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University Daily Kansan, November 8. 1982
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Mobley attacks Union selection Porn magazine sales protested
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
The director of a campus religious group says he will continue to fight against the sale of pornographic magazines at the Kansas Union because "I love students at the University of Kansas and don't want them to die."
Steve Mobley, director of Marantha Campus Ministries, predicted Friday that his group eventually would succeed in acquiring a number of sex-oriented magazines at the Union
Members of Maranatha submitted a petition to the vice chancellor for student affairs this summer protesting the Union's sale of all pornography, including Playboy, Playgirl and Penthouse magazines.
"If we take these things, off the shelves." Mobley said, "then we're going to see a lot of things happen, like a drop in rape and a drop in incest."
LISA ASINHER, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee and a member of a Union merchandising board studying the complaint, said she was opposed to taking the magazines off the shelves.
"I think you have to look at the University as a protector of freedoms."
But Ashner said that even she had problems deciding which magazines to watch.
"Sometimes what are the most typical magazines often have people in various states of distress," she said. She cited a controversial painting of a nude woman that appeared on the cover of Newsweek last summer.
The merchandising committee met last month to discuss the controversy, but tabled any action until Warner Ferguson, the Union's associate director, could study how other universities handled the sale of such magazines.
THE COMMITTEE will probably meet again in mid-November to act on Maranatha's complaint, Ferguson said.
Still, Mobley criticized the University's policy of displaying the magazines behind the information counter at the Union.
"Men and women are able to walk up and see these things behind the counter," he said. "If a man has got his eyes on the Bible, then he will begin to
walk like God. But if he's go his eyes on a pornography book, he's going to begin to lust and degrade himself."
Mobley compared the reading of such magazines to drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
"The word of God says this is sin," he said. "I want to expose the darkness in this area so people will know they are destroying the temple of God."
CURRENTLY. ALL pornographic magazines sold at the Union are covered, with only their titles showing. Other magazines sold at the information counter are not covered. Mobley said.
"There is pornography even in business magazines now." Mobley said. "It's not just your well-known pornographic magazines."
Another committee member, David Welch, student body vice president, also said he had trouble defining what is pornographic.
He declined to say whether he supported Maranatha's complaints.
"I realize that as only one person, I can only effect the campus," Mobley said. "But we're not going togive up at all — we've got victory in this."
Buddy Mengine/KANSAN
A half-covered Playboy magazine sites beside several other magazines on a rack at the candy counter on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. Playboy and several other magazines have become the targets of a protest by the fans.
Glemp defends church's stand on Solidarity, martial law rule
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland-Three days before scheduled pro-Solidarity demonstrations, Roman Catholic Archbishop Jozef Glef yesterday rebanded critical outcalls on the military regime but said the church would not support violent protests.
Martial law rulers, meanwhile, apparently sought to defuse public anger and televised excerpts from a seven-hour meeting Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski had with about 100 citizens, nearly half of whom openly questioned and attacked the government.
"Many people are waiting for (Lech) Walesa," one elderly woman told Rakowski, referring to the banned Solidarity union's interned leader.
She described the outlawing of the union as a "hummiling" move that "did not meet the approval of the will of the people."
church policy and said the church's main goal was to steer Poland away;
"It (the program) clearly is to serve as a safety valve," said a Polish journalist. "And it was very well done."
GLEMP, ADDRESSING a ceremony opening the academic year at the prestigious Catholic University in the southeast city of Lublin, defended
Wednesday marks the second anniversary of Solidarity's legal registration as the Soviet Bloc's first free trade union and the workers' underground has called for an eight-hour nationwide strike followed by street rallies to protest the outlawing of the union a month ago.
“The stand of the church will be the stand of peace,” Glemp told students and international dignitaries in the main hall of the university, the only university in Eastern Europe. “We will do everything to avoid bloodshed.”
Glemp acknowledged the church "could say sharper things sometimes," but said this was not because of a lack of courage or surplus of cautiousness.
"The church is responsible not only for itself but for many others, so it tries to assess in a moral was all facts, actions, phenomena, events," he said.
"AND IN light of this the church says that the nation which is humiliated has a right to protest, has a right to rights, has a right to be itself," he said.
He mentioned his continued pressure for the release of internees, including
"We understand how very painful, how bitter, the situation is," he said.
travel posters on campus, they have something like $189" in six-inch letters," he said. "But if you look closer, the transportation isn't provided, or you have to buy your own ski lift, just a way to get your attention."
Those providing their own transportation will get $64 off the $279 cost of the train.
sonarity chief Lech Walesa, and the church's opposition to the banning of Solidarity.
"We've got about 25 people going out on the bus, and another eight or ten on the train."
"WE WILL not stop our warnings," he said, "but nobody can demand from the church that it leave the way of God. I will never pride its wisdom and which can in this way achieve greater results than could be achieved by desperate acts."
Sullivan said SUA would make as many seats available as there were people who wanted to go.
Sullivan said he thought SUA could offer better packages than travel agencies because they were a nonprofit organization.
"THAT WAY, they can just pick up their skis and take off," he said.
But SUA's latest venture, a trip to Crested Butte ski resort in west central Colorado, has been called a success by SU officials.
SULLIVAN SAID he thought the flexibility of the trip was one of the factors that made it successful.
Selling vacation travel during uncertain economic times can be difficult, sometimes impossible, as evidenced by the cancellation of Student Union Activities' trip to the Walnut Valley Festival in September.
The trip, which will be the first week in January, has already surpassed the required 26-person minimum, and that meant John Sullivan, one of the trip's leaders.
SUA calls Colorado ski trip success
Sullivan said SUA would sponsor free ski-fitting in the third week of November for those who signed up for the trip.
"I've never seen a trip fill up this
"If you look at some of the other
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