Wednesday, March 1, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Unification Church returns amid support
Staff Writer
By PAM MANSON
The Unification Church has an image problem in the United States and its members are trying to do something about it.
To improve the church's image, Don Feifferman, national missions coordinator, and two other church members are traveling around the country, meeting with educators, ministers, public officials and others. They are as part of a public relations campaign.
Fefferman is in Lawrence this week as part of the campaign.
"The word 'moonie' conjures up an image of a brainwashed zombie selling flowers on a street corner." Feifferman said Monday, written in the media from our point of view.
FEFFERMAN said the media had a natural tendency to emphasize the sensational aspects of a situation and did not accept that the good aspects of the Unification Church.
"We have a low divorce rate and a low
suicide rate on our members," he said.
"People who were on drugs stay off drugs once they join the church. You never hear about these things, thouh."
FeFFERman said that most beliefs of the Unification Church were within Christian belief.
"We believe that we can be reborn and that Jesus was a savior," he said. "We believe sin and salvation are fundamental. We believe the second advent is not orthodox, however."
"We do not believe the Reverend Moon is the Messiah. He is in the role of John the Baptist, preparing the world for the Messiah."
The biggest problem the Unification Church faces now is the fear and prejudice created by allegations of brainwashing, Fefferman said.
"The deprogrammers are scaring people into believing that the church roles its members take are necessary."
Deprogrammers try to change members' beliefs about the church.
FEFFERMAN said many members
would live in church centers for a while and
have them be decided that kind of life
washed up for them.
Feifferman said that as people came into contact with the church they would lose faith.
"The church is maturing and we're able to concentrate more on the local centers rather than just the national efforts," he said. "Many members are going to school or holding outside jobs. We're trying to reach out and sink our roots into the community."
THE UNIFICATION Church has 30,000 members nationwide according to Fehringer.
A member is someone who has filled out a membership card and studied the principles upon which the religion is based. A core course in theology will cover the center and works full time for the church.
There are about 120 Unification Church centers in the United States. The Kansas center was moved from Kansas City, Kan., to Lawrence about six weeks ago. There are five core members living here according to Jim Stephens, director of the center.
"WE'VE JUST started recruiting members in Lawrence." Stephens said Monday. "When enough students join, we want to establish a campus group."
Stephens said that most members were recruited individually.
The Lawrence center currently is supported by a donation from one of its members, Stephens said. He said the center is raising $130,000 and raising last week by selling candy.
FEFFERMAN said support of the church on a national level also was done through the work of a network.
"I've held a few informal talks," he said. "Our members will talk to people in the streets, meet them in the market or in the church and learn from how things come into the church in a unique way."
"Our major source of income is from fund-raising activities, such as selling candy and flowers," Feferman said. "Just recently some of our members have started forming corporations and giving the earnings to the church."
Fefferman said that almost all the money
"Once in a while the church will have national fund-raising events," he said. "The money will go to pay obligations, print books and give back to the community. The money raised goes to support the local centers."
raised locally was used by the Lawrence center.
Feferman also said that money from the American Unification Church was not used to support the church's leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Feferman then said the American church did provide some support for Moon.
very concerned about preserving our
lifestyle so we "will" Peterson say, "His
lifestyle is not wasteful."
"The American church did pay for his house and car," Fefferman said. "However, most of the money used for Moon's personal suit comes from Korea and Japan."
Fefferman also said he discounted accusations that Moon had any connections to the attackers.
"MOON PROBABLY consulted with the Korean government before he came to the United States," he said. "That's not unusual. I'm sure Billy Graham consulted with the State Department before he went to Hungary."
Fefferman said there always were objections to new religions because people did not see them.
"People have a conception of our church as being secretive," he said. "Our doctrines are not secret, though. Anyone can read the divine principle. Our doors are always open to anyone who wants to learn about the church."
Honorary drops G.P.A. emphasis
By SUSAN WOODARD
Staff Writer
FEFFERMAN said criticism that Moon lived extravagantly was unjustified.
Phi Beta Kappa, an honorary society whose members traditionally come from a liberal arts background, has chosen candidates in the past by grade point average and completion of the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree. Worth said. The emphasis now would be on how the requirements were completed.
The selection of candidates to Phi Beta Kappa will be made more individual this year, according to George Worth, KU chanter president.
Joseph L. Beach, a member of the selections committee, said the changes were made because the society wanted to establish itself as an honorary society for those interested in a liberal education, not as a reward for a high G.P.A.
"We would like to see some evidence that the student has gone beyond the bare minimum requirements of the college," Worth said.
IF A STUDENT has taken only the minimum number of and distribution of courses or has fulfilled the requirements with introductory level courses, he would be an unlikely candidate for Phi Beta Kappa, Worth said.
"If you take the right courses, you can get a 4.09 semester," he said.
Greg J. Buehne, a law student who was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa in 1975, said that consideration of the G.P.A. only was unfair.
CANDIDATES for Phi Beta Kappa are selected from computer rolls of grade point averages, Worth said. There is a cutoff fgapt that varies each year to ensure that no more than 8 percent of the senior class is nominated. The percentage nominated is usually about 10 percent.
but juniors must have higher G.P.A.S than seniors. Worth said that the junior G.P.A.C cutoff was about 3.9 and the senior cutoff was about 3.7.
Raymond Nichols, Phi Beta Kappa vice president, said that the G.P.A. cutoff had been raised recently because of grade inflation. He said that grade inflation was a result of credit/no credit courses and a withdrawal policy that allowed students to complete course up to the final day of classes without a grade appearing on the transcript.
The withdrawal policy of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recently had changed so that students could withdraw from a course easily only until the seventh week of classes. Then they must petition to do so.
Nominees' transcripts are then sent either to a committee that considers B.A. candidates or to one that considers special cases, including candidates for the B.S. and B.G.S. and nominees from the professional schools. Before the final selections are made, faculty members who qualified students they think the selections committee may have missed.
STUART LEVINE, professor of English and a Phil Beta Kappa member, said the membership requirements were changed because of the need to take a more personal look at the candidates.
"We always felt we couldn't be individualized because KU was too large," he said, "but that there were three people working together as large as KU when we做了它 that way."
Worth said that part of the reason for the policy changes was to inform freshmen and sophomores that Phi Beta Kappa was looking for more than a high G.P.A.
"IT'S CONCEIVABLE that a student with a 4.0 would not get elected to Phi Beta
"I know Moon personally and I know he'
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