CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 13, 1984
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"One thing I remember when I was eight," he says. "That was the night when the great countrywide persecution of the Jews took place, when they smashed Jewish stores and burnt the synagogues.
"MY FATHER TOLD ME I SHOULD go with him. He had heard. I don't know where, that something was happening at the main synagogue, and he took me down there, about a mile and a half from our house. The area was cordoned off by police, and the synagogue was surrounded by police and adjoining properties, protecting the properties, but they were not trying to put out the fire in the synagogue.
"The only thing my father said to me was, I want you to look at this and present it."
Only later did Zuther find out that his father had defied Nazi authority by sheltering Jews and burying non-Jewish victims of concentration camps.
Zuther himself defied German law by listening almost daily to foreign radio stations to get accurate information about the war. The penalty for listening to a foreign station was at least five years of hard labor.
FOR THE MOST PART, THOUGH,
he did as he was told, building fortifications along the old German eastern borders, bringing in the harvest because all the farmers were at war,
loading food and unloading bodies of refugees at a rail station, and running ammunition to the front lines in a motorcycle side car as the war slowly ground to its inevitable end.
In April of 1945, the curious series of events began that would finally land on the earth.
He and his family were living in a three-room house with one bed and an easy chair. Because the family had very little money, he went to live and work on a 'Godforsaken one-horse farm' 10 miles away.
IT WAS THEN THAT ZUTHER,
never a strong student. "I made my
music major."
didn't want to make to make a living with his hands and that he'd better start taking school more seriously. He did well enough during his final years of high school to earn a one-semester scholarship to the University of Goettingen in Belgium.
However, the English curriculum consisted entirely of Old and Middle English, so after two years of course it was hard to tell still couldn't speak English fluently.
HE BEGAN NEGOTIATIONS WITH the University of Bristol in England, but in April of 1961 he received a curt note saying that the time wasn't right for "enemy aliens" to enter the university.
At a loss, Zuther wrote letters to those who had sent recommendations for his appointment to Bristol, saying that he would go anywhere in the world for an opportunity to study. The most important letter went to the Methodist bishop
The bishop was preparing to leave for America to receive two honorary degrees, one from DePauw University, and he took the letter with him.
ZUTHER ENTERED DEFPAW AS
a one-year exchange student, but never returned to study at Göttingen. He went on to receive a B.A. in 1983, and master's in 1985, from DeFauw. He went on to D.F from the University of Indiana in 1999.
In 1958, while still working on the doctorate, Zuther came to KU as an instructor in the English Department of the English Department, a position that he will resign in July.
Considering his fortunes during the war and the quirks that pushed him into the study of English and that ultimately earned him a high position, Zuther sees a higher band than man's.
"I have a strong sense that 'there is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.' I'm not an organized religious thinker, but I have a sense of somehow being favored. I have no quarrel with life."
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Gerhard Zuther, a professor and chairman of the English department, was a member of the Hitler Youth in Germany during World War II. The experience never left him, and Zuther said recently that he disbelieved being in the organization because he could not endure the mock battles that the boys were forced to fight.
KU law students win National Moot Court
By the Kansan Staff
A team of KU law students last week placed first in the National Moot Court Competition, marking the first time in the 34-year history of the prestigious law skills tournament that a KU team has won.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was on the nine-member judging panel, which also included federal and New York state judges.
The team consisted of law students Dolph Schmidt, Towson, Md., Matt Keenan, Great Bend, and Mark Parkinson, Wichita. The team defeated 27 other teams that competed in the final round of the tournament in New York City.
BILL, WESTERBEKE, FACULTY ADVISER to the team, said Friday that the students, who defeated Syracuse University in the final round, also won an award for presenting the best arguments on a securities fraud case.
"They worked very hard and truly deserved the honors," he said.
the subject of this year's competition.
*rankinson won an additional prize when he placed second in the oralist competition.*
Schmidt said he was honored to have spoken in front of an esteemed panel of judges. Schmidt and his teammates won six trophies, expensive collections from the University of Hawaii, with all expenses paid by the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Each fall, students from law schools across the country compete in regional tournaments, Westerbeke said. The winners of the regional tournaments then compete in the national competition by the New York Bar Association.
Last fall the KU team defeated teams from law schools in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska to win the regional competition, he said. About 150 teams compete in 14 regional tournaments, with 28 teams advancing to the finals.
Official says Jackson's campaign increases voters
By ROBIN PALMER
Staff Reporter
Jesse Jackson's Democratic campaign for the presidency has increased the number of registered voters more than that of any other candidate in the 1984 presidential race, a Jackson campaign official said Saturday.
William McNary, the official and the Kansas youth coordinator for the campaign, told an audience at a Jackson rally that because Jackson was an alternative to the present
government, more people had registered to vote.
McNary said that other candidates offered forms similar to the stance of a lawyer.
MCNARY TOLD THE AUDIENCE at the St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church, 900 New York St., that the Rev Jackson was, "the bright shining rainbow after the storm of Reaganomics."
Jackson provides an alternative to voters by proposing to change the present government, which McNary said had catered to the rich and
oppressed the "little people."
McNary also said that the Reagan administration had to be removed.
He said that by gaining the support of registered voters for social and governmental change, Jackson might win the presidency.
More than 50 residents of Lawrence, Baldwin and Topka attended the rally, sponsored by the Douglas County Committee for Jesse Jackson.
MCNARY SID JACKSON'S CAN-IDIHAND would not splinter the Democracy Party.
had said that Jackson would clear the
way for Reagan's re-election.
Jackson has the negotiating skills, strong character and political background to quality him for the presidency, McNary said.
He said foes of Jackson's candidacy
Jackson's campaign is important to civil rights, he said, because Jackson exemplifies the gains that blacks have made during the past 20 years.
To secure the democratic nomination, Jackson's supporters act on the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr., McNary said.
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