Tuesday, February 19, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Berrigan Says Society Ill
People are entrenched in "sickening normality," Philip Berrigan, pacifist and former priest, said yesterday at an open lecture during Ministries in Higher Education Center.
'My main concern today is how you live
sanity in today's society, where today's
people are more connected to each other.'
Wait, the word after 'main' in line 2 is 'concern'. The word after 'society' in line 3 is 'where's'.
The word after 'people' in line 4 is 'are'. The word after 'connect' in line 5 is 'to each other'.
Berrigan advocated finding a solution to "insane normacy" by forming an alternative life style of non-violence, resistance and community.
He said people should confront violence because, "the primary human right is the right to freedom."
The formation of community spirit is important, according to Berrigan, because people are primarily individuals and individuals must resist apathy.
"Doing nothing is one of the most common forms of violence. We know so little about violence," he said. "The reason for that is because we are violent."
People must resist evil and violence, according to Berrigan.
However, he said, "Don't resist evil or violence violently."
In 1968 Berrigan and his brother, Daniel, broke into Selective Service Local 33 in Catonsville, Md. and burned Selective Service records as a resistance to the Selma war. Philip spent three and one-half years in prison as a result of that incident.
Berrigan said when that he first began serving his prison sentence in 1968 he had the idea that what a person did in prison was the same as what he did on the street—communicate with people.
"I learned an awful lot about the building of communication with the prisoners," he said.
Berrigan spoke yesterday morning before a demonstration in support of the Leavenworth Brothers, a group of federal inmates who instigated a riot at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary last summer.
Although he spoke in support of the
Head Librarian To California
David Heron, director of libraries at the University of Kansas, will resign his post here to take a job in California, Chancellor Roberts told a group of legislators here yesterday.
However, Heron said last night that he wouldn't confirm or deny that he had recited.
Heron will go to the University of California at Santa Cruz to become director of libraries there, Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols said.
the anti-abortion supporters. He said these supporters were "ignorant and negligent."
Leavenworth Brothers, Berrigan said. I'm not gun-ho for prison reform, I think the law is clear.
Berrigan cited anxiety as another act of violence. He said that in most airports, he had seen people with a knife.
However, Berrigan said he didn't condene
'I can't tell definitely when life exists, whether it be embryonic or at the fetal stage, and I don't think anyone else can,' he said.
Village Voice columnist and author of MARMALADE ME and LESBIAN NATION establishes herself more firmly than ever in the forefront of American writers.
Jill Johnston
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