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Wednesday, March 17, 1971
University Daily Kansan
He Drove the Snakes Out
St. Pat Inspired Legends
By ROBERT W. PATRICK
St. Patrick's Day is traditionally celebrated by wearing green shamrocks, drinking green beer and pinching the heels of shoes.
March 17 has become a day to wear something green—whether it be a blouse, shirt, scarf, tie or turtleneck. It is time to honor the patron saint of Ireland.
Macewyn was captured by Irish marauders when he was sixteen and sold as a slave to a Druid monastery in Ireland, spent as a swineherd. During this time he learned the Celtic language and Irish customs. His experiences with monks years were to greatly influence his later life. It was during this period that he became inspired to travel to Ireland from their pagan ways.
According to some authorities, St. Patrick was born with the name Maewyn in A.D. 387 at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, Scotland. Another version lists it as Britain in A.D. 386. His father, Ezekiel, was a Roman and Roman family and served as a magistrate in his community.
When he was 22, Maewyn decided to devote his life to
religion He studied at the
university of Paris,
France. During the next eighteen
years, he completed his studies,
became a priest and later a
bishop.
Pope Celestine named him Patricius in 431 and sent him to Ireland on a mission. He arrived there in 432. His welcome in Ireland was far from cordial. The Irishmen were presented his Christian ideas.
He was stoned on several occa-
cations, and on several other
occasions, he and his followers
died by the Druids and
put in chains.
In 433, trying to explain to the pagans the concept of the "Trinity in Unity," he realized that they could not understand, so he drew a diagram of shamrock, and used its three leaves to illustrate his meaning.
He explained to his listeners that the three leaves of the shamrock represented the three wounds in the stem. "The stem was symbolic of the Gothic, and of the three in-one-ness," he said. "I asked, 'Is it not as possible for the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to grow upon a single stalk?'
Pigeon Control Program Draws Prof's Objections
Tom Lehrer, an iconoclastic balladeer of the college circuit of a few years ago sang:
"It just takes a smidgen
In the park."
It seems now, the KU Athletic Corporation is repeating the old refrain.
Wade Stinson, KU athletic director, explained Tuesday that each fall for the past several years the Athletic Corporation has hired a Kansas City pest control agent in Memorial Stadium of pigs and deer.
"The birds carry encephalomyelitis and other diseases." Simmon said, "and secession concessions on the building. In addition, they add to the earning of expense of the stadium.
Stinson was contacted when the Kansan was notified by Theodore Lundy, Jr., assistant professor of architecture and urban design.
He said he thought the pest control company placed
poisoned wheat and corn and a chemical poison on the crossbars below the stadium seating addition.
Lundy said that at different times he and his wife had seen two pigeons near the stadium, in what appeared to be their death thros. In a third instance, Lundy saw one of them diving doves in the same area.
Going to football games last fall, Lundy said, he noticed corn on the crossbar supports of the stadium. Remembering the first time corn had seen apparently dying, he suspected the corn was poisoned.
Numerous legends have sprung up and been attributed to St. Patrick. One says that he raised a pine tree on the father's own father, from the dead. Another says that when he was a boy, St. Patrick took an ice bucket of winter day, they could find no fuel to make a fire. St. Patrick made snow, when he died, he covered it on it and a blaze sprang up for all of his followers to warm them.
"My wife was uppet upset after she saw one of the dying birds," Lundy said. "I think the practice should be stopped."
St. Patrick is best remembered for driving all snakes and toads from Ireland.
One legend says that when he died on March 17, 439, the glory was so great that there was no darkness for twelve days.
Man Charged In ROTC Fire Fit for Trial
A former KU custodian charged with the April 23 fire at the Military Science Building was held in court by Howard Dean Decker, the custodian has been at Larned State Hospital undergoing work.
Following his arrest on April 27 on charges of second degree arson, Decker was bound over by police during a preliminary hearing on April 30.
Decker and three others were on duty in the ROTC building the night of the fire.
A competency hearing was ordered to see if he was mentally fit to stand trial. The three physicians on the hearing board were unanimous in affirming and mentally fit and referred him to the Lamed hospital in May.
Decker was returned to Douglas County Friday on the recommendation of hospital staff. He had a stand trial. No new hearing date has been set in the district court, which is at $20,000 upon his arrest.
According to testimony a petroleum-based cleaning fluid started the fire. Damaged in the fire was a small cloth target on the small arms firing range in the basement of the building. Damage was estimated at $500.
According to Dan Conyers, the band has the rights to the show producer. Leeds Music Company has recalled the contract for the rights to the band.
The KU performance of "Jesus
Christ Super Star" scheduled to be performed April 9 and 10 has been canceled.
'Super Star' Canceled
The company decided that no performances of "Jesus Christ Superstar" would be given until after the Broadway and sun. This could be indefinitely.
The announcement of the cancellation came Friday, the day before spring break.
The amount of material a student is responsible for known during just one semester can be done with some into a state of panic.
Many students have had the unhappy experience of going to a preschool and with unbelieving ear hearing, the instructor calmly耳 bearing, the instructor calmly h
Reading Center Lessens Study Load
of the text for next week."
For those who find themselves in such situations, the solution might be in Bailey Hall at the KU School of Education.
Rex Fuller, Bonner Springs graduate student and director of the center, said. "The Reading Developmental learning skills:
study skills and methods such as writing term papers and studying for exams and raid reading."
The rapid reading class began Monday, but the skills class will not until Monday. March 22. Any class in another class in 102 Bayle Hall before the deadline March 26. All classes are services are free to KU students.
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