Change in Catholicism typifies Newman session
The two men in plaid sportshirts began the discussion of "Sex and the Bible." They were priests, and the KU students seated around the room on divans were Catholics.
They didn't look like priests, and they didn't talk like priests—not like the ones of yore. They intentionally dressed last night at the Newman Club discussion as if they were laymen and students. For they consider themselves people among people and servants to the masses, not ones to be set apart.
SEX WASNT the topic, not all by itself. Brotherly love was the topic.
Debate erupted from the group of 25 attentive students, because this old cornerstone of Christianity was being expounded in a way which affected every facet of their lives and which seemed even contrary to the teachings of their childhood.
topic.
Ron Miller, seminarian at St. Mary's, spoke briefly and bluntly on brotherly love.
Miller and Father Mike Alchediak, also from St. Mary's, defined brotherly love, as distinguished from exclusive romantic love and friendship.
'THIS LOVE is maximal participation in another person. Maximal relative to the situation. You're as much 'for' them as you can be."
In this relationship, Miller said, "You must ask yourself, 'What must I do to bring out the best in this person's value as a person?' The point is that there are no negative limitations on the
relationship, but a positive attitude."
This love is Christ's love and the basis for conscience.
THE POSITIVE attitude question is a "question that you should bring to sexuality and to everything else in life."
If the situation forces you to choose between what is best for the other person and a traditional church law, you should choose what is in the best interest of the other person, Miller said.
Yes, the students answered. But then what are laws and rules for? Just guidelines? Where do you draw the line between eating meat on Friday and premarital sex?
IF ONE DOES something contrary to church law, fully believing that it is right and good under the circumstances, then it is not even a sin and needn't be confessed. Miller said.
"We can dare to be free. We can be human to people without fear of their turning away, because we are secure in the promise of Christ's love," a coed remarked. "At the same time, we must be humble and concede that we might be wrong in what we do."
We're free? Then why, asked the students, are we taught supremacy of laws in Catholic schools? Why don't the nuns give us the theory which backs these laws? Is it fair to expose a child only to blind discipline like that? Can we make it so our children will have a better deal?
At least half the group assented to a phase of doubt and revolt against the rigidity of Catholicism. They had doubted, but they were still here.
THEY WERE troubled now, wondering if such internal conflict were necessary if it could be avoided, and if it should be avoided.
The two men in sportshirts listened, sympathized, and commented. Their answer was, "I can't give you permission to do anything. Where rules are concerned, you don't ask permission to do the loving thing. You must ask yourself."
The students answered. Yes. We think. But what about those who never think beyond the rules?
'PRE-SUBWAY'
BRUSSELS — (UPI)— Work is going on in Brussels on what is called a "pre-subway." With the increasing congestion on the city's streets, the administration has decided to put street car lines underground.
A first stretch of nearly three miles is expected to go into operation in 1968. Tentative plans are to extend the pre-subway into a regular subway, covering about 25 miles, by 1987.
swallowed up by the necessary acts of the school and just by increased costs."
Those "necessary acts" include fee hikes and dormitory rent escalation.
12 Daily Kansan Thursday, November 3, 1966
The Student Labor Organization (SLO) held their first meeting of the semester last night.
Twenty-seven people attended the organizational meeting, said Mike Youngblood, Prairie Village junior and Labor leader.
"This year we're shooting for 100 per cent of the Federal minimum wage." However, Young-blood added, "We'd like a guarantee that we'd stay at 80 per cent of the minimum wage."
These prices concern students employed by the University.
SLO, WHICH ASSISTED in the student wage raise last year, plans to continue a program for increased pay. Youngblood said the 20-cent increase was "already
100% minimum wage is set as SLO goal
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