Tuesday, December 10, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Students stay away
Christmas season isn't flooding churches
The Christmas season hasn't spurred more KU students to attend church services, according to Lawrence clergymen.
"I think it's healthy," said the Rev. Ronald Sundbye, minister of First United Methodist Church. "I wouldn't take it as anything very important if the church were jammed at Christ-mastime and not at any other time," he added.
The absence of increasing attendance, said Sundbye, indicates less hypocrisy on the part of students—a lack of a "false kind of pious pretense."3
"Holidays less and less affect
anything." Sundbye said. "Going to church is no longer 'the thing.' Not even the holidays make any difference."
The Methodist clergyman said he intends in his Advent sermons to make "a serious effort to confront people with the honest meaning of Christmas." He said he hopes to break down the "cheap sentimentalism" of the season which he defines as "a kind of corny kind of schmaltziness that doesn't really get at the importance of the life of Christ."
"Christmas, in its pure form," he said, "is a very somber time
Seven courses will be offered in Topeka by the University of Kansas extension division during the spring semester of 1969.
E. S. Avison, extension representative, said, "Those are short, non-credit courses offered to upgrade those in business and industry."
will instruct the course offered are: Office Work Simplification; Engineering Project Management; Improving Work Methods and Procedures; Plant and Office Safety; Techniques and Proof year." He noted that the liturgical color of the season is violet, the color of mourning.
The first course will be a two-day class in human relations for supervisors. It will begin Jan. 22. Carl G. Seashore, director of the Kansas Program for Supervisory and Middle Management, will instruct the course. Of
"You never understand Christmas unless you understand that the manger led to the cross," Sundbye said. "It isn't just a party time for the real Christian."
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For the Roman Catholic, obligatory church attendance accounts for an increase, said the Rev. Gary Mitchell, pastor at St. John the Evangelist Church.
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One of the laws of the Church, he said, is to attend confession once a year. Christmas and Easter are times when "lax Christians" often choose to fulfill this obligation, he said.
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"Students may not attend, but I think they'll think about it," said the Rev. Harold Hamilton, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church. "I wish I could say the walls will be bulging, but they won't." he added.
Father Mitchell said the Roman Catholic liturgical celebrations are more meaningful at Christmastime than other times, which may account for the minimal increase in attendance.
mal increases.
Some students, Father Mitchell said, may attend church before they go home for their holiday vacations because they anticipate their parents' inquiries
as to the frequency of their Church attendance.
won t c. He instructed.
The Rev James Little, also pastor at Trinity Lutheran and graduate student in religion, said he questions the depth of the religious commitment among those who attend church only during Advent. He said for some, attending church at Christmas time is only "the thing to do."
Pastor Little cites a "heightened religious drama" through window trimmings and the mass media which "creates a liturgical motif not present at other times of year" as accounting for the slight increase in attendance.
sight increase in the clergymen's comments. Though the consenses was that students do not increase church attendance significantly during the holidays, sev-
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More women read Playboy magazine than many so-called women's magazines, said Robie Macauley, Playboy's fiction editor.
Macauley, who was visiting KU last week, said there is only one woman on the Playboy editorial staff. In order to present a playboy image, the editors seldom take stories from women or those written from female point-of-view, he said.
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eral of the clergymen noted that attendance does increase during final examinations.
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