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The University Daily
Wednesday, February 17, 1982 Vol.92 No.98 USPS 650-640
Deprogramming labeled 'Nazi-like'
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Register
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—A bill endorsed yesterday in the Kansas House that would legalize the deprogramming of religious cult members is "religious pernography," according to a local leader of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
The House overwhelminely endorsed the bill on a voice vote, and House leaders predicted it would pass.
"Deprogramming is legalized kidnapping," Lowell Mitch, state director of the Unification Church, said yesterday. "It violates the constitution. Tome it's spiritual rape."
It would grant temporary guardianships to parents of religious cult members under the influence of "mind control," so that they could undergo a process of "psychological recovery" (Walsh, 2014).
"The deprogramming process is the type of thing you see in a Nazi concentration camp," Mitchel said. "People get the impression that they come to the church and get zapped with a look or something. Like all of a sudden, they'll have antennas."
Mitchem said there were 10 full-time
lawyers. Mitchem and the Lawrence
Chapter at 146 Oak Island St.
The bill has received strong opposition in the Legislature because of questions over its constitutionality. Opponents say it interferes with an individual's First Amendment rights of freedom
The bill specifies that an organization must cause a drastic change in a member's life by using a system of coercive persuasion for the group to change its control, or without the capacity to make decisions.
A floor amendment to the bill would allow relatives to supervise and guard the victim for up to 30 days. State Rep. Joe Knopp, R-Manhattan, the bill's sponsor, said that this period of time could be used for deprogramming the victim to restore his decision-making ability. Professional counselors would be allowed to participate in the deprogramming if the bill was passed.
Supporters said that now parents must resort
to kidnapping, and risk lawsuits, to take their children from "destructive cults."
But opponents said there were already laws on the books that allow guardianships for individuals judged "incapacitated" or unable to make decisions. In the past, these laws have been used mainly for the elderly or mentally unfit
State Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood, opposed the bill.
"I just don't think this is an area that the Kansas Legislature should be tampering with the public."
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said she would vote against the bill because it was too vague. She said it might apply to members of her party than cults, such as born-again Christians.
State Rep. Tim O'Sullivan, D-Hutchinson, said families who feared that their children would change from one faith to another might fall back on the proposed law.
But several lawmakers who supported the bill referred to education with constituents or parents in childcare.
"It still scars the heck out of you," State Rep. Ivan Sand, R-Riley, told the House.
State Rep. Bill Reardon, D-Kansas City, said there was a difference between the changes in cult members and the changes in members of reconciled religions.
Reardon, a former high school teacher, said that changes in cult members he had known were not based on a belief.
"The bill may not be constitutional, but I support it with my heart, not my head," he said. Mitchem said he thought the Unification Church was a "movement," not a cult.
"To someone with no moral scruples, a religious life seems regimented," he said. "To try and live a religious way of life is always a question of self-discipline for any church."
He said claims that the church used brainwashing, and that members were used to make money for Rev. Moon, stemmed from ignorance of the group's beliefs.
"The changes are in the minds of the people mislated by the media," he said. "I ignorance is the channel of violent reaction. If people would take a hard read about the church, they would understand."
KU women wanted the barer the better
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
Playboy magazine is coming to town and it wants to meet women.
This is the sixth year for a photo feature on a college conference, Chan said Monday.
Playboy photographer David Chan and his assistant Sheralf Snow will be in Lawrence within four to five weeks to interview women for Playboy feature, "Girls of the Big Fight."
He said an ad would be placed in the student newspaper announcing the dates Playboy
Chan said they would spend about three or four days in town collecting applications and photographs. The photographs are strictly for identification purposes, he said. If women do not have a picture, he will take a Polaroid picture of them.
"THEN WE compile the applications and find out who will do nude shots, semi-nude shots, or full nude shots."
He said the clothing shots might be done on campus or at various spots around town. The nude and semi-nude shots will be done in the woman's home, he said.
Twelve to 15 women are chosen for interviews. From that group Playboy will choose one woman.
Playboy will pay $75 for shots with clothing,
$45 for semi-rimmed shoes and $300 for nude shots.
Playboy's September issue will also have a man's fashion layout. Chan playboy would use male professors as models. The company offers eagle campus, not just the Barf Airport campuses.
Chan said Playboy was not looking for a particular type of woman, "just a good cross
It also featured Playboy's picks for the top 20 football teams, the top 10 offensive and top 10 defensive players and the coach of the year.
About six years ago Playboy decided to add a picture feature on women from the different cultures.
"One stipulation," Chan said, "They have to have everything on."
PLAYBOY STARTED the back-to-school issue about 20 years ago, Chan said. It contained fashion features and articles geared toward students.
He said the September issue was second only to the Christmas issue in sales.
A crew from New York will shoot the fashion layout.
He said the issue usually sold out in the towns where the schools are. Also, he said,
See PLAYBOY page 5
Rev Clark, Salina senior, takes time out of a foggy day yesterday to daydream on a balcony on the south side of Wescoe Hall on the third floor.
Reasons promised if manager is fired
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
If the Lawrence City Commission fires city Manager Buford Watson at Thursday's closed session, the public will be given specific reasons for the firing, Mayor Marci Francisco said last
"Sure." she said. "We're not stupid."
Commissioner Toni Gleason said last week that he would move to fire Watson at the Thur-
Two weeks ago it it was revealed that Gleason had written a letter to Watton asking Watson to
In response to Gleason's letter, a group has been assigned drive to force an election to recall Gleason.
The commission met last night and discussed, among other things, the role of commissioners
Francisco told the commission she was concerned that commissioners appearing on KLWN's Wednesday morning radio program speak for the commission as a whole rather than as individuals. Commissioners appear on the show on a rotating basis.
Commissioner Don Binns said to her, "I think what you're talking about here is trying to figure out the next step."
It would be difficult to separate the roles of a commissioner on the program into official and individual roles, Commissioner Barkley Clark said.
"I think it's a mixture of the two," he said.
"You're also pretty obviously there as an individual. I don't think there's any need for a clear rule."
However, city elections should not be discussed in commission meetings, he said.
A related issue was whether commissioners could reveal matters discussed in executive meetings.
Under the law on executive sessions, the commission as a whole designates someone to attend.
But the commission hasn't been doing that, Binns said.
"Marci, I think I have honored executive sessions far more than you have," he said.
Bims said that Francisco was trying to intrigue on his constitutional rights by imposing a tax.
"You're dealing with a very touchy subject, Marci, and that's the public's right to know."
Binns said. "I just think you'd better leave it alone."
Francisco also questioned the scope of public comment in meetings.
She told speakers from the audience that comments should be limited to matters on which she was not aware.
Francisco challenged one such comment when a lawyer connected with the petition drive to a former prosecutor.
Francisco told the lawyer, Jim Postma, the public comments unrelated to actions that the commission could take would be more appropriate at a town meeting.
Bimns moved that the commission vote on whether Postma could speak.
Clark, who seconded the motion, said that Postma's comments were relevant because the commission would vote on Watson's job performance Thursday.
The commissioners then agreed, without a vote, that Postma could speak.
Postma told the commission his opinion of what criteria should be used to evaluate a city manager's job performance and said he could put it all in a nutshell.
“It’s up to the commission to make policy. It’s up to the city manager to execute it,” he said.
Parking board powerless without judges
Staff Reporter
Bv ANNE WYLIE
The Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals may not have the authority to decide cases because of a regulation that requires a presiding judge, a jury, or sheriff. Owens, former judge, said Monday.
Since Feb. 1, when all five presiding judges resigned from their administrative positions, no one has had the authority to take over that responsibility. Dan Dutcher, Biddeford, Maine, said.
Owens said, "At this point, all the hearing sections are continuing to sit without officers."
According to the University Senate Rules and Regulations, the chairman of the Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals must designate one member of each three-person hearing section as the Chair.
But because Kent Frobish, chairman of the Board, resigned, no one was appointing hearing section chairman. Frobish was re-elected last Friday, but he has not appointed any chairman.
But in her B. f. letter of resignation from the court, Owens said, "All decisions the hearing sections make are arguably voidable because we now sit without a presiding officer, although a presiding officer is required in the regulations governing our operation."
Owens said she resigned because the five judges had resigned from their administrative positions without telling the other judges. Their success was essential for the court to operate effectively, she said.
Frobish declined to comment on the authority of the court to decide cases without a presiding
He said he wanted to read the rules in their entirety again before commenting.
judge who was elected according to the rules and regulations.
The judges resigned after a dispute over payment for their services.
also decided to say whether the court had the authority to act without the presiding judges.
"Only when someone contests that authority, when someone suffers harm—that's really the only way that the University community has to know about that authority," she said.
She said someone from the Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals or the Parking and Traffic Commission.
*Somebody has to contest that authority or somebody, has to ask for an opinion on that question.*
Someone is asking.
See JUDGES page 5
Alcohol use quenching students' passion for pot
Staff Reporter
BvKEVINHELLIKER
A recent surge in teenage drinking may explain the lag in marijuana use. A nationwide survey by the Research Triangle Institute in high school students was a problem drinker.
According to a 1981 study by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, a downward trend in marijuana use by high school seniors is well into its third year.
Marijuana increasingly is turning off young people, but they're turning to alcohol with an unhealthy passion, recent studies indicate.
According to Lawrence Police Sgt. Ron Balguit, the trend has hit Lawrence.
"It used to be we'd hear that high school kids were having pot parties," he said yesterday.
Mike Browning, supervisor of school services at Lawrence High School, said he had detected a
decrease in marijuana use among students in recent years.
"Three or four years ago, you could walk down the hall and tell who had been smoking dope," he said. "But I've noticed that a turn away from pot seems to be the trend."
Browning said that although the school had students in student alcoholism, no large problems had occurred.
But Jack Colyer, a counselor at the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism, said drinking problems were hard to pin down in young people.
"The parents would rather have their child be sick or crazy than be an alcoholic. Alcoholism may be a chronic illness."
Colyer said young people might be turning away from marrijuana because its negative effects were becoming more known. Within the last year, a Narcotics Anonymous group has
been established in Lawrence and most of its members have problems with marijuana, he said.
It could be dangerous if young people are turning toward alcohol to escape the effects of alcohol.
"Studies have found that if a person starts drinking abusively as an adult, it takes about 10 years for the person to become alcoholic," he said.
"But during adolescence, a person can become an alcoholic in 10 months."
Lorne Phillips, commissioner for the state division of alcohol and drug abuse, said Kansas reflected the national trend toward alcohol and away from marijuana.
"Based on all my discussions with program directors in Kansas, there's no question that there is a slight decrease in marijuana use," he said.
"But there's been a significant increase in drinking."
In the long run, that increase could mean a rash of alcoholism. Studies indicate a high
correlation between alcohol consumption and addiction. Phillips said.
"In the past, you couldn't use marijuana
without implicating a rebellion against the in-
form."
Phillips said the reason for the shift to alcohol could be that young people were seeking to stay within the law. Although they may not be old enough to drink legally, many young people still view alcohol as more acceptable than marijuana.
But Sakari Sarolia, also a professor of sociology, has made a trend detected by her as a "strictly legal" case.
"Females have taken up drinking alcohol faster than drugs," he said. "So it's simply a matter of habit."
"I think there was a strong association in the past between marijuana and political activism."
William Arnold, associate professor of sociology, agreed. A less rebellious attitude toward the adult world could be responsible for the shift toward legal pastimes, he said.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy later today with temperatures reaching the upper 40s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Winds will be light and from the north to northwest at about 10 to 15 mph. Thursday will be partly cloudy with a high in the low to mid 30s.