University Daily Kansan, October 6, 1979
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Friends go whole hog at house-razing celebration
By RAY BRECHEISEN Staff Reporter
Give a bunch of friends a pig, some beer and some bluegrass, and they'll do anything. They'll even tear down a house.
On Saturday, Tim and Paddy Hammil of Prairie Village and a group of their friends did just that on a farm near Fargo, calling it the "Ho House Classic."
The Hamills were having a family reunion, and decided to tear down an old farm house on their property at the same time. They invited friends to help and paid the house-wrekers for their efforts with beer, a roast dog, and the
The Hamillis, who plan to build a home on the farm north of Lawrence, needed to get the old house out of the wav.
chance to dance to the sounds of St. Mary's Church of St. Mary's, Law, a local blackgrass bank
Hamill's brother, Dick, said, "So we thought, well, let's just tear down the house and have the family picnic, all in one big event."
HAMILD DESCRIBED his involvement with the farm, which used to be a jungkard, as "sort of a reclamation project."
He said that he realized the house-razing idea was unusual, and that it made sense.
farmers would get together and help with one another's work.
He also said he thought the work gave people a chance to take out their situations.
"I think the destructive impulse is just like the creative impulse," he said.
Chris Hamill, Colby senior, the youngest of the Hamill clan, summed up the feeling of friendship and neighborliness that pervaded the work.
a lot of these guys, they're not ex-
tended to be paid, so truly it's a healthy
portion of time.
"There's a ranch down the way," he said pointing, "that generally has about 250 head of cows, and in the spring and fall they go out to the roundup. There's really never any money involved. We enjoy doing it, and the favors are always returned. And so,
CARL RENIKER, A friend from Prairie Village, said the whole thing was more for fun than for anything else.
David Ludwigs, Kansas City, Kan., pair of filers that he had found on Twitter.
"just exactly like my mother used to talk about when I had friends over. 'Tear it up' up the house! 'Now I will be talking as was talked about.' he said laughing.
Looking at the dust on his arms and clothes, he said of the teeth, "I figure 1 again."
Dick Hamil said that he thought the gathering was a success, and that another was planned for next year. He would bring all types of people together.
"There's all kinds of people," he said. "There's attorneys out here, there's doctors out here, there are people from the advertising field, from real estate, from law firms, from lawyers, sort of like, I guess, back in the old days when everybody'd get together.
"There's a lot of people we haven't seen in 10 years out here."
Americans confuse, misunderstand Islamic tenets, speaker says
By BRADSTERTZ
Staff Reporter
Cultural misunderstandings and language barriers are two major causes for American misconceptions about Muslims and the Islamic religion, Ahmer Sakr, a founding member of the Muslim Student Association, said.
Sakr, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Chicago, told 350 people Friday night at the Kansas Union that most Americans confuse grab culture with Islamic religious tenets.
"There are many terms that Americans use to classify what a Muslim is," Sakr said. "Unfortunately,
most of the terms like 'camel jockey', 'life by the sword' and 'harem possessors' are the way Westerners see the Islamic faith.'
SUCH CONCEPTIONS are wrong, Sakr said, because they illustrate or exaggerate facets of Arab culture and not the Islamic faith. He emphasized that Arab culture had little to do with the religion of Islam, except that the faith of Allah was revealed in Arabic to Mohammed, who was an Arabian.
"What Islam really means is submission, commitment, acceptance and peace, and a Muslim is one who accepts the supreme power of Allah and strives for the complete reorganization of his mind in accordance with his guidance," Sakta said.
Sakr said that Islam was an essentially peaceful faith that emphasized living in peace and harmony with one's neighbors. He said that not a single church or temple had been built by Muslims, even though thousands of mosques had been demolished by Christians and Jews.
IN LEBANON, SAKR said,
Christians have the upper hand,
although Muslims outnumber
Christians by about 82 percent to
18 percent. Yet, Sakr said, this type of
setup is acceptable to Muslims,
who believe it is important to preserve the
minorities in the Muslim states.
"In such situations, the minorities
Sakr attributed conflicts between Islamic states, such as the current fighting between Iran and Iraq, to personal shortcomings of the leaders, who fight for national pride rather than for the Islamic cause.
“Such pestilences come about, not through any fault of Allah and his religion, Islam, but through the faults of the very human leaders of this country. Allah's purpose for such trials is to purify us so that we may enter heaven.”
are not even drafted into the army
to defend the Islamic state," he said.
Another reason why Islamic nations have opposed one another throughout history is that they see each other as oppressors.
been deceived by outsiders, such as Lawrence of Arabia and other foreign agents, about the supposed misdeeds of their Islamic brothers.
"When Islam fights Islam, they are deceived to dislike one another," Sakr said. "They fight 100 percent—not for Islam, but for national pride."
ALTHOUGH HE CAME to speak not to change people's beliefs, but to increase understanding, Sakr said that he hoped Christians, Jews and Muslims could cooperate in a spirit of love and peace.
"Why can't we cooperate with one another?" Sakr said. "If we do not cooperate, the communities will come and conquer us all."
On Campus
THE INSPIRATIONAL GOSPEL
VASSERA rehearsals at 6 p.m.
in 404 Murray Hall
Martvin Abraham of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will speak on the benefits of orthophosphate to THANIDE ORTHOPHOSPHOTES" at 4:30 p.m. in 332 Maltot Hall.
TODAY
Alpha Phi Omega will hold an OPEN
Room in the Satellite Laboratory
Room in the Satellite Laboratory
THE INDIIDUAL SWIM METT will be poised in the Robinson Gymnastics Pum. in
"MACHIAVELLI on Political Power and Inhabur in Numbers" will be featured in the Western Civilization Film Festival at 7.m. in Lippincott Hall.
The KU MODEL UNTED NATIONS
international Room of the Kansas Union
The KU Student SPEECH AND
TEACHING Center is located at
7:30 p.m. in Murphy Hall Beach
TOMORROW
TONIGHT
TAU SIGM DANCE ENSEMBLE
Gymnasium at 7 p.m. in 220 Robinson
Gymnasium
CHRISTIAN CAMPUS HOUSE will
have a bible study at 7:30 p.m.
at 11:16 Indiana St.
The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION will have counseling sessions for its members at 5:30 p.m. in 206 Fraser Hall.
Sister Ellen Richardson, member of the KANSAS CHILDREN SERVICES LEAGUE will speak on the White House Conference on the Family at 6 p.m. in the St. Lawrence Catholic Center.
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