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Show v 1 '1 , s V , - a B&fe -i"Jr I,- -- rfgy"- r..-..1...,-. 1f yiwpMaf iffliMfnr fiTi rBrrUffii'in'MMi m nnnr ItortOTvswi VALUES SEMINAR E. G. Williamson (left), Minnesota's Dean of Students, Assist ant Dean of Students Lowell L. Bennion, and Rev. Theodore Gill discuss U. S. values. Sex Value Changes Imminent of Students at the University of Minnesota. University Assistant Dean of Students Lowell L. Bennion Ben-nion moderated. REV. GILL said that the civil rights efforts of Christian Churches would be a "ripple" compared with the upheaval they would experience when technology will have removed Rev. Theodore Gill, President of the San Francisco Theological Seminary, called a for a re-evaluation of traditional values toward to-ward sex in the light of increasing increas-ing technology. HIS COMMENTS came at Tuesday afternoon's Challenge seminar on the subject, "Values American Style: Relative or Absolute?" Ab-solute?" A co-discussant on the panel was Dr. E. G. Williamson, Dean what for the older generation have been the three basic dangers dang-ers of sex: "conception, infection and detection." He admitted he could offer no definite advice on sexual behavior be-havior to college students, nor could he tell parents what they should tell their high school age children about it. "IF THEY haven't told them anything by then," he said, "it is probably too late." ' Rev. Gill throughout the discussion dis-cussion declared that he was puzzled by the concept of "values." "Values are no more than a choice among alternatives," alterna-tives," he said. HE URGED that churches and churchmen pay close attention to advances in contraception which, he said, would be almost absolutely ab-solutely reliable within a few years. He also urged that psychology psychol-ogy concern itself more with basic sexual differences between men and women. DEAN WILLIAMSON assumed a more definite stand toward (Continued on page 5) ex Value (Continued from page 1) S "Values mediate between at ultimate reality may prove te and contemporary be-ior," be-ior," he said. ie Dean further stated that jr-eedwith A. N. Whitehead's that "values are what are srtant, not what are fact." I RECOGNIZED the individ--i right to develop his own 0 values independently. Yet emphasized that all commit-atsto commit-atsto systems of values draw Sequences. kimp choices of values are 1st than nothing," he said, k problem arises in finding I which ones." SPEAKING FROM his experi-te experi-te as a dean of students, Dr. Eamson said, "My job is to people become committed lift of values." lie stated that many parents i anxious when their children sway to college and fear ('.they will examine and pos-b pos-b reject what they have a tor granted until then. COLLEGE IS the time when tisnts begin to think about pes," the Dean commented. A question and answer period '-wing a tweaty-minute expo-tm expo-tm by each of the discussants raled the basic disparity of Ej approaches to values and f different vocabularies and rapts which they applied. W, GILL was asked about s own religious beliefs. "God," ' aid, "is the acceptance or "8 a chance on the reality by Jesus Christ." Tie Sermon on the Mount "the Ten Commandments 't make up my mind for e continued. UN WILLIAMSON was 'J if he would cheat on a Mara, and if not, why not. 'fn replied that he would ct, "unless eft the qualification open values which might de the value of integrity m honesty in examina- ;5D that his normal in-: in-: " t to cheat was not is. 0f a cnscious de- 4 Linsttad of parental upbringing. 1 |
