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Bishop Pike
Bishop Pike talks on ethics, death
Ten years ago the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike would have been removed from the church for heresy.
Bishop Pike, in his speech "Why Should a Man Believe?" last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom, discussed the church's stand on sex and ethics, continuity of life after death, and the fact method of moving toward affirmations.
Accused of heresy by fellow Episcopal clergy for rejecting traditional Christian doctrines, Bishop Pike said the church only wants to "keep off the hook," but has undergone more change in the past 25 years than the previous 400.
In his discussion of ethical codes, Bishop Pike questioned the church's stand on sex.
He asked: "Where do we get a final norm of ethics? Is there a final code written somewhere?" "It until the last few decades the church's"
"Up until the last few decades the church's
attitudes toward sex have been just plain wrong-sick.
"In earlier days, not getting married made sense because men were waiting for the coming of God and would have to have been free when He came. But times have changed all around."
Bishop Pike discussed the continuity of life after death and he mentioned communicating with his son who committed suicide in February, 1966.
When asked if he had ever been in touch with his son he replied "I'm not sure, of course, but I am in relation with him."
When asked if he had ever been in touch with his son he replied "I'm not sure, of course, but I am in relation with him."
He added, "I don't worry about afterlife. I'm going to take it one world at a time."
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79th Year, No.89
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, March 6, 1969
Apollo telecast set
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) - The three Apollo 9 astronauts began the fourth day of the nation's busiest spaceflight bright and chipper today and geared up for an open-hatch test of the locust-looking machine set to ferry Americans to the moon this summer.
The only hitch to an otherwise ideal test of the lander yesterday was the mysterious space sickness that hit rookie Russell L. Schweickart while he and commander James A. McDivitt
were giving the moon bug its initial workout.
The double attack of nausea forced project officials to cancel Schweickart's scheduled spacewalk today.
Schweickart planned to wear a backpack breathing unit during the open-hatch exercise in an important test of the oxygen apparatus lunar explorers will wear when on their moon walks.
Also on tap today was Apollo 9's second space telecast. It was scheduled to start at 1:57 p.m.
McDivitt and Schweickart staged the nation's first transfer from the moonship to the attached moon bug yesterday and put the delicate lander through eight hours of tests that went exceptionally well.
Schweickart and McDivitt were to scoot a second time today through a tunnel the size of a manhole from the mothership into the lunar lander. They were to beam back to earth the second and last television show during the 10-day moonflight rehearsal scheduled to splash into the Atlantic next Thursday.
House OK's resolution
Correction . . .
In last Friday's issue of the Kansas it was reported that the Kansas Senate resolution dealing with campus disturbances called for:
... the Board of Regents, local school administrators, and student-faculty committees to 'immediately dismiss' any student or faculty member who fails to obey the lawful order of a law enforcement officer during a demonstration or disturbance on campus."
However, the contents of this passage were taken from Senate Bill 83, which the Senate Federal and State Affairs committee tabled last week, and not from the resolution itself, which has been passed by both the Senate and House.
A source in Topeka said the resolution merely maintains the status quo, leaving the handling of cases of dissent to university administrators. It supports the right to protest, but also notes the limits necessary to preserve order, the source said.
Instead of the above passage, the paragraph should have stated that the resolution simply reaffirms the authority of state college and university administrators to deal with campus demonstrators.
TOPEKA - The Kansas House yesterday unanimously passed a resolution directing the Board of Regents and college administrators to deal with students participating in campus disturbances.
The resolution replaces a bill initiated in the Senate which would have ordered colleges to dismiss students who were convicted of failing to obey the order of a law enforcement officer during a demonstration or disturbance on the campus of a state-supported school.
Also, the Kansas Senate yesterday tentatively approved a package of two resolutions which would give voters a chance to review the state's liquor laws in the 1970 general election.
The resolution, which passed the Senate last week, will be distributed to the State Board of Regents and the administrators of all state universities and colleges.
Both resolutions call for constitutional amendments. One would permit the sale and consumption of liquor by the drink, and the other would completely dry-up the state.
The resolution was considered to constitute the best and quickest method of ridding the schools of these students.
The liquor-by-the-drink measure would strike from the constitution the sentence: "The open saloon shall be and is hereby forever
The Senate is expected to vote today on both measures. After receiving tentative approval, most measures pass. These proposals, however, may have more difficulty because they both require a two-thirds majority.
prohibited." The prohibition resolution would forbid the sale and consumption of all alcoholic beverages including 3.2 per cent beer.
Sen. Norman E. Gaar, R-Westwood, a sponsor of the liquor-by-the-drink resolution and chairman of the committee that sponsored the prohibition measure, said the liquor laws of Kansas are hypocritical, allowing the consumption of liquor by the drink without actually allowing it.
Another bill, permitting pari-mutuel gambling on horse and dog races on a local option basis passed through the Senate State and Local Affairs committee to debate by the Senate.
The bill would allow for three "racing seasons" of 80 days each for one year, and would establish the Kansas Racing Commission to administer the sport.
Such a bill would create about $4 million in revenue, said Sen. Jack Robinson, R-Wichita and bill sponsor.
Atty. Gen. Kent Frizzell (Continued to pate 12)
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Soviet protests defied
BERLIN - West Germany defied Communist protests yesterday and elected a new president in West Berlin. The Soviets cut the city's lifelines through East Germany for four hours in retaliation but failed to create the general crisis which had been feared.
Sirhan 'liked' Kennedy
LOS ANGELES - Sirhan B. Sirhan, describing seeing Sen. Robert F. Kennedy when he arrived at the rally where he killed him June 5 said:
"I was thrilled. It was the first time I ever saw him. I had pictured him as a villain because of wanting to send jets to Israel. He sang. There were movie stars with him. When I saw him he looked like a saint to me. I liked him."
Ky may leave Paris talks
PARIS - South Vietnam warned today it might pull out of the Vietnam peace talks if the Communists continue their 12-day-old offensive.
"I think that if the Viet Cong shellings against us go on, I do not think it useful for me to come back here," said Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam, boarding a plane for Saigon.
Kidnap charges filed
OKLAHOMA CITY Ruth Eisemann-Schier, first woman to make the FBI's most-wanted list for her alleged part in one of the most bizarre crimes of the decade, was arrested yesterday at the Boomerang drive-in where she worked as a car-hop.
Miss Eisemann-Schier, the object of an intense nationwide search since late December when she was implicated in the kidnapping of Barbara Mackle, the daughter of a millionaire Florida land developer, was to be arraigned this afternoon.