Students Not Getting Religious Answers - Patton
John H. Patton, professor of religion, told a Faculty Forum group yesterday that students are being given 19th century answers to their 20th century religious problems.
In this way, the parish church is giving irrelevant answers to the youth. The church is giving these answers because it does not know the 20th century solution to students' religious problems.
"Some students describe it as a 'Be kind to God week,'" Prof. Patton said. "We are not really facing the issues involved."
"That is why Religious Emphasis Week on this campus is an utter waste of time," he said.
The student today is not interested in such things as the religious answer to evolution, the virgin birth or an explanation of the miracles, he said.
"The key questions students are asking today are: Is there any validity to the spiritual part of the wholeness of life? Is life a dichotomy or a wholeness?" said Prof. Patton.
Prof. Patton is the University pastor to the United Presbyterian Center, and head counselor to the Sunday Evening Fellowship, another Presbyterian organization.
Many students have a religious problem when they come to the University, he said. He described his counseling techniques with students who seek his advice.
"When the students were young they were taught by their parents and the church to pray to God as 'the Big Man upstairs.' The church led the child to believe the child had the whole idea of God, that the child grasps the full meaning of religion.
"When the student comes to the University he gets a different idea.
"It is this inability of my generation to express to our youth that God has not changed because the student's concept of God has changed, that presents the problem," explained Dr. Patton, who counsels about 250 students each year.
"I have tremendous faith in this generation of youth. It is honest and frank and will talk about things my generation would not. We were not honest.
"But I am scared to death of the future of this society because of the conservatism of the students. They are becoming increasingly conservative. Forty years from now we will have a terribly reactionary society."
Prof. Patton said the question of science and religion is arising for the first time in 25 years. But not to the point of the period 1850 to 1910 when evolution, the virgin birth and the miracles were discussed in relation to science and religion.
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327 Cars Have Safety Defects
More than one-fourth of the automobiles going through this week's safety check were defective.
Joe Skillman, campus police chief,
said today 327 cars of 1.187 checked
had defects of some kind. Bad lights
were the most common fault, Chief
Skillman said. The percentage of
defective cars was 27.5.
Highway Patrol troopers Carl Gray, Dick Kvinskids, and Roy Kirkendoll assisted campus police in the voluntary check.
Chief Skillman commended the Student Safety Council, the Jawhawk Sports Car Club, and Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity for helping with the project. Student cooperation in the pre-holiday project was excellent, he said. He termed the check "highly successful."
WHOOPING IT UP — Jane Perry, Lawrence sophomore, and Delano Lewis, Kansas City, Kan.
junior, get the first sophomore class coffee off to a rousing start this morning.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year. No. 66
Thursday, Dec. 18, 1958
Segregation Is Texas' Topic
Southern racial problems dominated discussion at the Fourth Student Conference on National Affairs at Texas A&M College last week.
The two KU delegates, Gilbert Cuthbertson, Leavenworth senior, and Axel Plambeck, Hamburg.
Germany, graduate student, said the conference discussion topics originally were balanced between national and international affairs.
But the emphasis shifted to the Southern viewpoint of racial tensions early in the conference, they
Axel Plambeck
said. The majority of the delegates were from Southern universities and colleges.
Plambeck said he believes it is important to desegregate the races to alleviate national tensions, but few of the delegates agreed with him.
"Perhaps the time is not ripe to start integration completely in the South, where it seems to me the Negroes have not yet reached an intellectual and economic standard of living equal to the white people." he said.
"But I do think a start toward desegregation should be made by integrating the schools," he said.
"I came from a country which has had no racial problems since 1945, so it was interesting to get first-hand information on the South's viewpoint," he continued.
Cuthbertson said that it was much easier to understand the position of the Southern students when one is able to hear them give their stand in person.
He said the Southern delegates feel that the South has been pressed by the federal government to solve its racial problems.
"They are looking for a solution to their problems, but they feel that federal investigations such as the Civil Rights Commission investigation in Alabama will only aggravate the problem.
He said the delegates emphasized moderation and understanding when approaching the racial problem. Also, they voiced the Southern viewpoint that desegregation
Another topic discussed was the comparison of American and Russian educational systems, Cuthbertson said the delegates decided Russian education will result in the production of a thinking class
is a matter to be decided by the states.
which may eventually overthrow the present government.
Gilbert Cuthbertson
"Thus Russia is faced with the paradoxical situation of either destroying herself, or not having a thinking class at all," Cuthbertson said.
Four Humanities Talks Scheduled
A schedule of four Humanities Series lectures has been announced by Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism and humanities committee chairman.
Jan. 8, "The Handicap of Tradition in French Politics" by Father Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, political historian at the Catholic University of Paris, France.
March 24. a lecture by Dr. William Foxwell Albright, professor of Semitic languages and Oriental research. Johns Hopkins University.
April 21. "Darwin and Literature" by Dr. William Irvine, professor of English, Stanford University.
The lectures are:
Vespers Stereocast Set
Feb. 16, "Mark and Huck: The Biography of a Book" by Dr. Walter Blair, chairman of the English department, University of Chicago.
A special live stereocast of the Christmas Vespers will be presented at 10:35 tonight from Hoch Auditorium over the combined facilities of WIBW-TV and KANU, the University FM station.
Those who want to attend the stereocast may come to Hoch Auditorium between 9:30 and 10:20 p.m. This will be the only time of admission.
The program will be the first live telecast from Hoch Auditorium. It will also be the first time a commercial television station and a non-commercial FM station have cooperated in a stereocast, the first high fidelity stereocast in the midwest, and the first use of the University's new microwave transmitter.
The program will be carried both visually and in sound by WIBW-TV. KANU will carry only the sound portion. Persons with both television
and FM radio sets can both watch and hear the program.
Best results can be obtained by placing the radio and television sets about eight feet apart. The result is a sound which seems to "wrap around" the listener.
The program tonight will be directed by Bruce A. Linton, associate professor of speech and journalism Assistant director is Kala Mays, Lyons senior.
Dean Humphrey, Larkinburg senior, will be master of ceremonies. Operating the camera will be Fred Huff, Lawrence graduate student, and Harold Morgan, Lawrence junior.
Other crew members are Thomas Galloway, Wichita junior, Jerry Bailey, Humboldt senior, Paul McKee, Ferguson, Mo., graduate student, and Gerald K. Morgan, Hope senior.
Budget Officials Cut All Faculty Salary Increases
TOPEKA—(UPI)State budget officials, adhering to Gov. George Docking's directives for hold-the-line economy, today cut out all faculty salary increases requested by the Board of Regents.
The budget department slashed $853,073 from the University's proposed operating budget of $12.648,667,leaving a recommended sum of $11.795,594 to be approved by the Legislature.
The regents asked for $43,582.-
871 in operating budgets to operate the schools under their control for the next fiscal year (1959-60). They got $41,707,275.
Of the reduction, $2,654,885 came off faculty salary increases asked by the regents, which governs the state colleges.
McDill (Huck) Boyd, chairman of the Board of Regents, made a strong plea for restoration of the cuts. He said nothing was put in the budgets for next year that was not "absolutely essential."
"We must pay the market price for brains," Boyd said, in reference to salary trims, "or our best teachers will leave. We'll wind up with teachers nobody wants."
The regents asked for 48 new faculty positions. All but 17 were cut. All new positions at each of the other schools were eliminated in Docking's tentative recommendations.
The entire budget plan is subject to review by Docking before he drafts his executive state budget for submission to the 1959 legislature.
The amount of salary increases asked this time averaged about 12.5 per cent.
He could restore some cuts. In turn, the legislature could restore other items when appropriations bills are drafted.
The over-all operating budget is about $3.2 million above the current year. Of the total, about $28.1 million comes from the state general fund, the remainder from student fees, grants and other sources.
The regents also asked for a state-backed faculty retirement plan.
Gov. Docking did not attend the hearings. There were 24 delegates attending the meeting, including representatives from all the schools, four legislators, the regents and state officials.
In order to meet an anticipated enrollment increase of 5,000 students by 1963, and 21,000 by 1970, the reqents suggested a four-point classroom utilization program:
1-A 49-hour academic work week, including 8 to 12 noon on Saturday.
2—Full use of laboratories in the mornings and classrooms in the aternoons.
3—No department or individual to have the exclusive use of classrooms.
4—No new curricula without approval of the board.
U.S. Plans Rockets To Put Man in Space
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— America's civilian space agency plans to set off a whole new family of rockets to boost space exploration within a few years to a point where men will fly beyond the earth's atmosphere.
T. Keith Glennan, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announced the goal in a speech last night. He said it will be several years before the United States will be able to send "our modern day Mercury" into space.
Weather
Generally fair and mild with temperatures in the mid-50s for the remainder of the week. Skies generally clear over most of the state.