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University Daily Kansai Wednesday, Dec. 16, 190
Religious Leaders Approve Ecumenical Council's Work
By Cheryl McCool
At the KU-Y Current Issues Forum yesterday, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Protestant minister said the work of the Vatican Ecumenical Council has met with their approval.
Rev. James Downey, chaplain of the St. Lawrence Student Center, said, "Pope John XXIII called the Vatican Ecumenical Council because he wished a renewal and reform of those things outmoded and harmful to the Church. So far the Council has issued decrees that will allow a priest to use his native language in the official Mass and in part of the Eucharist, and the issuance of a statement on non-Christians including Jews."
"THE VATICAN ECUMENICAL council for the first time, serves as an opportunity for dialogue and response outside the Roman Catholic Church," Dr. Maynard Strothman, minister for the United Campus Christian Fellowship, said.
Rabbi Elbert Sapinsley, of the Temple Beth Shelon in Toneka, said: "The efforts of American bishops in having the Council issue a decree saying the Jews are not responsible for the crucifixion of Christ is important to members of my faith. For many years the Jew has been persecuted for killing Christ."
Father Downey gave a brief history of the Ecumenical Council and said the council is a gathering of all the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church that must be called, confirmed, or accepted by the Pope.
The Ecumenical Council differs
from a parliamentary body because it can't organize itself. Currently each Bishop has a vote in the Council and some abbots have a vote. Abbots are heads of religious orders.
THE BISHOPS MAY invite several priests who are theologians to advise him if he wishes to. Members of the Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches are invited to attend but have non-voting powers, Father Downey said.
Dr. Strothman said the Protestant position is one of responding, since the Vatican council is the action of the Pope and is participated in actively by those giving allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church.
"There is a new wind blowing in the Roman Catholic Church," Dr. Strothman said." "Finally the Catholic Church is not treating the Protestant Church as the 'prodigal son.' There is a willingness to remove this terminology and Catholics now speak of the Protestant as a separate brethren."
Dr. Strothman said this willingness is only the first step in the need for mutual respect and confidence to take place when both churches stand on common ground.
"THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL is unclear in certain areas." Dr. Strothman said, "Some of the conservatives within the Catholic Church are not anxious to update the Catholic Church doctrine. They have to decide what is unchanged."
Father Downey told the group that the Protestant's National Council of Churches which has been in existence since 1910, has been unwilling to talk about doctrine until the last few years.
"WE ARE FACED NOT only with the problem of disunity in the church and its leaders but the bigger problems of believers and nonbelievers." Father Downey said.
Rabbit Sapinsley said in his opinion it would be presumptuous to be critical of the Catholic Church in its effort to define itself.
"One can be pleased when an organization looks within itself honestly and critically," Rabbi Sapinsley said. "Many people used to think the Catholic Church was narrow, but now we know the interpretations of doctrines of the church vary from priest to priest, and from theologian to theologian."
Rabbi Sapinsley said the Catholic Church has now given recognition to the fact that Christianity has its roots in, Judaism.
"THIS HAS BROUGHT ABOUT greater understanding and has removed the bias and hatred of those who blame the Jew for the crucifixion of Christ," Rabbi Sapinsley said.
Dr. Strothman said the crucifixion of Christ, as pointed out in the Gospel, was the responsibility of everyone there, which included the Gentiles of Rome and the Jewish priests.
Dr. Strothman said he did not feel the churches could ever be completely unified in the sense there would be uniformity.
"There should be some competition between the churches to prevent them from becoming corrupt from within." Dr. Strothman said.
Drive Began in 1919-
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"First, to get the alumni back in touch with the University; second, to get the high school seniors into the idea of coming to KU; and third, to get the people of Kansas out of the notion that the University is for dances and frivolity."
THE CAMPAIGN GOT underway with 35 team captains, heading teams of 10 students, contacting every student on campus, asking for a pledge.
"The Million Dollar Drive doesn't call for a gift—it asks for the payment of a debt," an editorial in the Nov. 15, 1920. Kansas said, "Because of the tightness of the money, four-year pledges with semi-annual payments are to be taken. And the amount even a freshman will earn in the next four years assuredly permits a generous pledge as a slight return."
By Nov. 23, 1920. $186,203.00 had been collected in pledges from the students, and $21,000.00 from the
faculty. The drive continued until September of 1925 when a total of $965,000 in pledges had been collected from 11,725 people.
THE GROUNDBREAKING for the stadium was May 10, 1921. Classes were dismissed, and 4,000 student workers saved the University $5,000 by teaming up with the faculty to tear down the rickety old bleachers which had been in use for some 20 years.
Chancellor Lindley, clad in overalls, guided a plow, pulled by 40 enthusiastic students, breaking the ground for the new stadium.
THE STUDENT WHICH "Uncle Jimmy" seems to be talking to, is thought to be Alfred C. Alford, the first University student killed in war. He was killed Feb. 7, 1899, in the Spanish-American War. Al-
The statue of "Uncle Jimmy" Green, next on the construction schedule, was consigned to the sculptor, Daniel Chester French in 1923, and was placed on campus later that year.
ford's mother, Susan Savage, was one of the 55 students enrolled in the University's first class.
The cornerstone laying for the Union building was April 30, 1926. The names of the 129 men and women who were killed in World War I, a copy of the charter of the Memorial Union, and the copies of all newspaper front pages announcing the program of the day were placed in the cornerstone cavity.
A pay-as-you-build policy was adopted for the Union. The brick "shell" of the building was constructed in 1926, with the cafeteria floor completed by Thanksgiving vacation in 1926, and the main floor by the end of the first semester. The floors above were completed in the six months following.
"The ballroom floor wasn't completed until 1928," Fred Ellsworth former Alumni Secretary said. "Even then there were bare brick walls, rough pillars, and just a wooden slat stairway."
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