Friday, Sept. 27, 1985
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Film shows Indian past
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
A KU professor has produced a documentary film he hopes will make people more sensitive to the problems of education for the American Indian.
The professor, Don Stull, professor of anthropology, said yesterday that his film featured the history of Indian boarding schools and how they have affected the American Indian.
The film, "Another Wind is Moving," was made from January to August this year. It will be shown at 6 p.m. today at the Haskell Student Union. Today is national American Indian Day and this weekend marks homecoming for Haskell Indian Junior College.
"The title symbolizes the fact that the boarding schools' original mission was to assimilate Indians, to try to force them from the buffalo road, their traditional cultures." Stull said.
institute of higher education run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
When it was founded in 1884, Haskell was such a boarding school. Today it is the only liberal arts
The goals of the six Indian boarding schools that remain in the western United States have changed considerably over the last century, Stull said.
"Clearly those that remain wish to prepare Indians for life in the non-Indian world," Stull said, "but in a way that they won't have to sacrifice their own Indian heritage."
There were 15 such schools in 1978.
Nine of them have closed since then.
"Just when those schools finally have become oriented toward fostering Indianness, the federal government is closing them down," he said.
Stull said that although Indian boarding schools had existed since the 17th century, the schools had tried to foster this sense of Indian identity only during the last two decades.
In the past, Indian children were taken from their parents while very young and brought to the boarding schools. They were instructed there
in the ways of white society, punished for speaking in their native tongues and often did not see their families for many years.
"When children left these schools, they were not suited for life in either world," he said. "They couldn't fit into the mainstream. Whites wouldn't let them."
The film takes its title from a poem of the same name, written by Lance Henson
Henson, a Cheyenne Indian, will spend two days at the University in February.
Stull said that in one part of the film two elderly Kickapoos were taken to the Genoa Indian School, Genoa, Neb., which they attended beginning at age 5. The school was closed in 1834.
The 60-minute documentary was made with a grant from the Kickapoo Nation School in Powhatan and the Department of Education.
"We took them back there for the first time in 60 years," he said. "I think it was a very moving experience for those people."
Man tries to lure boy
A man tried to entice an 11-year-old Lawrence boy into his car at about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Iowa and Oxford streets, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The boy, a student at Hillcrest Elementary School, 1045 Hilltop Drive, told police he was riding a skateboard east on Oxford Street when a man who was stopped at the
intersection asked him whether he wanted a ride.
The man was driving a yellow, late-model Ford Mustang and was headed the opposite direction, the boy told police.
The boy said he continued on his way but then saw the ear start to back up toward him. The boy hurried to a friend's house, where the friend's father called the police.
On Campus
The movie "El Norte" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Orave Al.
The Strato-matic Baseball Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
The KU Women's Soccer Club will practice at 6 p.m. Monday and Thursday at the soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
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SENIORS Announcing Hilltoppers
The Jayhawker Yearbook is happy to announce the Hilltoppers. The Hilltopper Awards were established in the 1930's as the Jayhawker's way of recognizing those seniors who have made high calibre contributions to the University and/or the Lawrence community and have consistently displayed unselfish, responsible leadership in non-academic areas of campus life. The award was reestablished in 1984 in order that outstanding seniors may once again be recognized.
Criteria for selection includes:
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activities
—unselfish service to the campus and community
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The nominations will be screened by a committee that includes KU faculty, student representatives, and the Jayhawker staff. Anyone can nominate a senior for this award and seniors can nominate themselves by picking up an application. Nomination forms and applications will be available at the Organizations and Activities Center, 403 Kansas Union, and the Yearbook Office, 121 B Kansas Union. Deadline for acceptance of nominations is Fri., Oct. 11, and the deadline for applications is Fri., Nov. 1, 1985.
nineteen hundred eighty·six
JAYHAWKER
A CONCISE REPLY TO CHRISTIANITY
Is Total Acceptance of The Bible Deserved?
The Bible Deserves You
You must precede the statement the Muslim's attitude toward the Bible. It is actually the attitude of many Christians. It is only a certain collection of Christians (the Fundamentalists) who maintain that all of the Bible originated with God. Adherence to this belief is unwarranted for at least four reasons; (1) it is not claimed within the Bible itself. (2) it is an unworthy attitude; (3) it is not self-consistent; (4) it is logically impossible.
(1) . The Bible nowhere names itself. The word "Bible" is not in the Bible. Sixty-six books have been bound as one without having any divine command to do so. Compare, for example, the opening of the book of Jonah: "The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amatil said... and the opening remarks of the writer of the third gospel inspired... NEW AMERICAN BIBLE." The first book claims divine inspiration, while the second author makes no such claim.
By trading on the vigueness of the words "scripture" and "book" the Fundamentalsal try to make a case for the Bible's total inspiration. For example, they quote 2 Timothy 3:16 where Paul wrote to Timothy, "'all scripture is inspired by God.'" In the first place, it still remains to establish the authority of Paul ...did he speak for God here? But the real trickery in the isolation of this verse. In the sentence before this, Paul indicated what he considered as scripture, namely, that which Timothy studied as a child. When Timothy was a child the last twenty—seven books of the Pible had not been written.
The antepenultimate phrase of today's Bible seems to conclude the whole of the Bible, as it warns against adding or subtracting content in "this book". However, "this book" can only refer to this last book of the Bible and not to the Bible itself. The reason is clear: Any Christian reference will acknowledge that other books of the Bible were written after this one; that is, the last book in todays Bible was the one that should have been written in these hundred years after Jesus.
(2) ...The official word of, *Fundamentalist* churches is really a modification of the blunt statement: "The Bible is the perfect word of God." While they consider the modification only slight, it is actually ruddy. They say that the Bible is "warmer in the original manuscripts." If all confusion in the Bible could be explained away as misunderstandings, why would they rely on this excuse? By taking this position they admit to errors in the Bible. These are said to be only small copying errors made over the centuries as the scriptures were recopied. They have disregarded the advice of Jesus who said that carelessness in the little things means carelessness in large matters (Luke 16:10). Yet the unworthy statement about today's Bible is really: "The Bible contains small mistakes but no big ones."
(3) . There are abundant copying errors in the Bible, the conflicting statistics of Ezra 2:5 and Nehemiah 7:10, for example. On the one hand the Fundamentalist admits this to be the case and excuse it as a minor copying error. On the other hand, he puts his trust in the statement of Isaiah 40:8 which says, "The word of God stands forever." This verse does not go on to except minor details due to flaws in the transcription of His word. According to this verse, If God says it, it does not get lost. But mistakes of transcription means something of the original has been missed. The Bible is both accurate and simultaneously disallow error. The only solution is to drop the whole value of total divine inspiration of the Bible.
(4) . Total inspiration of the Bible is illogical because it is both disavowed and disproved within the Bible. At 1 Corinthians 7:25 the Bible writer specifically says that he is about to make a statement which did not originate with God. Inspiration is disavowed. In the first chapter of *Titus* we have a counter example which disproves total divine inspiration. Paul quoted the famous Epimedes paradox, specifying that the speaker himself was Cretan. *Cretans are always liars.* He then says that the man spoke the truth. But when the statement is spoken by a Cretan it is definitely not true. If it was true then at least once, a Cretan was not a liar, in which case the statement is false. The conclusion is the denial of the assumption, so the statement is not true. The writer Paul at least on this occasion, was without divine guidance for he did not discern this subtlety.
Conclusion
The Christian who would preach to Muslims must first be preprepared to allow us to clearly establish our own position. Otherwise he confronts a man of stray but misses the target of genuine Islam. His comparisons of the Bible and the Quran are most often seen to be shallow and misleading. As with the matter discussed in part I, our most fruitful debates will be those which consider Why not How. If the Christian wishes to prove his stand, he must justify it after explaining it. Conversely, if he would attack our stand he must understand it correctly before we can be asked to justify it.
Finally, this is not an attack on the Bible. It is an attack on an unjustified attitude held by some concerning the Bible. Again, the Muslim believes the Bible to contain Gods words, but he does not accept the entire contents as such. Deciding which portions deserve our acceptance is not a matter of convenience. It is a matter of consistency. Those portions, and only those portions , which are self-consistent, compatible with reason, and self-proclaimed as divinely revealed deserve our consideration.
To be continued In the next issue
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