Pope stand on abortion questioned
By JAIN PENNER
Despite a strong statement issued last week by Pope Paul VI that nothing could justify abortion, France, a Catholic country, legalized abortion on demand this weekend.
According to a survey of 25 Catholic students at the University of Kansas last week, several of them disagree with the Pope's stand on abortion and with his statement that contraception is necessary for birth control as a solution to the world food shortage.
Of the students surveyed, 10, or 40 per cent, said they would have an abortion or agree to an abortion for their wife or girlfriend. Twelve students, or 48 per cent, said they wouldn't, and three, or 12 per cent, were unsure.
Twenty of the students surveyed or 80 per cent, said they or their wife or girlfriend would use a method of birth
Five of the students said they wouldn't use any form of birth control other than the rhythm method.
control other than the rhythm method. Two of the women said they were presently taking birth control pills.
A large majority of the students surveyed, 23 or 92 per cent, said they thought the church should end its opposition to birth control. Only two students said they thought the church should continue to oppose birth control.
"I think it's a matter for the individual to decide," said Maureen Rox, Prairie Village junior. "Every Catholic should weigh the Pope's opinion and its importance to him and then decide according to his own values."
The Rev. John Rossiter, priest of the Saint Lawrence Catholic Student Center, said that although he agreed with the stand of the church on abortion, he disagreed with opposition to birth control.
Mark Costello, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman, said he
The Catholic Church traditionally has taken a position against birth control because of the belief that it is against God's will to change nature or to seek exemption from what nature demands of them.
believed the Pope was divinely inspired and that, as a Catholic, he would abide by the Pope's opinion.
"It's a matter for the mother and the doctor to decide," said Mary Kay Shea, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
On the question of the church's opposition to abortion, 12 of the students surveyed and they thought the church should not permit abortion.
seven students said they thought the church was justified in opposing abortion and two students were undecided.
The Pope's statement of law week is the strongest stand on abortion taken by the Vatican in recent times. Even risk to the mother's life or the possibility of an abnormal child are ruled out as justifications for abortion.
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From the Associated Press
Accord limits arsenal
WASHINGTON—President R. R. Ford said last night in a news conference that his strategic arms accord with the Soviet Union would allow the two superpowers to have arsenals of 2,400 nuclear missiles and bombs aerial. Ford called the accord a real breakthrough.
Ford said the agreement, still subject to more detailed negotiations to "convert this agreed framework into a comprehensive accord," would allow the United States and the Soviet Union to put multiple warheads on 1,320 of the missiles in each nation's quota.
The agreement would run from 1975 to 1985
The United States now has nearly 2,200 missiles and bombers, the Russians nearly 2,400.
Of this number, the United States has 466 bombers, the Soviet Union has 140 bombers.
The United States now plans to have a total of 1,046 MIRV launchers, with 822 already in service both on land and in submarines.
During the second half of his news conference, Ford said, "Our greatest danger today is to fall victim to the more exaggerated alarms that are being generated about the underlying health and strength of our economy."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.66 Tuesday, December 3,1974
Fambrough resigns job as head coach
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
BY MARK ZELIGMAN
Sports Editor
University of Kansas Head Football Coach Don Fambrough announced his resignation today at a morning press conference.
Rumors had been circulating since the daymaker disappointing season ended just a few days earlier.
Fambrouah
a surprise, however, because he still had a year left on a three-year contract.
"It was his choice to fulfill the rest of his contract or back off right now," said Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director. "It was his choice."
According to an athletic department official, Fambrough knew his days were numbered when his contract was not extinguished. In 193-1 and went to the Liberty Boy in 1937.
"He knew his contract wasn't to be extended," the official said. "If your contract is not extended, it's like losing a vote of confidence."
Another job was offered Fambrough at
the university, according to Waugh. Waugh said it was his understanding that Fambridge would stay as a member of the athletic department in some capacity.
Fambrough met with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Athletic Director Clyde Walker yesterday morning and informed them of his decision.
Yesterday afternoon Fambrough called a team meeting to announce his decision to the football team. Senior co-captain Steve McCormick said he was strange when the meeting was called
"Usually after the season's over, we have a team meeting for the underclassmen," owl said. "But Coach Fambrough said he would be there. He was late, which he never is."
Towle said Fambrough then gave a short speech to the players.
"He said, 'Men, I'm not gonna take much of your time, but I want you to know before the papers get it,' Towle said. "His voice cracked and then he said, 'I'm resinizing.'
"He didn't talk that long and he didn't give us time to respond. Nobody left for a few minutes and then somebody said, 'That's it.' and we all left."
Fambrough said he wanted to retain a relationship with the players, according to the team.
"He said he didn't have to quit, that he could stay." Towle said. "He said it was for the good of the team. He didn't elaborate. He did it in a courageous way."
Famibrough's announcement came as a complete surprise to many of his assistant coaches.
"We're all in a state of shock," offensive coordinator Bobby Baldwin said.
The jobs of all the assistant coaches are now in question. The new head coach will decide whether to keep the current staff or hire a new one.
"We had head Friday he was considering a defensive coordinator Jim Dickey said. "Still the team needs him."
"We haven't been told anything yet," Baldwin said. "We're having a meeting tomorrow and Coach Fambrough will be talking to us."
Towle said Fambrigh blamed himself for the disappointing season this year, when he hit four home runs in 13 games.
"Coach Fambrigh did his best to prepare us when we go on the field," Towie said. "But it really comes down to us. It up to our players. We should be the blame."
"He kept saying thank you to everybody. I wanted to say thank you for all you've done, feel sorry for the underclassman who has been aunt to your unity to see how great this man really is."
Fambrough became head coach in 1971 after 19 years as assistant coach at KU and said it was a dream come true. He said then he would never coach anywhere else. He told United Press International yesterday that he would stick by that decision.
During his four years as head coach, Fambridge's teams had a record of 19-25-1. Kuin finished 14 in Fambridge's first two years. The Jayahawks rebounded to a tie for fifth in Big Eight and went to the Liberty Bowl where they lost to North Carolina State, 31-18.
Visual Arts center
bids for the building, which will bring together all the visual arts sequences into one building, will be let this month.
For the first time the visual arts department will have a common home in this $5.8 million visual arts center. Construction
Arts center to be done in 1977
By fall 1975, Fowler Hall will be enveloped by a $8.8 million visual arts center. John S. McKay, associate dean of visual arts, said recently.
Before setting down to a quiet square of spades on the basketball court of Allen Field House last night, Joey Berserma took up the first step.
"The visual arts have never had a building," McKay said. "We have grabbed every closet we could find to house our classes."
The center, containing about 100,000 square feet of usable floor space, will house the entire visual arts department; painting, sculpture, jewelry and silversmithing, ceramics, commercial design, graphic designs, illustration and textures, McKay said.
Visual art classes are taught in 12 buildings on campus and in a few buildings behind them.
Laying her cards on the table
Lawrence Christmas Burauu, and her partner, Barbara Burauu
channeller Anne Clemente Jr. and Gene Burauu in the
opening hand of the book. See Story p. 127.
"When I came here seven years ago, our new building was already a priority in the department," he said. "We've gone through so much just getting the approval and the appropriation, that the actual construction is going to seem almost anticlimacial."
The $5.8 million for the new visual arts center was approved by the legislature in February 1974. The plans are completed and the bids for the building's construction are scheduled to be let this month, McKay said.
Architectural plans for both the visual arts center and the new law school, to be located northwest of Allen Field House, will include models for funding considerations next week.
For the last two months, work has been done to prepare the site around Fowl Hall. A new access to Hoch Auditorium and surrounding buildings had to be built because the visual arts center will sit on what is now a shared parking lot, McKay said.
"They're moving water lines, electrical lines and generally getting ready to build the new system."
McKay said that if the weather held, materials remained available and there were no strikes, the center should be ready for use by fall 1977.
McKay said he wasn't concerned about predictions of a decline in the student enrolment, at least as it related to the visual arts department.
Security unit urged to split by consultant
The University of Kansas Department of Security and Parking should be divided into two divisions, according to W. Thomas Anderson, as a security consultant for the University.
Morgan recommended that Security and Parking be divided into the KU Police Department and the KU Parking and Division. He also recommended that the KU Police department be the power of arrest in all Kansas counties where the University owns land.
Both divistors would be responsible to a
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McKay said the department didn't offer art classes to the nonart major. If the student enrolment declines, he said, then the visual arts department will be able to offer classes to the liberal arts student or any other student interested in the arts.
McKay said the continued upwing in the demand for art classes was a reaction to the need for more art.
"We have never been able to meet the demands for art classes," he said. By mid-October our classes were filled for the spring semester. I predict that by the first week in May, the classes will be full for the fall."
"People need to relax with something they really enjoy," McKay said. "Art—and
I mean music and other art forms too—
theater, dance, circus, live
intellectively manipulates, watches or idiosyncrases.
McKay said that there was a growing demand for people trained in the visual arts. He said business was discovering that symbols and pictures were just as powerful as words in communicating ideas and messages.
If the University of Kansas had built a visual arts center 10 years ago, McKay said, the department probably already would have outgrown it.
He said that the added space of the new center would never be wasted.
"You need a lot of room for art projects," he said.
Faltering economy deflates arts festival
This spring's Festival of the Arts Week has been canceled because of economic problems.
The festival was suspended for several reasons, all of which were related to the murder. The jury convicted Winn Halverhout, chairman of the festival. The Festival of the Arts, which has been presented here for the last eight years, has operated at a deficit for the last three years,
Dave Murfin, president of SUA, which
sponsors the $400,000 last spring's
launch, lost $200.
The Festival of the Arts was established to expose students to a variety of art forms. The festival has included presentations by musical performers, speakers, dance groups and popular entertainers as well as plays. Students could purchase passes that allowed them to attend individual or performance, or they could purchase individual tickets for the shows.
Murfin said the festival was supposed to support itself. He said the concept was that they would be able to spend enough money to finance the other presentations. However, he said the SUA Board decided the budget wasn't sufficient for the performance performers that could finance the festival.
Harverhout said the entertainment industry was a seller's market. Campus concerts are being cut back across the nation, and setting ticket prices at levels
Harborhout said the festival committee usually had the entertainers contracted by the theater company and ticket sales could be promoted to them. The employees enrollment. This year, the entertainers weren't willing to negotiate far in advance because they were guaranteed very large profits, he said.
students can afford is difficult, according to Halverhout.
"Part of our problem this year was that entertainers weren't willing to sign contracts."
used to assist the suspension of the festival would be temporary, and the SUA Board was re-created in 2015. He program and searching for other options. Halverhout said he had checked with several state and national endowment sources, community sources, but funding from these groups had fallen through in recent weeks.
“五或 six” alternatives which were being considered by the board haven't been reclaimed. Halverhurst said, but there is hope he could be resumed at its farmer level next year.
Halverhout said SUA didn't want to establish a precedent by initiating a small scale festival. However, the group will consider sponsoring this spring some of the large festivals and awarding former festivals, such as the creative writing and film making contests.