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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2007
WORLD
Pope Benedict to visit U.S. in April Trip to include meeting with Bush, visit to Ground Zero
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, at center in white, and Pope Benedict XVI, at right in red, exchange gifts during their meeting Nov. 6 at the Vatican. Benedict has planned a five-day visit to the U.S. in April. He will visit New York City and Washington, D.C.
BY RACHEL ZOLL ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE — Pope Benedict XVI will travel to the United States for the first time as pontiff next year to meet with President Bush, address the United Nations and visit Ground Zero, a Vatican official told American bishops Monday.
The pope also will celebrate Mass at the new Nationals Park stadium and Yankee Stadium during the April 15-20 visit to Washington and New York, according to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Vatican ambassador to the United States.
The announcement comes as the 67 million-member American church is grappling with a priest shortage and an often alienated flock, and is still recovering from the clergy sex abuse crisis. American dioceses have paid more than $2 billion in settlements with victims since 1950.
"It's a shot in the arm for the U.S. Catholic Church which is enduring one of the most protracted crises in its history," said Scott Appleby, a University of Notre Dame historian who specializes in religion. He said the Catholic community in the United States "badly needs a renewed sense of its own vitality and its historic legacy in the country."
Benedict has dedicated his pontificate to fighting secularism and strengthening Catholic faith, and his visit reflects those priorities.
Benedict will convene separate national meetings with Roman Catholic priests, Catholic university presidents and diocesan religious educators, and leaders of other religious groups.
Traditional American Catholics
have long complained that Catholic universities have lost their religious identity.
The Archdiocese of Boston, where the abuse crisis erupted in 2002, and bishops from around the country had invited Benedict to visit. But Bishop William Skylstad, leader of the bishops' conference, said the Vatican limited the visit to two cities to "conserve (Benedict's) energy"
The visit coincides with the third anniversary of Benedict's election to succeed Pope John Paul II on April 19, 2005.
John Paul's five visits to the United States during his pontificate were major events. When he arrived at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1979, a school band welcomed him with the theme from "Rocky". The late pontiff's charisma and personal warmth attracted tens of thousands of people to his appearances and buoyed the American church.
Benedict, the theologian, spent more than two decades as the Vatican's chief orthodoxy watchdog before becoming pope, earning a reputation — considered unfair by his supporters — as a dour enforcer of Catholic teaching.
"I don't think he is going to make the sort of impact John Paul did. Benedict can't do it and doesn't want to do it," said James Hitchock, a Catholic historian from St. Louis University. "I think it's a very different kind of appeal."
Benedict will also be in the United States during a presidential election year, and his public events could inadvertently become public relations vehicles for candidates or political parties.
Benedict's pilgrimage to the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York is meant to show "solidarity with those who have died, with their families and with all those who wish an end of violence and in the search of peace,"
Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN
Mary Klayer, honors lecturer in English, was honored with a 100,000 scholarship in her name for undergraduates masters in English. Klayer teaches honors classes and study abroad courses.
Sambi said.
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The pope's visit will begin with an April 16 reception with Bush at the White House, followed the next day by Mass at Nationals Park and separate meetings with Catholic educators and leaders of other faiths. Bush met the pope for the first time in June at the Vatican. The president used that occasion to defend his humanitarian record to the pope, who expressed concern about Iraq.
"President and Mrs. Bush are honored to welcome His Holiness to the White House next April," said Gordon Johndore, a spokesman for President Bush.
CAMPUS
Scholarship for English majors named in honor of lecturer
BY JEFF DETERS
jdeters@kansan.com
A new $100,000 scholarship fund has been established to support undergraduate students in the department of English. The Mary A. Klayder Scholarship will help support various student activities, including study abroad and research work.
Students must apply for the scholarship, and the tentative deadline for applications will be in March. The late Bernard "Bud" Hirsch, a longtime professor of English who died in 2006, named the scholarship after Klayder, a University Honors Lecturer in English. Klayder had worked with Hirsch for more than 20 years.
It's common for scholarships to be named after the donors who financed them, but Hirsch wanted to recognize Kluyder for her years of service in the department of English as both a teacher and adviser.
"I didn't expect it." Klayder said.
Klayder described Hirsch as feisty and direct. And the two had much in common. Both had a love for teaching and both had spouses die in the 1990s. Klayder said the two of them went through those difficult times together and their friendship grew stronger.
Anna Neill, coordinator of under-
graduate studies and associate pro-
fessor of English, said she wasn't sur-
prised Hirsch wanted his scholarship to be named after Klayer.
"She's the appropriate person to have the scholarship named after," Neill said.
Klayder earned her undergraduate degrees in English and art history from the University in 1972. After graduation, she taught high school in Colorado for 10 years. She
said she found that she enjoyed working with young people but missed being at the University of Kansas.
"I kept telling people to go to college and do what you want to do, and I realized I should be tell ing myself that," she said.
so much from the teachers and students."
In 1985, she
--returned to Lawrence and began her graduate studies and taught class.
Klayder primarily teaches honors courses, and during winter break, she and her advanced composition class will study abroad in Costa Rica.
"I was an undergrad here, and I feel I understand what it's like to come to Lawrence and be a student. I love to teach here. I can't imagine teaching anywhere else."
MARY KLAYDEF honors lecturer in English
"it's really meaningful for me to teach here," Klayder said. "I learned
John Kuhn, Jamestown, Kan., senior and English major, was a student in Klayder's freshman and sophomore honors English classes. He said both classes were exemplary.
Klayder has also served as Kuhn's academic adviser.
"She's interested in your development as an individual, something that I think is very important," he said.
Klayder's interest in her students has been well received. She also is a H.O.P.E Award finalist this year. The H.O.P.E Awards are given to teachers who have been nominated by students for teaching excellence.
"Her courses are academically rigorous but are also exceptional in that she really cares about her students as people."
Klayder said that in the future, her students could expect her to be content right where she was at.
"I feel comfortable," she said. "I was an undergrad here, and feel I understand what it's like to come to Lawrence and be a student. I love to teach here. I can't imagine teaching anywhere else."
Edited by Elizabeth Cattell
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