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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
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77th Year, No. 72
Friday, January 20, 1967
Regents OK second Union
The campaign platform of a campus political party—a satellite Union—received initial approval from the Kansas Board of Regents yesterday when they approved a request from Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to have the state architect draw plans for the building.
The second Union building would be located near Allen Field House.
Tentative plans call for a two-story, 38,000 square foot structure with a small auditorium, a bookstore and food service areas.
ALSO GIVEN APPROVAL by the Regents are plans for a two-story addition to the present Kansas Union building.
The new addition would contain more student meeting rooms, an expanded food service area and larger bowling facilities.
Connecting this new addition to Zone X parking lot will be a 440-foot pedestrian tunnel.
Cost of the tunnel is expected to be about $100,000.
FINANCING FOR BOTH Union projects will come from a $2,200,000 revenue bond sale approved by the Regents June 23.
Permission for the University to accept a number of Chinese and Japanese prints from the estate of Rose K. Auerback, who died in Chicago on August 3, was also granted by the Board.
Other items on the KU agenda approved by the Board included:
- Building sidewalks along Irving Hill Road and Naismith Drive to Oliver Hall at an estimated cost of $8,000.
- Purchase of $50,000 worth of 1950 Kansas Union bonds during the 1967 fiscal year.
- Mediying Room 314, Malott Hall, for use as a medicinal chemistry laboratory at an estimated cost of $15,000.
- Permission for the Chancellor to ask the Legis'ature for authority to sell property received from the estate of Melvie E. Pilla.
- Change of a July 15 recommendation that $40,000 be allotted for construction of chemistry laboratories in Malott Hall. The new figure is $44,000.
MAXIMS AT KU
--UDK Photo by Tim Switzer
The Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union is a drawing place for students who come to eat, play bridge—or relax before a final.
Late hours for Nest?
By BETSY WRIGHT
The Hawk's Nest may extend its schedule into late night hours by the second week of the spring semester, Frank Eurge, director of the Kansas Union, said today.
"We are aware of the desire for late night refreshments and food service." Burge said, "and our food department is making a sincere effort to provide a satisfactory solution consistent with sound economics."
UNDER THE NEW system, the Hawk's Nest would be open until about 1:30 a.m. and would be run on the automat type system used in the Hawklet in Summerfield Hall's basement. Architect's designs for the Hawk's Nest have
already been completed, Burge said.
"Student use of the Hawklet has been very gratifying and pleasing. There certainly has been ample justification shown for leaving it open."
Burge also said the Jay Bowl recreation area will stay open late in the spring semester.
Rev. Sundbye speaks
Today's church faces crisis
By ROSE MARIE LEE
The Rev. Ronald L. Sundbye, minister of the First Methodist Church in Lawrence, believes the church today, is in a period of reform and is, indeed, in crisis.
Sundbye, speaking on "The Church in Crisis," yesterday in the Kansas Union, said, "The church today faces real criticism—destructive criticism by edito-
rialists, columnists, and even clergymen, and many others who would rather see it die than make any changes. The real struggle in the church today is between those who want to change it and those who don't."
SUNDBYE SAID decreased church attendance was indicative of the crisis in the church. Decline in church attendance can be attributed both to sociological factors and to reasons revolving about the theological conflict between those who say that the Christian faith in its present form is not meaningful and relevant for today's society and those who contend that it is.
REV. RONALD SUNDBYE
MANY PEOPLE today fail to see in the church anything that has transformed society. "Traditionally, the church has been more of an enemy than a supporter of civil rights. The Peace Corps has been more effective than the work of all the missions. And poverty programs today, are not sponsored by the church, but by the government," Sundbye said.
"Space exploration and revolutions by the suffering classes in the world have precipitated this crisis." Sundbye said.
Another factor contributing to this crisis is that of changing moral values. "Christian ethics,"
"The students have shown that they want someplace to go after studying, or while they're studying, and we are going to do everything possible to see that they get this wish," Burge said.
Some have stopped going to church because they think the church is "hypocritical," Sundbye said.
Sundbve said, "used to be straight-jacket morality — no smoking, no lusting, no swearing. But morality today isn't always such a stationary thing."
"One of the ten commandments is: 'Thou shalt not Kill.' We kill in Vietnam yet the church takes a different view on euthanasia. These people say the church uses some of its laws to its own advantage while ignoring others," he said.
SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS contributing to decreased church attendance are the transformation of American society from a rural to an urban society, and a growing materialistic philosophy and lagging interest in spiritual values in America, Sundbye said.
The fact that we are at war is another contributing factor, he said. "Trends show that church attendance decreases during a war, and increases after a war.
"I'm not sure the church needs to be saved. If the world no longer needs the church, why save a sinking ship" Sundbye asked.
"But if the world does indeed need the church, and if it is a question of saving the church, we
must be willing to change. The church by changing can function in today's society to help the individual find meaning in his own personal life and by the use of the attributes of love, justice, and wisdom, it has the power to transform society," Sundbye said.
"THE CHURCH needs to get its hands dirty," Sundbye said. "It needs to rub elbows with the sick segments of society—homosexuals, alcoholics, and those otherwise shunned by society."
The church needs to adapt a vocabulary and structure that has greater meaning and relevancy for everyone in today's sdcity, he said.
"It's not the idea of Christianity that's wrong but men that don't get the idea," Sundbye said.
If Sundbye intended by his lecture to provoke thought among his listeners, it seemed to some extent, that he succeeded.
Forty minutes after the lecture students from the audience were still asking questions. They wanted to know what Sundbye thought about immortality, and whether he thought a union of all protestant churches is conceivable in the near future. He was asked to explain the role of tradition and revelation, and the purpose and function of the church in today's society.
Dorm prexy keeps office
Zuhair (ZuZu) Duhaiby, Saudi Arabia sophomore and Ellsworth Hall president, was found not guilty during an impeachment trial Thursday night.
Over 50 per cent of the dorm residents had signed petitions calling for his impeachment. After five hours of deliberation, Dubaiby was charged with not carrying out the full duties of his office, but was allowed to remain in office.
The vote of the nine floor presidents was unanimous.
Sign up for draft test
The deadline for enrollment in the 1967 selective service examination is midnight, Feb. 10.
The test is only for those who did not take the test last year and are registered with selective service boards. The test applications may be obtained at the local board.
James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, said all KU students who desire a II-S deferment and have not taken the exam should do so this spring.
The test will be given on March 11, March 31, and April 8.
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