CHAPEL WOES

There has been a lot of gripe and complaint about the chapel programs, even more than is usual on a college campus. We recognize the fact that this is a church school~ but others don't seem to realize that different people have different ways of expressing their feeling about religion.

Some people need a great outward expression, that which is called an outward conversion. But others have a quiet conviction concerning God and one's relation to Him. They don't like to have it paraded. The same speaker cannot usually appeal to both types.

Can't we keep most of our purely religious speakers in the church? When chapel attendance is compulsory and we have only five cuts, some of us have to sit through services that grate on us.

This is not to be considered a condemnation of any one speaker or group on the campus. Nevertheless there is a certain faction that seems to have the edge on chapel time. Consider the evidence-a four day chapel series, with two of those a full hour chapel, planned for a re• ligious speaker, while a single forty-five minute chapel was allowed for the students to raise $20,000 for the Centennia.

Aren't we losing our perspective? Can't we consider the relative importance of things to the group as a whole?

-Nov. 4 , 1944