Wednesday, September 3, 1975
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Religious revival spreads
Staff Writer
By CHUCK ALEXANDER
Religious organizations are on the road to revival at the University of Kansas.
Following a nationwide trend, KU students have an active part in regional organization.
During the past six years, apathy toward traditional student organizations increased.
During the years of this feeling of apathy, not one well-known Christian speaker appeared on campus. During the past two decades, Ms. Johnson was dedicated by the appearances of Christian
apologist Josh McDowell and evangelist Bill Glass on the KU campus.
"I don't see any groups growing." Orr
According to Fred Manley, student coordinator at the St. Lawrence Catholic school, he found in student religious involvement over the past few years. Manley said he attributed the rise to a general increase in students in religious residence to desire to fulfill their religious obligations.
Birth control advice available to students
Richard Orr, director of the American Baptist Center, said the increase in student attendance was found in churches rather than campus religious organizations.
Staff Writer
Birth control information and contraceptives are readily available to University of Kansas students from several sources.
Grunz said students were referred to Watkins Student Health Clinic when they arrived.
FIVE STAFF MEMBERS in the dean of women's office keep abreast of the most recent findings about birth control methods, marital and through information, Grung, said.
At Watkins, students should indicate that they want to talk with a gynecologist. They will probably be referred to Raymond Schweiger, a staff physician.
The dean of women's office provides extensive literature about birth control, and personal counseling is available to students, to Lorna Grornz, assistant dean of women.
Students can obtain advice about the most suitable method of contraception based on their physical histories and individual activity differences, Grunz said. The source for obtaining contraceptives also varies with each student, she said.
By DEBBIE BAUMAN
"Our main intent is to help students process their choices, not make them for the
"We try to provide students with the necessary information that will enable them to ask their doctors the right questions," Grunz said.
"We try to inform students about the various birth control alternatives that are available and the positive and negative effects of contraception in the very method of contraception," said Grunz.
THE FIRST STEP is to conduct a personal conference with each student who wants a contraceptive, Schwegler said. It is necessary to obtain detailed information about each woman's history and physical condition, he said.
The prescribed contraceptive is determined according to personal needs and physical capacity, Schwegler said. Only those birth control methods which have been thoroughly tested and proved effective are administered to students, he said.
Schweiger said, "We're dealing with realities, and in a society which strives to regulate its population, contraceptives are the only logical answer."
Several methods of birth control are available, each with a certain risk of failure, said Schweger. The birth control pill is prescribed in 90 per cent of the cases because of its high rate of effectiveness, he said.
Intrauterine devices (IUD's) have shown the highest failure rate and are physically dangerous as well, Schweiger said. He said the high risk of pregnancy and danger of infection from the use of IUD's him to restrict student use of that contraceptive.
"There is an effective means of contraception for each woman it is up to her to make careful use of the prescribed birth control method," Schweiger said.
A spokesman at the Douglas County Health Department said that birth control information was available to students and that students could talk to the resident students who want to obtain a contraceptive referral referred to Walkins, the spokesman said.
THE COMMISSION on the Status of Women (CSW) is developing a program to provide further information to KU students about human sexuality, according to Grunz.
Seminars, films and lectures are to be included in the program for men and women which will begin in about three weeks, Grunz said.
The main goal of the CSW program is to provide accurate information for students so they can aware of the need to protect policies and policies of birth control methods. Grun, said.
Students may also obtain birth control information by calling the University Information Center, said Grunz. They will be referred to one of eight professional counselors who have been trained to handle human sexuality problems.
GRUNZ, coordinator of the human sexuality network, said these consultants weren't medical professionals but informed people who were prepared to handle all types of human sexuality problems. Staff member of the human sexuality network staff member of the human sexuality network by phone or can meet with the staff member personally, Gruz said.
said. "...Alegiance to a group doesn't seem to be growing."
About 30 students are involved in the Baptist Center's programs, which include Bible studies and films on transactional analysis.
"It is a place where I am able to learn spiritually," she said.
Mary Rodey, Torrington, Wyo., junior said her reason for becoming involved in the St. Lawrence Catholic Student Center was to have a lot of thoughts, I want to share."
No longer are weekly Bible studies the order of the day for many campus groups. Instead, they discuss topics like sexuality, health, or religion in an effort even the American bicentennial in an effort to accommodate a myriad of student interests. However, it is the local churches, not the campus religious organizations, that are experiencing the greatest increase in attendance.
Bette Mayhugh, Lawrence senior and a member of the Baptist Student Center, said, "It doesn't seem as if just going to school is enough."
Mayhugh had her involvement with the center's programs provided a solid base for her work.
The Rev, Norman Steffen, pastor of the University Lutheran Church, said he had noticed an increase in the number of students attending worship services.
Or said the reason more students were paying the weekly visit to church rather than making the more demanding commitment to the Church organization was the factor of involvement.
"They want a kind of minimal involvement." Orr said.
Parkway to help relieve Clinton Reservoir traffic
Although representatives of most of the religious organizations speculated that part of their training was participation was the record enrollment at KU this year, they also said they thought students are becoming more conscious of, in some cases more committed to, a faith in God.
A four-lane divided highway between Lawrence and Clinton Reservoir will be completed by June 1979 if the current flooding and construction schedule is followed.
The highway, Clinton Parkway, is the main provision the Kansas Department of Transportation is making for the increase in expected when the reservoir is finished.
Because the House and Senate passed different versions of the bill, it was sent to a senate committee.
A bill appropriating $10 million for highways like Clinton Parkway will be considered when, Congress reconvenes Monday.
Dick McClanathan, director of county zoning and planning, said last week the major metropolitan area expected to use Clinton Reservoir was Kansas City. Exceptions between Kansas City, Kan., and Lawrence is almost finished. McClanathan said.
Clinton Parkway will connect the intersection of K-10 (23rd Street) and Iowa Street with the north end of the Clinton dam. This four-mile road will cost $5.9 million. Local officials have requested 70 per cent of the remaining 30 per cent will be financed by Douglas County, 60 per cent, and Lawrence, 40 per cent.
Bob Dowen, a legislative assistant for Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kam, said the committee would consider the bill during the last half of September. After the committee resolves the differences, the bill will be sent to President Ford.
A section of K-10 in eastern Johnson County is under construction and kids will be going out soon for expansion of the final section, which is in Douglas County. he said.
Downen said he thought Ford would sign the bill by October.
The bill, a general appropriations bill for the Department of Transportation, will allocate $10 million for construction of "access roads to public recreation areas on certain lakes built by the Army Corps of Engineers."
Clinton Parkway is one of several highways eligible for federal funding. The parkway has funding priority over other highways and is by far the largest Kansas Congresmen this summer.
Rep. Larry Wim, R-Kan, and Sons, Dale and James Pearson, R-Kan, made statements on the floors of the House and Senate committees, and statements noted that Clinton Parkway had been given prior priority in the Federal-Aid Highways authority authorized federal funding for lakes-access.
The statements also described the inadequacy of existing county roads leading to traffic congestion.
The statements and formal exchanges with other congressmen that followed them became part of the Congressional Record. When Department of Transportation officials refer to the record as they implement the law, they will see that the parkway was given priority by congressmen, Downen said.
A public hearing to consider the economic, social and environmental effects of the design and location of the parkway took place in Lawrence Aug. 20.
Comments from the hearing will be included in the final draft of the environmental impact statement, which is being prepared by the project consultant, Finney and Turnipseed Consulting Engineers.
The schedule that local officials hope will be followed the parkaway and construct
October-Signing of the appropriations bill by the President.
April 15, 1978-Completion of the environmental impact study and approval of the statement by the Federal Highway Administration.
September-Completion of the three engineering and survey stages by the consulting firm and their respective offices in the Kansas Department of Transportation.
January-June, 1977-Awarding of the construction contract.
June, 1979 - Completion of construction.
Play will give view from bar
By MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Staff Writer
A jukebox playing '303 music for dancing will add to the atmosphere of "The Time of Your Life," he is presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the University Theatre.
"The Time of Your Life," part of the University's Landmarks in American Theatre series, is a Pulitzer Prize winning play by William Saroyan.
The play is set in 1359 on the San Fran-
cisco waterfront in a dingy bar called Nick's
Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and
Entertainment Palace.
Saroyan wrote the play in 1939 after going on one of his frequent binges in a San Francisco bar just like Nick's according to Harold P. Meyer, assistant instructor of speech and drama.
"Like all people who go to bars, they're getting away from some problem or running away from the loneliness of their own company," she said. "They seek companionship."
The 22 characters who frequent Nick's best friend dreams allusions, form the new character in the story.
The action focuses on Joe, a loafer with money who seeks goodness in each of the lives that touches his. Joe is played by William Kuhlke, professor of theatre.
"It's the people that populate the bar," he said. "They reflect all our lives in one way or the other. This is the society of its time in microcosm."
COOI KAIS the play was being handled by a fine, experienced cast. Because all but one member of the cast performed the play in July, Cook said, only one week of rehearsal has been necessary to get the play ready.
The play centers on the characters themselves rather than on a strong story line.
EACH OF THE 22 PARTS requires maturity and experience from the actors, Cook said, which is why the play isn't performed often.
The cast members will come from all over the country this weekend to be in the play.
The sets, designed by Greg Hill, were conceived to give the true atmosphere of a bar. Cooked a. Vintage jukebox and a set of three cannery are two of the set's more unusual elements.
"What is required of the actor is that he be a true-life person with a great deal of experience."
"The Time of Your Life" is a very lyrical play, according to Cook.
"AT TIMES IT is outrageously funny.
Some of these characters are hilarious," he said. "It is also a times apart, but always impressive, both in its humor and in its nautics."
"I think this is one of the finest pieces in American dramatic literature. It has everything an actor or an audience looks for in a work, and it's also what makes the elements that are part of real life."
Thematically, the play deals with Joe's search for goodness as he changes the lives of his family.
"The theme is obvious," Cook said. "It's better to be good than evil, humane and better."
Cook described "The Time of Your Life" as human and optimistic. He said he disagreed with critics who said Saroanyan's book was too sympathetic with the Abra. He was way too
"PHILOSOPHICAL weaknesses are not important. We must accept the author's point of view and play it accordingly," he said.
Perhaps Saroyan himself best explained the theme of "The Time of Your Life" when he wrote, "in the time of your life, live—so that—in good time that there shall be no unliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches."
The University of Kansas Theatre
Presents
Back By Popular Demand!
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
A Comedy in Three Acts by William Saroyan (Pulitzer Prize, 1940)
Friday and Saturday September 5 & 6
K. U. Students, $^*1.50 Others,$^*2.50
The highly successful production played to record breaking audiences in July.
"Sprawling, colorful, engrossing, funny, touching the Kansas University Theatre's production of William Saroyan's 'The Time of Your Life' is all of these and much more" —Marshall Fine Lawrence Journal-World July 11, 1975
"A marvelous, professional production of one of the most delightful American plays ever written."
Evie Rapport University Daily Kansan July 10,1975
For Information and Tickets call 864-3982 or stop by the University Theatre Box Office Murphy Hall