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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Feb. 6, 1959
56th Year, No. 82
Religion Week Offers Student Convocation
Dr. Pelikan, an associate professor of historical theology, will speak on "Beyond Togetherness: a Religious View of the Community." The A Cappella Choir will sing contemporary religious music following Dr. Pelikan's talk.
Religious Emphasis Week, Feb. 22-23, will include a student convocation Feb. 23, featuring a speech by Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan of the University of Chicago.
Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan
The purpose of Religious Emphasis Week is to promote an understanding of the place of religion and spiritual values in personal life and in society.
The theme of the week is "Proposed: An ITY." ITY signifies an International Theophysical Year with emphasis on religion throughout the year instead of just one week and the study of the relationship between religion and science.
Authorities on religious subjects have been invited to talk in classrooms and at forums and coffee hours each day of the week in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building and the Browsing Room of the Kansas Union. Organized houses may
invite the speakers for speaking engagements during the week.
A reception and tea will honor the speakers at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 22.
A play. Luigi Pirandello's "Naked," will be presented in the Experimental Theatre Feb. 16-21, portraying the conflict of human illusion and reality.
The Spooner-Thayer Museum of Art will display a large collection of religious paintings and Watson Library will display religious documents and books. The Student Union Bookstore will have a special collection on display of religious literature.
Carillon recitals of religious music will be given each day at noon and at the Sunday afternoon carillon concert.
A Kansas Conference for Clergy will run concurrently with the week. This is to provide clergymen of all faiths an opportunity to meet KU students and to explore the techniques of working with persons of college age.
Interested faculty members are invited to a Diocese Faculty Conference on "The Faith, the Church, and the University." Feb. 21.
Speakers invited to address classes and forums during the week are the Rev. Henry H. Breul, rector of St. David's Episcopal Church, Topeka, sponsored by the Canterbury Association; the Rev. Dr. John E. Cantelon, associate secretary of the department of Campus Christian Life in the United Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, sponsored by the church center; Mr. Will Cooper, a Christian Science practitioner, sponsored by the Christian Science College Organization.
The Rev. Dr. Cecil E. Hinshaw, director of peace education for the North Central Region of the American Friends Service Committee, sponsored by the Oread Monthly Meeting of Friends; the Rev. Norman A. Krebbs, minister of the Colonial Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, Mo., sponsored by the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship; the Rev. Donald Landon, a missionary of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, sponsored by the Liahona Fellowship.
Mr. Peter K. Leppmann, regiona executive for the Southwest and Rocky Mountain areas of World University Service, sponsored by the KU-Y; and Miss Alice Otternass, a counselor at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., sponsored by the Lutheran Student Association.
The Rev. Dr. J. Coert Rylasarsdam, professor of Old Testament theology at the University of Chicago, sponsored by the Disciples Student Fellowship and the United Student Fellowship; the Rev. Dr. Gilbert A. Thiele, professor of historical theology at Concordia Theological Seminary. St. Louis, Mo., sponsored by Gamma Delta.
The Rev. Dale R. Turner, minister to Baptist students at Kansas State College and director of the Baptist Student Center there, sponsored by the Roger Williams Fellowship; Rabbi Edward Zerin, spiritual leader of Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun, Des Moines, Iowa, and member of the Drake University faculty, sponsored by the Hillel Foundation.
Jerry Simmons, Rosemead, Calif. junior, president of the Student Religious Council, is in charge of the committees for the week.
Draft Looms High As House OK's Bill
KU male students will probably face the cold prospect of being eligible for the draft for at least four more years.
The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill, 381 to 20, to extend the present draft law which was due to expire June 30. The bill has been sent to the Senate for vote.
Wolf's two-year amendment was opposed by Democratic and Republican House leaders alike. Democratic leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) said approval of the proposal would be viewed abroad as a sign of weakness on the part of the United States.
Wolf argued that a two-year extension would let Congress maintain its power over military conscription while it sought a way to maintain U.S. military strength without a draft.
The House sent the measure to the Senate after rejecting an attempt by Rep. Leonard G. Wolf (D-Iowa) and several other members to limit the extension to two years
Besides extending the draft for another four years, the measure would continue the authority of the armed forces to induct physicians and dentists and would extend the dependents' assistance act for the same period.
Backers of the proposal expressed regret that it is necessary to continue to draft men in peacetime. But they said draft authority probably would be needed indefinitely.
The measure was one of the key points in President Eisenhower's legislative program for the armed 'orces.
Parking Stalls Sparse
Besides defeating Wolf's proposal
Motto: Get'em Early
Never complain about the parking situation. It could be worse.
If KU students and staff members drove all their 7,500 cars on the campus at once, about 4,300 of them would still be driving around the hill looking for parking places.
Cars are registered with the Parking and Traffic office for about 5,900 students and 1,600 staff members.
But only 3,200 parking stalls are sprinkled around the campus, bordering streets and one-way drives and in separate lots.
Nearly 80 spaces are available for guests. Besides these, there are 89 30-minute parking places along campus streets.
In all lots except two, parking is free if it is done correctly. Tickets result from incorrect parking. The Kansas Union parking lot charge is 25 cents and the Zone X charge is 10 cents.
According to a Parking and Traffic office estimate, the 24 lettered parking zones contain approximately 2,950 spaces.
For these lots, 2,968 parking permits have been issued. But the chances are all 2,968 permit-holders will not try to park at once.
the House also rejected an amendment by Rep Arthur Winstead (D-Miss) to permit a draftere to refuse to perform military duty in a civil disturbance, such as the integration troubles at Little Rock, Ark., in 1957
The House also shouted down a last minute move to sidetrack the bill by sending it back to the Armed Services Committee for further study.
TOPFKA—(UPI)An administration bill creating a retirement system for public employees was introduced today in the Kansas House by Democratic sponsors.
Faculty Aid Seen In Compromise Retirement Plan
The bill reflected a compromise between several plans already offered and under discussion.
Gov. George Docking said he was not entirely satisfied with it, but it at least was a start and could be moulded into an acceptable plan.
Bulletin
A bill to shut down the office of the State Board of Review, which censors movies, was introduced in the Kansas legislature today.
State workers, including faculty at the state's colleges and University would begin paying 4 per cent of their salaries into the pension plan, if it passes the legislature.
Backers of the plan say a state pension system would be an inducement for more people to take state jobs.
Allen Fritchard, secretary of the league of Kansas municipalities, said the state would contribute 5.34 per cent to the pension funds, or a cost of $3.3 million.
Up to 85 per cent of previous work service would be credited to any worker electing to come under the plan. It is not mandatory that state employees come under the plan, but provisions are so worded that it would be foolish not to do so.
Weather
Fair and warmer tonight. Partly cloudy tomorrow with a chance for light snow. Low tonight 25 to 30. High Saturday 45 to 55.
Nary a Burp Comes From Champion Pizza Eater
The prize pizza eater was named last night and nary a burp came after the award.
To prove that he is a eating man's eater, Larry Kompus, Herndon junior, downed breakfast, lunch, a steak dinner and five pizza pies yesterday.
Only the pizza pies counted, however, in a pizza eating contest sponsored by Roberto's.
For eating the nine-inch diameter pizza pies, he captured the Pizza King title and proved you can eat a pizza in eight minutes if you have to.
"I don't usually eat that much, though." he remarked.
Kompus slid back from the table calm and not discernibly any fatter. He took his honor quietly among the noise of his lesser pizza-eating colleagues. He seemed more stunned than impressed.
Richard Armour, Independence, Mo., senior, almost kept up with "King" Kompus. He finished four pies and one-sixth of a fifth. Bill Courtright, McDonald freshman, ate four pies.
Kompus took home a $15 gift certificate from the Kansas Union as his prize. All three top eaters received free pizzas, but
'King' Kompus
none said they would make their collections soon.
No wonder. Not even the soft
music, the candle light and the red-checkered table cloths were inviting. The romantic atmosphere boasted little more than the love a man has for his stomach.
The only conversation involved a few low moans, and a bit of laughter as a pie eater wiped the tomato sauce from his chin to shout for more pizza.
"More pizza," the competitors shouted early in the game. However, as time wore on, the shouts were less emotional and more compulsory to save the eater's pride.
Half-way through his fourth pie, one student remarked, "I never believed it was possible." Then he continued eating.
Two townspeople, attracted by the gastronomical spectacle, walked in to watch the exhibition. Neither, apparently, knew the reason for the sudden pizza orgy.
The two friends, smothering audible rumbles deep in their stomachs, sought the safety of the evening air.
GOING STRONG—Robert Langham, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, begins his second pizza in the early stages of a local pizzaria's pizza eating contest last night. Langham slowed down a few gulps later.