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University Daily Kansan Friday. October 27,1961
Rockefeller Calls for U.S. To Resume Nuclear Testing
MIAMI BEACH — (UFI) — Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York called on the United States today to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere despite any adverse world opinion.
Rockefeller expressed opposition to another moratorium on nuclear testing as proposed in the United Nations and urged speed in developing a neutron bomb and other "new weapons of greater precision and flexibility."
THE GOVERNOR, a possible 1964
Religion Review
"The Soviet Union — with massive disdain for world opinion — is finishing, in these days, a series of more than 20 nuclear tests in the atmosphere," Rockefeller said.
The United Campus Christian Fellowship (UCCF), a merger of four student religious groups, exists at KU in spirit and purpose but not as an organization.
UCCF was initiated nationally last year and initiated on a state level this March. But the nature of UCCF on the KU campus has not been determined yet.
The Rev. Robert Balch, campus minister of the Disciples Student Fellowship, said about the UCCF at KU:
The Rev. Mr. Balch explained that in large schools like KU there was no need for an organizational merger since each religious group had its own minister and facilities.
"IT IS UP to each college to establish the best UCCF structure for that school. At KU the UCCF is not an organizational merger. We merged on the basis of common witness to Jesus Christ as Lord of all life. Organization and structure will have to follow."
TOUGH THESE four student organizations no longer exist on the national or state level, they still function as individual groups at KU
Republican presidential candidate, issued his nuclear testing call in his first major speech on national issues since the election of Democratic President John F. Kennedy almost a year ago. The speech at the national convention of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society, was billed by his aides as non-political.
The four religious organizations that merged to form the UCCF are Disciples Student Fellowship of the International Convention of the Christian Churches; the Student Fellowship Council of the Evangelical United Brethren Church; the United Student Fellowship of the United Church of Christ; and the Westminster Student Fellowship of the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
"But," the Rev. Mr. Balch said, "we feel there are certain areas in which we can operate together. We want to emphasize the common worship and common witness we feel."
"It would strengthen our witness to speak as a united effort," he said.
The Rev. Mr. Balch said the group could bring speakers to the campus in the name of UCCF, plan joint services and speak as a united voice on campus issues.
THE UCCF ALSO PLANS common study enterprises and joint worship services. It now participates with the Methodist Student Center in the State Hospital Visitation Program and with Westminster Fellowship in a drama reading group.
The operational body of UCCF at KU now is a provisional committee made up of the religious groups' campus pastors and two members from each organization. They meet every other week to discuss the UCCF at KU.
"We don't see any possibility of merging locally in one super fellowship," the Rev. Mr. Balch said. "But we are looking for ways to express the unity we feel. We believe in union but not in uniting. This is an important principle. Our union is not primarily an organizational one."
THE UCCF BEGAN more than five years ago as an idea to unite student religious organizations into one. All denominational groups spent three years studying the idea of merging. Many groups dropped out of the movement when a group would discover there was something they could not share in common with the others.
Finally, the four groups comprising UCCF met at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., last year and voted themselves out of existence as national denominational groups. They created a united movement with their merger.
THE PURPOSE OF the UCCF is in part:
The basis of the UCCF is the faith "that God incarinate in Jesus Christ and present in the Holy Spirit wills to reconcile men to himself, and that he is acting in history, creating, judging and redeeming."
- To further the mission of the church within the campus community.
- To deepen the Christian faith of the members of the academic community and to broaden ecumenical understanding through common experiences in intercollegiate campus Christian movements.
- To increase sensitivity to and understanding of the responsibilities of the Christian community within the university.
- To deepen our understanding of and participation in the ecumenical movement in the church.
- To further conversation with our fellow campus Christian movements.
"The series," he added, "has already included the greatest blast of destructive power the world has ever witnessed. And upon completion of their tests, we must be prepared for the Soviet Union tq turn its face from the scene of the blast, with an air of virtue and innocence, and say to us: 'Now, shouldn't we all stop testing these awful weapons.'"
ROCKEFFELLER SAID we can prepare ourselves for the answer to that question by looking at a few hard facts;
Rockefeller said that if Russia had enjoyed a monopoly on the hydrogen bomb, "it is doubtful that we would still be in existence as a free society.
- "We know from the very nature of the recent Soviet tests that the period of the so-called moratorium after 1958 must have been used by Soviet science for intensive and major research in nuclear weapons development" and . . . "that the Soviets engaged in underground testing not subject to detection by the outside world.
"We can view with no more complacecy the chance of their winning so stunning a strategic advantage with a neutron bomb," he warned.
"Since the voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing in 1958, we have stood relatively still for the past three years in the development and improvement of nuclear weapons.
Rockefeller listed four steps this nation should take in the atomic field:
- "We simply do not know the extent of the technical advances scored by the Soviet Union throughout the moratorium and in their current tests in the atmosphere.
- We must improve our tactical weapons.
- We must reduce the weight of nuclear warheads.
- • We must develop anti-missile defenses.
- We must develop new weapons.
Rockefeller said the United States must prevent a Russian edge in the nuclear race "even though the decisions and actions required of us may not be acclaimed by world opinion of the moment or by plaudits of so-called 'neutralist' nations."
"It is one thing for America to be conscientiously concerned with the views of 'neutralist' nations," he said. "It would be a quite different and wholly preposterous thing for America to start behaving like one. Our basic responsibility — to ourselves, to all free people, and to future generations — is to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular but what is right."
Club Plans Square Dance
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.—William Penn
The International Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Lawrence Community Center at 11th and Vermont. Activities for the evening will include square dancing and apple bobbing and later, regular dancing.
POST GAME BUFFET All You Can Eat—Roast Beef Baked Ham, Fried Chicken, Ribs
With many tasty side dishes SERVED BY CANDLELIGHT IN THE BEAUTIFUL CRYSTAL BALLROOM After the Game-8 p.m.
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Vox Platform —
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hours on campus to women who otherwise must walk to their dorms late at night.
"This will be a springboard for next year's traffic crackdown," said McDaniel. He explained that such bus service would include major women's living areas as well as the women's dorms.
Answering questions about the "unfulfilled promises," McDaniel listed them from Vox's last platform:
- II Communications
- Telephone facilities will be improved in the women's dormitories. ● V Student Opinion
- V Student Opinion
The ASC will establish a method whereby any student group would have at its disposal a method for obtaining student opinion on controversial issues that directly concern the group's interest.
Explaining that some effort had already been made to correct the telephone difficulties in women's dormitories, Theodore L. Childers, Wamego senior and Vox president, said the situation was still unsatisfactory.
- X Checks and Balances
The approval of the Student Body President will be required before legislation can be passed, subject to a two-thirds override vote of the ASC.
"WE PLAN TO DISCUSS the matter with the telephone company," he said. "However," he added, "we would also like the girls operating the switchboards in the women's dorms to take advantage of the free instruction the telephone company is offering."
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