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Tuesday, April 20, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Religion Is Academic In KU's Smith Hall
(Editor's note: this story is the first in a series on religion on the KU campus.)
BY JEANNE HEATHERLY
Karen Stuff Writer
The role of religion on campus is the role of a respectable academic discipline, Lynn Taylor, dean of religion, said
Taylor said religion was a part of the humanities and had its place in our culture as well as its connection to the world's problems.
"There is no effort to convert sinners here. We just study religion." he said.
Taylor, who has been dean for only one year, has been an academeal dean for many years. Doane college in Doyne, New York; college in Doyne, Neh.
Fifty years ago religion was taught in connection with the Council of Religious Workers and the University, with the University, Taylor said.
IN 1922-23, the University for the first time accepted three hours of credit for religion. The University accepted in 1944. Now, a masters degree is offered in religious studies but no provision has been made for an undergraduate degree in religion. Committee is considering the possibility of an undergraduate degree in religion and it should be voted on soon Taylor said. Another University department and courses are listed under the college within-the-college program. Religion courses will fulfill requirements in the humanities, Taylor said.
Religion on the KU campus is in a rather delicate position. It is funded completely without a university of the money coming from churches of various denominations and one-third from private sources. In addition, completely with non-University funds. However, faculty and courses must be approved by the Artic Arts and Sciences, he said.
EACH RELIGIOUS body which helps to fund the department is represented by four trustees on the board. In addition, the board includes places for four representatives of the University and four from the Department.
Each year enrollment in religion courses is increasing at an even greater rate than the number of students enrolled in the whole Enrollment figures have jumped from 291 in 1981 to 620 in 1987, and by 530 in 1991, almost doubling in five years.
Taylor said he thought that the increase occurred because this
"THEY HAVE thrown over the God of science. They are realizing that religion is the only force with which we can grip with the basic questions of life. Who am I? What is reality? How does man find valid truth? Why do people suffer? How does nature live? What is the purpose of life?"
was a basically religious generation, although some young people were anti-beritage and searching for a more rewarding life.
Taylor said he thought the school got basically two types of students.
"That's why I'm in religion—even if I don't have all the answers." Taylor said.
One is the "agnostic" who has serious questions and is very smart. He just doesn't buy the heritage of religion he been taught all his life.
The second is the student who has been Sunday school trained, Taylor said. This student comes from New York and has definite answers to religious questions. He sometimes changes his views in his speech, he said.
There is avoid interest in Eastern religions, which may be because of their intuitive approach to truth which Western Christianity lacks with its typically rational approach, he said.
TAYLOR SAID the school did not train ministers. The masters are ordained minister. The purpose is to acquaint students with the church's beliefs.
IF ENROLLED figures are any indication, the most popular in the department is the course in Christian ethics, taught by Robert Shelton, professor of religious studies, needed for the Hone award last year.
The school is offering three new courses in religion next summer, including literature, which discusses religion and modern plays; religion in American history; and approaches to the study of world religions.
OTHER THAN REGULAR classes, the religion department also broadcasts its course in Christian ethics at 2:05 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday on RANU radio. Last spring the World Service course was shown on Channel 11, educational television.
Sheilton said he thought the noticeable thing about the enrollment increase in religion courses, courses were entirely elective.
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Allied Troops Prepared To Hit A Shau Valley
SAIGON (UPI)—American helicopters probing the edges of the jungle了 A Shau Valley Monday killed 12 Communist soldiers in a one-sided aircrush. U.S. military spokesmen said.
Thousands of American and South Vietnamese ground troops were posed for the first major battle in the valley, 375 miles north of Saigon.
But probing patrols have reported little communication operative commander said North Vietnamnamee units might have had to withdraw.
Monday's air-to-ground skirmish took place 18 miles southwest of Hue and a dozen
miles east of the main part of the 35-mile-long valley.
The helicopter crew spotted not only a dozen bodies of men killed in the skirmish, but counted 18 others in the same general area, apparently victims of intensive member strikes in the past week.
In air action, two U.S. warplanes using radar-directed rockets attacked Communist airantiraffacy missile bases in Syria and Iraq, and another "protective reaction"raid to guard American B52stratofortresses bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It was the 24th time this year that Communist bases have been attacked.
By DOUG DELANO
Kansan Staff Writer
It was a boring day Thursday, until a student named Matt Farmer, meade to take picnic with some skydrivers the next Monday.
He said it was all very easy and that the experience would be worthwhile. He assured me that I would be strapped securely in the seat of his car, wearing a parachute—just in case. The parachute would be on a static line so that "if you fell" it would open automatically. I accepted the assignment and him for his vote of confidence.
The plane bumped, rocked and groomed like a lired old work tractor. It was the energy for another day at the same grind but, it finally lifted.
When we arrived at Lawrence, we opened the door and ran streamers to check the director of the air current. The streamers rolled across the rooftops that disappeared at the speed of sound. The wind pressure inside the cabin from the open door was so great that it felt as though a gigantic vice was pressing down on the book skylifts and skids, "Are you really sure you're going through with this?"
WE TOOK A camouflaged pickup to a pasture and boarded the single engine parachute plane. Everyone was in high spirits as I sat there wondering what ever possessed me to come across her body, and ground and taken pictures of the group coming down.
When I arrived at the drop zone of the Parachute Club, the scene was a mix of packing their chutes, checking their equipment, and some just talking about the last few feet jumping. Lawrence freshman; Terry Carter freshman; KU footballer; Brantley Gormick junior; Stella Gormicki, Kansas City, Mo.; junior, and Jack Huntier, sophomore, were the crew.
Manson, Women Accomplices Hear Judge Give Sentence
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — sentence almost serenely Monday, rocking slowly back and forth on his heels and staring
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The three young women he sent out to commit seven savage
murders followed his lead. They stood in silence with their hands clasped. They were a grotesque set of monsters and headsheads until only a fuzz showed on their skulls. They moved their bodies, Manson, who earlier had sailed
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If a fire should break out now, it would be discovered by smoke alarms. It was not so. The intensity of the flames caused sections of the roof to collapse and caused a fireproof. The Union, which houses 12,000 members a year, is now 95%
Racial tension at Lawrence High School preceded the fire. Blacks there demanded a course in firefighting. The cheerleader and a black spring green. Lawrence High School was fire bombed the night of the fire.
Noone was seriously injured by the fire, but about 1,500 people were on the scene. It was p.m. and 10:30 p.m., that night. Burial said, "The fire was over." The fire was extinguished.
"I toured the state with the Chancellor this summer," John
The final effect of the fire on the University's image is hard to measure. Gov. Docking refused to allow the state's action to the fire.
L. Gov. Reynolds Shultz said, "Timely communication is the University maintains peace and quiet, a lot of people's feelings will soften, but some people are frightened."
SHULTZ SAID THE fire and the turbulence that surrounded it were not the reasons for the recent University budget cut. Chalmers agreed but said the university had no enrollment. This spring's enrolment was 329 students more than last spring's enrolment, but the increase was as administrators had expected.
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Conard, director of University relations, said "We specifically wanted to provide disruption reports had frightened students away from the University before we had been about returning, but some were about returning, but some were about leaving our reservations about choosing Lawrence. Certainly many parents were hesitant about sending their children to school."
Youngberg said there had been individuals who had used the fire as a reason for stopping them. One woman and some were using the fire as an excuse rather than a reason. An unsoiled $1,253 was given to the fire department.
"For many the Kansas Union fire provoked a much more serious look at the causes of dissatisfaction in this country," she said. "It stimulated the questioning of the efficacy of arbitrary, wanton
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CHALMERS AGREED that the fire, or rather the publicity the fire received, had affected enrollment, but he said the University's alumni and friends should to the support of the University.
Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, said there was no need for Mr. Youngberg to donate. He said that this fiscal year, which ends April 30, contributed for dollars contributed.
RICK WALKER, street community-city liaison, said only time would tell the fire's full effect.
"Although the lessons were painful, I think that at least in the first two cases we made them. The question which will remain, however, is not or not the lessons we worth it in a historical perspective.
"HAS SOCIAL PROGRESS been accelerated by the social awakening some of us exerted on our communities, the polarization and deterioration of community relations that we face now is a time only will be able to answer."
After the fire, the Union was closed for three days. Technical checks of utilities were made.
Manson spoke for less than a minute before Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older formally pronounced sentences of death in the gas chamber at San Quentin or the Tate L.A.LaBanca killings.
violence as a political tactic, and for some it was the ultimate indication of a totally decadent generation.
The Union's insurance company paid out $1.03 million for the new policy, and insurance is five times as great. The present cost is $130,000. The new policy has a $150,000 cost. The policy had 100 per cent coverage.
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Two men are stationed in the Union all night, every night. The Union was 50 per cent restored six months after the fire. The Union Ballroom and the Centennial Room are the only rooms open. They will be open by commencement time. Burge said.
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"We gradually built back up," Burge said. "Many days we were hard pressed."
Portions of the Union were opened on the fourth day.
"We are very conscious of security." Burge said.
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"I accept this court as my father," said Manson who has spent 23 of his 36 years in jails.
"I have always done the best in my life to uphold the law of my father. I accept the judgment of my father."
Judge Older ordered Manson removed to San Quentin and the Bay County jail, winked and Leslie Van Houten to the California Institute of Women at Frontera. Calif., pending a transfer, require from three to five years.
This was not so encouraging, I thought.
THEY GRINNED and said,
"We've got it easy. You've got to land with Jack." Jack Butler was "be迟 of the day."
We made a few more passes over the campus, and they seemed to see. It was then time for the first two to jump. They jumped out of the way, and we had an altitude of 3,200 feet. They had a 33-second freefall before they fell.
I LOOKED BACK at Matt and Terry and said, "You've got to be kidding. They disappear too fast to get a decent shot."
They made another pass and climbed to 4,000 feet for the next jump. They jumped, and I tried frantically to take pictures with the motorized camera, which had no joystick. I saw scenes that could have aroused
Jack made another pass that just about dumped me through the open door and said they would be coming into view in a few seconds. He was right. They were out-of-view in a few seconds.
merchants on Massachusetts Street, and then grabbed another camera.
I GOT OFF a few more shots on the last pass and gave the plot a look of frustration only a mother and, said, "I'm through!"
The ride back was easier because we were rid of a lot of dead weight and his landing was superb. He taxied the plane back, shut it off, and opened the door. I unmounted my safety belt and stepped out to inspect the gills with three cameras and a parachute. I loaded up the gear
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I grinned, collapsed into my car seat, lit a cigarette and headed back to Lawrence.
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