University Daily Kansan, October 5, 1983
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Opponents attack 'religious' display
City seeks high court OK to show creche
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — If Christmas is legal, so are city and town holiday displays that include nativity scenes, a top government lawyer told the Supreme Court yesterday.
With Christmas less than 90 days away, U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee joined the nine justices to allow the city to include a creeche in its annual Christmas display.
"If Christmas can survive the First Amendment . . . then so can an acknowledgement that one of its parts
is religion," Lee told the high court.
OPPONENTS ARGUED THAT letting towns put up nativity scenes would "open a Pandora's Box" of religious art, and therefore to approve to their sacred symbols.
Pawtucket has had a creech on holiday display for about 40 years. But, eight days before Christmas in 1800, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit charging that it was an illegal endorsement of religion.
In November, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision that declared the government-sponsored creche unconstitutional. The city appealed.
Attorney William McMahon, representing Pawtucket, told the Supreme Court that the city was not endorsing religion by displaying the creche.
Rather, he said, it was merely acknowledging that the religious scene was one part of the "national folk festival" of Christmas.
"The government is not promoting religion," he said. "The government is celebrating Christmas."
"Common sense tells us that the Ten Commandments in the courtroom is not promoting religion but symbolizing law," he said. "Likewise, common sense will tell us that the nativity scene
is celebrating Christmas, not promoting religious dogma."
Pawtucket's 15 figure Nativity display has been transferred to a private group that continues to display it at Christmastime.
ON THE SECOND DAY, of its new term, the Supreme Court also heard arguments in the case of Karen Silkwood, who was killed in an automobile accident shortly after discovering she had been exposed to high levels of radioactive plutonium while working at a nuclear laboratory operated by Kerr-McGee Corp. The case was appealed by her family after the award of $10 million it received was overturned.
Orientation dav for high school seniors changed
By the Kansan Staff
KU Exploration Day has been changed to Oct. 21 this year to give high school students time to plan their academic careers, Carol Leffler, assistant to the director of University Relations, said yesterday.
Exploration Day was moved from April to the fall because high school teachers and counselors said that seniors needed to make postgraduation plans earlier in the year, Leffler said.
Art Farmer, assistant director of Student Organizations and Activities, said that about 100 KU students were
needed to guide the visiting students to the scheduled programs.
Students interested in hosting a high school student should sign up at the Schoefer Center.
"FOR MOST OF the high school students, personal interaction with KU students is a very meaningful part of the day," he said. "By recruiting KU students to act as representatives for the University, we hope to provide a personal touch instead of just handing the kids maps."
Deanell Tacha, vice candleholder for academic affairs, will be the featured speaker for the opening session. The welcoming program will also include
entertainment from the Ron McCurdy Jazz Band, a combative arts demonstration and a slide presentation titled "This is KU."
Following the opening presentation, students, teachers and counselors who have registered may attend three programs from a selection of 70 programs, ranging from a dance performance to a demonstration of lie detection techniques.
Leffler said that several new programs, including career exploration and financing college, had been added so that students could make informed decisions about whether they should attend college.
EXPLORATION DAY WAS NOT designed to sell KU to prospective students, she said to give high school students the opportunity to see what higher education had to offer.
About 1,200 students from Kansas and the Midwest are expected to participate. Leffert said that because Parents Day, which is Oct. 22, was the weekend, she hoped that more students and parents would be able to attend.
In conjunction with Exploration Day and Parents Day programs, the 64th Annual Engineering Exposition will be open to the public from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday in Learned Hall.
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