| Summary: | Page 2 THE CONOORDIAN March 14, 1952 Editorially More Vacations? Longer Vacations? By Marilyn Olen MORE REGARDING SCHEDULES Besides raising the question of rearranging the vacation schedule, the Office of the Registrar has brought out the possibility of a new daily schedule that would allow time off for dinner. The general idea is that when the gymnasium-auditorium is completed one chapel would accommodate everyone. By starting classes at 10:30 and 11:30, the period from 12:20 to 1:00 would be free time. This would certainly aid those whose classes run straight through the noon hour. On the other hand, the morning break would be gone. What effect would just one chapel have on the morning coffee habit? Or turning that around, what effect would the morning coffee habit have on chapel attend-ance? FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS To receive an invitation to sing at a national conference of music teachers is no small honor. And that after starting from scratch just four years ago! No wonder the Cut Bank people are proud of their choir, and no wonder the Montanans on campus are straining their shirt buttons. And the rest of us—well, we share their feelings, for after all, both Maurice Skones and his wife are Cobbers. Operation Waistline Begun By Esther Gronhovd Girls, does your waistline have that dachshound sag? Do your friends and family sympathetical-ly say "You're looking fine?" Does your boyfriend throw those go-aweigh glances your way? If so, come to South hall and join our ROPOMC (Reduce or Prepare for Old 'Maidenhood club.) It seems that for some unknown reason we freshmen girls have accumulated a few extra pounds since last September. We place the blame for this mostly on the regular sleeping habits which were new to us/ Anyway, we've been racking our brains to think of ways to reduce. Most of us do our daily exer-cises every night and what a sight we make. I think we've tried every kind of exercise ever re-corded and maybe some that aren't. For instance, have you ever tried standing on your head and knocking your legs on the wall? 'Sposed to be wonderful for your thighs, but most of us can't even stand on our heads, let alone do-ing any extra motions. To diminish the waistline We try lying with our stomachs on the floor and then have our heads and toes meet over the back of us. It's easy—for somebody dou-blejointed. One of the strangest exercises I've seen is gently pounding your hips on the wall; this is 'sposed to take inches off your hips. I often wish people with big heads would try knocking their heads against the wall- It ought to do wonders. Magazines always have ads about the wonder pills that will make a blixnpy, old hag look like a shapely, young model. We are thinking of using these next. Some people actually think these do them some good. We're still try-ing to figure that out, though, be-caUse when we had the chemistry students analyze some of these they were found to be solid NaCl. Believe me, we're getting des-perate. Our clothes look as if we were poured into them and we forgot to say when to stop. We're continually fighting the "Battle of the Bulge". Anyone having a solution to our problem, please send it im-mediately to Box 266. It will be deeply appreciated. So wide—oops, I mean—so long. THE CONCORDIAN Published weekly dnrlas the school year except during* vacation* holiday and tlon period* by the students of Goneordla College. Moorhead. Entered ms second class matter at the pott of/lee of Moorhead, Minn., Dee, 9, 1820, Office: Third floor of Clsssroom buUdini Phone 8-1BSS EDITOR Eobert Namsoo BUSINESS MANAGER Allan Torino MANAGING EDITOR Patricia Gelder NEWS EDITOR Margaret Anderson SOCIETY EDITOR Loralee HennIn* DESK EDITOR Enid Larson COPT EDITOR Donna Wcrllne FEATURE EDITOR Evelyn Dahl SPORTS EDITOR Anderson CIRCULATION MANAGER Mary Ann Kloos "When do we want our vacations?" was tlje question raised in last week's editorial. A 10 per cent segment of our student population was quer-ied and returned the following opinions. But before we go ahead, let's go back and review the situation. Sometime ago Mr. Narveson, registrar, brought the vacation question before the cabinet to get the student reaction. He stated that we must put in 180 days of school a year, or 18 weeks each semester. This time is reckoned from the day freshman orientation week begins until Commencement day in the spring. We can have our vacation anytime, but extra holidays must either come off some other vacation or must be compensated for by additional days in the fall or spring. The results of the pOlJ are as follows: Length of Thanksgiving: Vacation: Thursday to Sunday 71% Thursday only 25% Undecided 4% Days off between semesters: Thursday through Sunday or Sunday through Wednesday 70% No time lapse 9% Undecided 21% Distribution of Christmas Vacation: Even number of days before and after Christmas day Majority of days before 55%Yo Christmas day 18% Majority of days after Christmas day 27% Length of Christmas Vacation: Longer than present 9% Shorter than present 87% Undecided 4% Length of Easter Vacation: Satisfied with present length 68% Desire longer vacation 22% Undecided 10% Distribution of make-up days for added vacation length: Favored beginning earlier in the fall 65% Running later in spring 9% Undecided 12% Opposed added time 6% (favoring juggling of vacation time to allow more vacations of lesser length) The above figures seem to indicate that the students are in favor of more frequent and in some cases longer vacation periods. It is unlikely that such a goal can be reached in its entirety. However, perhaps at least part of the students* wishes could be fulfilled by distributing the num-ber of vacation days allowed in order to include a few days off at Thanksgiving and between seme-sters. Northwest Angle Furnishes Project For Mission Board The Home Mission board of the ELX? has suggested that Concor-dia provide mission workers dur-ing the summer months for the sixteen isolated families living in the northwest angle of Minnesota Rev. A. E. Hanson, president of the Northern Minnesota dist-rict of the ELC, introduced this project to the combined councils of the LSA and the Mission Cru saders together with the Board Chapel Visitor of Religious activities. The sub-ject will be discussed at the next LSA meeting before further action will be taken. 'Well Rounded Student' Department By John Groven A most enlightening diversion from scholastic struggles which some students may have been missing is comic strips. Admit-tedly the comic should have been enclosed in quotes since most "funny papers" have long ago ceased to be funny. But some still remain that bring forth a much needed chuckle. The northwest angle, a spot on the northern shore of the Lake of the Woods, Is accessible only by water and air from the Minnesota side. The people, mainly of Scandinavian ances-try with Lutheran leanings, are without access to a Protestant church of any kind) and have requested some form of church ministry. Conoordla's p a r t would be to send one or two students to the angle to do mission work for the three summer months. The work to be done would include Sunday school and vaca-tion Bible school work, a visita- He ascended the stage and sat on the floor; The students were agog. He acted quite unconvention-ally; He could—he was only a dog. (M. P.) tion program, and possibly Sun-day services. A schoolhouse, al-ready being used for Sunday school conducted by a resident, could be used as a meeting place; but the inhabitants of the area are very much interested in hav-ing a chapel of their own. This is a large project and if under-taken by the students here at Concordia would be an excellent means of witnessing for the King-dom of God. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS y Ann Kloos Fred Ensebretaen and Lyle Rich oil JBeo Gloria By Nancy Moller "But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart and this defiles a man." Matt. 15:18. Our words are like representatives sent out in public dele-gations to identify our thoughts and attitudes with our individual personalities. Sometimes they sally forth meticulously groomed to meet the situation; at other times they tumble out ill-chosen, unrehearsed and incapable of accomplishing their purpose. In the course of a day we use more words than any other single commodity, and since they are usually sold wholesale on the market of self-expression, we are. prone to be negligent in weighing them and extravagant in their use. How often do we stop to consider the damaging effect a hasty remark, actually intended to do no harm, will have upon the hearer? The total sum of our continual complaining and subtle innuendoes will never accomplish a change in any situa-tion but will to the contrary, result in bitter feeling for all concerned. How much better it would be If we would stop and con-sider the other fellow's feelings before we let fly the stinging: darts of satiric criticism and then perhaps replace them with understanding wards of encouragement. We are stewards of our words just as surely as we are ste-wards of our time, money, talents or influence. Learning to use them rightly, both in quantity and situation, is a vital aspect of a Christian personality and should under all circumstances be most carefully cultivated. Let them be symbols of what we are on the inside, that they may represent the true condition of our hearts. For even as it is written in Matthew 12:36: "On the day of judgment men will render accouht for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be cpn- You will find that among the present crop many all-important questions are hanging in the bal-ance. Will Steve Canyon at last fall into the hopeless state of matrimony or will Mrs- Olsen's husband miraculously return? Is Dennis Dimwit of college caliber? Will a grammar instructor ever arrive in Pogo's swamp? If so, who in the ever-loving, wide-eyed- world will it be? What will happen to Junior Tracy's love affair? Ah, if only we could throw the inimitable Mary Worth into this story we could again rest at ease. Once in the field of action, Mrs. Worth would have Junior and his young love married in short order. For good measure she would probably convince Dick himself that he acted hastily in marrying Tess Truehart after an engagement of only 15 years. Unfortunately the Ma Perkins of the comics is al-ready embroiled in another emo-tional pot. Her most recent ac-complishment was to see to it that a young high school princi-pal was run out of town. All agreed it was small sacrifice for the cause of true love. Referring again to Major Steve Canyon, since he is in the busi-ness of piloting airplanes, the-consequences of married life are doubly dangerous. Consider the widely debated case of another Smilin1 Jack. He wa marooned in the deserted wilds of the Arctic with a curvaceous Russian lass possessing the im-probable name of Kameelon. Though freezing and weary when faced with the problem of shelter he built, as any virtuous American boy would, not one big igloo but two small igloos. Since he is not exactly a stay-at-home himself, Major Canyon would no doubt encounter similar problems. An excellent combination of satire and humor Is found in Al Capp's Lil' Abner. The husky hillbilly is currently trying to comer the schmink market in Lower Slobbovia. The plot thick-ens when we find the hero owns, only two-fifths of the total stock of five cents which in turn is worth 8,000,000 rasputniks in the inflated Slobbovian economy. Lil' Atoner is quite unique in his antics with the opposite sex Since I became old enough to have an opinion on the subject, I have •been wondering how he can con-tinue to spurn the affections of such a creature as Daisy Mae- What a price to keep the leading character single. Moonbeam McSwine, who spends all her time lounging with pigs, is also unique. She is ob-viously attractive but her case only serves to prove what can happen when even your best friends won't tell you.
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