Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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THE BETHEL COLLEGE ABRIDGED EDITION OF THE CURRENT COLLEGIATE COLLOQUIALISMS ace n. l.a. A single pip or spot on a playing card. die. or domino, b. A playing card. die. or dominc having one spot or pip. 2. In racket games: a. A serve which one's opponent fails to return. b. A point scored by the failure of ore's opponent to return a serve. 3. Informal. A narrow margin. 4. A military aircraft pilot who has destoryed five or more enemy aircraft. 5. Informal. A person who is an expert in his field. 6. Physics. A unit of matter. Slang. 1. To get the better of someone. 2. To receive a grade fo A on a test or examination. Often used with out. He aced out his term paper. bum 1. A tramp: hebo 2. A person who avoids work and seeks to live eff others. —• on the sum. Slang: 1. Living as a hobo or tramp. 2. Out cf order: broken.—v. bummed, bumming, bums. Informal—intr. 1. To live by begging and scavenging from place to place. Often used with around. 2. To loaf.—tr. To acquire by begging or sponging — adj. Slang. 1. Of paor quality: worthless. 2. Disabled: malfunctioning: a bum shoulde'. bush n. 1. Any low. branching, woody plant, usually smaller than a tree; shrub. 2. A thick growth of shrubs: thicket. 3. a. l ard covered with a dense growth of strubs. b. Land remote from settlement; backland. Preceded by the . 4. A fox's tail. 5. a. A clump of ivy formerly used as the sign of a taven. b A tavern. Slang: bush-league 1. Of or belonging to a minor league. 2. Second-rate. duck n. 1. Any of various wild or domesticated aquatic birds of the family Anatidae. characteristically having a broad, flat bill, short legs, and webbed feet. 2. The female of one of these birds, as distingushed from a drake. 3. The fresh of these birds used as food. 4. Slang: A person, especially a peculiar one. dude n 1 An Easterner or city person who vacations on a Western ranch. 2. A conspicuously overdressed man; a dandy. 3. Slang: a fellow; chap. fat n. l.a. The glyceride ester of a fatty acid. b. Any of various soft solid or semisolid organic compounds comprising the glyceride esters of fatty acids and associated phosphatides. sterols, alcohols, hydrocarbons, ketones, and related compounds. c. A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the subcutaneous connective tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants, d. Loosely, organic tissue containing such substances, e. A solidified animal or vegetable oil- 2. Plumpness, obesity. 3. The best or most desirable part of something, -chew the fat. Slang: To have a leisurly conversation. golly interj. Used to express mild surprise or wonder. Euphemism tor God. jive n. Slang: 1. Jazz or swing music. 2. The jargon of jazz musicians and enthusiasts. 3. Deceptive, nonsensical, or glib talk. Judas n. 1. Called Judas Iscariot . One of the Twelve Apostles: betrayer of Jesus. 2. Known as Saint Jude to distingush him from Judas Iscariot. One of the Twelve Apostles. 3. One who betrays under the appearance of friendship. 4. A one-way peephole in a door. P.O. 1. Personnel Officer. 2. Petty Officer. 3. Postal order. 4. post office. pronto 1. Without delay; quickly. 2. Slang: as used in pronto pup. a frankfurter on a stick encased in dough, fried in deep fat. R. A. 1. Rear Admiral 2 Regular Army. 3. Resident Assistant. 4. Astronomy; right ascension. 5. Royal Academy; Royal Acadcmican. rip v. 1. To cut or tear apart roughly or energetically: slash. 2. To remove by cutting or tearing rcugnly. 3. To split cr saw wood along the grain. 4. To produce, display, or exclaim suddenly. 5. To bccomo torn or split apart. 6. To move quickly or violently. 7. A torn or split place, especially along a seam. Slang: rip off- to steal, or acquire unjustly. sack n. 1. a. A large bag of strong, coarse material for holding foodstuffs or other objects in bulk. b. The contents of such a bag. c. A variable measure, equivalent to the amount a sack will hold. 2. A similar but smaller container, often a paper or plastic. 3. a. A short, loose-fitting coat for women and children, b. A woman's loose-fitting dress. 4. Slang: A dismissal from employment. 5. Slang: A bed. mattress, or sleeping bag. 6. Baseball: a base. 7. The looting or pillaging of a captured town. 8. Plunder, loot. 9. Sackcr: Slang: loose reference addressed to friend, fellow, peer. sem seminary suck 1. To draw liquid into the mouth by inhalation. 2.a. To draw in by establishing a partial vacuum, b. To draw in by or as if a current in a fluid. 3. To draw nourishment through or from. 4. To hold, moisten, or manuever in the mouth. 5. Suck in -Slang: to take advantage of. cheat, swindle. 6. Also as in ■'suck-air : to be in sorry straits, to be unprepared in a difficult situation, to be in trouble. ticker n. 1. a. A former telegraphic instrument that receives and records stock-market quotations on a paper tape. b. Any of various devices in current use that record similar information by electronic means rather than paper tape. 2. Slang: a watch. 3. Slang: The heart. 4. Slang: Cause for frustration or anger. Library, opposite page 1. Boys and coffee pot 2. Carol Gunderson 3. Callie Devoe 4. Paul Stoneberg. Tom Stewart. Bob Pedersen 5. Mcrri Patterson. Dave Essells. Carol Gunderson 6. archeologist in diggings 7. Dave Wetzell 8. on the way to dinner

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The library is a place for people to sec each other. The crowded conditions (100 seats for some 1000 students) and the lack of a student lounge on this campus force available space to be multi-purpose. Mrs. Dewey. Librarian There's no place else to go. Jim Sheldon, Assistant Librarian THE LIBRARY LOUNGE OF LOQUACIOUSNESS

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In recent years all manner of questions have been raised at Bethel and elsewhere over the phenomenon of homecoming. Why are we still doing this? Does it have any meaning to our generation? Who is supposed to come home? Is this some kind of vestigial appendix from a bygone era of nostalgia? Is the whole affair just an old teddy bear we cannot throw out? Considering our community of concentrated Christianity, we would do well to ask some more revealing, perhaps painful, questions. Why do we e-lect a queen? What are the criterion for choosing her? Are our standards for her position as pure, thought out, and Christ honoring as we would suppose? What does she really symbolize? Does that upset you? Try the following alka-seltzer by Harvey Cox. 1. Homecoming Queen Shirley Goodwin 2. Shirley Goodwin and court: Diane Lundberg. Jane Cahoon. Brad McNaughl (escort). Toni Magnuson. Karen Shafland Perhaps the most ironic element in the rise of the cult of The Girl is that Protestantism has almost completely failed to notice it. while Roman Catholics have at least given some evidence of sensing its significance. In some places, for instance. Catholics are forbidden to participate in beauty pageants, a ruling not entirely inspired by prudery. It is ironic that Protestants have traditionally been most opposed to lady cults while Catholics have managed to assimilate more than one at various points in history. If we are correct in assuming that The Girl functions in many ways as a goddess, then the cult of The Girl demands careful Protestant theological criticism. Anything that functions, even in part, as a god when it is in fact not God. is an idol. When the Reformers and their Puritan offspring criticized the cult of Mary it was not because they were antifeminist. They opposed anything-man, woman, or beast (or dogma or institution)-that usurped in the slightest the prerogatives that belonged alone to God Almighty. As Max Weber has insisted, when the prophets of Israel railed against fertility cults, they had nothing against fertility. It is not against sexuality but against a cult that protest is needed. Not. as it were, against the beauty but against the pageant. Thus the Protestant objection to the present cult of The Girl must be based on the realization that The Girl is an idol. She functions as the source of value, the giver of personal identity. But the values she mediates and the identity she confers are both spurious. Like every idol she is ultimately a creation of our own hands and cannot save us. The values she represents as ultimate satisfactions-mechanical comfort, sexual success, unencumbered leisure-have no ultimacy. They lead only to endless upward mobility, competitive consumption, and anxious cynicism. The devilish social insecurities from which she promises to deliver us are. alas, still there, even after we have purified our breaths, our skins, and our armpits by applying her sacred oils. She is a merciless goddess who draws us farther and farther into the net of accelerated ordeals of obeisance. As the queen of commodities in an expanding economy, the fulfillment she promises must always remain just beyond the tips of our fingers. Why has Protestantism kept its attention obsessively fastened on the development of Mariolatry in Catholicism and not noticed the sinister rise of this vampirclife cult of The Girl in our society? Unfortunately, it is due to the continuing incapacity of theological critics to recognize the religious significance of cultural phenomena outside the formal religious system itself. But the rise of this new cult reminds us that the work of the reformer is never done. Man’s mind is indeed as Luther said-a factory busy making idols. The Girl is a far more pervasive and destructive influence than the