Religion lifts image
'Puddiness' disappears
Without a home and with a backlog of "images" surrounding it, the School of Religion still has increased its enrollment twice as much as the increase of the whole University.
Events are generally in the positive trend nowadays for the school.
In September 1967 the school will move into New Myers Hall. And the old aura of "puddiness" is lifting from religion courses, despite the campus attitudes of indifference, scorn, ignorance and "no hostility."
"ONE REASON for the disappearance of the "pud reputation" may be the addition of more full-time faculty," said Rev. Reinhold Schmidt Jr., assistant dean of the school. "With more time to give to classes, the academic stature is bound to rise."
The school now has five fulltime teachers, not counting Schmidt, and offers a masters program.
"Now that Myers Hall is torn down," he said, "and the new School of Religion is under construction, our faculty is just about all we have going for us."
Yet of the 258 students now taking religion courses, only four are pre-theology majors.
Of these 258, only one liberal arts sophomore considered his course a pud according to a recent survey made by the school.
THE PUD reputation still exists, but a new respect has
emerged from enrollees within the last few years.
Evaluations still range from "farce" to "difficult but interesting, philosophical rather than practical, and a bit too comprehensive."
Most, however describe their courses as "challenging, exciting investigations into the realm of religion." And it is for this reason that they took the courses, Schmidt thinks.
Schmidt said, "They indicated that they were after a broad spectrum of knowledge, and felt that religion was a dimension of inquiry as well as an aspect of culture that should not be omitted. There is a pronounced desire to broaden one's general knowledge, and a scholarly, objective approach appeals to a growing number of students."
THE PHRASE "liberal education" cropped up most frequently when students were asked why they took religion courses.
Students are impressed with the objective approach, and their respect is probably contingent upon it. The five lecturers are all ordained men, and as such "we have to remain as objective as possible." Schmidt said.
"Yet there is no doubt that since all are ordained we have some bias. Still, it is no different from a man in psychology who has a school of thought he follows. We try to teach religion as a historical development."
UNLESS they took a course
specifically for background, most students could see no relationship between their religion course and other courses. One microbiology senior said, "Religion 62 balances out my knowledge of the replication of the Turnip Yellow mosaic virus and bacteria phase, etc."
But many also find that their objective reason for enrolling is dispelled by interest in the course's content. "The course doesn't relate to my major directly," a student said; "it relates to me as a person."
An art history major commented, "Basically, I started taking the courses for iconographic aids, but found the courses have raised questions about my own self as related to others that I am now trying to answer."
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts mostly fair skies and generally warm temperatures through Thursday. Winds are expected to be 10 to 20 miles per hour tonight. Partly cloudy and a little warmer Thursday. Low temperatures tonight are expected to be 20 to 25 degrees with a high Thursday 40 to 45 degrees.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson's State of the Union message at-a-glance:
- Proposed a 6 per cent surcharge on both corporate and individual income taxes, starting on or after July 1.
- Pledged the United States to stand firm in Viet Nam where prospects are for "more cost, more loss, more agony."
- Called for an average 20 per
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cent increase in social security benefits.
- Said his fiscal 1968 budget would call for spending of $135 billion and revenues of $126.9 billion, leaving an $8.1 billion deficit.
Daily Kansan Wednesday, January 11, 1967
ASC proposes-
Guy Davis (VOX—fraternities), Prairie Village sophomore, introduced a bill requiring that a legislative summary of any bill be filed with the managing-editor of the University Daily Kansan at least three hours before the bill's first reading in the council.
The bill requires that legislative summaries contain the name and district of the representative submitting the summary, the date of the bill's first reading, and a brief explanation of the bill's intent and method of implementation.
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The resolution will be discussed and voted on at the next regularly-scheduled meeting.
LAWRENCE MAYFLOWER 609 Mass. VI 3-0171
The three amendments will be voted on at the next meeting with Tom Edgar's (Vox-engineering), Bartlesville, Okla., senior, bill to abolish the hosting and hospitality committee.
The council will meet in a special orientation session at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
(KUPA—business), Larned senior.
McAdoo said the committees and offices are outdated and no longer serve any function.
THREE AMENDMENTS abolishing the current events committee, film series committee, convocations and lectures committee, People-to-People council, and the office of executive comproller were introduced by Bob McAdoo
An amendment to make available at cost to any KU student the Constitution and bills of the council passed. Allen Russell (VOX-large men's), Scottsbluff, Neb., junior, submitted the amendment.
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