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Church's Campus Role Defined by Minister
By Claire Cox United Press International
NEW YORK-A major New Frontier of the church is on the college campus.
Leaders of nearly every denomination report increasing numbers of young people are straying from churches when they become old enough to leave home for college or jobs.
Dr. Deane William Ferm, dean of the college chapel at Mount Holyoke College, was the chief speaker. He delivered a series of talks in which he pointed up the problems and offered possible solutions.
THE METHODIST Church, which long has regarded youth as its "growing edge," recently conducted its first national convocation on preaching in college and university communities. About 200 ministers assigned to academic communities attended the meeting in Cincinnati to seek new ways to increase student participation in religious activities.
"The college campus is the greatest mission field in the world today for the church." Ferm said. "Here the leaders of the next generation are to be found. Here the competing 'faiths' meet head-on in a life-and-death struggle for the minds and hearts of men. Here the course of the world may be determined."
FERM SAID negative images of the church are found in church-related colleges as well as in private and state institutions of higher learning. Among these "negative images" he listed:
The image of credulity, of a church too sure of itself, too fearful of healthy skepticism and too prone to seek easy answers.
—The image of a church that is too rigid, authoritarian and seeking obedience to external authority instead of to individual freedom.
The image of a church that does not speak the language of young people. The churches seem to be more interested in communicating with one another than with the academic family.
—The image of a church that can answer questions students are NOT asking while ignoring the questions they ARE asking.
"The CHURCH is credulous, authoritarian, speaks a foreign language, is socially, insensitive and largely irrelevant," Ferm said. "To be sure, there are other negative images of the church. These are, however, the major ones."
He said that while the church is not entirely to blame for its short-comings, it must bear a share of the responsibility. The task of preaching in an academic community therefore is in part one of breaking down "false images," he said.
Ferm offered a list of steps that could be taken to aid in development of a positive image of the church. Among them were:
THE CHURCH should appreciate and encourage honest doubt and admit its does not know the final answers. The crucial problem is to get students to be constructive in their doubting.
the minds and not just inspire the hearts of the congregation.
—The church should be a teaching community seeking to stretch
—The church should be concerned with the issues that students and teachers regard as critical.
The church, through the clergy, should become as involved as possible in college life.
The church should educate its members in the meaning of theological terminology.
The church should be sensitive to social issues of the day, such as racial discrimination, economic injustice, housing and world understanding, and become involved in them.
The church must keep constantly in mind that a Gospel of human redemption that helps men find themselves is at the root of everything the church does or savs.
"The image of the church in the academic community," Ferm said, "should be that of making out a good substantial case for her faith in the midst of ideological conflict and spiritual confusion."
Plan to Send Card to Nikita
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NEW YORK — (UPI) — Are you sending a Christmas card to Nikita this year?
The Soviet Premier has made the yuletide mailing list of at least one American family. And they asked today that their fellow citizens join them in flooding the Kremlin with some unprecedented Christmas cheer.
"There's room in the world for a gesture of love, and this is the season for it," said Newton Odell of suburban Garden City, N.Y., sponsor of the idea. "It might accomplish nothing — but what can be lost?"
Mr. Odell said the card he, his wife, Lois, and two daughters had picked out for Khrushchev concentrated on the theme "peace on earth, good will toward men."
"Such a gesture, if made by even 10 per cent of us, would provide massive evidence of our genuine desire for peace," he said.
Mr. Odell, a 50-year-old advertising executive, presented his proposal in a letter to the editor appearing in today's Herald Tribune and elaborated on it in an interview with UPI.
The cost of postage for the cards can be as little as 5 cents if they are unsealed. Sealed first class would run 11 cents and a one-half ounce airmail would cost 25 cents.
Mr. Odell suggested sending the cards to: Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
"I think that if people really did make a point to make Mr. Khrushchev an added name on their mailing lists — and thought about why they were doing it — they would be acting more sincerely than they do about a lot of their routine 'reciprocity' cards," he said.
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This incrimination, they continued, "provides an important and serious warning to all concerned with the maintenance and protection of human health to devote greatly increased attention and efforts to an effective control of the growing number and variety of environmental, industry-related carcinogens."
A "carcinogen" is a cancer-causing agent.
Two-day schools will be held in Parsons on Jan. 20-21; Wichita, Feb.
24-25 and Hays, March 10-11. A total of 150 to 175 medical assistants are expected to attend.
KU will inaugurate a traveling education program in 1962 — a Medical Assistants Circuit Course.
Circuit Courses Planned for Medics
The unusual program, similar to a circuit course conducted for Kansas pharmacists, is sponsored by the Kansas Medical Society, the Kansas Medical Assistants Society, the University of Kansas Extension and the State Board for Vocational Education.
Frank Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama, will conduct sessions at each of the schools on medical ethics and etiquette and on communications for medical assistants.
A presentation on law and economics in medicine will be led by Donald R. Newkirk, attorney, and Dr. Ernest W. Crow, M.D., both of Wichita.
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NEW YORK — (UPI)—One of the top scientific authorities on environmental cancer sees an object lesson for human beings in the cancer epidemic which has been raging for some time among rainbow trout in the United States, France and northern Italy.
Dr. W. C. Hueper, chief of the environmental cancer section of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., and his colleague, Dr. W. W. Payne, have now accepted the "nutritional theory" as the most likely explanation of the liver cancer increasingly common among rainbow trout as they age.
Environmental cancer is any cancer which is caused by any outside agent, such as a chemical. Smog or industrial wastes in general or even some foods could contain cancer causing chemical compounds some of which have so far escaped scientific identification.
"The bulk of available evidence at present incriminates some constituent, or constituents, in the food as a nutritive factor, a chemical additive, or a medical agent," they said in reporting to the institute's technical journal.
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