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DR. VELIKOVSKY will speak on separate aspects of his theory at public seminars on Friday, May 19. He will talk on cataclysmic evolution and the physical and biological aspects at 8:30 a.m. in 231 Malott Hall.
He will discuss the validity of biblical miracles with students from the school of religion and the public at 11:30 a.m. in the Methodist Center.
Dr. Velikovsky will be part of the Minority Opinious Forum panel with Diantha Havilland, assistant professor of classes, and James Saver, professor of history, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Much of the scientific community's opposition to Dr. Velikovsky relates to the type of data he uses to support his arguments. Instead of formulating an hypothesis and backing it with observed data and mathematical analysis, he reports historical and mythological events and from them tellers an explanation.
THAT HYPOTHESIS, left for other scientists to check by observation, presents the thesis that between the 15th and 8th centuries B.C., there occurred a series of cosmic cataclysms which caused the catastrophes and miracles on earth described in the book of Exodus.
A prime example is the global flood which is described in the
literature and legend of the Hebrews, Laplanders, Chinese, and Indians of both North and South America.
Veliovsky's explanation of this and other worldwide calamities is that in earlier ages the earth had encountered other heavenly bodies which, because of their close approach, caused floods, earthquakes, shifting of the earth's axis and slowing of its rotation.
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Wednesday, May 10. 1967
presents
VIRIDIANA (Spain, 1961)
Luis Bunuel's controversial film dealing with the unstable state of contemporary religion that "succeeded" in being placed on Spain's censor list of blasphemous works.
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HOW TO GET A'S IN ALL YOUR FINAL EXAMS
In today's column, the last of the school year, I don't intend to be funny. (I have achieved this objective many times throughout the year, but this time it's on purpose.) The hour is wrong for levity. Final exams are looming.
Have you got a chance? I say yes! I say America did not become the world's foremost producer of stove bolts and cotter pins by running away from a fight!
You will pass your finals! How? By studying. How? By learning mnemonies.
Mnemonics, the science of memory aids, was, as we all know, invented by the great Greek philosopher Mnemon in 526 B.C. (This, incidentally, was only one of the inventions of this fertile Athenian. He also invented the house cat, the opposing thumb, and, most important, the staircase. Before the staircase people were forced willy-nilly to live out their lives on the ground floor, and many grew cross as bears. Especially Demosthenes who was elected Consul of Athens six times but never served because he was unable to get up to the office of the Commissioner of Oaths on the third floor to be sworn in. But after Mnemon's staircase, Demosthenes got to the third floor easy as pie—to Athens' sorrow, as it turned out. Demosthenes, his temper shortened by years of confinement to the ground floor, soon embroiled his countrymen in a series of senseless wars with the Medes, the Persians, and the Los Angeles Rams. This later became known as the Missouri Compromise.)
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
But I digress. We were discussing mnemonics, which are nothing more than aids to memory—little jingles to help you remember names, dates, and places. For example: Columbus smiled the ocean blue.
In fourteen hundred ninety two.
See how simple? Make up your own jingles. What, for instance, came after Columbus's discovery of America? The Boston Tea Party, of course. Try this:
Samuel Adams flang the tea
Into the briny Zunder Zee.
(NOTE: The Zuyder Dee was located in Boston Harbor until 1801 when Salmon P. Chase traded it to Holland for Alaska and two line backers.)
But I digress. Let's get back to mnemonics. Like this:
In nineteen hundred sixty seven.
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