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THE LONE STAR LUTHERAN
Friday, February 18, 19^
Open Mind: Dogmatic?
Where
Letters to the Editor
Recent faculty references to students with “closed minds” suggest a
need for clarification of that general term. Oddly, it is not the students
with couldn t care less” attitudes but rather the strongly opinionated ones
who are the objects of this concern.
When a student takes a definite stand on some basic concept or be-
lief, he is expressing his thinking as it has progressed to that particular
time.
Although he may outwardly express his view in a dogmatic way, he
realizes the many transitions which the idea has undergone in its evolu-
tionary development, and knows full well that his position could, and
ouite possibly will, be altered. Yet this knowledge must not curtail the
expression of his idea as it now stands.
The mind is closed only when the individual insists that his opinion
—yesterday, today, tomorrow—must be valid for himself as well as all
others.
Expression of view in a positive way indicates not that the mind is
closed, but that it is open. Formulation of thoughts or of values is essen-
tial to the alive intellect, the intellect that acts and reacts.
Church College Action
Dr. William Gardner, of the University of Minnesota, raised a funda-
mental question at the recent ALC student conference planning session in
Minneapolis. Gardner contends that church-supported colleges as they
function today are anachronisms.
While Gardner’s position is broad and subject to considerable examin-
ation, his point, that such colleges were once significant when they were
leaders of social reform, deserves special recognition.
The implication that church colleges are not now so involved seems
valid. State schools as a rule do seem more “vital,” more alive, in deal-
ing with problems of social welfare.
If the Christian colleges are not heavily involved in surrounding social
problems, this deficiency may be partly traced to the motive by which
the student is asked to “participate.” Too often, the individual is asked
to perform a certain action because it is the “Christian” thing to do.
This is a corruption of motivation. Action should be taken because
the action in itself is worthwhile. The fact that this may involve action
ordinarily characterized as Christian is incidental.
Faith, then, is the assurance that man’s joining hands with other
men will eventually create a world in which men can live together in
close understanding and harmony.
This ideal, as distant or even as basic as it may seem, can only
have meaning if man is willing to take the elementary steps. If the stu-
dent is not involved in such “first steps” now, there seems little hope
that he will be so involved in later adult life.
Somehow the student often thinks that he is now simply preparing
for life rather than living it firsthand. To be constantly looking toward
some future time is a delusion. This is life, right now.
The student who is so busy “preparing” that he won’t get involved
in social action, will later be too busy getting established in a job, too busy
raising a family, and too busy earning seniority in his job.
The anticipated TLC sponsorship of an adult literacy program will
hopefully provide the impetus for active student participation in the
Guadalupe County Community Project. At the December seminar con-
cerning the project, forty-five TLC students indicated willingness to work
m some phase of this project. This must be just a start. RF
CONFESSION
I never do something for the j principle — having finances and
sake of the thing itself. I’m always ■ recognition and self-tolerance so you i
doing a project for serving as a can enjoy doing what you want. ;
front to bleed off a goodly portion , You want to play the game by
of the vitality of the act for my j your own rules. You want to have
own well-being. the best of life — manipulate and
It’s sort of identical to a criminal i shrewd, and to maintain the
operation — like the Casa Nostra. ■ operation.
You have a front organization to Y°u operate with the hopes of
keep the power and money and ; being liked, of having people being
vitality flowing in. You tap a good indebted to you, of being able to
percentage for yourself and throw exercise the situation in such a way
enough percentage back into the that you are in control,
business to keep it operating with You operate so that people will
vitality. think you have something on the
It’s a professional job of perpe- j?a^' ^ s an illegitimate game—
tually prostituting every avenue of 01 you aie us'ng every situation to
life. And built into it is the pleasure | your own hoPeful 8ain'
What does it mean to be free?
To not be empire building? To not
be concerned about structuring for
tomorrow’s success? What does it
mean to let every day be sufficient
and to live with the moment mean- I
ingfully without having to project :
into the future and see how to pull !
! off another victory? Why can’t one j
live in victory now and see victory
as an ever present reality? Why !
must it be this kind of fleeting thing
that one seldom has in hand?
Why can’t life be such? ... I
Maybe this is a confession that j
I’m a professional religious crook I
a kind of theological bum who 1
lives off the fat of the enterprise.
But why the frustration? Why the
I inability to function to protect the
; system? Why the compulsion to
hold to it dearly even with the
realization that in so doing one
is being slowly destroyed?
Where does one turn? To whom
does one go? Whom can one love
without being hurt? Or is this the
i hell of life, to both have to live
I and die at the same time?
MEETING ROOM NOTE
For those students and mem-
bers of the faculty who wish to
schedule meetings and functions
for the 1966 spring semester,
please note the following:
If it is necessary to call a
meeting of a regular campus or-
ganization, call Mrs. Bogisch or
Nancy Braun, Calendar Commit-
tee Secretary, to check about the
time and date. Next, check with
the person in charge of the build-
ing, in question.
Persons to contact for the use
of campus buildings are as fol-
lows: Student Center, Mrs.
Young or Pastor Mayer; Riebe
Dining Hall, Mr. Coleman; Chap-
el, Pastor Mayer; Gym, Coach
Keller; Fine Arts, Dr. Sally
Gearhart; Old Main, ■ Langner
Hall, Mr. Morck or Mr. Linden-
berg; Weber Hall, Dr. Gustaf-
son; Mueller Lounge (Trinity
Hall), Mrs. Lindemann.
ACTION
is . . •
Religious Emphasis Week at
Stephen F. Austin College in Nacog-
doches, Texas, will feature a pre-
sentation of “For Heaven’s Sake,”
a dramatic success at TLC last
year. Apparently the newsmen at
SFA are unfamiliar with the drama;
the student newspaper headline
reads, “Religions to Be Saturized
in Play.”
j St. Edward’s University sponsor-
ed an experimental nightly film
festival during finals week, January
19-24. The series of short films,
designed to relieve exam week ten-
sion, included such movies as “The
! Great Train Robbery” and “Carry on
| Nurse.”
The big action on the TLC cam-
pus this week was selection of
fraternity pledge classes. In making
the choices, fraternities faced the
serious decision of determining
who is good (suave, “in,” neat,
apathetic, gross) enough to share
their company.
Dear Editor:
There are three grievances I
would like to mention. These griev-
ances are a picture grievance, a
distribution of Holy Communion
grievance, and a Vesper respon-
sibility grievance.
Picture Grievance: Two years
ago a “childish” campaign was
led to move the picture of Christ
from one wall to another in the
Fine Arts Building. To some people
that was a major accomplishment
for the 1963-1964 school year. Last
week the writer of the “Meander-
son” column showed signs of
starting another “childish” cam-
paign about the picture of Christ.
If the “Meanderson” writer wants
to move the picture again, he would
do well to campaign to move the
picture to its former position.
I hope that the “Meanderson”
writer will notice the inscription
under the picture. The inscription
says that the picture was donated
by St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in
Rosenberg. The “Meanderson”
writer could also re-write his
statement so that the people of St.
| Paul’s Lutheran would know that
i he is talking about their donated
Red China s Dilemma:
Self Isolation. Process
By RON QUITNE
Not the least of Communist
China’s many talents is her capa-
city for losing friends and making
enemies. Were it not for this extra-
ordinary ability, one shudders to
think how much more difficult and
vulnerable would be the interna-
tional position of the Western world
in general and of the United States
in particular.
First of all she broke with Rus-
sia. When Moscow refused to pro-
ceed with her agreement to convert
Red China into a nuclear power
(realizing, surprisingly belatedly,
that the newly acquired science
could be turned, in the first instance,
against the Soviet Union), Peking
retaliated by declaring ideological
war and opening a contest for con-
trol of the world Communist move-
ment. Then she provoked (or per-
mitted herself to be provoked by)
Communist Cuba, and it is now
clear that Red China has lost both
the support and sympathy of the
great majority of the Communist
nations and parties.
But as if she were not satisfied
with the loss of Communist allies,
she went on to provoke and to force
a break with her non-Communist
friends. She suffered a number of
setbacks in Africa, where newly in-
dependent nations resented Red
China’s attempts to succeed the re-
tiring Western powers as their new
colonial masters.
In Asia, aggression against India
set spines tingling all along the
Himalayans and beyond. Countries
which had embraced non-alignment
could not be sure from one day to
the next what their fate would be.
Peking’s commitment to peace at
the Bandung conference had been
torn to shreds, and replaced by
a frank and open partnership with
the god of war. That partnership,
now active in Viet Nam, is produc-
ing a shift in Japanese sympathy
away from Peking and toward
Washington.
The most dramatic illustration of
( Peking’s suicidal foreign policy is
found in Indonesia. The recall of
j the Indonesian ambassador from
j Peking, on the eve of Army-;
| sponsored trials to prove Communist
; complicity in the October conspir-
i acy to seize the country, may fore-
shadow a break in diplomatic
relations between the two nations.
So long as Peking is trying to
destroy the independence of other
i states, she is likely to find herself
cut off more and more from the
rest of the world; and the latter
will have no choice but to isolate
Red China as if she were a plague.
Only when Peking cures herself of
' her disease will she become ac-
| ceptable as a member of civilized,
! international society.
I picture, and then he could send
| his statement to them.
Distribution of Holy Communion
i Grievamce: In many churches to-
! day the distribution of Holy Com-
; munion seems to be a conserving
i of time element, rather than a con-
serving of the essential meaning
in Holy Communion. Is the essen-
tial meaning of Communion mean-
J ingful to us when we pop up and
down from the Communion rail so
that someone can rush to take our
place at the rail? Is the essential
meaning there when we pass by the
distributors of Communion, as if
we were buying tokens in a fast
New York subway line? Since we
are using various ways of distribut-
ing Communion, let us try the
normal way of distributing Com-
munion at the Communion rail in
orderly groups called “tables.”
Vesper Responsibility Grievance:
Two years ago the responsibility
of conducting Vespers was kept in
good order under the fine leadership
of the present seminarian Lawrence
Bade. This fine leadership occurred
when the Vespers were still Mon-
day through Friday.
Last year the leadership respon-
sibility slackened off quite a bit.
It was thought that we could sacri-
fice the quantity of Vespers for
better quality. It is evident that
the leadership responsibility has
slackened, even when the quantity
of Vespers was decreased.
I would like to recognize those
whose “thoughtlessness” has occur-
red in their responsibility of con-
ducting Vespers. These thoughtless
groups are the following: (1) The
chief Pre-Theo who fails to send
out Vesper notices soon enough so
that Pre-Theos have enough time
to prepare a good Vesper service.
(2) The Pre-Theo who refuses to
show up for his Vesper Service. (3)
The Pre-Theo who does not want
to give Vespers. (4) The Pre-Theo
who doesn’t send his hymns to the
organist soon enough so that the
organist can practice the hymns.
(5) The organist who doesn’t show
up for Vespers when he or she has
received hymns from a Pre-Theo.
If you are in one of these
thoughtless groups, I hope you will
be more thoughtful of your Vesper
responsibility. The Vesper service
should be brought back to the
meaningful status that it should
have. If the responsibility status
could be improved, I would like
to have the frequency of Vespers
renewed again to its Monday
through Friday schedule.
LOUIS BALDERACH
Lone Star Lutheran
Editor: Ralph Falkenberg
Managing Editor: Art Kaufman
Sports Editor: Larry Nevels
Social Editor: Elise Kirchoff
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