1973_11 The Daily Collegian November 1973

              4    THE DAILY C0LLE61AN     Tkirs.. No*. I, 1973
Picket 'porYiOs'
Kerman 'believers' prepare for evangelism
A singing, preaching and rejoicing group of young people
have recently "descended upon*
carrying signs in front of the
establishments denouncing the
"porno* of the silver screen and
enthusiastically talking with anyone who happens to pass by.
The demonstrators are not
picketing projectionists seeking
a wage Increase or a group of
radicals from the Fresno chapter
of Youth for Decency.
The group ts from the God's
Army Seminary of the Bible,
based In Kerman. and it la doing
a class assignment.
The seminary Is located on
the grounds of the old Kerman
High School and has a total of
59 students, all of them "sold
out to Jesus.*
•It (the school) Is a body of
believers,' said oneofthebroth-
ers named John. "We're Christians and we follow Jesus. If we
lnary'a plight, felt that tt was
God's will that Forester's school
should have the property.
Although the property, on which
there are located several houses
as well as the school, was recently assessed at nearly $1
million, the owner agreed tosell
It to the seminary for S150.000.
The different houses on the
land serve as dormitories for
the students. The male and female students live In separate
houses and there are duplexes
provided for the married
couples. Women students are not
permitted to enter the men's
houses and vice versa. Each student pays $75 per semester tuition, and monthly rent and board.
budget depending upon how many
occupants it has.
■It's like the last place my
flesh, my body, would want to
be,' said John. "The comfortsof
home Just aren't that plentiful.
But it's the only place my spirit
Each stude.1t Is required to
have a Job outside of the school
to keep them from •Reltlng.lazy."
working   poses    no   problem   to
High School, now the hi
e of God's Army Se-
Just preaching to htm.
Every weekend, the s
sends out three separate
ol two hrothers each wltt
Jence that something Is wrong In
your heart, In your soul.'"
The students have recently met
n.    150-250   mile:
back by Sunday a
arly  $40,000   worth  of
started    having   meetings   al   a
prlntlnc   equipment. The equlp-
house In Southern California.
"There   were   about   300-400
people   coming   on  Saturdays."
The   school uses  Ihe equipment
to publish a monthly newspaper
After awhile, said John, "Cod
called    the    "Jungle  Express,"
which boasts "Guaranteed Fac
tual Accounts of Life In this Wild
school   or    some   place   where
World."  The   school   also  pub
these kids could (jet a knowledge
lishes   various   Gospel-oriented
So    Forester    started   God's
languages.
Army   In  a   little   room   In San
Basically, the purpose of the
CJemenle with 25 students.
school Is to train Christians for
In July,  1972,  the school lost
the ministry. The school Is non-
Its   lease  on  the  building  they
deiiomlnatlonal and has but one
were renting when they objected
admission requirement: the pro
to a sign the owner wanted to put
spective student must be a Chris
up in their front yard. The large
tian   believer   committed to the
service of Jesus Christ. A high
clal   housing   tract   which  was
school   education   Is   preferred
going up near the school.
bul not absolutely necessary.
The school was then out of a
Classes  meet on week idghts
building and had no Idea where
from 6 to 9:30 and conslsi maln-
they  would go.  At  Ihe time, a
Jesuit  priest,  who Is affiliated
"Our    only    textbook    Is   the
with   the   school,   was  passing
Bible,"  said John, "and It (Ihe
through Fresno and heard about
seminary) Is Reared so we can
the   old   Kerman    High   School.
The  property  was  owned by  a
word «o that we can be able to
present It."
Forester and his wife drove up
The school, John added, helps
to   take  a  look at the property
the Christian "grow" so that he
and   talked  to  the  owner.   The
can share his faith with a person
owner, after learning of the sem-
on a one-to-one basis, reasoning
> aid In
der
is designed t
}f ministers 'outside the church
in the society ol needs." The stu-
locatlons for the purpose of
spreading  the vpospel message.
button of Gospel literature In
quantity, working in the printing
plant^ traveling to other states
tn--cTrcult ministries, speaking
in public places, helping existing
churches,    fellowships    and
11 is out or this class that
came the assignment to "picket"
the adult movie houses In Fres-
The students feel that they can
use the movies as evidence of
moral decay. They feel that the
patrons have some need which Is
not being fulfilled.
'. ... a person going Into a
pornographic theater or a bar,"
said John, "or a person going
into the "loneliness club" or the
home for lost people: you can say
'Hey man. do you see where you
are going Into? Well, this is evl-
A brother named Jack told of a
confrontation with one theater
owner Friday night.
door and he (the owner) came out
and drug me Into the place, threw
me up against the wall and said
'Come In here, I want to show1
you somethln' son.' Then he took
me In and tried to show me the
flick."
The owner then threw him out
of the  theater, Jack said, then
swinging    at    members   of the
•He tried to scare us off,"
Jack added, "and he didn't scare
us. It kind of freaked him out."
John told of another time when
cycle  boys-
Two of the students were arrested Friday night at the Venus
"disturbing the peace." The Incident occurred when police arrived at the scene to "check
things out." The police «
turblng   the peace,  and  Ricky.
The police told Ricky that they
were arresting him for "Interfering    with   the  works  of the
■I said, 'Weill'
the ii
o the o
theater for "qjlte awhile* one of
the brothers, namedTony, started preaching on the sidewalk In
front of the theater. A nearby
3kV
and he (the policeman) said
'You're in the hands of the law1,"
Ricky related.
The brothers believe they were
illegally arrested, Ricky said.
They were not Informed of their
rights and are considering taking actlon^agalnst the city.
'What we're doing Is presenting Christ, presenting a savior,
salvation, you know, the answer," John commented. "Some
people receive It and see lt«as
the answer. There are other peoL
pie who Just don't want to hear
It . . . they'* set their sights
on some other goal . . . they
think It may possibly break Into
something that they're Into. It
may change them and they don't
want to be changed, even If It's
for right:-
Rick}- said, "God has put a
compassion In our hearts for
people, men In general, our
reach out to-them
Seminary do not feel that experimental life styles such as communal living hold any answers
to the problems of society. They
are certain that Christ Is the
only answer.
About their own life style,
John summed up the group's
feelings quite adequately when
he   said   'God   did. a   miracle
STORY AND PHOTOS BY BY KIP DAVIS
Bonehead English
(Continued from Page 1)
participate In the honors
courses. This curriculum la also
used for sophomores.
San Joaquin also requires
freshmen students who do not
take a foreign language to take
remedial reading.
Juniors and seniors are allowed to take electlves In practical English, modern reading,
and world classics.
At CSUF, there appears to be
little or no problem among students In reading and understand-
in g what they read.
Most of the Instructors who
were questioned about the ability
of their students to digest material presented lu their course,,
;eii there was no problem.
one Instructor commented, *lf
they don't, they fan.*
Ralph Evans, dean of the
School of Education, said that
me Education Department has no
problems with students In mastering the English language, be-
rause   all candidates  for cre-
dentlallng must perform satisfactorily m the area of English.
Currently, the English Department offers no course In what
has become known as "bonehead*
EngUsh.
Accordtng to Robert S. Bluings, chairman of the Englishde-
partment. only English 1, a basic
grammar and composition
course, Is currently being taught.
At one time, CSUF did offer a
course In what students called
•'bonehead* English, but the class
was discontinued. Billings, who
called the course *non college*
English, said Ihe course was
given to freshmen who were not
"qualified* for regular English.
BUllngs suggests that students
who feel they have a serious
problem In English, should utilize the tutorial center.
There are no tests available
on the reading levels of CSUF
students.
According to the counseling
center, tests were required four
r five years ago for entering
As far as counseling freshman
students, the counseling center
encourages. freshman students
who feel they have had good
English Instruction In high school
to go Into English 20.
Don Albright, of the counseling center, said, "I am personally sorry there are no more tests
to determine the reading level of
Dr. PurushottamMlatry, chairman of the Linguistics Department, seems to feel that there Is
a need on this campus tor a class
In basic English skills.
some students have a good command of English, but are poor
In spelling. This Is one reason
why he has proposed a course,
"English for EngUsh speakers,*
which Is Ukely to be offered
during the coming school year.
He says the class Is significant
because It's ■language oriented
rather than literature oriented.*
Even If such a course were offered, It's hard to say how students wUl benefit from It.
According lo the first results
of a reading survey conducted by
Thurj., Hoy. 8, 1973   THE DAILY COLLEGIA!  5
the National Assessment of Educational Progress, most young
Americans read at^ rate of under 200 words a minute, mother
words, "Johnny can read, at least
well enough to function in practical, everyday situations."
In 1971, NAEP gave exercises
In reading to 90,000 children and
adults aged nine, thirteen, seventeen, and young adults (26-35).
From the surrey, NAEP said
moat of those who participated
did best on exercises which required there to read to "gain
factual Information" and 'tared
less well on critical and Interpretive reading."
PTA magazine saysofthesur-
vey, 'National Assessment gives
if EngUsh could be the ai
d also o
education of our children."
Meanwhile, It has been asked
"what can be done In order to
prevent another 'Peter Doe'
case." Reassessing the teaching
Senator Kennedy says, The
problem Is that educators have
been unsure of what could be done
to change the situation. Mosf
teachers have never been taught
how to teach iresdlnf. in sixteen
states, there Is no requirement
that a would-be elementary
teacher spend even an hour In
a course on how to teach reading. Another eighteen states require only a
to make the right to read a part
of our heritage ...
I cannot conceive of a program more Important to the national interest than to teach all
children to read.
•New legislation must be Introduced in the 93rd Congress.
The need is clear. The resources are available. What has been
lacking Is the political will . . .'
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