^^ ••;\ » VOLUME 62 CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA, MARCH 36. 1071 No. 15 Vs *?KW ***' lOrfU. ••*> In a tense moment. Dor thy (Kathleen Butz) and Toto (Neoma Meiers) are comforted by their three companians, the Woodsman (Orion Hunter), the Cowardly Lion (Randall Johnson, and the Scare Cobbers crow (Dean Brown). invade Munchkinland JUDY LIEN professional, per se, yet cooper- Penny Matthews. Lord Growley, donated by the McDowall Roof- Oz people pport outfits rented Staff Writer ation and hard work by the Jack Leininger, his daughter ing Company in St. Cloud. The from theatrical companies. huge company has made "Oz" Gloria, Katey Tabaka, and the Cowardly Lion, Munchkins, and Terry Goldman invented et- Follow the yellow brick road! a fun and fanciful endeavor. loyal citizens of Oz royally en- hereal pets that capture all the Follow the yellow brick road Enthusiasm and humor have tertain Dorothy, Tinman, Lion, mystery and magic of this mus- over to the Concordia fieldhouse saved many a rehearsal. and Scarecrow while the ne- ical fairy tale. to see one of the four delightful bulous Wizard roars, smokes Performances began last Kathleen Butz plays Dorothy performances of "The Wizard of and thoroughly terrifies this night and will run tonight and Gale, the young singing char- humble quartet, keeping them Saturday at 8:00 p.m., with a mer transplanted from Kansas waiting with their requests. Children's Matinee Saturday af- to the land of Oz by a summer The Great Oz "humbug" Gerald ternoon at 2:00 p.m. Reserve twister. With the help of the Goth does aptly award their tickets for evening performances Mayor of Munchkin City, pleas with true wizardly in- are available at $2.00, $2.50, and Harold Anderson, and all his sight. $3.00. General admission tick- twittering munchkin citizens ets for the children's show are Dorothy begins her treck in Credits for costuming go to $1.50 and $.75 for those 12 and quest of the Great Wizard. She Russell Miller, who designed under. Contact Daveau's in Fargo is soon joined by the wobbly those worn by Dorothy, Scare- or Student Productions at 233- Scarecrow, Dean Brown, the crow, Aunt Em, and the Wicked 4548 for your reservations. rusty Tin Woodsman, Orion Don't miss these two hours of Hunter, and the Cowardly Lion, Witch of the West. Orion Hun- Tim Running checks out the sit- delightful fantansy. Randall Johnson. ter wears a genuine tin suit, uation. Perpetually-dancing Jitterbugs and the cackling cohort trio of "Try it again!" insists director Wicked Witches, Karen Warn- Charley Johnson. bheim, Sue Weske and Cheryl Tryhus do not prevent the Oz." The all-student cast is searching four from arriving in Wizard promises to delight parents headed by Director Charlie "do- Emerald City, thanks to the CAROL THYSELL offers parents a chance to visit the various aca- it-again" Johnson, a junior from help of the Good Sorceress, Hastings, Minnesota. Assisting News Editor demic departments and to meet the faculty. The him are Dale "louder" Lammi Cobbers will once again get a chance to dis- visitation period is entitled "Campus Showcase." and choreographer Monty "pied, play their host and hostessing abilities as Parents A banquet for parents and students will be doubled pied" Jones, both from Day gets underway this weekend. Chairman Jim served in the East Complex dining room at 5:30 Moorhead. Forty-eight eager Weeks and his committee have prepared a full p.m. Tickets are to be picked up at registration and talented students comprise day of activities for tomorrow, March 27, and plan and are $2.50 for everyone excepting students on the performing troupe. Tim to top off the annual event with a Sunday morn- the board plan, who need pay only $1.50. Running keeps the twenty-man ing worship service. Parents Day is planned each year in connection orchestra in tempo. A touch of with Student Production's all-college musical. Formerly a fund-raising project, Parents Day Everyone is invited to attend this year's produc- magic and six weeks of inten- this year is being stressed as a chance to "show sive practice add up to a color- tion, "The Wizard of Oz." Final performance is our parents a good time." Jim would like to em- scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday night. ful world of make-believe en- phasize the fact that no funds will be solicited Sunday morning worship with Pastor Carl Lee joyable for young and old alike. and that the atmosphere of the entire weekend is set for 11 a.m. The contemporary service will Join us. We're off to see the will be "on the light side." wizard. include the Koinonian Singers from Benson, Min- Registration begins at 11 a.m. and runs until nesota. Other special music will round out this The yellow brick road has led 1 p.m. when a welcome program featuring Presi- year's Parents Day and it is hoped that visitors to many learning experiences dent Knutson, President Tweed and special enter- will have had an enjoyable experience and at the tainment will be presented. for all the cast members and Monte Jones makes everything same time have become better acquainted with production staff. No one is a perfectly clear. The afternoon schedule between 2 and 5 p.m. the school. Page 2 March 26, 1971 Knutson interprets fact of death "There will come a time in lem. Christ is the second Adam. President Knutson concluded your life, when you must face He acted on our behalf. The with some comments on the the fact of death," Dr. Kent proof of Christ's love is that he practical effects of the solution Knutson, President of the A.L.C., acted on our behalf without our Christ has provided. "Do we declared at the Lenten service knowing, wanting or responding dare to refuse love to anyone on March 10. to His sacrifice. He said that the once we realize there is abso- Dr. Knutson, newly elected grace of God vastly exceeds the lutely no difference between president of The American Lu- problem. The verdict of acquit- men?" he asked. He declared theran Church, was on campus tal is not equal to the verdict of that the love we receive is much March 10 as the first speaker condemnation. We receive some- vaster than our sins and that of the Religion Commission's thing we never had. Our life one cannot choose not to love. "Lenten Emphasis Weeks." He with the overcoming of death "It is Christ's death," he said, spoke in morning chapel serv- is greater than life without "that makes love possible and ices and at the evening Lenten death. equally available to all." service. He explained our inability to accept and understand death by saying: "We cannot imagine our- Youth goals appear universal selves not being ... It has some- Dr. Martin M. C. Yang, Pro- youth of Taiwan have education- thing to do with our egos. Death fessor of Rural Sociology at al, occupational, and political tells us that all men are equal." Taiwan National University in aspirations similar to the youth "We vie day and night," he said, Taipei, said last Friday that the of the United States. They wish "to be different from other men aspirations of Taiwan's youth to attend high school and col- . Death is the great leveller." are the same as ours, but their lege, obtain highpaying jobs, President Knutson claimed problems are different. leave the family farm, hold civil that death is the one thing in Dr. Yang spent last Thursday service jobs and be elected to life that tells us what life is. We and Friday on campus giving positions of political power. don't understand life until we three lectures and a morning Taiwan's youth, Dr. Yang said, understand death. Only from the chapel talk. He spoke as a col- have more obstacles to overcome Concordia students gather in the Tabernacle for the election caucus. perspective of death do we dis- lege professor on the changing than we do. Elementary and Tom Peterson, elections chairman and Bruce Desonia, president of cover who we are. "We are sin- social conditions in Taiwan and junior high schools are free, but the senate direct the meeting. Student-faculty affairs commissioner ners because we are Adam." as a Christian layman on the senior high schools and colleges Fourakis delivers a nomination speech. See elections story, page 3. President Knutson also talked work of Chinese laymen. require tuition and a high mark about the solution to this prob- According to Dr. Yang, the on the entrance exams. The number of schools and their ca- Recognizing our responsibility to reflect the diversity of the college community, pacity are too limited to permit Th* Con cord ia n encourages contributions from its readers. Letters should be in everyone to attend. Last year p. o. 104 by 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, the week of publication. Extended opinion 80,000 students took the en- essays as well as suggestions for stories should be discussed with the editor in trance exam for college, but advance. Gaetz to speak on collegiality only one-third of them passed. A former Concordia College was National Champion College He said that each farm family Student Body President, Donald Orator as well as winning the makes one son stay on the farm. J. Gaetz, will give the keynote title of National Champion Col- These sons become "new far- THE CONCORDIAN address at Concordia's second lege Debater. mers" through the help of the Published weekly during the school year except during vacation holiday and examination periods by the students of Concordia College, Moorhead.