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LONE STAR LUTHERAN
FEBRUARY 10, 1967
So Let’s Talk !
Cooperation is essential to success. So is communication.
The lines of cooperation and communication are down at TLC,
both among groups and within them.
Senate doesn’t know what the Congregation is doing; the Con-
gregation in turn attacks the Senate within its own meetings but
has yet to appear on the Senate floor with a complaint. The “in”
thing is to cut down Center activities; but how many critics have
offered really constructive suggestions, as compared to mere
name-calling?
The only area in which the communications bread down is worse
than it is BETWEEN groups is WITHIN the Congregation. It
is amazing that persons who supposedly have a common aim can
have so little to say to one another, or can take so little delight
in the furtherance of one another’s particular areas of endeavor
that it is considered taboo to speak openly and frankly, either on
or off the record.
Pettiness is characteristic of the current prevailing attitude.
This is especially true in the admittedly sticky area of merging
duty lines. One must be appalled, however, when someone or
some group comes under fire for having done a job that was left
wanting by those whose original responsibility the task was.
Once more, the Congregation is the prime example. It is confus-
ing, if not incomprehensible, to hear a heretofore totally inactive
group heap invectives upon those (such as Senate) who have taken
up the work the Congregation should have done in the first place
and didn’t (such as the League visitation program.)
Letters to the Editor
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Dear Editor
>
The beginning of success
must come communication.
is cooperation. But even before that
L.M.
HAPPENINGS....
by Ralph Falkenberg
• Liberal Catholic support of
striking migrant workers in the
Rio Grande Valley has received
unexpected and widespread publi-
city. Five Catholic priests, in-
cluding Father Sherrill Smith
and Father William Killian, edit-
or of the official Catholic diocese
newspaper Alamo Messenger,
defied San Antonio area diocese
Archbishop Robert E. Lucey’s
order against participation in
union demonstrations at the La
Casita Farms near Rio Grande
City.
The demonstrations, part of
continued demands for improve-
ment in the welfare of South
Texas Migrants, were prompted
by La Casita officials’ refusals
to permit farm workers to vote
on whether they want to join a
union affiliate of AFL-CIO.
Vice - President and general
manager of the Farms, Mr. Ray
Rochester, contends that he has
not allowed such a vote because
the workers “do not want any
union dealings.’’
Reprisals of Archbishop Lucey
have caused disturbance among
some liberal Catholic church-
men.
• “Hunger, an Obstacle to World
Peace” has been accepted as the
topic for the 1967 Lutheran Col-
lege Conference scheduled for
next Thanksgiving. The topic
was selected at last weekend’s
Minneapolis planning session
involving coordinators from nine
of the twelve member schools.
Among Minneapolis observa-
tions. . .TLC seems to be about
the only ALC college which hasn’t
shown the movie “A Time For
Burning,” a documentary depict-
ing the racial crisis within an
Omaha Lutheran Church. How-
ever, TLC does have the movie
scheduled for March 19.
• Could spring election in the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee bring more “radical”
leadership to SNCC? Neil Max-
well, writing in the Wall Street
Journal indicates that current
head, Stokely Carmichael, may
be too moderate for the organi-
zation that has been credited
with advancing “black power”
slogans. The controversial Car-
michael claims he won’t seek
reelection this spring. Critics
within SNCC have suggested that
Stokely should have spent more
time telling blacks how to achieve
black power and less time telling
whites what’s wrong with them.
An unknown will probably re-
place Stokely when roughly 100
voters meet in what will pro-
bably be an all - night voting
session this spring. Critics
within SNCC reportedly have been
displeased that Stokely and his
predecessor John Lewis became
such public figures.
• Plans to draft the youngest men
eligible for Selective Service will
probably be part of recommen-
dations of the National Advisory
Committee on Selective Service.
The projections for change in the
S.S. system propose gradual abo-
lition of student deferments.
Those not then drafted would be
reasonably certain of exemption
thereafter except in national
emergency. The President’s
Commission’s report does not
advise humanitarian work sub-
stitutes for military service.
While sitting in Chapel Wed-
nesday morning, I was pleasant-
ly surprised with Dr. Engquist’s
sermon on Vietnam. I say sur-
prised, because I have never
expected or dreamed of hearing
such brave statements made on
the TLC campus.
From my past observations,
TLC is well noted for its con-
servative views. So conservative,
in fact, that most of its political
or religious policies can be found,
conveniently, in history refer-
ence books.
It’s time, more, than ever be-
fore, that the people of our coun-
try realize what is actually hap-
pening. We’re not perfect, not
the “knights in shining armor”
that our leaders would have us
believe. And this war we’re
fighting in Vietnam is NOT a
twentieth century crusade. The
cold truth remains that the U-
nited States is currently fight-
ing a political war, for politi-i
cal reasons—with few, if any,
benefits for anyone involved.
If you missed the Ash Wed-
nesday Convocation with Dr. En-
quist, then I’m afraid you miss-
ed an opportunity for some free
thinking on our campus.
Name withheld
Dear Editor,
I wish to offer comment on
one aspect of your otherwise fine
last edition of the LSL„ I am
specifically referring to Master
C. Jone’s caricature of Mr. Wal-
ter Kneten. It is truly unfortunate
that your artist cannot turn his
creative talents to a more use-
ful purpose.
Those attacks on the bookstore
and Mr. Kneten have become
trite. Mr. Kneten has simply
become another object of student
complaint, much like freshman
hours and the food in the Com-
mons. Furthermore, I do not
consider the matter of signifi-
cant enough importance to war-
rant “a Jones’ original.” Either
let him start an original comic
strip, or depict something of a
more relevant character.
Science Monitor” under “Hap-
penings”. This newspaper is re-
ceived by the library as an ephe-
meral gift from time to time.
When last week several current
issues mistakenly got deposited
in File Thirteen, somebody leap-
ed to a false conclusion as to
library policy regarding its des-
tiny. The truth is that for years
now the library has welcomed
and displayed this distinguished
newspaper along with others
whenever it came. Back issues of
library newspapers are kept only
for so long as space allows.
Warren Lussky
Orchids
Congratulations and thanks to
the TLC Concert Band for a
marvelous home concert last
Sunday afternoon. Not only your
skilled performance, but also
your unquenchable enthusiasm, is
a credit to your organization
and to the college. (LM)
Do-It-Yourself Theology:
A Little Dab Will Do Ya?
Wayne Froelich
To the faculty, staff. & students:
Would you please bring any
scrap items that you have to the
Art Department. I will accept
anything: old chairs, statues,
gauze, wire, copper foil, knives,
forks, hair pieces — anything.
It would be most helpful if you
could bring the items THIS WEEK
so. that we can soon present the
art objects for your delight or
consternation.
Thank you,
Elmer P. Peterson
(Schnozz)
Dear Editor,
This is a reply to last week’s
reference to the “Christian
The days of the episodic li-
terary form are not over. Eagej
readers snatch up LOOK maga-
zine to feast upon “The Death
of a President” part in (para-
phrased “slander” by the in-
stallment plan.) “Chicken Man”
fans dare not abandon their un-
heroic hero lest they miss his
latest act of unheroic heroism.
Hardy souls weather the Sunday
morning Seguin cold blast to
appear in their respective pews
to hear God’s weekly word (or
more accurately, to hear God’s
word weakly). So it seems, the
customary pattern of events sus-
tains itself; one consumes the
historical, chivalric, and reli-
gious truths in carefully ration-
ed, routine chunks—as if to say:
Each week, a little dab will do
ya.
Readers may recall last week’s
cliff-hanger question on the suc-
cess of Festival of Faith: “Does
faith overcome boredom?” If
this question remains unanswer-
ed, if a theology is unable to sup-
ply the appropriate truth, if the
weekly sermon does not offer an
acceptable solution; is this
necessarily a sign that something
is wrong with our theology; that
sermons aren’t doing what they
ought to do, or that. God has
fallen asleep and can’t be reach-
ed through the normal revela-
tory channels?
Let us assume that it is im-
possible to give a concrete an-
swer to our questions about the
nature of faith. What faith is
and what faith does are ques-
tions, therefore, which are not
answered in finite terms. The
result is that prescriptions for
living go out the window. No
longer can one learn to live
by James Casebolt
successfully in three easy les-
sons. Under a system providing
an answer for every situation one
might encounter the following
advice: The antidote for anxiety
resulting from browbeating one’s
roommate — Pray four times
daily, once before each meal,
and once before retiring. If
your roommate forgives you in
the next three to four days, the
dosage may be reduced to pray-
ing two times a day.
The easy answer, the weekly
chunk of religious truth, and the
dogmatism of theology may be
debilitating and deceitful. Catho-
lic theologian, Gabriel Moran
writes, “God is not the answer
to any human problems but he is
the demand for an answer and the
promise that is not useless to
seek a better world.” (Com-
monweal, February 10, 1967.)
NOTICE
Dr. Roy Enquist will present
the third in a series of Crea-
tivity Lectures sponsored by the
Cultural Activities Committee
this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. in the
ABC Room of the student center.
Vespers
Schedule
Feb. 12........• Ilee Ersch
Feb. 13 . . . Jackie Wiederhold
Feb. 14.....Ronnie Mueller
Feb. 15 . . Lenten Service,
7:00 p.m.
Feb. 16 .......Mike Smith
MEANDERSON
by Victor Anderson
LONE STAR
LUTHERAN
EDITOR:
ASSISTANT EDITOR:
SPORTS EDITOR:
BUSINESS MANAGER:
COLUMNISTS:
SPRING
1967
Louise Man z
Jan Hanson
Colby Jones
Glenn Anthony
James Casebolt, Ralph
Falkenberg, Victor Anderson
STAFF: Jorry Bosmtr, Gil Frank*, Pet*
Handeland, Helen Hocker, Luther Balliew,
Randy Kohlenberg, Ken Kramer, Marilyn
Heiden
SPORTS STAFF: Ronnie Rinn, Roger
McKenzie
CARTOONIST: Colby Jones
CIRCULATION: Susan Thed*
TYPISTS: Judi Westfall, Carrie Von Gonten
The Lone Star Lutheran, published weekly, is the
student newspaper of Texas Lutheran College. Contri-
butions and signed letters - to - the - editor may be sub-
mitted through campus mail by Wednesday of the week of
publication. Romes will be withheld upon request.
Take a small, rural, backward
country. Add a few million people.
Not white Anglo-Saxons, fat from
affluent gluttony. Make then yel-
low, Asians, thin from centuries
of depravity.Place a couple hun-
dred thousand professional sol-
diers in the mixture. Sprinkle
generouly with bombs, stir in
napalm, bayonets, mines, and
an enormous pinch of ignor-
ance. Color the compound with
an absurd tint of latent manifest
destiny and let the mixture erupt.
The recipe is not a Julia Child
original. It is the product of a
long and ridiculous experimenta-
tion by the self-named master
chef of world politics, the Unit-
ed States of America.
The result of the recipe is an
ugly glop of human torment and
political frustration forced upon
an unfortunate people by a pre-
judiced nation brandishing fatal
weapons in the name of freedom.
“Stop the spread of communism”
—loaded words used to explain
our presence—our over-stayed
presence—-a meaningless re-
quiem for the innocent—and
guilty.
The war in Vietnam, provoked
by United States aggression and
political skulduggery, is an ana-
thema to humanity. Demanding
cessation of the war is unques-
tionably the role we as citizens
must undertake immediately. As
students with the cloud of com-
pulsory conscription hanging
over our heads, our only honest
alternative is recalcitrance.
Fortunately the church supports
the objector, and if we take
Christianity seriously this posi-
tion is basic. Protest this sense-
less slaughter; refuse to be a
part of the sacrifice of Vietnam
and her people for a selfish so-
ciety.
Dr. Enquist presented a simi-
lar prespective on Vietnam dur-
ing the Ash Wednesday chanting
of the Litany. Amen, Dr. En-
quist, and thank you for saying
it in the chapel; the most appro-
priate place for such a discus-
sion.
pleokc J
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