January 14, 1972 Page 3 MPIRG to hold local board elections Today you will receive three sheets of paper re- indicate it on the petition and deposit it in the ballot Gary Monson, Linda Shaw and Stan Tofteland. Ballot garding MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research boxes either today or Monday. boxes will be set up in front of the bookstore, at East Group) in your PO box. This may be a bit un-environ- Though more than half of the students at Con- Complex and in the Commons from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 mental but each sheet has a specific purpose. cordia have shown their support of the group, its p.m. today and Monday. The first sheet explains what MPIRG is and brings organizers would like to hear from more people. Every Though Concordia is not yet collecting fees for you up to date on the organization's activities. opinion can be used constructively to make Con- MPIRG, the support of over half the student body cordia's chapter of MPIRG responsive to the entire^ gives us a vote at state board meetings. Four Con- The group have also brought to the public's at- college community. tention the fact that the government's cost of re- cordia students attended the state board projects The third MPIRG sheet in your mailbox is a conference in Minneapolis last Saturday. foresting areas in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ballot to elect Concordia's local board. Members of the is substantially greater than the leasing fees paid by baord will direct Cocnordia's MPIRG group's activ- Officers of CEPA (Concordia Environmental Pro- timber companies. ities on the local level and will represent Concordia at tection Agency) and organizers of MPIRG ask that The second sheet is a sort of "mini-petition" which state board meetings. you participate in the development of Concordia's solicits your individual response of MPIRG. Whatever Candidates for the five positions are Deb Booth, MPIRG group by reading the information sheet and your opinion of the organization, you are asked to Barb Eiden, Paul Erickson, Terry Graff, Rich Hahnen, filling out both the petition and the ballot. Bishop Knulson comes to Concordia H'ckel *°ad(lress Dr. Kent S. Knutson, the While employed by Standard of Heidelberg in Germany. national bishop of the 2.5 mil- Oil, he designed a "batch frac- Dr. Knutson has been active- rally at Augsburg lion member American Luther- tionator" by means of which ly involved in the ecumenical an Church (ALC), will address petroleum derivatives can be movement and efforts for inter- Mark Olson, Chairman of the Concordia College Republican the monthly meeting of the picked off at critical tempera- Lutheran cooperation. He) is the Club announced that former Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel C-400 Club at Concordia College tures. author of "His Only Son, Our will address a rally at Augsburg College on Saturday, January 22, on Jan. 17. He left his engineering posi- Lord" as well as other books at 8 p.m. The dinner will be held in tion to study theology at Luther and numerous articles for theo- Concordia's East Complex at 7 Seminary in St. Paul. He was logical journals and church pub- Hickel will be talking about the environment and the precinct p.m., preceded by a reception at ordained into the ministry and lications. caucuses and student involvement. He will also be answering 6:30. Topic of Dr. Knutson's ad- served as pastor of Our Savior Prior to completing his under- questions from the audience. dress will be "The Power God Lutheran Church in Staten Is- graduate work in Iowa, he ser- Gives His Church." Hickel, who was Governor of Alaska, served as Secretary of land, N. Y., from 1954 to 1958 ved in the U. S. Navy during the Interior in the Nixon Administration until he was replaced in Dr. Knutson assumed leader- when he returned to Luther World War II as an aeronautics 1969 by Rodgers Morton. ship of the ALC last January Seminary as a member of the electrician's mate in Guam and after serving as president of faculty. in the Philippine Islands. Hickel has been an outspoken critic of the present political Wartburg Seminary in Dubuque, structure. He has said that the two political parties need to change Iowa, for two years. He earned his Ph.D. degree He and his wife are the par- drastically. A native of Iowa, he gradua- from Columbia University in ents of six children and live in ted from Iowa State University 1961 after study at Columbia, suburban Minneapolis. As Secretary of the Interior he helped to set up the first in Ames as a chemical engineer Union Theological Seminary in Reservations for the dinner "Earth Day." He also sent a letter to President Nixon after the and worked for Standard Oil of . New York, The University of may be made by calling 299- Kent State killings urging the administration to take a more Indiana. Minnesota, and the University 3733. moderate position toward students. Anyone wanting tickets can call Mark Olson, 299-3222 or by writing College Republicans, 4940 Viking Drive, Minneapolis, Poor commercials protested 55435. Tickets are $1.00 for students and $2.00 for adults. College students across the country are being to offend just about everyone. We've got mem- asked to support a movement to try to ridicule berships from the grade school set to retirees," irritating and obnoxious television commercials says Bentzin. "College students I've talked with off the air. feel very strongly about improving commercials. Vagabond seats vanishing Bill Bentzin, a Minneapolis public relations They're much too sophisticated to be impressed man and founder of the Committee for Rejection by the ridiculous things that some of the agencies Moorhead's largest exporter sooner students make their de- of Obnoxious Commercials (CROC), launched resort to in commercials." of fine students, the Concordia posits, the better their chances the campaign November 10 in a talk to the Man- Membership in CROC costs $1.00, and all col- May Seminars people, are proud at reserving a seat. The number kato State College Marketing Club in Mankato, lege student members get eight "Your Commer- to announce Concordia's fifth of seats still open will be known Minn. cial is a CROC" protest cards to send to com- annual flight to Europe. As us- Monday. CROC was formed in September in Minne- panies sponsoring bad commercials to let them ual, there are seats left and in- Students who are planning to apolis, and now has more than 1,000 members know they may be heading for a CROC award; terested students may once go and want more information from coast to coast. The organization hopes to a membership card; a "Let's Get CROCed To- again take part in the Vagabond are urged to stop in and visit improve the quality of television commercials by gether" button, and a "Crush Revoltingly Obnox- program. the friendly people who inhabit calling attention to the bad ones, at the same ious Commercials" poster, plus the right to join The cost is $260 round trip; the May Seminar Office in time recognizing some of those which CROC in the spring voting. the dates are May 1 to June 4. Academy Hall. members feel are good. The poster covered with graffiti about cur- The first payment of $130 is due Coming events on the May rent TV commercials, was created by a Minnea- on Friday, January 14. While Main activity of CROC will be a balloting by Seminar Scene: polis College of Art and Design student. Griffiti the plane is filling up fast, the members in the spring to name the "10 Biggest Process Passport Applications was contributed by several persons concerning vagabond people are trying to CROCs of the Year"—the 10 worst TV commer- —January 19. their favorite CROC candidates. get more seats, so prospective cials of the season. CROC award winners will be Vagabond Meeting in Taber- To receive all CROC material and get on the vagabonds may still get on. nationally publicized. nacle—6:30 p.m., January 20. spring ballot list, students send $1.00 to COLLEGE Seats will be given on a first (Information on Job Oppor- "There seem to be enough bad TV commercials CROC, Box 10220, Minnaepolis, Minn. 55440. come, first served basis, so the tunities in Europe). Men's chorus underway Thirty Concordia men have organized them- selves into a men's chorus under the direction of Kenneth Hodgson, instructor of music at Con- cordia and director of Chapel Choir and Women's Chorus. The group came together in November and is composed chiefly of men who belong to no other choral group but enjoy singing. Their repertoire includes a wide variety of music—classical, religious, spiritual, popular and show tunes. The group has a loose structure— decisions involving singing engagements require the consensus of the group. John Toso has been elected president. The Men's Chorus has sung at Trinity Luth- eran Church and is planning several weekend tours for this March. This Monday, Jan. 17, they will sing for a C-400 Club meeting. Director Ken. Hodgson holds a part of the music the Men's Chorus will sing at the C-400 Club meet- ing Monday night. Page 4 January 14, 1972 This column constitutes community emphasis audience from a town like Fargo?" It does be- series: part one. The main reason I've taken this come a severe limitation, and even an artistic up has something to do with a lack of exchange handicap, but this is part of what makes up a of ideas and talents between the colleges and professional theatre.