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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 30, 1992
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After two votes, head of SenEx is named
By Jay Williams Kansan staff writer
Student Senate last night reconsidered Kristin Lange's nomination as head of the University Senate Executive Committee and appointed her by a wider margin than it had one week earlier.
In a special Senate meeting, Lange was confirmed by Senate in a 39-15 secret-ballot vote with three senators abstaining.
During a regularly-scheduled Senate meeting last week, Lange was confirmed after Lance Wright, student body vice president, president a tie and confirmed Lange to the office.
Brad Garlinghouse, student body president, called the special meeting after some members of Senate submitted a petition saying that the vote taken to confirm Lange last week was illegal because of procedural errors during the vote.
- "It is important to have this meeting because some have procedural questions, whether right or wrong," he said. "I want everything finalized this semester and get it behind us so we can get things done."
Lange said after the meeting she was relieved to be confirmed by a lawyer.
The debate last night primarily centered on questions of procedure and whether procedures had been followed during the vote last week.
Senate members spent much of the meeting looking at Robert's Rules of Order, a procedural guide used by Senators and others. The other thad followed correct procedure.
The petition stated that Wright's vote was illegal because it was not cast at the same time as the other votes.
Wright, in a letter given to senators before the meeting, said that the mistakes alleged in the petition were invalid. But a separate mishap in the procedures would have confirmed Lange by a larger margin, he said.
At last week's meeting, Senate counted the six abstention votes against the majority, which meant Lange needed 25 votes to be confirmed. She received 25 with Wright's vote.
Wright's opinion, endorsed by Student Senate Executive Committee prior to the meeting, said the abstaining votes should not have been counted so Lange would have had a clear majority.
During the debate, five speakers spoke in favor of the Lange nomination, while two spoke in opposition.
Wright defended Lange's nomination, saying he and Garlinghouse appointed her because she was active in and showed commitment to Senate.
Greg Hughes, SenEx representative, said Lange was the most qualified candidate, but Senate only needed to determine if Lange was qualified.
Andy Shore, Senate's Interfraternity Council representative, said he did not feel Lange was the most qualified applicant for the position. Debate rules prevented direct discussion of any other candidate for the position.
Kurt Broeckelmann, architecture senator, and Jason McIntosh, liberal arts and sciences senator, also applied for the position.
The head of StudEx, according to Senate Rules and Regulations, presides over all StudEx meetings, which includes summer meetings when the full Senate is not in session. The head also works with preparing and presenting legislation to the Senate and updates and revises Senate Rules and Regulations.
Kansans remember Holocaust at ceremony
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Sam Nussbaum closed the door to a train headed for Auschwitz not knowing that the German SS officer he worked for had put his family inside.
Fifty years later, Nussbaum counts himself among the lucky—lucky to be alive to tell people about his experiences in the Holocaust.
"There are people who say it never happened," said Nussbaum, a plumber from Kansas City, Kan. "But if it never happened, why can they bring back my four sisters, brothers and my parents?"
Nussbaum was one of several people who spoke yesterday at the Capitol in a Holocaust commemoration ceremony.
About 100 people, including Lawrence residents and the director of KU Hillel, participated in the service, which was organized by the Kansas Holocaust Commission.
Barry Shalinsky of Lawrence, who is a member of the Holocaust Commission, said at the service that it was important to remember that not all the victims of the Holocaust were Jewish and that some of these same groups faced discrimination today in the United States.
"This is not an isolated event that
happened a half a century ago, halfway across the world," he said. "There are people in our society today that have the same attitudes that made something like this happen in the past."
Shalinsky said society had to learn a lesson from the Holocaust and create acivilized world in which people could live in Holocaust would never happen again.
"No one deserves to die and suffer because of who they are," he said.
Daveen Litwin, director of Hillel,
sang while residents of Topeka,
Overland Park, Lawrence and
other Kansas cities lighted seven
candles to honor the 6 million Jews
and other peoples that that died in the Holocaust.
Litwin said the song was a poem written by a woman who left Europe for Palestine before the war. When the woman returned to Europe as a paratrooper sent to rescue the people in concentration camps, she was executed by the Nazis.
Gov. Joan Finney has declared April 26 to May 3 a week to remember victims of the Holocaust.
A similar declaration was made Tuesday night in Lawrence. The official Holocaust Remembrance Day is today.
Hillel will have a service at 7 tonight at 100Smith Hall.
Photos by Kristen Petty/KANSAN
At left, a permanent reminder of the Holocaust, Bronia Roslaowski, a Kansas City, Mo., resident originally from Poland, wears the tattooed seriainumber she was given at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Below, as "Eil Eil" is sung in memory of the six million Jewish people killed during the Holocaust, Margalith Clarenburg, Manhattan resident, weeps.
Reading list updated in Western Civ class Revised program adds Koran eliminates Voltaire's 'Candide'
By Ranjit Arab
Kansan staff writer
The new Western Civilization reading lists were finalized last week, and several traditional works were left out to make room for a broader variety of views.
Members of the reading list committees for the two semester-long courses said yesterday that the new selections were not the result of pressure from campus minority groups.
Kathleen Chatman, senior instructor of Western Civilization and head of the first semester reading list committee, said the changes were the result of a two-year examination of the program.
A mandatory review of the reading lists is conducted every three years, she said.
The new list will be used for the 1992 to 1995 academic years.
Aside from new reading lists, committees for the courses revised the program's mission statement and added new themes to the course, Chatman said.
Diane Fourny, head of the second semester committee, said some faculty were concerned that works such as the "Declaration of Independence" and "The Federalist Papers" were dropped from the list. Instead, the second semester list now includes works that emphasize science and technology.
She said concerns were common when developing a reading list from a broad selection of works.
"Everybody seems to have a very different feeling about the list," she
"I believe this reading list does a better job,not a perfect job."
Kathleen Chatman
senior instructor in Western Civilization
said. "But we certainly wanted to integrate other voices."
Chatman said that among the changes on the first semester reading list were the removal of Voltaire's, "Candide," a standard of past reading lists.
New titles include works from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as from the Muslim holy book, the Koran.
Chatman said one of the major problems with the old reading list was that it overlooked the significance of Muslim works.
Although the new titles cover a wider range of cultures, she said the committee was not pressured by campus groups to replace such standards as "Candide" with works from minorities.
"You cannot tell a decent story in West without including the Muslim community."
She said the new titles were selec- ted on the basis of historical signifi- cance, modern day relevance and student interest.
"I believe this reading list does a
'Abroader view'
The Western Civilization department has adopted several changes in its reading lists in hopes of covering a greater variety of Western thought. The changes include:
234—What's in
*Epic of Gilgamesh*
*The Weighing of the Pharoah's Heart," from *The Book of the Dead*
*The Table," from the Koran*
234—What's out
234 What's out
- Johann Tetzel - Indulgences
- Voltaire - Candide
235-What's in
Adam Smith — selections from The Wealth of Nations
W. E.B. DuBois -The World and Africa
and Africa
Albert Einstein assoc. on
Albert Einstein—essayson
Albert Einstein - essays on science and religion from Ideas and Onions
Virginia Woolf—A Room of One's Own
235—What's out
Declaration of Independence
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison—The Federalist Papers
Madison - The Federalist Paper
■ Alexis de Tocqueville —
Democracy in America
better job, not a perfect job," she said. "It is crowded. There are 3 centuries in one semester."
Kirk Shaffer, Western Civilization graduate student and member of the second semester committee, said changes were not necessarily meant to emphasize minority views.
Frederick Douglass — Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
"It was not that we dropped some works to replace them with something else," he said. "It was so we could get a broader representation of Westernideas."
KU student forewarns against religious group
Religious adviser says local church recruits disciples not worshippers
By Katherine Manweiler Kansan staff writer
Six months ago, Rod Warren laughed when people told him they thought he was involved in a cult.
Four months after leaving the Kansas City Church of Christ group at KU, he does not laugh anymore.
"They create this need for them after they find you," Warren said. "They setyouup with a disciplingpartner, and youreport tothem. Theybasisly have complete control of your life."
Warren said he spent between 25 and 40 hours a week in mandatory activities with the group. He was expected to be on campus recruiting people for an hour each day.
He said that one morning last fall, he called his disciple and told him that he was going to Arkansas with a friend for the weekend. His disciple told Warren that he should not go because he would be tempted to sin.
When Warren said he would not change his mind, his discipler asked him to come by Allen Field House and talk to him before he left for Arkansas. Warren agreed.
Warren said that less than 30 minutes later, he was taking a shower when he heard a knock on the door of the bathroom in his fraternity house.
Warren said Steve Schmit, the leader of the group, then walked into the bathroom and interrupted him while he was in the shower.
He said Schmitt also told him to stop Allen Field House and talk to him
before leaving. Warren did.
"When I got to Allen Field House, I was railroaded by my discipling partner and Steve Schmidt. They told me that if I went, I was going to fall into sin and that I would go to hell and burn in hell because I had a weak heart."
Two hours later, Warren told his friend he could not go.
Neither Schmit nor Warren's disciple would comment about allegations about their tactics.
Warren continued his involvement in the group until winter break, when he talked with trained counselors who convinced him that the Kansas City Church of Christ used mind-control tactics and took Bible verses out of context.
He wanted his story to be told to warn other students from getting involved with the group.
Jim Musser, religious adviser at the University of Kansas, said he was convinced that the Kansas City Church of Christ was a cult.
"Everything is geared toward serving the person above you," Musser said. "That is the evidence of your commitment to God. So, in essence, you're serving not God, you're serving another human being as if they are God. When you give individual human beings that kind of power, you're asking for a lot of problems."
According to a newsletter from the Chicago Church of Christ, which is connected to the Kansas City Church of Christ, a person's faith in God is reflected by their faith in a disciple. Disciples always are supposed to serve their disciple, even at their own inconvenience.
When students are approached to go to a Bible Talk, they need to ask questions about who is sponsoring the study and about the history of the group, Musser said. Students should get the contact's full name and phone number instead of giving theirs, he said.