Local families' rifts spur Unification Church debate
Staff Writer
By STEWART BRANN
Six months ago Pam Fanshier and Jan Osborne were two typically frustrated University of Kansas seniors. Both were worried about finals and felt they were nothing—nothing that would have made front page news.
But six months ago the two roommates became interested in the teachings of the Unification Church, a controversial group that set off an unusual chain of events in the lives of both women. These women were born in Kentucky's eastern made their names familiar ones in conversations and headlines throughout Kansas.
The Unification Church is a Christian church that studies a new interpretation of the Bible. It is based on the theory that Christ died before He could complete His work on Earth, and that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon has been sent to complete the job by forming a perfect race.
THE CHURCH HAS BEEN accused of brain-washing its members into devoting their lives and property to the Rev. Moon and his church. Recent
controversy has arisen when parents of church members have had their children deprogrammed out of the group by a professional group that specializes in supposedly reversing the brain-washing.
The church has filed kidnapping charges against many parents who have attempted to deprogram their children.
The Unification Church in Kansas now has centers in Lawrence, Manhattan and Emporia. Several cases of deprogramming of church members have been reported by Barbara and Fanshier appear to be the most recent.
Both women became so involved with the church last summer that their parents chose to have them deprogrammed. Osborne's deprogramming has been completed and she no longer considers herself a member of the church. But the attempt to deprogram Fanshier was aborted and her religious convictions are perhaps even stronger now than they were before.
AFTER A LONG, TRYING AND exhaustive
summer for both families, two stories have unfolded with quite different conclusions.
Orbane was the first of the two women to become interested in the church. Last spring she was approached on campus by a member of the church and was asked to fill out a questionnaire about her religious beliefs. She accepted an invitation to attend one of the church's weekend seminars and then attended several other meetings and participated in church fundraising events and tea tues and terrariums on street corners and in parking lots in Manhattan, Lawrence and Kansas City.
"When I first joined, I was just ecstatic because of what the church appeared to be," she said last week. As she became more involved with the church, she had her religious feelings grew more
"I TOUGH I WAS VERY happy, and that I had a close experience with God," she said. "I had a sense of peace."
"I felt a tremendous responsibility to the world and had a feeling of importance. It was a good work."
As Osborne's involvement with the church intensified, her relationship with her parents and friends grew weaker, she said. Social activities and relationships with long-time friends at first took a back seat to church activities, she said, and later became almost totally meaningless to her.
"I felt like a little messian, setting a higher tender for the to fly to follow," she said. "I could go to my way."
"I LOVED MY FAMILY, but I had a higher purpose. I was programmed to put the church above
Oswine said that at the time she hadn't realized what was happening between her and her family and friends. But even if she would have realized it, the probably wouldn't have walked out on the church
"I couldn't camp on the church because of the responsibility to cop," she said, "especially when you were with your wife."
If Osborne didn't see the breakdown in familial relationships, her mother, Pat Osborne, did. Mrs. Osborne said that she and her husband were at first delighted to learn that something had captured
their daughter's imagination. But she said that as their daughter becomes more deeply involved with them, the child learns to
"HER WHOLE PERSONALITY changed." Mrs. Osborne said. "She just wasn't the same girl. Her priorities, her affections were all of a sudden channelled into the group."
Mrs. Osborne said her daughter's condition became obvious to them when she refused to come home to be a bridemaid in her cousin's wedding. Osborne had been very close to her cousin, Mrs. Osborne said, but she couldn't be persuaded to leave Lawrence long enough to attend the wedding.
"When I talked with Jan on the telephone before the wedding, I told her, 'I sounds to me as if they've been talking. And I'm not."
As she became more skeptical of the church, Mrs. Osborne began to study its philosophy and practices. She said she talked with former church members, parents of church members and deprogrammers to find whether what had happened to her daughter had happened to others.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
October 30,1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.47
BY IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Beer definitely will be on sale in the Kansas Union after Saturday's game between the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
The beer will be sold in cups, he said,
and distributed by Union personnel.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said last night at a meeting of KU
administrators and Lawrence city officials
that student organizations would sponsor
the sale of beer after the game until about
6:30 p.m.
"TheWheel has become a happening," he said. "It's an experience to get 500 people into a room that was made for 16 and try to get a beer."
Rick Von Ende, executive secretary to the chancellor, said he hoped the sale of beer in the union would ease the traffic at 14th and Ohio streets. However, he said, many people who sit in the Union Wheel, 507 W. Street in theSTRUCTURE must not want to drink beer in the Union.
MAYOR BARKLE CLARK said he and
According to McClanathan, the city could allow the expansion of the Wheel and the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio, which are present nonconforming uses. This classification means that they are commercial businesses in an area that is zonaed dormitory. As a result they can't be expanded without a change in the city ordinance.
Another possibility is the development of fenced-in areas, like that on the east side of the Wheel, to accommodate loitering patrons, he said.
UNFORTUNATELY, McCLANTHAN said, such an area would do little to discourage overly rowdy behavior and would fail to provide proper restroom
The most possible plan, he said, would be the development of a new university.
Dick McMianathan, city planner, had been congratulated to the student congresion at 14th and Ohio.
Garbage fuel study requires Regents' OK
By SHERI BALDWIN
McClanathan said the city and the University had several choices.
Plans for a trash-powered utility plant at the University of Kansas are awaiting a Kansas Board of Regents decision on construction of an engineering consultant for the project.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor and chairman of KU's Energy Study Task Force, said last night at a meeting of city officials and KU administrators that he hoped the decision would be made at the Resents November meeting.
KU administrators requested funding to pay an outside engineering consultant to study the feasibility of a burnable trash cans. KU also funded air-condition the University, Lucas said.
The city wants to expand the present city airport, which is north of Lawrence near Teepee Junction. However, the land around the present airport that would be needed for expansion is owned by the Kansas University Endowment Association, which said federal funding cannot be used to build an airport on land that is privately owned.
Money needed for expansion of city airport
City Manager Buford Watson told Lawrence City Commissioners and members of the University of Kansas administration last night that the city wanted to use federal funds, but it first needed to buy land for the airport.
Master plans for a new Lawrence Airport are complete, but the city doesn't know what to do.
Todd Seymour, president of the endowment association, said the land surrounding the airport was a source of revenue and the association didn't want to.
The endowment association leases the land the present airport is on to the city for
However, he said, the endowment
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"Normally one per cent of a proposed project's total expected cost is requested."
"The system we are looking at would cost $10 to $12 million."
Lacas said he had no idea how much the Regents would allocate for such a consultant. But he said the project would mean great savings for KU in the future.
At today's costs, we would save $1.2 million a year if we built an $11 million building.
Lucas said it would probably be next year before the Regents sent a funding request to the funders. The plant should also be included in funding requests in the fiscal 1978 budget, he said.
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,
Education and Welfare is currently providing up to $50,000 to cities that are interested in the development of solid waste plants, Lucas said. Lawrence and the University might make a joint proposal for the HEW funds to support a study of solid waste plants, he said.
Lucas said his next step would be a visit to a plant in North Chicago that is very similar to the plant KU would construct. Two weeks ago he visited a plant in Ames, Iowa, that might serve as a partial model for the KU plant.
Lucas said that if 140 tons of trash were burned each day, University heating and cooling needs could be met. In a very cold winter, though the trash supply could run
William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, studied various energy sources and designed plans for the garbage-battery request of the Energy Study Task Force.
Lawrence handles 100 to 120 tons of trash each day, but an unknown quantity of trash is generated daily.
KU HAS ABSORPTION-HEATING and air-conditioning systems that could run from the steam generated by burning trash, or just from heat exchangers, run steam turbines for electricity, he said.
"They don't like to take items such as re-trimming at the landfill, and to avoid plastic bags."
Instead of burning oil and gas, the system would burn only trash. Smith said.
related commercial-recreational zoning district.
McClanathan said such a zoning district would include most retail and service businesses that would servc as convenience facilities for students.
There are several areas that could be used, he said. Some developers already have expressed interest in the 12th Street and Oread Ave, area, he said.
Todd Seymour, president of the University of Kansas Endowment Association, said the Endowment Association owned much of the property on Oread between 12th and 13th streets and probably favor commercial construction.
McClANATHAN SAID THAT Jayhawk Tower, 1603. W 15th St., was interested in creating a delicatessen in one of its towers. It now is legal for a commercial facility like a delicatessen to be built in the area because of city zoning ordinances.
In addition, he said, there was interest in expanding the area near the Wheel and the Jayhawk into a type of small "Agglerville." The department's commercial area adjacent to K-State.
Commissioner Marrie Argeringer said establishment of such an area would be impossible because the people in the hills and nearby apartments would object.
McClanahan said something should be done because KU was the only Big Eight university without an adjacent commercial district.
MAX LUCAS, ASSISTANT to the chancellor, and said people needed to be reminded of their responsibilities.
"It's a mistake on the part of the public to think it means bars, bars, bars," he said. He said students could use small grocery shops, restaurants and retail stores.
McMianna said a special plan for 14th and Ohio would be worked into the Lawrence. Comprehensive Plan if needed. The plan maps future expansion for Lawrence.
Mike Davis, University general counsel,
said another problem was the inadequate
funding.
Slip showing
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
in conjunction with the strike planned by the National Organization of Women yesterday, a group identified as the Women in Law put the statute of Jim Green in a woman's place. The first attempt was thwarted by the State and Security officers. After thwarting the first attempt from year to year from Shawnee, placed the slip and placard up to stay. See related story, page 12.
City officials will support transit study
Lawrence city officials told members of the University of Kansas administration last night that the city would help sponsor a project to create a possible mass transit system in Lawrence.
The proposal was originally presented to the Lawrence City Commission two weeks ago by Steve McMurry, chairman of the Student Senate transportation committee.
McMurray said the Senate had $2,000 to spend on a mass transit study and requested $2,000 from the city. He said the federal agency would cost about $3,000 for the study, which would cost about $30,000.
He said the Lawrence School Board had agreed to give $500 to the city to help with its water supply.
"The community will never be satisfied until we have a study." Watson said.
However, he said, there are some problems. A mass transit system might work on campus because of the expensive parking permits and the restricted use of parking areas in downtown. In the city, however, they are many available roads and parking lots, he said.
Mayor Barkley Clark said Watson only was considering the use of buses in a mass transit system. The study might recombine texts, walkways or bicycle paths.
People in Lawrence strongly feel that the present system is inadequate. Clark said.
University and the school board to work together," he said.
Commissioner Fred Pence said he was in favor of thestudent unless it resulted in a bus stop.
Watson said a bus system couldn't make money. The last one that did was during the World Expedition in San Antonio a few years ago. However, during buses will be con-
Watson said the next step was to let the student government know the city was interested in the study and would provide the necessary funding.
Computer class a battle of brains
By DIANE M. WILSON
Staff Writer
At 2 a.m. students with dark circles under their eyes move like automobiles through the computation center in Summerfield Hall. They force everything from simple to complicated research projects through the computer's memory and data banks.
COMPUTER SCIENCE isn't easy even at the beginning. There are about 1,080 computer science students, according to the Computer Science Council. Computer Science 200, the basic course.
C. S. 200 students receive each of their assignments about a week in advance, and complete them on time.
At first the students are eager, brightened and fresh. They design flowcharts and pretend to be the computer, tracing lines they will do, to see whether the program will work.
THE FLOWCHARTS MUST be translated into computer language, which for beginning students is Fortran IV, a language that only slightly resembles English. To write "If A=B then C=D," in Fortran IV, for instance, one must write "If (A.EQ.B)C=D." If even a comma is misplaced or left out, the noun won't work.
Next the students punch a computer card for each step in the Fortran IV program.
The lines of students waiting to use a keypunch machine are neither short nor fast-moving. The trick isn't in using the fast-moving keyboard, but rather in getting a place at the keyboard.
Once the punched cards for a whole program are put in order, the stack of cards is called a deck. The deck can represent at least 10 hours' work sometimes more.
A TABULATOR, FONDLY called the 407 is a machine designed to help students detect errors in their programs before the programs get into the computer. The 407 is the machine number. The tabulator prints what is punched on the cards so the student can read it and find errors. It's supposed to save time.
However, signs tapped conspicuously to the 407 "Do not attempt to remove any handwritten data."
DAVID CARILE, Caney sophomore said the 407 once malfunctioned when it was processing his deck, but he cleverly found
Cautious students also read the letter taped to the machine before putting cards in. The letter says, "While you are running your deck through the 401 it is a good idea to keep your finger on the STOP button. If the machine ceases to work properly you can stop it immediately. The 401 is not designed to stop automatically."
the STOP button after it had eaten only six cards.
To put the program into the computer, a student gives his deck to the dispatcher, another student, who feeds the cards into a machine labeled "Son of Jaws."
Son of Jaws is a card reader. It transfers information from cards into computer memories by shining lights through the holes in the cards. It reads each card twice if all of the result in the same both times the information is stored and the next card is read.
A student's enthusiasm could be dam-
The card reader snaps cards into its interior and spits them out again by a vacuum system. It sounds like a machine gun as it processes 900 cards a minute.
SON OF JAWS SOMETIMES gnaws on cards instead of reading them. When that happens the student can't advance to the keychain machine to go back to the keychunk machine.
When the student is safely in the computer, the student is left gloomily awaiting the printout. The waiting time until the printout is available is called turnaround time. The wait varies from 15 minutes on Sunday morning to 45 minutes afternoon. Toward the end of the semester turnaround time may take two days.
punished if he saw his program listed on a sign
and failed to work in a system
graph on a 10/9-10/9 time slot.
Such losses aren't unusual. Russell Williams, Birmingham, Al., aunior, a programming consultant, said the KU computer broke down at least once a week.
EVEN WHEN THE computer works, one's first printout is likely to be incomplete. Instead of answers to the problem, the computer sends notes like something went wrong and which means something went wrong and the computations weren't attempted.
The only clue to the trouble is a cryptic message like the one an Overland Park senior got: "ABORTED BY GELOAD, GET CODE 4." Two days of research disclosed that the message meant the computer had made a mistake.
Although the computer makes mistakes once or twice a day, Williams said, most errors are caused by inaccurate programming.
THE "COMPUTER only gave wrong answers once" he said. "That was during the first round."
If nothing else, computer science students will have enough used cards by December. They'll use them for spray them gold, in memory of the hours spent earning two hours' credit in C.S. 200