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Wednesday, February 19, 1975
University Daily Kansan
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KANSAN
Bucklev nonsense
Legislative sloppiness is nothing new. Because of the laziness of several Congressmen, many bills pass without having been carefully examined. The result is that amendments with far-reaching implications often are disintermediately tacked onto bills.
The most recent glaring abuse of the passage to Buckley, Amendmeh.
Introduced by Sen. James Buckley, Conservative-N.Y., the amendment was originally designed to protect students in elementary and secondary schools from having their records opened to anyone who wanted them. It also allowed students to see their own records.
on the surface, it appeared to be a cell on the surface, protected from invasion of privacy.
Unfortunately, Congress decided that the amendment should apply to all areas of education. This included universities and colleges.
The amendment has created many problems at the University of Kansas. The most recent has been the interpretation that students' department reports can't be released to the news media.
However, the names can be released to other law enforcement agencies. This means that although the campus police can't release students' names to the press, they can release the names to the courts. The Truth Authority idiocy is that because the Lawrence Police Department isn't covered by the Buckley Amendment, it can release the information to the press.
In addition, if a student and a nonstudent are arrested together by
Security and Parking, the nonstudent's name can be released. Obviously, this is a clear case of discrimination. A private citizen isn't given the same protection as a student.
Names in campus police records include not only those arrested, but also victims, witnesses, and suspects.
According to William Balfour, vice chancellor for academic affairs, the amendment also will hamper the University's counseling efforts. Previously, the names of crime victims had been removed that an offence in counseling could be the events who are unaware of the services will be denied the counseling because the University can no longer release their names.
This is the result of the carelessness and shortsightedness of the Congress. It is about time the members started doing their homework.
In the late '60s, the University received a reputation as a student sanctuary. Many people thought a student could do anything and still be safe as long as he remained on campus. Since then the University has been trying to live down this reputation. Critics of the University again have been to hold the University liable for the wrongdoings of students, even though the University has no control over the matter.
Instead of helping students, the Buckley Amendment actually has hurt them by increasing bureaucracy and interfering with communication within the University.
—Kenn Louden
Kansans can rally around the honeybee to display their proud herd.
Legislators buzzing
The Kansas Legislature is considering a bill that deserves the attention of proud Kansans throughout the state. Kansas sometimes is looked upon as a backward, conservative wasteland, and a dilapidated illiteracy-by-the-drink legislation several weeks ago as just another example of how many Kansans continue to live in the past.
But this characterization can be improved. If House Bill 2236 can be pushed through the legislature, Kansas will take a giant step toward changing its image to that of a trendsetter. Passage of this bill would designate the honeybee as the official state insect.
Some people might look upon this act as insignificant. Some might say it's ridiculous to waste time on this type of legislation as the designation has not indicated honeybee can serve as the symbol of the citizens of this great state.
"The honeybee is like all Kansans in that it is proud, only fights in defense of something it cherishes, is a friendly bundle of energy, is always helping others throughout its lifetime, is a strong, hard worker
with limitless abilities and is a mirror of virtue, triumph and glory," says the bill.
Who can argue that such a splendid creature doesn't reflect the attributes of all Kansans? The energy and virtue of the legislature was clearly evident in its victory over the evils of liquor.
"The honeybee, by making its honey, gives not only to Kanssan, but also to the world's peoples a gift that is sweet and wholesome, something that all Kanssans strive to stimulate in other ways," says the bill.
If the knowledge of this wholesome goodness is to be shared with the rest of the world, it's imitated that House Bill 2236 be passed.
Support is growing. Lobbyists are buzzing around the statehouse in a frenzy. The bill is supported by more than 2,000 signatures from students across the state. These forces are able to keep elementary school student, with the assistance of his teacher, Becky Gillette."
They need your help. Write your legislator. Demonstrate your concern for the affairs of state government.
John Johnston
Abortion still murder
To the Editor:
Your readers who are toiling over the abortion question would do well to watch their language.
What doth he say, ye ask?
Those of us in the new press are
suspicious of the significance
of being
steubenglass clear with words.
The American media almost single-handedly turned the tide of opinion against the wickery bomb by calling a spade a spade.
"Termination statistics"
were dead human men and women.
For those who doubted,
Walter Cronkite brought the
carriage into the living room, in
full color.
The abortion question, likewise, is turning into a prostitution of the language. Let us be exact with our
- "Fetus" is a human baby.
Just as "adult" is the same human, only more developed. Fetuses are pregnant or "abortion" means deliberately killing that human baby.
"Victibility" is meaningless at worst, and a moot point at best. A baby one minute after delivery is the same baby that
"Woman's right to control her sex organs" is inapplicable. Women have that right. But that right is necessarily exercised by women playing host to a new human. A woman may not kill her child.
But we shall. For once, one supposes, the doubting with will, has been shown, via the media, the pictures of the heaped infant corpses which look just asleep and just as dead as the corpses at My Lai.
existed two minutes before delivery. and a baby out of the womb is far less independent than the care than the prenatal person.
"—'Compulsory pregnancy' is laugable. A woman who has conceived has no choice about baby. She ALREADY 'has one.'
David Chartrand
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In the late 1960s, a new movement started to sweep the country. It was filled with frantic emotion, f fiery rhetoric and an almost fanatical commitment to a cause. It was the movement and it swept through the University of Kansas.
By JOHN BROOKS Contributing Writer
movement were mostly between the ages of 14 and 24 and were from middle-or upper-class families.
Jesus movement mellows
The movement was a religious uprising against the traditional and established
The members of the new
provided a release from the hum-drum existence of everyday life. The conversion experience was often the peaking of this emotion within the individual.
values of a society that had become obeseate. It was born in the age of Aquarius and was the product of skepticism, frustration, uncertainty and need.
Tim Miller, associate professor of religion, said recently that students always had been interested in religion and that students interested in theology and that 10 per cent of KU's enrollment.
"A group that exists on enthusiasm won't last because the enthusiasm eventually wears off. People can't live comfortably on a high floor of excitement and emotion," he said.
Miller said that one of the shortcomings of the movement was its enthusiasm.
A lot of people dropped out of the movement because they lacked depth and a concrete foundation in Christianity, he said. For them, the movement was only a fad.
"When you get tired of emotion and are still serious
"I don't think there's anything radical about their message; it's been the same for the last 2,000 years."
"It has been around for a long time in Christian history, but only in this century it has it really caused a new movement," he said.
He said the Jesus Movement wasn't necessarily an increased or renewed interest in Western religion but was a new form and style of expressing religious beliefs.
LONG HAIR AND beards, unconventional clothing and other trappings of the counterculture gave the old-time religion a new appearance. Street Jesus' "Jesus installations and squads" were new forms of active evangelism.
A renewed and stronger interest in pentecostalism and the charismatic movement was another aspect of the movement, he
The appearance and style of the movement were two characteristics that emerged from traditional churches, he said.
Miller said the old stereotype of short hair and neckties no longer applied to the new movement.
"I DON'T THINK there's anything radical about their message; it's been the same for the last 2000 years. The style has changed, but the context is the same," he said.
about Christianity, you move into a church and look for a more structured organization," Miller said. "In traditional churches, the individual can get involved and a solid foundation."
Miller said that emphasis on emotion was another characteristic of the movement. It
Miller said there was some anti-intellectualism in the movement. Some groups guarded members from intellectual experiences. They formed close-knit communities and most activities were within that group.
"They didn't prepare the
Crusade for Christ and the Navigators expanded their campus programs. More radical groups rented houses close to campus and started Bible studies, worship services
Navigators were too conservative and too closely allied with established church tradition to be a part of the Jesus Movement. They were
"We're not into emotionalism, and we're not into intellectualizing people to our side. We want people to have Jesus and we are instructing people in the ways of the Lord."
In no way was the Jesus Movement in Lawrence a unified front. Each group had its own vision and interpretation of the Christian life.
The Apocalyptic theme and scriptural prophecy were bastions of the movement. The world was entering the "Great Tribulation" and the end times. It was only a matter of time before the second coming of Jesus, and when he was their simple message. Commitment to Jesus was the act that brought salvation.
and prayer meetings. Almost all of them developed strategies to evangelize people of the campus and the community.
By 1973, the Jesus Movement was in full swing on the KU campus. Students going to class or relaxing in the Kansas Union campus have evangelists, self-ordained ministers and "screamers."
individual for criticism," Miller said. "You are supposed to rationally evaluate criticism, but rather than work through it, and try to find answers, they fied to shut out the criticism."
The members of the movement would eventually be exposed to criticism because of the openness of American identity and the individual cannot cope with that criticism, he loses faith.
This diversity often caused friction between members of
Initially, the Jesus Movement at KU was evangelical and fundamentalist in nature. However, charismatic groups like the Church are establish. The gifts of the Holy Spirit (tongues, prophecy, healing, etc.) became integral components of the movement. Some of these new groups bred a new form of the gut emotionalism.
Christian communes and organizations began to flourish in the region, the conservative organization like Campus
Street preaching, Jesus demonstrations and "God squads" were new forms of active evangelism.
the various elements of the movement. Some even went so far as to state that other groups in the movement were non-Christian and perhaps even demonic in origin.
Most of the disputes involved the charismatic gifts. The charismatic groups believed they were the only Holy Spirit only if he had a charismatic gift like the ability to speak in tongues. More conservative groups believed this was a false doctrine.
Some elements of the movement alienated them, and caused churchies. They believed that they were void of true spirituality and that they were in the grips of professionalism
Although some groups, including Campus Crusader, had relatively strong church ties, they could not church affiliations at all.
Technically, groups like Campus Crusade and the
considered to be on the outer fringes.
The hard-core center of the movement was composed of, the charismatic groups and radical evangelical groups not associated with established churches.
These groups often stressed pentecostalism and the importance of a strong internal spiritual experience.
The Mustard Seed was the largest of these groups in the Lawrence community.
BOB MENDELSOHN, an
"We aren't anti-intellectual, we aren't anti-cultural and we aren't evacuating this world," he said.
Mendelssohn said the Mustard Seed prepared people to go out into the world by helping them work in the cities in the Christian experience.
intellectualism, he said. He said they didn't base their life on the spirit of God.
"We will take every situation and use it for Jesus--if we see God, we will share God," he said.
Some groups in the Jesus Movement embodied a simplistic mentality with excessive emphasis on experience and feeling. This element of the movement has an important fantasy and imagination that overshadowed intelligent approaches to Christian doctrine.
MENDELSOHN SAID this existed at one time but wasn't necessarily true now. He said the Mustard Seed had grown and matured since its establishment three years ago.
Mendelsohn said people who criticized Jesus people usually did it for two reasons.
"Either they criticize out of
The Jesus Movement isn't dead. The God squads and screamers have tempered down,and the movement has mellowed and matured.
elder of the Mustard Seed, said the Jesus Movement was a movement of people closer to Jesus.
Mendelssohn said that 80 to 55 per cent of the members of the Mustard Seed were college students, but weren't just strict emotionalists.
"There are emotionalists, intellectuals, listeners, administrators and a whole group of men in the Mustard Seed." he said.
Mendelsohn said many people in the Jesus Movement were there because they had become dissatisfied with their lives the moment they were rebelling and were seeking peace, truth and new lives, he. In this type of situation, people either create their own system or find another, he said, and people who were found by God.
People make Jesus what they want Him to be, Mendelsohn said.
"They can make Him a fad or high. They can make Him a tool or toy. Or they can make Him lord."
"We're not into emotionalism, and we're not into intellectualizing people to our side. We want people to have Jesus and we are instructing people in the ways of the Lord."
PEOPLE WHO dropped out of the movement based their experience on emotionalism or
ignorance or because of mistakes we have made," he said. "When we make a mistake we confess it and receive a release from it by God's forgiveness."
The members of the Mustard Seed do evangelize, he said, but mostly through talking to people who are interested or by handing out tracts. He said the Mustard Seed also provided a community of people who loved one another and a community of believers could come together.
THE JESUS MOVEMENT isn't dead. The God squads and screamers have tempered the Jesus movement has mellowed and matured.
Some elements of have been absorbed into traditional churches. The intensity is gone, and a balance seems temptrue, but it has been achieved between reason and imagination.
OTHER ELEMENTS are still around but have developed more personal strategies to support people in the absence of salvation and redemption.
The Jesus Revolution is still in Lawrence. Folk singing, Bible studies and fellowship among the young happens in apartments and houses. The movement isn't as obvious and vocal as in past years. Perhaps a new form of worship and style is in the making.
Unemployment hurting whites
Rv CARL ROWAN
For the first time since the recession set in, a higher percentage of whites were turning up jobless than blacks.
THERE PROBABLY can be no more significant indicator of the sickness of the economy—not even the much-publicized more Americans are out of work than at any time since 1941.
Something profoundly important happened to the job market and the unemployment rates in this country in January.
The grim reality is that American business and industry have been forced into areas where there are few if any blacks left to make the sacrificial肺肿. So white horses got it in the solar nexus.
Incredible, but that is the exact opposite of the change from November to December, when there was a jobless rise of 115,000 blacks (1.1 per cent) and 485,000 whites (6.6 per cent).
FROM DECEMBER 1974 to January 1975, a whopping 946,000 more white people found themselves jobless, as against 74,000 blacks who joined the unemployed ranks. On a per cent basis the unemployment was 1.1 per cent for whites and 0.6 per cent for blacks.
NOW DOWN misunderstand what I'm saying. Whites aren't even close to feeling the impact of this recession to the extent they skooko do. The January figures show 18.3 per cent of job-seekers can't work, as against 7.5 per cent of whites.
So the terrible truth still is that while whites are in a depression, blacks are muried in a depression that for millions of city dwellers is every bit as devastating as the great Depression of the 1930s.
The Labor Department's report also shows that while a stunning 18.4 per cent of white teenagers had unemployed among black teenagers has soared to 41.4 per cent nationally. In some inner city areas, it is now virtually the same as black teenagers to find work.
But as I implied at the outset, these new figures are sort of welcome in many circles.
Blacks know that, despite all the talk about the "racial decay" of President Ford, he didn't take any measures (like hiking the cost of food stamps) that couldn't help but be detrimental to the well-being of blacks, minorities and disadvantaged Americans.
Atrocious levels of black unemployment could be made worse, that blacks don't like to work anyhow. So blacks had no input into the devising of Mr. Ford's economic and energy programs.
Well, any president may feel that he can ignore, or rationalize away, the
joblessness of 1,407,000 blacks.
But no president can toss off
lightly, as fact that a 615,100
work force is unable to
earn a livelihood.
Blacks may have been remix in not complaining effectively to their Congressman, but let me tell you that millions of million whites will be baskish.
We've had a long period when some whites complained about "reverse discrimination" and blacks did not, in all the goodties of American life to minorities. Not only has the recession shown the foolishness of those claims, but also it has allowed white people to deaf that no minority can ignore.
Blacks gain economically only in good times. There is just no way any minority can be black. We do not this society when the white majority is in economic trouble. In fact, when whites start losing jobs, blacks can expect double the losses, which are what they are suffering.
So when those angry workers from the auto industry or the housing trades take to the job market, they will special interest in their success, because the only way 1,407,000 jobless blacks will get any real benefit is for government initiates programs to 6,151,000 jobles whites.
Copyright 1975 Field Enterprises, Inc.
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UNEMPLOYMENT
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YOU'RE IN IT.