RABBI SPEAKS
Jew's image discussed
The relationship between Jews and Christians is improving. Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum said at an Ecumenical Institute lecture in the Union yesterday.
Jews have historically been regarded as a subversive enemy by Christians, but now a real effort is being made to rectify this, Rabbi Tanenbaum said.
"Old images are simply not standing up any more."
This has left the Jews with the problem of adapting to the new situation. After being treated with suspicion for years, Jews now find genuine feelers of friendship extended to them. "So Jews must also sort out their relationship with Christians and Christianity," Rabbi Tanenbaum said.
"We (Jews and Christians) are separated by an abyss of ignorance. We are informing our peoples in ways which prevent them understanding (each other)."
SCHOLARS OF BOTH sides must work together to clarify sources and doctrines. "We must begin with a common return to the word of the scripture," he said. "Christians must develop a deeper understanding of how Biblical is the root of their faith."
These efforts would clear up misunderstandings which have developed due to different interpretations of events and expressions, Tanenbaum said. He supported this argument by quoting dictionary definitions of "Jew" and "Christian." A Jew was defined as one who cheats in trade, whereas a Christian was "decent, civilized and presentable."
"The whole relationship between Jews and Christians over the last 2,000 years has been ambivalent, ambiguous and contradictory," Rabbi Tenebaum said. "It has been a conflict between love and hatred, of affirmation and rejection."
TANENBAUM elaborated this theme with references to historical figures who have strongly advocated or opposed co-existence with Jews. "Any deep understanding of what is taking place
between Christians and Jews can only be viewed in a historic frame of reference," he said.
Christians and Jews were very close under the Roman Empire, he said. Both worshipped the same God and preached from the same scriptures.
"Of consequence today is that which began as a form of theological anti-Judaism remained as anti-semitism after the cultural influence of the church diminished," he said. "Secular anti-semitism is very much with us today."
Returning to the problem of Jewish-Christian relationships, Rabbi Tanenbaum said "there is a universal Jewish faith. No Jew, however secure he personally may be, feels that the Kingdom of God has come to earth while he feels the tremors of anti-semitism in the world."
Two crucial questions remain to be answered by Christians, Rabbi Tanenbaum said. "What do the Jews mean to you? What do the efforts of the Jews over the last three and a half millennia mean to you?"
Retiring staffer gives social workers advise
Miss Esther Twente, retiring this year after 29 years in the Social Work department, delivered her farewell speech last night before students and friends gathered for Social Work Day.
Miss Twente chronicled the history of social work in Kansas from poorhouses, which she described as "ramshackle fire traps that separated man and wife so they wouldn't quarrel." to the present focus on families and individuals by caseworkers.
She challenged social workers to accept the challenge of the
future, and "not fear new ideas or ways of doing things. Don't equate rigidity with high professional ideals," Miss Twente said.
KU went hobo in '35
In November, 1935, students abandoned their regular attire in favor of that of the hobo.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 3, 1966
Football seating procedure clarified by Athletic Board
A clarification of student football seating procedure was released last night by the Student Athletic Seating Board.
Students will be permitted to sit only in student sections and should sit in their own reserved seats, Jim Klumpi, Coffeyville sophomore and chairman of the Student Athletic Seating Board, said.
"The students will not be allowed to sit any place in the stadium." Klumpp said.
"In the first place, students will sit only in the student section, and even within the student sections, students should sit in their reserved seats," he said.
Action will be initiated against a student sitting in the wrong seat when he is requested to move by the person who holds the ticket for that seat.
In addition to University disciplinary action, the violator will be subject to loss of his season ticket and a $5 fine.
According to Klumpp, a student who finds another student in his reserved seat should complain to an usher. The usher will take the Student ID of the violator and turn it over to the office of the student's personnel dean.
Send Flowers Home To Mother
"We believe a student who enters into a contract for a ticket should be guaranteed the protection of the Athletic Seating Bill's provisions," Klumpp said. "This protection will come only with the best possible enforcement."
Professional Careers in Aero Charting
CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT with the U.S. AIR FORCE Minimum 120 semester hours college credit including 24 hours of subjects pertinent to charting such as math, geography, geology, and physics. Equivalent experience acceptable. Training program. Openings for men and women. Application and further information forwarded on request.
WRITE: College Relations (ACPCR)
Hq Aeronautical Chart & Information Center,
8900 S. Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri 63125
An equal opportunity employer
Anything goes when you wear "IT'S CRICKET"™ Exceptional Men's Toiletries. Try it and see. (Girls, give it and find out!) After-shave, 4 oz., $3.50. Cologne, 4 oz., $4.50. Available in drug stores and cosmetic departments of department stores.
Another fine product of Kayser-Roth.