Page 6 University Daily Kansan Monday, May 21, 1962
Students Plan A New Center
At 1910 Stratford Road stands a pleasant gray and yellow one-story house. A large white cross hangs on the outside. This is the present KU Catholic Student Center, headed by Father Brendan Downey, sponsor of the KU Newman Club.
The center can accommodate about 100 people. There are about 1,140 Catholic students on the KU campus.
"This," Father Downey states, "definitely points out the need for larger, more adequate accommodations. We cannot serve the Catholic student population with our present facilities."
AS A SOLUTION TO this problem a new center is expected to be built within the next couple of years. The land necessary for the project was originally bought in two separate plots by a fraternity and a sorority which were planning to build new houses on the land.
Later, the two plots were purchased together and donated to the KU Catholic parish.
"The new center, when completed," Father Downey says, "will have a chapel with accommodations for three to four hundred people, living quarters for a chaplain, his assistant, and any student priests on the campus. It will have complete recreation facilities including a lecture hall, classrooms and a library."
FATHER DOWNEY ESTIMATES the minimum cost of this project will be $300,000. With more than 1,000 students behind the project, he believes, adequate financing should be possible within the next few years.
"This new KU center," Father Downey states, "will help unite all the Catholic students on the campus and will enable them to participate in worthwhile Catholic activities and projects they cannot undertake now because of the lack of appropriate facilities."
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Student Religious Council Develops Program
--ways the main activity of the Council. When this activity declined, so did the SRC. The Council then ran in low gear with little activity and success until last fall when it was decided to reconsider its objectives and importance. We are now developing its program and we hope there will be a new life for it next year."
"I like to think of the Student Religious Council as strong but not as an independent organization. Its strength depends on the individual participation of its member groups."
Michael Coulson, president of the SRC was talking about the Council, a religious organization at the University which has been established since the 40s but it is unknown to many students.
Coulson gave one reason for this.
"THE PROMOTION of Religious Emphasis Week," he said, "was always the main activity of the Council. When this activity declined, so did the SRC. The Council then ran in low gear with little activity and success until last fall when it was decided to reconsider its objectives and importance. We are now developing its program and we hope there will be a new life for it next year."
The SRC is open to all denominations. At the present time it includes the Baptist Student Center, the Baptist Student Union, the Canterbury Club, the Disciples Student
Fellowship, the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, the Liahona Fellowship, the Lutheran Student Association and the Westminster Council.
A third SRC activity involves the SUA Carnival about which the Council finds and circulates information.
The activities of the SRC include Orientation Week when it plans and sponsors receptions for the new students and a program, "Religious Life on Campus." The program involves an informal meeting during Orientation Week to introduce campus ministers and religious organizations to new students.
NEXT YEAR the Council will work with the University in the printing of an orientation booklet to be sent to all new students.
The Council has currently begun two private projects, the sponsoring of dinner speakers to the various religious groups and the reorganization of the list of religious groups in the Student Directory.
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