some context for the conversations I join, eh?ReplyDelete
Time to go find some more blogs to miss the point of...
I got into programming as part of my job (in my thirties). Now I am a full time code jockey. I am very glad I got my degrees and have experience in other fields. I don't have to work on thinking out of the box as I am *from* outside the box.ReplyDelete
At the same time not having formal CS experience is starting to catch up with me as I get into more advanced programming concepts like design patterns etc. Thank God for the internet and for Stanford and other Universities offering a slew of CS classes online. http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
I can't tell if Duke Love is weirdly desperate spam or what, but I let it thru moderation because it's kind of entertaining.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2009 at 3:52:00 AM PDT
Interesting topic indeed. I am a software tester, games tester and doing quality assurance. Ironically, most issues found are related to programmers not understanding on how to gather information correctly from the specified requirements and not questioning why the program must be written that way. What is the business need for the requirement.ReplyDelete
I also found that programmers are most of the time fighting processes. Testing and quality assurance is about processes.
Having interns on my team who is finishing their CS degree still don't know the business aspects of software development and most of all the social aspect of software such as the usability.
So why do more and more employers require testers to have CS degree?
Why are testers expected to have more programming skills?
And why are employers who request (the questions mentioned above) to have these backgrounds not adhering to the practices required by these professions?


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Here's a photo from Jason Rosenhouse's Evolutionblog, where he's been covering his visit to the Sixth International Conference on Creationism. Yes, they have those.
And if Jason's photos from the closing presentation here are any indication, the upshot of the conference this year was, "We got jack!" A rather bold admission, you might say, but since these are people whose principal goal is the validation of religious beliefs and not the pursuit of knowledge, I don't suspect they'll do anything with these conclusions other than continue to bring the fail, year after year. I see some bullet points missing from these slides, such as, "We're promoting an idea with an unfalsifiable and therefore unscientific premise," and, "We've never had a peer reviewed paper," and, "We've never given any examples of how creationism constitutes a theory with predictive power." You know, little details like that. For all the problems they admit to, they're still clueless as to the biggies.
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http://launch.soe.com/installer/DCUO_setup.exe Click this link and you'll install the game. I'm not THAT big of a DC fan apart from Watchmen, but this is easily the greatest MMO I've ever played -- and it's free to play. AND...I have a league -- "Animal Collective"! http://animalcollective.proboards.com/ <-- is the league forum. The graphics are totally optimized, the combat is SPECTACULAR, figuring out the game is NOT that difficult and it's super-rewarding all-in-all. If you are into storylines, this game feels like a downright RPG that just happens to be played with a million other people. It just won MMO of the Year as well, and they are constantly updating the game! The new update is coming soon, as well! Consider playing this!
Hm... I haven't played an MMO since the eighth grade... I would consider playing it if I was with other people I knew.
I'll think about it, but mainly because I don't have a great computer I think it would be impossible.
That's why I'm considering it I think I'll create a character and see how it is. I'll report back.
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HERO!!!!!! Don't be evil -- it's way harder to find groups because there are less evil people so they are INSANE at PVP. joining hero is like joining the under-dogs
lol i'll totally play this.
Good... I can't deal with being an evil person in video games because I just feel terrible about myself...
all I do is play DC Universe and listen to music anymore, working out every other day and doing my classwork.... and I LOVE this life decision
I chose to be a nature dude with the hand blast.
What's your role? Healer Tank DPS Controller I created like four characters before I found the right power type / class. Didn't play any of them for longer than an hour each, but still.
Healer probably - depending on what's needed. Generally I prefer to be the healer on a team.
I wish this site had a chat box.
I do love DCUO's chat box. What's your character's name? I'll invite you to the league!! http://animalcollective.proboards.com/
I had to uninstall the program because for some reason it was installing the game again, using another 15 gigs of space. All I did was log in and it started downloading all the program files again, wtf. My character's name is claudeavecvin, in case I get this stupid thing to work.
That's bizarre. You should do a "repair" installation. Also, there's a new DLC pack coming VERY soon, so that'll be more space.
apparently they're going to have ANGRY BIRDS IN SPACE i still don't quite understand what this angry birds thing IS and where it's going
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Tek'a, 29 Sep 2006 @ 2:24am
elvesor imps. lashed to tiny little chairs connected to tiny little clockwork gears spinning up little power plants in your laptop, pda or mp3 device. or the more high tech solution? minature atomic reactors (dont forget to add water to that cooling tank every hour) or some kind of tesla-style beamed power system. its disappointing. its getting late in the year 2006 and batteries are still lumps based around acids and metals reacting in strange and fantastic ways. plenty of people reading this right now watched shows in their childhood and young adulthood about how hydrogen fuel cells would be powering everything in just years. im not asking for a flying jetsons bubblecar, but can we see something? anything? sprocket power.. yeah.. thats the answer
AW, 29 Sep 2006 @ 2:57amWhile it's all fine and good that the batteries are being replaced, it's dangerous to continue using them...but my question is, where's the Sony list of the current recall batterys?
Each pc company has their own list...and while Dell doesn't specifically say that my battery may be affected, I'd like to cross reference that with Sony.
RJarke, 29 Sep 2006 @ 4:30am
Breakthrough you've been waiting for.You wanted a breakthrough? There ya go.
Mike w/BSEE from Brown '79, 29 Sep 2006 @ 7:47am
Re: Breakthrough you've been waiting for.Woo! Woo!
JC, 29 Sep 2006 @ 5:32amThe problem with battery technology is that it's not electronics. It's chemistry. Chemistry doesn't get to follow moores law like electronics do. And while electronics are fairly new with much still to learn, batteries have been around for thousands of years (it's believed the ancient egyptians had them).
Someone, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:14am
Re:> batteries have been around for thousands of years (it's believed the
> ancient egyptians had them).
Believed isn't good enough for me, I'll stick with believing they were
invented in the 1700s. :)
Jim, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:03am
Carbon Nano-fiber CapacitorI saw an article about carbon nano-fibers being used to create a high capacity capcitor. Aside from their low energy density, capacitors are better batteries then batteries.
Maybe this is the solution we've all been hoping for?
Either way, I very much agree with this article. I've said to my friends many times that they next great breakthough in human evolution needs to be cheap energy production.
Anonymous of Course, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:25am
Re: Carbon Nano-fiber CapacitorNo doubt that cheap energy would be a boon
to mankind.
But these batteries are not sources of energy
they're a means of transporting and using
energy generated elsewhere- and so is hydrogen.
For greater energy storage and nearly unlimited cycles,
capacitor storage systems using ceramic capacitors
are looking really good right now. But there are some
issues. They store evergy at high voltage while electronic
circuits we love to use are increasing circuit density by
using smaller gemoeteries using lower anre lower voltage.
So you'll need conversion electronics in the package
with the capacitor bank to drop the kilovolts down to
a vew volts. The electronics will have to be efficient.
A big capacitor chock full of delicious energy is a nasty
thing if it is short circuited.
Any sorce of stored energy that allows rapid expenditure
of the energy is dangerous. Even a block of wood if
ground to powder can explode under the proper conditions.
Better quality controls, more stable chemistry, better
safeguards built into the electronics would be nice.
David k, 29 Sep 2006 @ 8:07am
Re: Re: Carbon Nano-fiber CapacitorI have been tracking some new battery technology using Nano tech, looks very promising, see info below, work for laptop too
Altair Nanotechnologies to Demonstrate Advances in NanoSafe Rechargeable Battery Program at Zero Emission Vehicle Symposium
Advances in the manufacture of safe, fast-charging, long-lasting batteries used to power electric and hybrid electric vehicles will be addressed by Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. at the California Air Resources Board Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Technology Symposium, held September 25-27, 2006 in Sacramento, California.
On September 27, at 2:30 p.m., Evan House, Ph.D., Director of Altairnano's Advanced Materials & Power Systems business unit, will deliver a presentation on Altairnano's NanoSafe rechargeable nano-titanate battery program. In addition, Altairnano will demonstrate its NanoSafe battery technology throughout the Zero Emission Vehicles conference.
A leader in advanced nanomaterials and alternative energy solutions, Altairnano has forged an innovative path in battery chemistry by replacing graphite (which can cause batteries to malfunction or explode under certain conditions) with its patented nano-titanate material which is safe and reliable.
Altairnano's nano-titanate material can be charged and discharged significantly more often than conventional batteries because of the absence of particle fatigue that plagues graphite. Conventional lithium ion batteries can be charged about 750 times before they are no longer useful. In comparison, Altairnano NanoSafe battery cells have now achieved over 9,000 charge and discharge cycles at rates up to 40 times greater than are typical of common batteries, while retaining up to 85 percent charge capacity.
"It's an honor to be invited to present at the California Air Resources Board Zero Emission Vehicle Symposium and we look forward to providing substantive details on the role Altair Nanotechnologies is playing in making safe, powerful, long life, reliable electric vehicles a mass-market reality," Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Alan J. Gotcher, Ph.D said.
Sam, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:13amYeah I've been keeping up with this kind of thing for a while. Sadly the advances are being made by people who don't know anything about business and never patent their discoveries for fear of it being stolen...or are completely psycho and want 100% control over the production and all of the profits from their product, which means it'll be 30 years before they are able to produce commercially.
So only people with business sense(which is few and far between with scientists) or working for big corporations(which are few and far between) are actually making their work known.
Are you not entertained??, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:27am
Broken promises....I agree with you Tek'a. Seems we were promised a hi-tech future which never arrived. We're no closer to the bubble car than when we were still watching the Jetsons. I'm reminded of this every morning while my rolling vehicle is stuck to the ground by gravity in single file with all the other George's who are trying to get to work so they can put in their three hour day at Spacely's Sprockets. The good news, so I hear, is Apple plans on powering their next generation nano-iPod with Hydrogen fuel cells. Those darn chemical batteries keep wearing out too quickly as I try to listen to my mp3's stuck in traffic!
hoeppner, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:32am
Fat Hack, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:39am
piezoelectricityHow's about no batteries (well, only small ones) and we produce the power ourselves.
Solves the obesity problem too
nunya_bidness, 29 Sep 2006 @ 6:59am
Sony Marketing Strategy?I may be wrong, but, I do not recall any Sony notebooks on a recall list.
...puts tinfoil hat back on
Dudebro, 29 Sep 2006 @ 7:38am
Battery LifeWhy would battery manufacturers want to extend the life of their product?
They basically have the whole world in their firm grasp. The only improvements on batteries are minor (I believe) to make the bottom profit margin greater.
It's just like Edison's light bulb... we can manufacture a light bulb that stay lit constantly for 100 years +, but we don't. Why?
To sell more lightbulbs of course.
John Gietzen, 29 Sep 2006 @ 7:53am
Re: Battery LifeDudebro, quit being stupid.
If there are two companies out there making batteries, it would be advantageous to both of them to hunt for longer-life solutions.
Anything to under-cut the competition.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Sep 2006 @ 11:51am
Re: Re: Battery LifeJohn Gietzen, dont underestimate entirely what he said.
Products have lifecycles, and I dont know how old you are, but there are tools and pumps and basic things my grandfather had, bought in the 20s & 30s, that work today just as well as they did then. You're insane if you think a single damn thing in my entire average american house will work 80-90 years from now.
So yes, why sell extremely long-lasting products, especially if you can't offer something improved enough technologically relatively soon? If it doesn't break, that kills the first chance for a business cycle, and if technology is utterly stagnant like batteries have been of late and therefore a new hot model won't come out next year then that avenue too is closed.
Therefore, the best thing is to cut costs to the bone, which of course results in 'cheap' quality products, which drives the next cycle.
AMP, 29 Sep 2006 @ 11:56am
Re: Re: Battery LifeJohn, it is not that stupid of a concept. Planed obsolescence is not that uncommon.
DBGG, 29 Sep 2006 @ 8:25am
Next Gen BatteryCheck out Sion Power (http://www.sionpower.com/)
Their useing a lithium and sulfur combination that has some real potential.
Lay Person, 29 Sep 2006 @ 8:35am
The more power the bigger the explosion?
What Kinda crap is that? Look, as a kid, I used to deliberately make bombs. I also know that if you put a hole, regardless of the type of material of the casing or the amount of explosive, the bomb won't explode but just fizzle like a bottle rocket. If built correctly there's not even a chance of fire.
Maybe me and this battery guy should get together...he designs the battery, I design the housing.
One caveat, the housings need to be made of metal or non flammable material.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Sep 2006 @ 9:44amBatteries are up against physical limits. Chemistry allows a maximum energy density of a few kJ/moles - more than that and the bonds start breaking, often explosively. Batteries, flywheels, little springs; they all have this same limit.
Energy can be stored in electric and magnetic fields - capaictors and inductois - but doing this produces pressures proportional to the energy density. You can't do much better than batteries this way without producing pressures high enough to shatter any possible material, because of the limited strength of chemical bonds.
The only feasible way to do significantly better is to go nuclear. Use radioactive istopes as your power source and can achieve energy densities of several MJ/mole - a thousandfold improvement on chemistry.
However, I suspect radioactive batteries would met considerable consumer resistance, even if they allowed laptops to run for five years without recharging.
Lay Person, 29 Sep 2006 @ 10:46am
Re: #19Yeah but then with nuclear you not only burn down your house but the city as well.
Then that's not even considering the fallout.
Seriously, I remember reading somewhere where some manufacturer had a hydrogen cell about the size of a pen light. You fill it with butane and it converts hydrogen in the butane to electricity. They already have a working model.
Here is an excerpt:
"Motorola announced that it has demonstrated a prototype of a fuel cell powered by methane gas. The company said it could be used for any portable electronic device. It should provide power to a cellphone for a month between charges.
The fuel cell is slightly bigger than a typical cellphone battery. It contains a chemical reactor that releases oxygen, heat, and electricity. The cell can power the device directly, but in Motorola's design it keeps another battery charged. This would keep the power supply constant, similar to a UPS for a computer.
Motorola joins others such as Sony and NEC in the consumer electronics industry in the quest for better portable power sources. Methane power has multiple advantages. It is plentiful and cheap and can even be obtained from renewable resources. It is also easily compressed from a gas to a transportable liquid.
The industry feels that the engineering concept is now proven and all that remains is to design and engineer the mass production capability that will be required. Production is two to four years away."
No Thanks, 29 Sep 2006 @ 10:04am
It's all about the capacitors babyHere's the real answer...
Carbon nanotube capacitors: http://www.physorg.com/news10525.html
ok, really there will be a bunch of answers, but this one seems the most enviromentally friendly, AND STABLE replacement for chemical batteries.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Sep 2006 @ 11:31am... with nuclear you not only burn down your house but the city as well. - not possible, nuclear batteries don't contain minature nuclear reactors, merely radioactive isotopes like those that naturally occur in your body. However, this is just the kind of scaremongering that would slow the take-up of that solution.
Hydrogen is not a significant improvement on current batteries. It may be environmentally cleaner, but you can only get a few hundred KJ/gram out of it, in a tradeoff between power and lifespan. Nuclear is a thousand times better.
Anonymous Coward, 31 Oct 2006 @ 3:05pmwat
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Bethel produces a new six week TV series on the Private College
Hour starting this week. The program pictured is from the "Creativity"
series presented first semester by the English and speech departments
and it included a cutting from the Royal players' repertoire. Dr. James
Johnson and Dr. Walfred Peterson will be presenting a series entitled
"Church and State Relations in American History and Law" for the com-ing
five Monday nights.
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Dr. Hassan Saab, Lebanese diplo-mat
and present Lebanese cultural
counselor in North America, will
speak on the topic, "Democracy in
the Developing World" for the
scheduled convocation Friday at
10 a.m.
A native of Beirut, Lebanon, Dr.
Saab graduated from the Faculty
of arts of the University of Cairo
in 1942. He received a Ph.D. in
political science from Georgetown
university in Washington in 1956.
His diplomatic experience in-cludes
service as attache at the
Lebanese legation in Paris (1944-
1946) and secretary of embassy
and charge d'affaires at the Leb-anese
embassy in Washington
Dr. Saab's knowledge and ability
as a lecturer have been widely
sought. He has lectured on politi-cal
science at the American univer-sity
in Beirut, the Lebanese univer-sity
and Saint-Joseph university of
He also participated as lectur-er
on the institutional history of
Arab federalism at the Institute
of Arab studies in Cairo in 1960.
Dr. Saab is author in English of
The Arab Federalists of the Otto-man
Empire. He has also trans-lated
a number of works in Arabic.
Student senate took action last
night on "an issue ultimately con-cerning
every student at Bethel,"
according to senator Bob Beck-
Classes Select
Leaders Friday
Tomorrow night at 8:30 there
will be a political rally in the col-lege
auditorium. Candidates are:
For academic committee co-or-dinator:
Douglas Mankell and Bill
Swenson; cultural committee co-ordinator:
Roger Evans, Stan Ol-sen;
athletic committee co-ordina-tor:
Stan Miller, George Palke; re-ligious
committee co-ordinator:
Charles Foster, James Keim.
Social committee co-ordinator:
Rad Mason, Judy Lindaman; senior
class president: Terry Port, Ed-ward
Van Rossum; senior class
vice-president: Cody Crandall,
Jerry Wahlstrom; senior class sec-retary:
Pat Jaynes, Judy Van Wam-beke;
senior class treasurer: War-ren
McMullen, Robert Beck; senior
class representative: Karin Berg,
John Taylor.
Junior class president: Bert
Heep, Dave Peterson; junior class
vice-president: Jerry Moulton, Fred
Lund; junior class secretary: Ellen
Franzen, Kay Moir; junior class
treasurer: David Burrow, Wayne
Schafer; junior class representa-tive:
Hans Waldenstrom, Dennis
Sophomore class president: Jim
Peterson, Mike Peterson; sopho-more
class vice-president: Bill Led-kins,
Paul Johnson; sophomore
class secretary: Bonnie Carlson,
Gail Erickson; sophomore class
treasurer: Kathy Swanson, Tom
Corneil; sophomore class repre-sentative:
Richard Folden, Phil
strom. The item was a report pre-sented
by the ad hoc committee
studying the possibility of an honor
system at Bethel.
As defined, an honor system is
"a kind of contract by which the
student agrees to uphold certain
specified standards or norms and
to make it known to proper author-ities
when he or anyone else be-comes
a violator of those stan-dards."
Academically the standard pro-posed
by the committee is simp-ly
"the maintainence of honesty
in academic work," its violations
being cheating and plagiarism.
Socially the system applies to
"all non-scholastic aspects of the
student's life, including those areas
under the jurisdiction of admini-strative
standards, dormitory re-gulations
and student senate by-laws."
Presently such standards are al-ready
explicit at Bethel. However,
in addition to the acknowledgment
of those standards, the proposed
honor system includes a judiciary
Composed of five student,
three faculty and two admini-strative
representatives and a
student chairman, the board will
review all cases of honor system
violations. It will have the power
to expel and appeals will be
made to the president of the col-lege.
Besides the standards and the
judicial board, the honor system
includes a third element. When a
student sees another violate the
honor system it is his moral duty
to tell the violator he is bound by
honor to report his own violation.
Then, he himself must report the
Commenting on this third ele-ment,
chairman Bob Beckstrom
said, "Here lies the snag. No one
likes to tell on his friends. As
long as students link 'squealing'
with the honor system, it will
"However, for a harmonious
community to exist, it is impera-tive
that every individual respect
its standards and goals, and do his
part to maintain them. Only as
students accept the demands of the
honor system will they enjoy its
Alumni council of Bethel college
and seminary has announced its
sponsorship of a $100,000 campus
development project, the Bethel
Alumni Program for Excellence
"Phase one of APEX will be to
construct a tower on our new cam-pus
site in Arden Hills to be sym-bolic
of Bethel's program of Chris-tian
higher education," said Dwight
Jessup, director of alumni affairs,
"while phase two will be an alumni
thrust to enrich and expand aca-demic
From $30,000 to $50,099 will be
designated for the new campus
tower, and the remaining funds
will create an Alumni Faculty
Grant fund available upon applica-tion
to faculty members for gradu-ate
study, travel, research and
"The tower will be one of the
few facilities on the new campus
which will serve both the college
"Church and State Relations in
American History and Law" will be
the general theme for Bethel's
final TV series on KTCA-TV chan-nel
Program series seen Monday
nights at 8:30 began last Monday
and will continue for five weeks.
American historian Dr. James
Johnson and political scientist
Dr. Walfred Peterson will pre-sent
discussions on topics rang-ing
from "The Puritan Theoratic
State" to "Recent Court Cases In-volving
Church and State Separa-tion."
The controversial prayer ban de-cision
will be discussed in the con-text
of historical trends. Quentin
Yo u n g People
Will Explore
Church Jobs
Bethel seminary is sponsoring
the College Conference on the
Christian Ministry "to challenge
young people to enter the Chris-tian
ministry," Friday, May 1. Reg-istration
will begin at 8 a.m. in
the seminary building.
Conference is a response to the
growing awareness of a decrease
in seminary enrollment and an in-crease
in college enrollment.
Plans for the conference are
directed toward college students
already considering specific
Christian service and those
whom the college faculty sug-gests.
College conference program is
set up to explore phases of the
Christian ministry. Pastor Emmet
Johnson of Elim Baptist church,
Minneapolis, begins the conference
by giving a chapel address entit-led,
"The Challenge of the Minis-try."
A luncheon presentation, "The
Varied Ministries of the Church,"
by Clifford Anderson and a film,
"The Minister," will follow.
Seminary faculty will be in
charge of three rotating discus-sion
groups dealing with the
problem of preparation for the
ministry. A final challenge by
Dr. Gordon Johnson, "The Call
to the Ministry," will close the
afternoon activities.
Dinner in the homes of semin-ary
students and faculty will be
followed by informal discussions
and good fellowship.
and seminary," Jessup said. "The
tower will become a focal point
for the entire campus and should
become the traditional symbol of
the 'new Bethel.' "
Visible from Snelling avenue
where it skirts the west shoreline
of Lake Valentine and containing
speakers for an electronic bell or
chime system, the tower will be
located in the lake near its south-east
shoreline. Gateway entrances
into the campus from the highway
will be designed to compliment the
"The Alumni Faculty Grant fund
fills a long-standing need for en-couragement
to individual faculty
members, and it will create a new
faculty-alumni relationship which
should foster a continually expand-ing
role for the alumni in the total
school program," Jessup said.
Alumni project will be activated
as soon as possible, with a target
completion date of May 31, 1965.
T. Smith, faculty television co-or-dinator,
says, "This promises to be
the most excitingly controversial
Bethel TV series to date."
Bethel's previous two series of
programs on the "Minnesota Pri-vate
College Hour" began with the
"Creativity" sequence featuring
the English and speech depart-ments
and continued with the
"Dignity of Man" series which fea-tured
several departments rang-ing
from art to Christianity.
Plans for next year are near-ing
completion around the basic
theme "Great Ideas in Focus."
The program will include a more
diversified departmental partici-pation
dealing with such contro-versial
subjects as ghost writing
and censorship in speech and
Along with provocative program
material, plans include an almost
1,000 per cent increase in adver-tising
for next year's TV series.
Informed sources also suggest that
KTCA-TV will be increasing its
geographical outreach in the near
Classes Prepare
Spring Banquets
Friday evening marks the date
for this year's annual Junior-Sen-ior,
Freshman - Sophomore ban-quets.
Committees from all of these
classes have been occupied for
weeks planning themes, programs
and decorations.
"Under the Arches," the F-S ban-quet
will take place in the Arches
room of Captain's Cove restaurant
at Apache Plaza. The Ober boys'
choir and Mr. and Mrs. Seoul, who
sing and play the violin and piano,
will furnish the entertainment for
the evening. Dr. Ronald Young-blood
of the seminary will be mas-ter
of ceremonies.
Vern Lewis, president of the so-phomore
class and Cabot Dow,
freshman president, have set up
the program. Sharon Smith is in
charge of publicity. Cost for the
banquet which begins at 7:30 p.m.
is $5.75 per couple.
A European motif with "Conti-nental
Holiday" as the theme is
planned for this year's J-S ban-quet.
It will be held in the Conti-nental
room of the Normandy
Kitchen in Minneapolis. Eddie Tho-mas
of Northwestern college will
be featured on the program. Junior
class will also give a tribute to the
graduating seniors.
Bill Carlson, junior class presi-dent
and Terry Port, vice-president
of the junior class, have planned
the entire evening. Juniors Betty
Hanlin and Sue Griffith are in
charge of decorations. Tickets are
$6 per couple for the banquet
which begins at 7 p.m. Today is
the last day to purchase tickets.
Election results for next year's
class officers and student senate
committee co-ordinators will be an-nounced
at both of the banquets.
All seniors and sophomores
are required to take progress
tests April 29 and 30 for com-parison
with national norms.
Seniors must write the Gra-duate
Record examination in the
areas of social service, humani-ties
and natural science.
Sophomore and transfer stu-dents
who have not yet taken
the Sequential test of Education.
al Progress, are required to take
the test. These tests cover mathe-matics,
science, social studies,
reading and writing.
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Volume XL—No. 22
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, April 22, 1964
Committee Suggests Student Court
To Effect Honor System at Bethel
Alumni Plan Tower
For Campus Symbol
Unchurched Areas Need
Gospel Team Influence
To most Bethel students Christian service seems to mean
going out to an area church with a gospel team or teaching
Sunday school in a home church, according to results of a
questionnaire sent to all students last December by the Chris-tian
service office. Only 507 responded to the questionnaire
and out of those responses, 298 marked that they held any
Christian service responsibilities.
One hundred and eighty directed or sang in choirs, taught
Sunday school, acted as youth directors or worked in some
other capacity in their home churches. Seventy-three sang,
spoke or played instruments on a Bethel gospel team that trav-eled
to area churches. Only 45 had Christian responsibilities
outside of the church in such work as the Ober boys club, Child
Evangelism, Young Life, Light House Gospel Mission or Bethel
Christian center.
Statistics suggest that the few Bethel students who give
time to definite Christian service responsibilities tend to work
with people already in the church, not with those outside the
Certainly Bethel has a responsibility to go to the churches
with new faces, new ideas, new experiences that will challenge
churches with the work of a Christian liberal arts education
for the youth of the church. But should more than five times
as many students be working among church people as are
working with people outside the church?
Christ commissioned His followers to go to all the
world, not just the church. And Bethel's world includes more
than the area churches. So far the secular world seems to be
untouched by Bethel's influence.
One way Bethel can reach its world is through the Bethel
Christian center. Whether in visitation, activity clubs, Sunday
school or rallies, Bethel students can have personal influence
with people who are outside the church.
Surprise Council Probe
Usurps Residents' Rights
Last month Edgren dormitory council conducted a surprise
search for stolen articles in Edgren residents' rooms. Accord-ing
to council president, Philip Bolinder, searchers recovered
some stolen goods and incidents of missing property have not
occurred since the search.
This action raises questions for dormitory residents and
council. When residents break the commandment "Thou shalt
not steal," shouldn't the dormitory government seek to pro-tect
and recover the stolen property? Don't residents whose
property has been stolen have a right to expect their govern-ment
to do something to help recover the property?
But does the council have the authority to violate a per-son's
privacy without his consent? Councilors are elected by
dormitory residents; hence they derive their authority from
the consent of the residents. Has the council been authorized
to search the rooms by a consenting vote of Edgren residents?
Can the council search anyone's room for any reason?
Does a government have the right to use any means
to carry out its duties? Why do city police or FBI agents have
to obtain a search warrant before they can violate a citizen's
privacy? Shouldn't the dorm council show reasonable cause
that warrants search before going through someone's private
Would the student judiciary be the proper organ to de-cide
if evidence warranted search by a dormitory cooncil?
These questions need answers before surprise searches by dor-mitory
councils become a common occurrence.
As seminarians encourage others
to consider the ministry as a voca-tion,
they have reconsidered their
own reasons for preparing for the
Christian ministry. Bonnie Courtion
and Dick Young tell why they are
studying in Bethel's seminary.
In 1961 while the University of
Minnesota hockey team was in Den-ver,
Colo. to compete in a hockey
tournament, John Mariucci, our
noted coach, in-
' troduced me to a
Catholic priest
as a candidate
• for the Baptist
• ministry.
It is true that
I had told John,
what I thought
my future plans
were, but the
startling thing was that he seem-ed
far more convinced of it
than I myself was. To him it
was a matter of fact that I was to
be a Baptist minister.
Although I had harbored this
same conviction throughout much
of my life, I was not yet sure. Dur-ing
college I thought I could be as
useful to the Lord later in life as
a layman, working in a profession
but living for the Lord. But in-stead
I felt compelled to enter
Bethel seminary to prepare for the
As a hockey player I was able
to live, associate and compete with
men for a specific purpose. As a
seminarian preparing for the min-istry
I want to follow this same
I want to "live" under the direc-tion
of Christ. I want to "associate"
with men and I want to "compete"
for the specific purpose of sharing
the Lord I love with others.
After becoming a Christian as a
junior in college, I realized that
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ToReach UnderprivilegedYouth
by Karen Neslund
Bethel Christian center in Min-neapolis
offers a program of ath-letics,
crafts, cooking classes, Sun-day
school and Sunday afternoon
rallies for young people.
The center is situated in the
community of Seward which is in a
state of redevelopment under fin-ancial
aid from the city of Min-neapolis
and the federal govern-ment.
Rev. John Bergeson of the Min-nesota
Baptist conference calls
the center's location "ideal." The
church building, which previous-ly
housed Bethel Baptist church,
lies across the street from Sew-ard
high school.
A city park is in close proximity.
The center's facilities are more
than adequate according to Berge-son,
but the center is reluctant to
Workers Make
Sunday Visits
by Barb Rusche
Visitation is the backbone of the
center program. Each Sunday be-fore
the afternoon rally Bethel stu-dents
in teams of two visit the
homes of those who have attended
previous rallies. Under the direc-tion
of Dr. Roy Butler between 15
and 25 homes are visited weekly
by 8 to 10 workers.
Purpose of house calls is to get
acquainted with the parents and
make them aware of the center
and its program. A foundation is
laid for later serious witnessing.
"However, if the opportunity pre-sents
itself we may read a few
verses of scripture and leave
tracts," added visitor Bill Damberg.
Seward neighborhood is char-acterized
by high unemployment
and large families. Homes are old
and crowded. Parents are gener-ally
quite receptive. Several famil-ies
have expressed thanks and
amazement that anyone should be
concerned about their children.
The visitation program presents
the most effective method of ex-tending
the center's ministry. Wit-nessing
opportunities are unlimit-ed.
"More help is desperately need-ed
if we are to realize the center's
potential," said participant Greg
Gertz. Those interested in serving
in this vital area may ride the bus
leaving for the center at 1:30 p.m.
God might want me on the mission
field. But I did not consider it
until I had worked for a time as a
physical therapist. I became con-vinced
that God was directing me
to prepare for the mission field.
A retired mis-sionary
that I consi-der
seminary in
order to get Bib-lical
training on
a graduate level.
I immediately re-jected
the idea
as preposterous
but the oppor-tunity
kept coming to me.
I was convinced that I needed
theology and doctrine as well as
Bible study so that I might have
a better foundation in order to be
used effectively by God. Because
of this consideration and influences
around me, I applied to Bethel
move into a smaller building be-cause
of its opportune location.
Main thrust of the center, which
works with youth of all ages, is
directed toward the eight to four-teen
year level. A high percentage
of youth involved have had run-ins
with juvenile authorities.
Two staff members—chaplain
and activities director—are em-ployed
by the conference. Bethel
seminarians Don Devey and
Larry Haworth currently serve
in these posts. Volunteer staff
members, numbering about 15,
are all Bethel college students.
Scheduled activities' for the week
begin with Sunday school on Sun-day
mornings. After Sunday school
boys and girls participate for half
an hour in a worship service of
flannelgraph and Bible stories and
object lessons.
In addition, home visits are
sometimes conducted on Sunday
afternoons, although "we are weak
in this area," Bergeson commented.
From 50 to 75 children attend
the rally in the center from 3-4
p.m. every Sunday afternoon.
by Larry Haworth,
activities director
Week-day activities program at
the center is directed to the youth
of the Seward neighborhood with
boy's and girl's clubs meeting
Thursday evenings and Saturday
The type youth we are working
with varies widely. Some are very
conscientious with normal stan-dards
of morality and social con-sciousness.
The juvenile delin-quency
rate in this area is double
that of Minneapolis as a whole.
A semi-individualistic approach
is the method we use for the
week-day activities. We try to
keep a ratio of one adult leader
to four youth members. In this
way a personal friendship can
be established and each individ-ual
can feel the influence of the
Christian leader.
In the girls' clubs that meet on
Thursday evening and Saturday
morning, girls work on projects
planned and supervised by club
leaders from Bethel college.
At one meeting the girls may cut
out a dress on the kitchen table or
sew one together on the center's
sewing machine. At another meet-ing
they may fry marbles for jew-elry,
paint and tear corrugated
cardboard, learn to knit, bake
chocolate chip cookies, put on
skits or go swimming with Bethel
college women's intramurals.
A variety of activities keep the
boys' clubs busy two nights
weekly. Tuesday programs range
from woodshop and ping pong
sessions to cooking lessons in
preparation for the canoe trip.
Currently, participants in the
Thursday sports night are engaged
Art Instructor
Designs Posters
Robert Clark Nelson, art instruc-tor
at Bethel designed four of the
36 posters representing the United
States in the 1963-64 edition of the
International Poster Annual.
Published in Switzerland, the an-nual
is a collection of poster art
from 26 countries. He developed
the four posters for two Minnea-polis
concerns, the Minneapolis In-stitute
of Arts and the American
Lutheran church.
Chaplain Devey usually speaks
and Bethel's staff gives special
Boys' and girls' clubs meet on
Thursday evenings and Saturday
mornings. Boys play basketball and
other sports in the Seward high
school gym while girls work on
sewing, cooking or painting pro-jects
at the center.
Bethel Christian center came in-to
existence when the 146 members
of Bethel Baptist, a conference-affiliated
church, merged with
near-by Bethlehem Baptist. Bethel,
confronted with the characteristic
problems of the inner-city church,
had lost contact with its immediate
In uniting with Bethlehem, the
members stipulated that a serious
attempt be made to keep a Chris-tian
witness in the Seward area.
Bethel Christian center, housed in
Bethel church's building, was in-stituted
to fill the need. Minnesota
conference jointly sponsors the
project with Bethlehem Baptist
in baseball and handball competi-tion.
Occasional devotional pro-grams
are interspersed. However,
the main aim is for the boys to
establish individual relationships
with strong Christians.
For the summer a canoe trip is
being planned for the boys. On
the trip the boys are out of their
regular home environment in the
city and in smaller groups under
the direct and uninterrupted influ-ence
of a strong Christian man for
several days.
Regular contact is maintained
with the Hennepin county juvenile
court. An activity of the center is
providing a place for delinquents
to work off their sentences through
physical labor rather than sending
them to a boys home or just put-ting
them on probation. Boys as-signed
by the court help clean the
center on Saturdays under my dir-ection.
`GIs Itlee4 . . .
Wednesday, April 22
Political rally. 8:30 p.m. College auditor.
Thursday, April 23
Intramural swimming. 7-10 p.m. Hemline.
Friday, April 24
Convocation. Hassan Saab. 10 a.m. Field-house.
F.-S. banquet. Captain's Cove. 7:30 p.m.
J.-S. banquet. Normandy kitchen. 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April ,25
Orchestra concert. 8 p.m. College auditor-ium.
Tuesday, April 28
Music recital. 8 p.m. College auditorium.
City general election. Fieldhouse.
Tuesday 28 - Wednesday 29
Sophomore and senior testing.
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Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 22
Editor-in-Chief ................._
June Erickson
Associate Editor
Bill Swenson
News Editor
J. David Patterson
Sports Editor ......................
Feature Editor
Mike Rynkiewich
Barbara Rusche
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Photo Editor
Debbie Peterson
Advertising Manager
Fran Malmsten
Business Manager ............
Gene Peterson
Circulation Manager
Bonnie Carlson
Typing Manager
Jim Redford
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Why Go to Seminary?
Club Activities Provide
Devotions, Crafts, Sports
Snelling Avenue
at Highway 36
Party room for groups
Fri. - Sat. til 3 a.m.
Sunday visitation takes vol-unteer
workers into Seward com-munity
houses. They acquaint par-ents
with the center's program and
invite children to the afternoon
Hamline and Hoyt Mi 6-9272
Brake and Mechanical Work
Towing Service
. ••
Restless children ride to Bethel Christian center
for fun they might not have had in the streets of
Minneapolis. Bethel center's staff conducts Sunday
school classes, worship services and clubs for the
youth of Seward community.
Wednesday, April 22, 1964
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Bethel center is housed in the former Bethel Baptist church build-ing
which merged with nearby Bethlehem Baptist when it lost contact
with its neighborhood. Staff is not yet large enough to use all the space
and facilities the building provides.
Bethel Center -- Inner-City Ministry
Bible stories are new to Sunday school goers. With-out
other Christian influence, many youngsters hear
about Jesus and the church for the first time. Teach-ers
from Bethel college teach classes for all ages
on Sunday mornings.
Singing along, Linda Olson, Bethel college sophomore, encourages
the children to participate in a chorus sing. Staff members speak, sing
ang play instruments at the center's Sunday afternoon rally.
Love Reaches Youngsters
by Judy Appel
I work at Bethel Christian center. As a Sunday school teacher I
have the privilege of loving these children who do not receive the
love and attention they need and desire at home.
My work at the center has changed my life. Before I began teach-ing
at the center I was a little apprehensive about my ability to get
through to these boistrous youngsters. I could not fall back on their
background in a loving Christian home or a concerned church to help
them to understand God's love. How could I explain that God loved
I found that I had to show these eager children my genuine love
and concern for them, that I had to study to know more about God
myself before I could explain that God loved them.
Through the times when my pupils have responded eagerly, the
times when they refuse to listen or sit still, the time I spend preparing
to teach them, I have learned what direction I want my life to take.
I want my life to be of service to God. A part of that service is
being a teacher and friend to these children who have no other Chris-tian
influence than that which I exert during the brief time they spend
at the center.
Christ loved me so much that He gave His life for me. And He
has given me a commission to tell others of Him and His love that far
exceeds the love I give to these needy children.
glei4cts a Coizclial 2tieicome ci-kt
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Morning Services 9 & 11
Church Bible School 10
Young Peoples class taught by Dr. Anton
Pearson, studying Book of Isaiah.
Pro Bu Cols 5:30
(Professional, Business, College)
Evening Service 7:15
Pastor Magnuson
Bus Leaves Bodien 9:40 a.m., 5:10 p.m.
Minister of Music, Bruce Leafblad
Learning to cook is one of the projects girls'
club members work on at Thursday evening and Sat-urday
morning meetings. With their volunteer leaders
they cook, sew, paint, put on skits and go swimming
or skating.
(photos by Waldenstrom)
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Morning Service 10:45
Evening Service 7:00
Roberta Yaxley, Dir. of Music
At left is the ad writer who had just executed a brilliant idea
for letting people know about Summer Sessions at The Uni-versity
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We Give Green Stamps
Elim Baptist Church
685 - 13th Avenue Northeast
Sunday School-9:45 a.m. College Class
Morning Service—I I:00 a.m.
Evening Chapel-7:00 p.m.
College-Business Fellowship-8:30 p.m.
Rev. Emmett V. Johnson, Pastor
Mr. Norman McLean, Aae't. Pastor
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Records Set in
Carleton Relays
At Carleton college in North-field,
Minn. the annual Carleton
relays were held last Saturday.
Colleges from all over Minnesota,
including the University of Minne-sota,
Two Bethel relay teams, the dis-tance
medley and the two mile,
placed in the meet. The distance
medley team took fifth with a time
of 11:23.5. In this relay Edgar
Peterman ran the half mile, Dave
Bjorklund the quarter, Dave Nor-man
the three-quarter mile and
Fred Purcell the mile.
Two mile relay team took third
in the meet with a time of 8:33.8.
Peterman, Purcell and Norman al-so
ran this race, the fourth leg
being run by Dale Rogers. Bethel
has never run in these two events
Records for Bethel were also set
in the 440 yard relay though the
team did not place in the meet.
New time of 47.3 set by Bjork-lund,
Rich Lawrence, Don Land
and Bob McDonald broke the old
school record of 48.3. In the shuttle
hurdle relay Bjorklund, Tim Wil-liams
and Ron Bergman set a 46.1
record for lack of a previous re-cord.
Bergman, going 11 feet in the
pole vault event broke the old
school record of 10 feet 5 inches.
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11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
1163 Larpenteur Roseville Center
had moved up a base on a passed
ball, Jim Austin doubled them
home. Austin then scored as Dave
Buck reached first on an error.
The one run was sufficient be-cause
Austin college failed to score
In the second game Austin
gained his first mound victory
with a four hit performance.
Again Bethel was forced to make
a comeback as Austin college
scored two in the top of the sec-ond
In the bottom of the next inning
Bethel came back with three runs
on three hits to take the lead.
Royals added an insurance run in
the sixth without a hit.
In the third inning the runs
came after two were out and none
were on. Gene Brunzell started the
rally with a single. After Dave
Gehrke had reached first on a
costly error by Austin college,
Austin and Bob Nolin singled, pro-viding
the necessary three runs.
Other games of the past week
include a 5-3 victory over Ham-line
university and a double loss
to River Falls. In the Hamline
victory Moulton pitched five inn-ings
and got the victory.
Moulton also got three hits, in-cluding
a single, a double and a
triple. Dan Hull provided a two
run double and Brunzell rapped
two singles in four times at bat.
Bethel's next home games are a-gainst
Concordia on Saturday at
Dunning field.
by Mike Rynkiewich
When Fred Purcell graduates this spring he will leave behind
track records that will stand for many years at Bethel. Fred now holds
the record in the 880 yard run, the mile, the two mile, the three
mile and the 3,000 meter steeplechase. He was also on the relay teams
holding the record in the sprint medley, distance medley and two mile
Fred started running in 1957 with the idea in mind of becoming
the "fastest miler in the state of Florida." That first year he got a
total of four points in track. In 1959, Fred took first place in the
State A.A.U. Junior Olympic track meet. At the
Florida state high school meet in 1960, Fred broke
the standing state record with a time of 4:34.9, but
there were two runners ahead of him. His goal was
close to being realized.
His senior year at Sarasota high, Fred flew to
Bethel as a prospective student. His brother Roger
was on the track team at that time, and coach
Jerry Thompson persuaded the other coach to let
Fred run in the meet. Fred did run, and as a high
school senior he took first in the half mile, mile
and two mile in a college meet. Through the influence of Coach
Thompson Fred came to Bethel.
In his freshman year he set records for the half mile, mile, two
mile, three mile and the steeplechase. He qualified for the N.A.I.A.
national championship meet and ran at Sioux Falls. He was voted most
valuable player on the track team. The next two years he continued
to break records, qualify for the N.A.I.A., and one year he was elected
most valuable player.
Fred also ran two years in cross country. As a sophomore, he took
first in the Minnesota - North Dakota A.A.U. 20 kilometer champion-ship
race, and first in the Minnesota Northwest Open Cross Country
meet sponsored by the University of Minnesota.
After graduating this spring with a chemistry major, Fred plans
to go on to graduate school, possibly the University of North Dakota.
After graduate school he would like to go into research work.
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Sunday School 9:45 Youth Groups 5:30
Morning Worship 10:50 Evening Service 7:00
John Wilcox, Pastor John Carlson, Youth Director
Miss Charlotte Ransom, Education Secretary
Youth Welcome — Bus leaves Bodien at 9:15
Pastor's Phone: UN 6-6249
Two League
Bethel baseball team sent its
record to 5-3 with a double victory
over league opponent Austin col-lege
last Saturday. The victories
gave the Royals a 2-0 record in
the league since these were the
first league games for Bethel.
The first of the games was a
4-3 victory for Bethel and the sec-ond
was a 4-2 victory.
In the opener Jerry Moulton
won his second game of the year
with no defeats on his record.
Moulton held Austin college to
three hits and his teammates
helped with four runs on three
Austin college jumped to a 3-1
lead in the fourth inning after
Bethel had scored a lone tally in
the first. But in the bottom of the
fifth inning the Royals pushed
across three runs with only two
After Duane Johnson had drawn
a walk, Moulton singled. After both
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