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University Daily Kansan, October 29, 1984
Task forces may help relations
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
Two task forces designed to study bigotry on campus and the leadership of student groups will be organized during the next to two weeks. David Ambler, vice president for student affairs, said yesterday.
One of the task forces will be asked to come up with specific plans to improve racial understanding, he said. The other will be asked to more underclassmen involved in student groups and organizations.
"The task force on cultural pluralism will be asked to make suggestions on what we can do to make these different groups appreciate the legitimacy of each, and also to celebrate it," he said.
Ambler said the idea for the cultural task force developed last spring.
"WE WERE LISTENING to
some of the black students express concerns about some things going on on campus that they felt were racist," he said. "There were some incidents in the classroom where black students felt some faculty members had said some things that were offensive. And there was an incident about this time last year where several students were walking around on campus with painted black faces.
"I don't know that they were necessarily meant to be offensive, but the campus climate was not conducive to an appreciation of the different cultures represented in the University community."
Ambler said incidents involving Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas also contributed to the decision to form the task forces.
This semester, a petition calling for a campus vote on Student Senate financing of GLOSK was initiated. A petition calling for a campus vote to remove GLOSK from state property and rescind campus
recognition of the group is being circulated.
THE UNIVERSITY SENATE Executive Committee on Friday issued a public statement condemning against students for their beliefs.
The statement says that every member of the University should have the right to express himself openly — whether it is a choice of religion or a commitment to a religious faith or an involvement in a political campaign.
Ruth Lichtwartd, GLSOK president, said she liked the idea of both task forces.
"I think they're both wonderful ideas," she said. "Bigotry is a real problem on this campus, and tasks forces will be very effective."
Tom Crisp, sponsor of the petition calling for a student vote to remove GLSOK from state property and abolish its campus group status, said he thought the task force on student organizations was a good idea.
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
Church honors its founding
Church people from area Methodist-related churches, celebrating the American bicentennial, were told yesterday that they followed a tradition emphasizing outreach and grace.
"More important than anything else, Methodists were preaching free grace," he said.
Don Holter, a bishop in the United Methodist Church, told about 500 people at First Unified Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., that Methodists had brought their basic messe-rence in the 1850s as settlers arrived
The Methodist Episcopal Church, the first organized church of John Wesley's followers, was established Dec. 24, 1784, in Baltimore.
ABOUT 20 CHURCHES OF the Wesleyan tradition, the results of schisms, mergers and name shifts, have resisted in the United States since then.
The Lawrence celebration used the
national bicentennial theme, "Methodism: For Two Centuries Proclaiming Grace and Freedom," for a program of music, scripture, and
Rob Reid, director of church's music, led part of the music of a 45-member choir and 22-piece orchestra. He is director of the KU Men's Glee Club and a graduate teaching assistant in choral music.
Reid said the work of the musicians, including about 16 University people, demonstrated the kind of support he had received in the church that its tradition honored.
"WITH THE DIFERENT ethnic groups and different churches, it was a celebration of our unity amid our diversity," he said.
Virgil Brady, pastor of the host church, said the planning and the event had helped the seven participating churches appreciate each other.
Area congregations represented were First, Central, Lawrence Indian and Centenary-Lincoln Lodge 106 and St James African Methodist Episcopal
churches, and Free Methodist Church.
Holter, author of books about Kansas and Nebraska Methodist said the first Methodist work in Kansas was a mission to the Shawnee Indian tribe. The predecessor to Lawrence First United Methodist Church began in a tent in 1854, he said.
IT WASN'T EASY getting settlers or preachers to go to Kansas and stay there. Holter said.
"They used to say, 'Goodbye, God. We're going to Kansas,' " he said.
The Methodist movement is usually dated to May 24, 1738, when John Wesley felt his heart "strongly afflicted" by the service he had attended reluctantly.
BUT METHODISM, WHICH got its name from derisive remarks about the rigid schedules its proponents kept, did not become a true movement until 1739.
The 1784 conference to organize a church in the United States was a recognition of a new separation created by the American Revolution.
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