a i net Vol. H UNION COLLEGE, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, November 18, 1965 No. 5 Christmas Cards to Qreet Soldiers Just before Christmas an American GI in Bien Xho will receive a Christmas card. And it will bear a Union College student's name on the inside. Not just one, but more than 100 of the American servicemen will find these cards in their mail. Union College students, staff, and friends will bring Christmas to the Adventist servicemen in Viet Nam. A special project designed to send at least one Christmas card to every Adventist sol- dier will start after Thanksgiving vacation. The campaign will close at the Tree-Light- ing ceremony, now scheduled for Dec. 2. The College Relations Office has agreed to sell the cards for a dime apiece. Postage is included. The Nebraska Book and Bible House has made these cards available rea- sonably. Addresses can be obtained in the Student Center. Place a check by the name of the serviceman when you copy his address. A goal of four cards to every soldier has been set. A mailing ceremony will close the pro- ject at the tree-lighting. The idea sprang from a letter to the CLOCK TOWER editor. The letter asked the CT to sponsor student rallies and print sto- ries defending the Viet Nam war. This the CT regards as unnecessary. As an added thought, the letter mentioned sending Christmas cards to the servicemen. Miss Kit Watts, MV leader, and Elder C. Mervyn Maxwell, MV sponsor, responded enthusiastically to such a proposal by offer- ing their organization as the guiding force. Miss Bernadine Johnson, senior elementary education major, is heading the project. American men have been transplanted into the atmosphere of a steam room. In the The Card to Send jungles of Viet Nam American soldiers daily confront the Viet Cong, daily face death. These men are unsung heroes of our pres- ent nation. While college students in the United States march in protest, Marines near Saigon march in silence. Union College students live in peace be- cause someone else lives in war. Let's show our appreciation. Cliristmas only costs a dime. Kermit Netteburg, CLOCK TOWER editor 161 Seniors Recognized by Hammill The largest graduating class in Union's history will make its first public appearance at die annual Senior Recognition in an all-school convocation, Friday, Dec. 3. The class of 161 seniors, includ- ing 19 prospective summer grad- uates, surpasses UC's previous rec- ord in 1949 by one, according to Miss Marie Anderson, registrar. This year contrasts with 1894, when UC's smallest class of two seniors graduated. Morrison To Come To Tree - Lighting? Governor Frank B. Morrison has been invited to speak at the annual tree-lighting ceremony at Union College. The Governor of Nebraska has not replied, reports Jim Rosenthal, chairman of the ASB promotions committee. The tree-lighting ceremony, an- nual kick-off for UC's Christmas season is now scheduled for Dec. 2. "However, we'll change the date if Governor Morrison can make it some other time and not the 2nd," added Rosenthal. The tree at the southwest cor- ner of the library will be strung with lights and crowned with a star. The switch illuminating the tree will be thrown to close the program. The Unionaires will sing several Christmas carols to begin the pro- gram. The mailing of the Christ- mas cards is also scheduled for this evening. The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. Worships are excused for all dormitory students. The tree-lighting has been an annual event since 1956. The pro- motions committee of the ASB is planning the event. Members are Dussie Maier, Terry Guy, Jan Ruths, George Dashner, Elder G. G. Davenport, sponsor, and Jim Rosenthal. Dr. Richard Hammill, president of Andrews university in Berrien Springs, Mich., will present die address. Dr. Hammill was em- ployed by Southern Missionary College, Collegedale, Tenn., as Bible teacher from 1946 until 1952, when he was named as dean of the college, a position he held until 1955. In 1955, he was chosen as as- sociate secretary of the Ceneral Governor Will Come The Governor of the Stote of Nebraska, Frank B. Mor- rison has agreed to speak at the Christmas tree-lighting, (story at left) The ceremony has been rescheduled for Dec. 13 to accommodate the governor's schedule. A recep- tion will follow immediately in the Student Center. Conference department of educa- tion, the position he held at the time of his. election to the pres- idency of Andrews University in May, 1963. The Colden Chords Chorale will present a choral arrangement of "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" by Shrubsole. The Chorale, under the direction of E. U. Tes- terman, assistant professor of mu- sic. will be assisted by organ, trum- pet trio, and timpani. Purcell's "Trumpet Voluntary" will be per- formed by the College Players, a brass sextet directed by Dr. Mel- vin Hill, chairman of the depart- ment of music. Being the first of the "three strictly academic occasions" of the school year it is an "important in- troduction and presentation of the class," commented Dr. George Caviness, academic dean. "The only other occasions when the caps and gowns will be worn by faculty and seniors are honors convocation and graduation." Look Out, Fellas Girls 'Get Their Man' On Sadie Hawkins Day Sadie Hawkins day is coming, and every girl has a chance to "get a man." So spoke Stan Hardt, chairman of the Health and Recreation Com- mittee. in announcing the Sports Social for Saturday, Nov. 20. Weather permitting a village- dormitory football game will be- gin the evening at 6 p.m. Captain of the village team is Ron Scott with Paul Gnadt as captain of the dormitory team. Refreshments, consisting of hot chocolate and donuts, will be serv- ed during the game. There will be also an added attraction, a pep band composed of band members and led by Ron Jensen, junior. The main program will begin at 8 p.m. with sophomore, Buell Fogg, acting as master-of-ceremo- nies. The University of Nebraska gymnasts will perform first, fol- lowed by a professional archery team. Marvin Ponder, senior, and Her- man Harp, junior, will then pre- sent a variety of musical numbers, some with audience participation. The finale of the evening will be the film. "It Happens Every Spring." Plans for the program have been made by members of the Health and Recreation Committee. Larry- Taylor, Gene Creely, Jan Schultz, Mary Pruitt, Judy Dahl, and Terry Dietrich, chaired by Stan Hardt. Student Missionary Theme Due Before Thanksgiving Students interested in the stu- dent missionary project for the summer of 1966 must submit a 300- to 500-word theme on whv he wants to be a student mission- ary for Union College. Applica- tions are due before Thanksgiving vacation and the student mission- ary will be chosen before Christ- mas. All sophomore and junior men Ari "Alpine Rendezvous" awaits the students and staff of Union College at the ASB banquet, Sun- da}'. Dec. 5. King's Hosts, a Lincoln cater- ing service, will prepare and serve the banquet meal this year. In previous years the college cafeteria has prepared the food and college students have served it. The change will make the plan- ning committee's duties much eas- ier than before. "We won't have to find any servers," explains Miss Julene Mohr, chairman of the ASB social committee. "It will also elim- inate the need for some students to have to work at the banquet." Tickets went on sale last Sun- day and will continue until after vacation. Tickets cost $2.00 and are available in the cafcteria or die student center. Dormitory students may put them on their cafeteria bills. The banquet will start at 7:30 p.m. in the gymnasium. Formal at- tire is appropriate. A film will close the program. The social committee of the ASB is planning the "Alpine Rendez- vous." Besides Miss Mohr, com- mittee members are Bud Gooch, Frank Diehl, Joan Scott, Maril)n Neumiller, Fred Schmid, and Miss Floda Smith, sponsor. are eligible to apply. Because of the cultural differences of Amer- ica and other countries, girls have not been considered for applica- tion. Jerry Lake, student missionary to Peru last summer, is the chair- man of the committee set up to organize the project. Working with him are Tammy Dietrich and Carol Adams who worked closely with the program last year. Com- mittee members Ronnalee Olson and Joe Warda are experienced in mission travel and work. Com- pleting the committee are Kit Watts, MV leader, and Elder C. Mervyn Maxwell, committee spon- sor. Besides making arrangements for next summer's mission field, the MV committee will set up the necessary qualifications for the student mission. The committee will also act as a channel through o which interested students will ap- ply. The committee will set up a sec- ond committee of selected faculty and students to choose die student missionary. Dr. R. W. Fowler will be in charge of this committee. The student missionary project is completely financed by MV of- ferings. Churches that Jerry Lake visits will donate their offerings to the project. To date the stu- dent missionary fund has about $100 raised from a campus MV offering. At least $500 to $1000 more are needed to make diis project possible. Cornucopia to Receive Thanksgiving Food Approximately sixty families will receive food baskets from die stu- dents of Union College and the members of College View Church next week in the annual Thanks- giving program sponsored by the MV Society and the College View Dorcas Society. The students and church mem- bers buy food from the store call- ed die Harvest House, held in the Rees Hall recreation room. To- morrow night each student and church member will bring his food to either of die evangelistic meet- ings in the College View Church and place it in the cornucopia. Saturday evening a special Thanksgiving program will be held in the College View Church. A Thanksgiving story will be told, and each individual will have an opportunity to write a note to someone whom they would es- pecially like to thank. Jan Schultz, who is in charge of the program, says that this year approximately eighty baskets will be given away. Mrs. Hulda Roper of the Lincoln Police Dept. will secure the names of deserving fam- ilies. She will give the names to the Dorcas society headed by Mrs. Don Smith. Next week from thirty to forty couples will be needed to accom- pany church members and dis- tribute the baskets. The Harvest House will be open today from 11.-30 until 1:30 and from 4:45 until 5:45. Tomorrow it will be open from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Odiers who are working on the program are Linda Seltmann. who is in charge of the store, Don Church, devotional secretary of the MV Society, and Stan Hardt, who is in charge of all physical activities such as constructing the cornucopia. Dr. Mclvln Hill, after removing coat during proctlce, s gnats the end of practice by folding the music. 1st All-School Chapel Concert Winds Premier Tomorrow; Trumpets, Trombone Trio Featured The Concert Winds, Union Col- lege's band, will make its first pub- lic appearance of the school year in this year's first joint convoca- tion. The program will begin at 9:20 a.m. in the gymnasium, Nov. 19. A trombone trio, antiphonal fanfare trumpeters, and die stu- dent conductor will be featured in a program consisting largely of contemporary concert band music. "Trombone Contrasts" will be performed by Cloria Herring, Judy Hanson, and Merlyn "Bud" Trot- ter. The long fanfare trumpets will be played antiphonally. That is, the trumpeters will be located on opposite sides of the stage and answer each other's fanfares, thus giving a stereo effect. The trum- pets will be heard during a Nor- wegian march number called "Val- dres March." The trumpeters are Brenda Christensen, Barbara Fa- vorito, Larry Bird, and Arden Clarke. Band president Ron Jensen, jun- ior music education major, who conducted the band for one num- ber during their tour last spring, is die student conductor. A veteran member of the Concert Winds' percussion section, Jensen will lead the band in a medley of three John Philip Sousa maiches, "The Thun- derer," "King Cotton," and "The Washington Post March." Dr. Hill said his clarinet and percussion sections are especially strong this year and added that the bass sounds of the woodwinds has improved tremendously because of a new contrabass clarinet recently purchased by the music depart- ment. The contrabass, which Dr. Hill described as resembling "a big silver stovepipe sticking up in the center of the band/' is being played by Shirley Nightingale. 2 CLOCK TOWER November 18, 1965 Editorials ... New Election Proposals Evaluated by Dcana Harper CT Answers Questions The publication of a college newspaper entails many factors which, when combined, will produce a paper of quality, worthy of reading and enjoying, or one of miserable failure. Naturally it is the first standard we are striving for and the last to avoid. To help us in this work, we have engaged the services of the Associated Collegiate Press to aid us in making the CLOCK TOWER a better paper, representative of our campus. This year, to enhance our publication, we have re-arranged the composition of the paper, increased styles of type faces (thanks to UC Press), increased campus news coverage, ini- tiated an exchange program of feature news articles from our sister campuses, and a column of campus opinion, and finally, we have changed grades of paper. Apparently, it is the last of the improvements which has caused some questions, and we shall attempt to answer them. Our reasons for changing from an English-finish paper to newsprint were twofold. First, economic factors forced us to change. To use English-finish paper meant an additional $760.00 to be allocated for printing costs which were already too high. There just weren't enough funds to provide for this and all of the other expenses. Secondly, since the CLOCK TOWER is a newspaper, why not make it like one? To determine the relationship of the paper with the pic- tures is difficult. Some students suggest that better effects have resulted from the change, and others have said the effects were worse. Whether 1300 dollars of good or bad will come out of the change, we don't know, but we hope for the better. The CLOCK TOWER staff appreciates the concern the students have for their paper, and we invite them to write to the editor on all conditions, wise or otherwise, about CLOCK TOWER or any other issue that may appear. From Up Here The poem in the lower right-hand corner of diis page is found on the landing between fourth and fifth floors. We don't know who wrote it, but we'd like to thank them. The message gives us courage for the last eleven steps. On every college campus there are student offices to be filled and duties to be carried out. The time, effort and responsibility entailed with these offices is not small, it die job is to be administered prop- erly. Because of the responsibility involved in student offices and be- cause the holders of diese offices represent the student body and Union College as an institution in the execution of the duties involv- ed, I am concerned and interested, as are the majority of UC's stu- dents, as to the quality of the knowhow and ability diat the holders of these offices possess and maintain. Because my experience lies in the area of campus publications, and more specifically yearbooks, my greatest concern for quality in leadership lies in this area. Quality in leadership, and abil- ity is not come upon by chance, inheritance, or even acquaintance with a publication. Quality leader- ship is obtained by nurturing a portion of talent and interest in hard work diat eventually comes out as experience. Quality leader- ship in the area of publications is not satisfied with the "adequate" or mediocre. Quality leadership in publications demands and pursues just that in the work and final product of labor—quality. Why Quality? Some may be wondering why the emphasis on quality, and es- pecially, why the emphasis on quality in publications. It's really quite simple. A publication is what it represents. And in our immediate sphere of living, the Colclen Cords And whot's wrong with o vcgcloof for Thanksgiving! and CLOCK TOWER represent the student body of Union College— that means you. Union's Attempt In previous years on the UC campus there was an obvious need to upgrade publications. Those who were responsible for these publications felt that there was a need for more qualified student leadership and diey started a pro- gram in pursuit of this end. One of their first steps was to employ stu- dents who were interested in pub- lications on the CC and CT staffs. Interest was measured by previous experience, dependability, quality of previous work, and the apparent desire to do quality work in the future, not just the fact that on individual had had previous "ex- perience" on the particular pub- lication involved or on any other comparable publication. It is be- cause of this reasoning diat editors of our campus publications came to run on a single slate ballot as an acceptance or referral candi- date put before the student body. It has been felt that because of the large amount of work required, money involved, and influence of the CLOCK TOWER and Golden Cords that the most fully qualified person available should be found. Personality contests were ruled out and candidates of merely "ad- equate" qualifications were felt to be a detriment to the good of our campus publications. EIW P!an This view is not merely held by- people on the Union College cam- pus. At the 1905 meeting of thfc EIW, the yearbooks section unan- imously voted a resolution stating the opinion diat yearbook editors should be appointed. This resolu- tion was voted and accepted by the entire body of leaders from Adventist colleges who attended the EIW meetings. University and state college publication editors are chosen in this same manner. Leading authorities in this area attribute quality in publications to a large extent to this selective pro- cess of choosing editors. More than Adequacy Because of the desire for quality yearbooks, not merely an "ad- equate" 2.32 page picture book, and for die desire for a quality newspaper, not merely an "ad- equate" PR sheet, it is felt that the item No. 3 listed under "Du- ties" in the proposed revision of the Working Policy for the Nom- inations arid Elections Committee which proposes running publica- tions editors on a dual ballot slate is antiquated and a definite step to the downgrading of UC's publica- tions. The winners of popularity contests aren't necessarily the most qualified, even though they may be the best liked. Editors don't have to be voted the most favorite, but they do have to possess ability- and dependability. UC's publications are representative of vou. They can only be as good as die quality of leadership they have. Will you be satisfied with merely "adequate" representation or do you want quality and die best available now, and in years to come as well? Let's not be satisfied with me- diocrity. Y o u aren't average, so why should your image be? L editors First a Famine. Now a Feast The opinion expressed by Miss Harper's column is that of the CT editorial staff. Editorial positions are too technical to be filled by just anyone; the person must have the knowledge re- quired. O 0 o Please note the leditor that has no name affixed. The CT policy is that we will withhold any name if the writer asks. However, the editorial staff must know who wrote the letter. We could not print one letter in this issue because it was un- signed, and we had no way of determining the author. o o o On some nights in the cafeteria one has trouble discerning whether there are more patrons or pointers. We appreciate help, but occasionally the guided tours to our tables are un- necessary. o a o A picture on the South Hall bulletin board depicts a soldier dirowing down his machine gun in fright. Lettered in red over the picture, "Sadie Hawkins Day." o