Thursday, April 13, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Weekend events to help charities
Fraternities, sororities encourage philanthropy with three competitions
By Jessie Meyer writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Spring philanthropy events will be swinging, stroking and chipping this weekend, when members of several Greek organizations gear up for fund-raising with sporting events.
The money raised at the three events will benefit the host organizations' national charities and participants will receive free T-shirts.
Beta Theta Pi fraternity & Sigma
Kappa sorority Softball
Tournament
Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Kappa are teaming up to sponsor a softball tournament from noon to 4 p.m.
Saturday at Clinton Lake softball fields one, two and three.
The entry cost is $80 for a nine- to 11player team, either coed or single sex. The money raised will benefit the Alzheimer's Association and the ALS Association that fights Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Each team is guaranteed to play in two games, and all participants will receive complimentary refreshments.
Contact Shannon O'Neill at 841-9064 for more information.
"Campus Golf Classic"
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity will hold its first "Campus Golf Classic," a makeshift golf tournament held between Memorial Stadium and Potter Lake.
The 10-hole event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with an entry fee between $30 and $75. Whiffle balls and nine-irons will be used instead of real golf equipment.
People of all ages are encouraged to participate in the event, which will raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence.
A free barbecue will start at 12:30 p.m., and at the end of the tournament prizes will be awarded that were donated from local businesses.
Alpha Delta Pi 8 Ball
Contact Chris Penney at 842-0099 ext. 218 for more information.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority will revive its pool tournament after a three year absence.
The tournament at 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Pool Room, 925 Iowa St. Proceeds will benefit the Ronald McDonald House.
Participants must pay a $15 entry fee to participate in either a men's or women's single-elimination bracket.
Prizes will be awarded to the winners of each bracket.
Contact Jessie Grimes at 331-2412 for more information.
Berkeley colleagues divided on evolution
Guest speaker criticizes intolerant creationist
By Jim O'Malley
writer@kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
Paleontologist Kevin Padian doesn't think highly of intelligent design creation Phillip Johnson.
Guest lecturer Padian, who studies the evolution of dinosaurs at the University of California-Berkeley, addressed 30 scientists, educators and students Tuesday at Haworth Hall.
Padian, the president of the National Center for Science Education criticized Johnson, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley who has attacked evolutionary theory for the last 10 years. Johnson spoke on Fridav in Budig Hall.
"I've invited Phil to come to my classes, to see our fossils. He won't," Padian said.
Padian said Johnson was ignorant about science and wasn't interested in learning more about the topic because he thought he knew it all already.
He said Johnson was wrong when he insisted that science stood for the
proposition that nature is all there is.
"Phil won't distinguish between philosophical and methodological naturalism." Padian said. "Any philosopher, any scientist can tell you there's a difference between studying the world using only evidence of natural processes and assuming that's all there is."
Johnson is neither a scientist nor a philosopher — he's a lawyer, and Padian wondered why Johnson received any credibility when he criticized science.
"What Johnson does is to distort everything," he said. "He doesn't understand the science he transmits to the people. His books about science have been completely torn apart on scientific grounds by scientists. And they're not atheists. They wouldn't be hostile to the notion that there is an intelligent designer. They just don't want you to use that to lie about science."
Padian said he had no problem with someone saying that natural selection was intelligently designed as a statement of faith.
"Can't God work by physical laws?" he asked.
But he said Johnson was backward when he called scientists dogmatic and
intolerant.
"Science is open-minded, not empty-headed," Padian said. "That doesn't mean it's dogmatic. The intelligent design guys want to insist that you can't be a Christian unless you believe what they believe. The common enemy of science and religion is intolerance. Once people start telling you who can't be a Christian, you have a problem."
Several committee members whose evolution-friendly science standards were rejected last August by the State Board of Education were present at Tuesday's discussion.
Committee member Brad Williamson, who teaches science at Olathe East High School and served on the committee, said it was important to place University scientists on the Board or at least have them advise board members about science.
Now, it is illegal to teach creation science in science classes because it was an establishment of religion, Padian said. But, he said, intelligent design was no different from Biblical young-earth creation science.
"It's simply creation science by another name," he said. "They're talking about a supernatural designer. This is a holy war for Phil Johnson."
State lawmakers vote to remove Confederate flag
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina lawmakers yesterday took the first step to removing the Confederate flag from atop the Statehouse dome, exactly 139 years after the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
The Associated Press
South Carolina is the only state that flies the Confederate flag above its Statehouse, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is leading a tourism boycott of the state until the flag is removed.
"I think it's a great day because a lot of people are sacrificing their special interests in favor of what is best for the people of South Carolina," Democratic Sen. McKinley Washington said of the Senate's 36-7 vote to take the flag down.
The bill is up for final approval in the Democratic-controlled Senate this morning. Final approval is usually a procedural matter, and if given the OK it would then head to the Republican-controlled House.
In 1994, the House adjourned without considering a Senate-approved plan to remove the flag. Gov. Jim Hodges, a Democrat, supports removing the flag.
"The hour has come as it came with General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia," said Republican Sen. Glenn McConnell, who owns a Confederate memorabilia shop in Charleston. He said it was time for the flag to come down.
This is the first flag bill this session to reach the floor in either chamber.
The bill would remove the banner from the dome and place a similar battle flag behind an existing monument honoring Confederate soldiers on Statehouse grounds. The flag would fly on the north side of the Statehouse from a pole no taller than 20 feet. That element was added to satisfy black lawmakers and other flag opponents who did not want the flag in a prominent position to passersby.
The bill also would remove the Confederate flags hanging in the House and Senate chambers and would protect all monuments, memorials and buildings erected or named in honor of the Confederacy or civil rights movement.
Opponents of the flag say it is a racist symbol, while supporters say it represents Southern heritage and honors Confederate war dead. Only the Legislature can take down the flag. Not all senators were on board.
"Race relations will not be the same in this state in my lifetime if you take that flag down," said Republican Sen. Harvey Peeler.
"We need a nonpartisan, binding referendum," Steven Roark said. "The people who lost their lives for that flag didn't know anything about politics. They just knew they had to pick up the squirrel gun and fight for the farm."
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