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University Daily Kansan
Wednesdav. Feb. 19. 1964
Men Debate Question Of God's Existence
Man does not really know what good and evil are, David H. Jones, assistant professor of Western Civilization, said yesterday.
Prof. Jones spoke for the affirmative view in a debate held in the Kansas Union on the question: "Resolved: God is Dead." Richard Wolff, who will become executive assistant director of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship next month, spoke for the negative.
"CHRISTIANIAY means man is a dependent being created by God." Prof. Jones said in his opening statements. The concepts of Christianity, he added, entail a gratitude towards the creator.
Speaking after Prof. Jones, Richard Wolff said, "God has absolute standards and has made them known."
In his opening remarks, Wolff posed the question, where are human values? "If God is dead . . . then it would appear that values cannot be defined," he said. He also felt that if there is a God we would expect him to say something relevant.
KU-Y Plans Voter Drive
About forty KU students are planning to help register voters in Kansas City, Mo., for a special referendum on a public accommodations ordinance for the city.
The students will take part in a training session, Saturday morning, at the Presbyterian Neighborhood Center, 1112 East 10th St., Kansas City, Mo., and then make house to house calls, Martha S. Knight, Shawnee Mission junior and a member of the KU-Y, said.
The registration drive is being sponsored by the Christian Inner City Council, the Presbyterian Interracial Council of Kansas City, and other civil rights groups, according to a letter received by the KU-Y.
Miss Knight said teams of students will visit Negro homes in an effort to get more Negroes to register so they can vote in the referendum.
A public accommodations ordinance was passed last fall by the City Council of Kansas City, Mo.; but enough petitions were filed against the ordinance that a special election on the matter will be held in April, according to the letter received by the KU-Y.
THE BIBLE is a historical document and gives eye witness accounts as evidence, Wolff said. He further explained why he felt the Bible contained the truth.
"Faith is not blind or irrational." Wolff said. He explained that the basis of his faith was the Word of God.
During the rebuttals after the opening statements Wolff said, "There cannot be a moral dilemma because . . . you make a rational decision based on your relationship with God." People make decisions every day and these decisions must be based on some principle, according to Wolff.
IN ADDITIONAL comments, Prof. Jones said he did not deny anyone's right to believe. But, he feels, an individual's major concern is for his fellow man and society.
"The Ten Commandments are unhelpful in solving your moral conflicts," Prof. Jones commented while speaking of following God's will. He believes there is a "moral consistency" in the commandments. He gave as an example, a person whose father asks him to help with a job on Sunday. If the person follows God's laws he will be presented with two conflicting rules, according to Prof. Jones.
"For the major moral concerns of man, the appeal to the will of God is either irrelevant or unhelpful," Prof. Jones explained. "To say we must do God's will does not help our moral dilemma."
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism, will receive an honorary doctor of journalism degree March 2, at Southwestern College, Winfield. Kansas.
Journalism Dean to Receive Honorary Doctor Degree
Two honorary degrees and a trustee citation for distinguished service are to be presented at the annual Founder's Day Convocation exercise.
Others to receive awards will be Ben Hibbs, senior editor of the Reader's Digest, who will be presented an honorary doctor of literature degree, and Leland Case, editorial director of Together Magazine, a national Methodist publication, who will receive a trustee citation.
MARVIN IS a member of the nine-man Methodist Commission on Public Relations and Information, and recently spent the 1960-61 school year in Iran as a Fulbright lecturer.
Last summer, Marvin was a member of a four-man team of U.S. journalists who conducted a series of three workshops for African journalists from 17 countries. The two-week workshops were conducted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Dares Salaam, Tanganyika, and Lagos, Nigeria.
Marvin worked for more than nine years on the Chicago Daily News before accepting positions to teach journalism courses at Northwestern University in 1946-47, and Columbia University in New York in 1947-48. He came to KU as dean of the journalism school in 1948.
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