Thursday, October 30, 2014
Campus preacher stirs up controversy
ALLISON KITE
@allie_kite
DALTON KINGERY/KANSAN
Founder of Campus Ministries USA, Brother led, preached on Wescoe Beach Wednesday. Many students had strong reactions to his words.
A campus preacher's remarks inspired a variety of reactions on Wescoe beach on Wednesday. Students gave out free hugs, quoted Bible verses in rebuttal and handed out bingo cards based on typical confrontational preaching phrases.
BINGO
When Brother Jed, founder of Campus Ministries USA, began preaching on campus Wednesday, many students yelled back, while others chose to react differently.
About 2 p.m. Nathan Myers, a sophomore transfer student, originally from Texas, began distributing bingo cards with spaces including "Hell" and "My god is the right god." The idea of the cards was to use Brother Jed's phrases as a game.
"How can you show that it's silly to say you're going to hell?" Myers said, explaining why he created the Bingo card.
Myers said he found the idea on reddit and made it his own. When he saw Brother led preaching, he decided to distribute them.
"I was like, 'Oh man, I can use this," he said.
BIBLE
Nate Simon, a senior
from Andover studying microbiology, used Bible verses to counter the "gospel" Jed and others were preaching. Quoting the book of Matthew chapter seven, Simon said he condemned Jed's use of out-of-context scripture for his own gain.
"The judgment that is referenced at the beginning of the chapter is talking about condemning people to hell and how we cannot do that given our own state of mind and how we are sinners as well" he said.
Simon said he believed Jed's use of the Bible to preach against homosexuality, premarital sex and other practices he condemns is embarrassing.
"He speaks about Christ, but then he utilizes his own hatred next to that, and it hurts the gospel, to be honest," Simon said.
HUGS
Lillian Klebenow, a junior from St. Louis, printed off 15 sheets of paper that said, "FREE HUGS" and stood passed them out to members of the crowd.
"At a certain point, they're just giving them more attention, but the crowd is kind of unified, and anybody that yells something back, everyone will kind of cheer a little bit," she said.
"I'd rather not just stand there and yell if I can do something positive;" Klebenow said.
She said the crowd surrounding Jed was unified in its feeling toward his principles, gathering to yell back and question his ideas.
She encouraged people to counter Jed's opinions by going beyond standing in the crowd and occasionally yelling.
"I think it would be another step entirely to band together in an activist way: everybody has a sign, everybody's playing racist-weird-people bingo or people stage a bigger counter-protest," she said.
WHO IS BROTHER JED?
Brother Jed is a confrontational evangelist who travels to college campuses with his wife, Sister Cindy, and other members of Campus Ministries USA. Wednesday, the group consisted of the couple and another member, Sister Pat.
Holding a double-sided sign that read "Whore Whore Whore" on one side and "Be a ho no mo" on the other, Pat preached abstinence until marriage.
Amid dissent, the preachers remained calm but talked over student protests.
"If you're a virgin, you're fine," she said.
"Can't we approach this intellectually?" Jed asked when students yelled back at his teachings.
She encouraged students to repent and receive forgiveness and said if someone had told her the same thing when she was young, she would've
you're headed for hell. You're full of pride."
been a better mother, daughter and wife.
"God will forgive you. That's the reason he was crucified on that cross; to take your guilt, but you've got to accept the forgiveness," she said to about 10 students. "You're so haughty and high-minded that you won't accept God's forgiveness. That's the reason
Edited by Logan Schlossberg
Lawrence Royals fans mourn loss locally
DEREK SKILLETT
@derek_skillett
Liberty Hall was dark. A huge projector screen provided the source of much of the light in the auditorium. Crowds of people sat in front of the stage, cheering and booing with each play. An enthusiastic fan stood on his seat and tried to rally the crowd. This is what Game 7 of the 2014 World Series looked like to some fans in Lawrence.
Suddenly, the cheering stopped. The San Francisco Giants had defeated the Kansas City Royals in the final game of the World Series by a score of 3-2. Madison Bumgarner, the super-ace for the Giants, had just finished up a complete domination of Kansas City's batting order, striking out four Royals in the five scoreless innings that he pitched. The Royals played
Stewart and a group of her friends watched the game at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Stewart said she decided to watch the game at that location because it was a familiar place, as she had watched many different sporting events there before.
hard, but it wasn't enough. Jessica Stewart, a 2011 University graduate, has been a Royals fan for 23 years. She said seeing the Royals in the World Series was surreal.
Kolton Stimpert, a senior from Lodge, went to the game with Stewart. He said that he had been a Royals fan as long as he could remember.
"It's one of those things that you never thought could happen." Stimpert said of the Royals making an appearance in the World Series.
"I'm happy for them," Stewart said. "This is really exciting."
"We really love it." Lloyd said. "It has a friendly atmosphere."
Artman said that she was devastated after seeing the Royals lose the game, but she remained positive.
Whitney Artman and Alli Lloyd, both from Oskaloosa, decided to watch the game at The Sandbar.
"The Royals had a great season," Artman said. "They played their hearts out. It's been really fun to watch."
This was the first appearance in a World Series since 1985 for the Royals, where they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. The San Francisco Giants have now won their third World Series in the past five years.
— Edited by Amelia Arvesen
GEORGE MULLINIX/KANSAN
A Royals fan buries his head as the team loses the World Series. Locals gathered in bars like The Wheel to watch Game 7.
Senate committees hear multiple resolutions MIRANDA DAVIS @MirandaDavisUK
Admussen, a sophomore from Urbandale, Iowa, drafted the resolution after Student Body President Morgan Said heard about the amendment during a meeting with the regents school's student body presidents and the group collectively decided they didn't like the amendment. All Regents' schools are drafting and hearing similar resolutions about the policy.
"So this is a statute change the student body presidents caught last regents cycle, and we discussed it heavily all afternoon and decided it was something that we couldn't stand behind, even though our administrations do," Said, a senior from Kansas City, Missouri, said. "So hopefully [the resolution] will gain some traction and catch the attention of the Regents. I do think that our voices carry a lot of weight and I hope that proves to be true come the November regents meeting."
Wednesday night Student Senate committees heard several resolutions that passed committees and will go on to full senate next week.
If the resolution passes next week in senate it will be sent to the president of the Board of Regents as well as the University's representatives to the Board of Regents, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-little and Tim Caboni, Vice Chancellor
Index
Currently, if a University's administration wants to change a student fee, they must conduct a non-binding referendum with the student body and take the results to the Board of Regents with the fee proposal.
CRYPTOQUIPS 6A
OPINION 4A
CLASSIFIEDS 3B
CROSSWORD 6A
SEE SENATE PAGE 2A
SPORTS 1B
SUDOKU GA
Will Admussen, government relations director for Student Senate, presented a resolution that would oppose an amendment that will go before the Kansas Board of Regents during the November meeting.
The Kansas State University administration is proposing the amendment to the Board, which concerns student fees and would allow for all regents universities' administrations to only ask certain student government representatives for approval of new or changing student fees.
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