University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 26.1974
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Laws Say 'Thumbs Down,' But Hitchhiking Continues
Despite laws aimed at discouraging hitchhiking, persons on both sides of the laws agree that hitchhiking continues to be a growing travel among a growing number of persons.
Perhaps only the Volkswagen micro-bus is as emblematic of travel in the youth culture as the long-haired, denim-clad youth standing beside the road with a thumb held out, or clutching a sign advertising his destination.
Like other practices of the youth culture, hitchhiking runs counter to laws that were written before the impact of that culture was felt.
Mike Reves, patrol officer in the technical services division of the Lawrence Police Department.
mg was legal in Lawrence only if the hutchier was on the sidewalk, or at least out of it.
If a hitchhiker should stop a vehicle, both the driver of the vehicle and the hitchhiker will be harmed.
Capt, Bobby Ellison of Security and Parking said the University regulations on hitchhiking were the same as those for the city.
Ellison said that hitchbibing is discouraged, but he said there had been very few.
State laws regarding hitchhiking are more complicated, but they, too, are aimed at children.
A spokesman for the Kansas State Highway Patrol said yesterday that hitchhiking on any interstate highway in Kansas is prohibited. Any area maintained by the Kansas State Turnpike Authority is considered a part of the interstate highway system. That means you cannot drive to the patrol to tell the gate spokesman. said
A highway patrolman, who withheld his name, said that hitchhiking is prohibited on the access road to the west turnpike entrance, which runs northward from the intersection of Iowa Street and highway U.S. 40 the west turnpike gate.
The highway patrol said that hikhiking on other highways in the state is legal, and that pedestrians must walk facing oncoming traffic, and that they may not solicit a ride.
Violations of these laws are a misdemeanor, the highway patrolman said. Usually, he said, the hitchhiker is arrested and taken to the nearest county jail.
The patrolman said he thought that anyone picking up a hitchhiker could be guilty of aiding and abetting in a misdemeanor but that he wasn't sure.
The patrolman said that he had arrested
The practice of hitching a ride has grown greatly in the past three years, the patrolman says. The hitchhikers are between the 17 and 18th and the sudden rise in the number of hitchhikers to people's traveling from numerous rock festivals that were held during the last several years.
'Exorcist' Possesses Crowds In and Out . . .
They came away shaken but said the movie violated no obscurity or blasphemy laws. The movie has also brought stong reaction from religious figures.
The Division of Film and Broadcasting of the U.S. Catholic Conference rated the film A4, which means it has moral value but may confuse or offend adult viewers.
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Evangelist Billy Graham recently said the movie "pandered to man's innate superstition and fascination with the supernatural."
The young people's club of the Beltel Assembly of God Church in Rock Island, IL, recently burned copies of the book, cult, that is dangerous as pornography and drugs."
The movie has an R (restricted) rating, which means that minors can attend if accompanied by an adult. But police in C.C., have banned minors from the film.
"THE EXORCIST has received mixed reviews but has already won the Golden Globe and has been the best director for 1973 and has been nominated for 10 Oscars, including best film."
The movie has itself spun a cult of trivia, centering on Linda Blair, a 15-year-old Connecticut girl who played Regan. Blair, a distractingly normal teenager, said recently was able to perform the role without being scared or disturbed because she didn't believe the story.
Last week, Time magazine reported that another actress, Eileen Dietz Eiber, who describes herself as "over 21," calmed to some extent the most dramatic scenes of the movie.
PRODUCER FRIEDKIN disputes her claim and won't allow her to list the movie titles.
But questions have arisen over just how much of the movie role Blair did play. The producer admitted recently that the gutterman was a bit of an actress by actress Mercedes McCambridge.
The principle of rite—that Satan or lesser demons can take control of a person's senses and mind is one of the basic tenets.
Although the movie, which is expected to be the most successful of all time, contains much fantasy, real-life exorcisms are performed today.
Production of the movie was plagued by mysterious accidents, including a fire that destroyed the New York set and the death of the actor playing the director.
Blood Donations Slowed by Flu
Last week's blood drive netted 718 pints of blood, far short of the 1,200-point goal, according to Charles Rhoades. Olathe junior University Council, which sponsored the drive.
The goal wasn't reached, he said, because many students had the flu and couldn't donate. There will be a Red Cross blood collection drive on Saturday and another campus blood in October.
The ancient Egyptians believed that many illnesses were caused by spirit possession. Ancient Greek holy men performed the rite by shouting the evil spirit's name three times and forcing the victim to breathe sulfur fumes.
ACCORDING to the Bible, Christ performed numerous exorcisms, once removing a demon from a boy who had been haunted since birth by telling the spirit to "come out of him and enter no more into him."
In the last century, many of the afflictions once attained to possession have been removed.
Exorcism-although rarely performed—is still a legitimate rite in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches.
The rite, most often taken from the "Rituale Romanum" or "Roman Ritual," a book of religious ceremonies, requires strict adherence to its practice before an exorcism can be performed.
The victim must speak or understand languages not normally understood, be able to foretell future or distant events and be able to interpret mental powers beyond his normal abilities.
In "The Exorcist," for example, Regan could predict the future, show the strength of several men and make her bed shake and eventually rise off the floor.
EXORCISMS must be approved by a bishop. The rite is considered highly strenuous, and only the most mature and experienced priests can perform it.
The rite is a test of the priest as well as the demon. One Jesuit priest explained recently that the demon possessing the Victim's soul outloud the innermost secrets of the priest's life.
The rite, which consists of prayers, psalms and incantations, is rare. Probably less than two dozen authorized exorcisms have been performed in the United States during this century.
By coincidence, one first gained publicity less than a month after the *Exorcist*; by contrast, it was just months later.
A Jesuit from Our Lady of Fatima Russian Catholic Church in San Francisco said he had successfully exorcised a demon from a Daly City, Cal., family last summer.
THE DEMON had plagued a young couple and their two-year-old son, at times rendering the parents unconscious or placing a rocking chair on ton of the child's crib.
The Rev Kwai Patzell, the exorcist, said the terrors had succeeded after 14 attempts over a span of 12 months.
There are still church-appointed exorcists who work in the slave-finance ministers who work for a price.
THEY ALLEGEDLY convinced him that he was ill and possessed by a demon. Then they allegedly performed a phony rite, pretending to burn the money and showing him a red worm, which they claimed, was the demon removed from his brain.
Last week a White Plains, N.Y., woman and her twin daughters were charged with defrauding their landlord of $3,500 in a phony exorcism.
Many of them lack credentials.
Although denom possession is considered rare in Western cultures, many areas of the world have denomations.
The landlord became suspicious a week later and called the police.
Earlier this month, 70 Buddhist priests performed a lengthy tile to remove ghosts from the Temple.
The ceremony was ordered after the traffic commissioner complained superstitious workmen wouldn't go near the bridge. Kong Transport Department and a garage
Just what has caused the current exorcism frenzy remains unclear.
According to one, the cinema demon makes movies recognize the evil in them.
SOME PSYCHOLOGISTS have said the movie is a psychic release for people too long caught up in a society that lives by rationalizations.
Surely, it is tied in with a recent rewakening of interest in the occult.
Prof Gets Research Award
in brief
Dr. Ronald T. Borchardt, assistant professor of biochemistry, has been selected by the American Heart Association for the Established Investigatorship award. Dr. Ronald T. Borchardt, awarded given in the nation this year, will assist him in enzyme and heart research.
2 Seniors Get Music Grant
Priscilla Kingy, Kinsley senior, and Ivan Thomas, St. Louis senior, have received the Carl A. and Francis H. Preyer Award for senior pianists and singers at KU.
The award is given each year for outstanding achievement in musical perfor-
Kingy, a piano major, and Thomas, a music education major, will each receive $250.
A contract for general renovation or administrative offices at Haskell Indian Junior College has been awarded to the Kansas Construction Co. in Lawrence.
Haskell Job to Local Firm
Rep. Larry Winn Jr., K-Man, announced that the Warren Affairs was awarding the $4,317 cent prize.
The KU College of Health Sciences received a $25,306 grant on Feb. 20 by the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolic and Digestive Diseases. The money will be used to fund a study of the congenital enlargement of the colon.
Grant Funds Medical Study
Blatty said recently that the quality of his work—instead of general trend—produced the success. In fact, he is so sure, he and others have been in a future, even more grouseome horror films.
A far simpler explanation, and one that has been overlooked by most critics and patients alike, is that the patient is being scared stiff, Above all, the "The Exorcist" represents a startling break from what it was like before.
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The film has a charming, charming,
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T-shirts or posters, as with other movie
themes, and a noticeable under-
current of comment.
“EXORCISCE NIXON” signs have appeared at demonstrations across the country after a constituent of Rep. Robert Drinan, D-Mass., a Catholic priest, wrote him recently that exorcism should be tried on the President if impeachment wouldn't
And Lawrence—like other cities—is getting its share of exherture iokes.
Sample: What happens if you don't pay your exorcist? You get repossessed.
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Gary Ellis, a worker at Headquarters, a drug counseling service in Lawrence, said that Headquarters runs a "crusher service," which provides a place for hitchhikers to stay for two days each month free of charge.
In the mid-fifties, Jack Kerouac's book "On the Road" painted a romantic image of the free-spirited hitchhiker. In the 70s, Ed Buryn's "Vagabonding In America" is the handbook for the serious hitchhiker, telling how and why one should hitchhike.
The two said that yesterday, while hitchhiking from Kansas City, a girl who gave them a ride pulled a club with a chain on one end from beneath her shawl and placed it on the dashboard. They said they guessed she just wanted to play it safe.
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Ellis said that in 1972, 148 persons took advantage of the "crash service." In the period from January to March 1973, 62 people used the service, he said.
An FM radio station in Kansas City, Kan. broadcasts what they call "Hitchhiker Report," which lets hitchhikers solicit rides over the air.
Grafraid said he was once picked up by a truck driver in Ohio who took him a meal and tried to instill in him an appreciation of country music.
"You only hear about the tragedies involved with hitchhikers," he said.
Robert Banks, Prairie Village appomore, said he hitchhikes frequently. Banks said he thought many people had the wrong idea about hitchhikers.
Banks said that if more people knew how many persons hikikied and how few had any difficulty either as a hikikinder or as a driver who picked up hikikiders, more people would thumb rides and more drivers would pick them up.
David Egelston, 21, and Tom Grafath, 29, both of Kansas City, Kan., said they had just hitchhiked to Lawrence from Kansas City, yesterday. Both said they had hitchhiked throughout the Midwest and south-central states.
Egelston and Grafraff said Texas was the worst state they had ever tried to hitchhike across. They said people were unwilling to give them rides. Both said they knew Colo-rona's bad state for hitchhikers to cross secure highway patrol there barassed hitchhikers.
Neither said they worried about being arrested for hitchhiking.
"in fact," Banks said, "I got to know Dave by picking him up when he was wifed."
Banks, Egelston and Grafrah all said they hitchkicked mostly to get from place to place. But they all agreed hitchkicked had many benefits. Free meals, free beer and other treats were often offered to hitchkikers, they said.
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