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Under fire from the community, Franconia's once sympathetic board of trustees demanded the resignation of President Ruopp, an Oxford-educated Methodist minister and philosophy teacher who came to the college in 1963. Explains Board Member Philip Robertson: "It was an experiment that had run away with itself. A man would come up to me on the street and say, 'I hear you're running a whorehouse up there...
...social counselor in downtown Chicago, believes that pot can be "a significant vehicle to self-realization." Others suggest that the morality of pot smoking depends on whether or not it is psychologically helpful to an individual. If marijuana is a crutch or a way of escape, says Methodist Minister Terry Cooper of Los Angeles, then it is damaging for an individual to use it. If it is a stimulus to creativity or simply a means of relaxing, there is no ethical problem...
Miss Erenstein said the group is calling itself the Boston Movement Center, and it plans to set up a Boston center in Chicago from which activities for Boston people there can be coordinated. She said the Center has already secured a Methodist church on North Armitage St. in Chicago for the Boston demonstrators...
With that charge, delivered by the Rev. D. T. Niles, president of the Methodist Church of Ceylon,* the fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches opened last week in the green and gabled Swedish university town of Uppsala. The first such gathering since 1961, the session marked the 20th anniversary of the Council-and also amounted to a crossroads of sorts for the world's largest non-Catholic Christian body...
...Christ pastor who heads Massachusetts' Committee of Religious Concern for Peace. "We are not harboring them against the law. What we are doing is setting up a platform where their ethical and moral convictions can be made public." Adds the Rev. A. Finley Schaef, a hip-talking Methodist pastor in Greenwich Village: "This is a conscience thing, and that is what the church is concerned about, the conscience...