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...more serene times, the campus chaplain had little more to do than pre pare sermons for compulsory chapel and ladle out doses of manly Christian advice to the spiritually downhearted. Today, he is likely to wear wrinkled chinos instead of a turned-around collar, read Playboy as well as Plato and center his operations in a coffeehouse rather than in a Gothic church. Says Methodist Chaplain Alfred Dale, of San Francisco State College, "I'm generally where the action...
Jazz Masses & Albee. For these chaplains, formal worship is merely the starting point of their ministry. Church services, says the Rev. Larry Rouillard, Episcopal chaplain at California's Claremont Colleges, are primarily a means of nurturing those who are already committed, not of reaching out to students. Most ministers agree with Yale's Protestant chaplain, Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, that "liturgy doesn't carry the freight it used to," and they freely experiment with different worship forms. At M.I.T., chapel services have included everything from jazz Masses to a dance by a Radcliffe girl in leotards. Episcopal...
Princeton's Episcopal chaplain, the Rev. Rowland Cox, believes that students shy away from the open convert seeker or "the guy who wants to gimmick around with your life." "Our job is people," says the Rev. Harold Cooper, one of the Protestant chaplains at the University of Massachusetts, "and the idea is not to bring them into the fold but to help them live better lives as persons." Most chaplains today shun even such an old-fashioned evangelistic idea as a "Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized...
...Herald praised Johnson's action as "intelligent and enlightened" and "practical and far-sighted". But the University's acting chaplain, the Rev. Jullus S. Scott Jr., said he felt the health service's action "patently documents the moral ambiguity of the university campus, the collapse of the tight ethical systems,...and the necessity for toughminded conversation about the nature of moral life in our times...
...Episcopal clergyman has been named the first Negro member of the United Ministry. The Rev. Warner R. Traynham, Associate Episcopal Chaplain to Harvard and Radcliffe, will lead services, counsel students and participate in conferences. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria, Va., he studied for a year at Oxford University...