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Show New Wineskins A Campus Asset 'Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skin burst, and the win, is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved." -Matthew 9:17 New Wineskins is the name of a magazine currently being be-ing published by the Lutheran Student Association, Canterbury Canter-bury Club, and the Campus Christian Fellowship. Unlike many of the publications of the several campus organizations ithe area, both religious and otherwise A Wineskins shows definite promise as succeeding as a medium for expressing thoughts and ideas, as is shown m a recent issue. Dealing with a central theme, "Man: Understood-Mis-understcod." the magazine did some exploring into some bas c questions of the nature of man. While we 7" agree with conclusions or profundity of cone sons reaf by the authors, we do congratulate them for the freshness and vigor with which they have attempted to answer these questions. As a sample of the above, the latest New Wineskins offers thC TheTeTs rble way for us to know that God knows everything, that he has all power, or that he is everywhere in the universe. We are not even sure that he wants to be these things. We can not know what powers are at work on distant spheres, nor can we know that God is throughout the universe. We may think he ought to be, that we would be it we were God, but of these things we do not have knowledge. "Our knowledge of what God is can only be inferred or derived from our knowledge of what he does and to what and whom he is related. So also with man . . . "-The Rev. Mr. John Arther, western regional secretary, Division of College and University Work, National Lutheran Council. "I must say, first, that I do not believe that man is basically basic-ally evil. Evil is a value judgment made by other men and I feel that we can speak of the evilness of only specific individual individ-ual men in specific contests, i.e., when he iolates the rules and regulations of particular legal, social, cultural or religious re-ligious groups. "Goodness" also reflects man made judgments and for me is no more relevant to a question of the basic nature of man than is evilness."-Dr. Virginia P. Frobes, dean of women and lecturer in psychology at the University. These quotes are, of course, fragments, and shouldn't he taken as the basic theses of their respective articles. They do, nevertheless, serve as indicators of the content of the magazine. The latest issue, a Christmas edition, ends aptly with a reprint of "Christ Climbed Down," a work by the avante guard poet Lawrence Ferlingetti. According to the student editor, Pete Wray, the magazine maga-zine is intended to be a fresh vehicle for transmitting and preserving the old and the new. We feel that these intentions are being fulfilled, that the magazine has a definite place in the life of the University community, as well as a place in the concerns of the members of its constiuent campus groups. |