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University Daily Kansan Monday, Feb. 17, 1964
Many Catholics Desire Change In Church Birth Control Stand
By Louis Cassels
By Louis Cassels United Press International
Public opinion polls indicate there is a widespread and fervent hope among Roman Catholic laity that their church will modify its stand on birth control.
At the moment, this seems to be a rather far-fetched hope.
The Ecumenical Council, which resumes in September, could say something about birth control in a document on marriage which is tentatively on its agenda.
EARRING A MAJOR change in attitude among Catholic bishops, however, it is likely that any council statement will merely reaffirm the church's position that use of contraceptives is immoral because it artificially frustrates the natural consequences of the sex act.
An article in the current issue of the Commonweal provides much insight into the spiritual anguish suffered by faithful Catholics who try to live within the church's teachings about birth regulation.
The Commonweal is a weekly Catholic magazine edited by laymen. The article was written by Michael Novak, a young Catholic philosopher and novelist who knows and loves his church.
NOVAK POINTS OUT that most Catholic couples make a sinecereffort to space their children by using the rhythm method,which is approved by the church.In the rhythm method,sex relations are restricted to the portion of each menstrual cycle in which a woman is naturally infertile.
Unfortunately, the rhythm method often proves highly unreliable. Dr. John Rock and other authorities on human reproduction have expressed the conviction that it could be perfected if some agency like the National Institutes of Health would undertake a well-financed research program.
But prospects for developing a
Oil Men Select Two Professors
Two KU professors have been reappointed to an interstate commission concerned with oil regulation.
Edwin D. Goebel and J. M. Jewett, of the Kansas Geological Survey, have been reappointed to commit to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission.
Goebel is on the secondary recovery and pressure maintenance committee and Jewett is on the research committee of the commission.
The commission, created in 1935, is a voluntary system set up by 33 of the oil producing states and approved by Congress. It meets biannually to discuss conservation of oil and gas for interstate cooperation. Each of the 33 oil member states sends one representative to each committee and one personal representative for each governor.
The first meeting for this year will be in Billings, Montana.
The honorary chairman of the commission this year is Jack Campbell, governor of New Mexico.
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safe rhythm method which does not require excessive periods of continence were dealt a severe blow by scientific findings announced this month at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, to the effect that sperm may remain active in the female body for as long as seven days after intercourse.
"A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER of Catholic laymen...find it difficult to convince themselves in their own conscience that Catholic teaching in this matter has not suffered by want of sufficient alertness and attention," Novak says.
"These persons are then faced with the dilemma either of accepting on authority what they do not accept in their own mind, or of following their own conscience despite an authority they have all their lives respected and obeyed."
Surveys by the Louis Harris organization and other opinion research groups indicate that at least half of the married Catholics in this country believe that the church could and should change its stand on birth control.
These surveys also indicate that a third of all Catholic couples use some type of contraceptive condemned by the church. Priests engaged in family counseling are inclined to regard these figures as conservative.
KU Department Receives U.S. Public Health Grants
Basic problems puzzling medical science are being tackled this year in KU's department of comparative biochemistry and physiology, under three U.S. Public Health Service grants totaling more than $53,000. Recipients of funds are:
Majorie Z. Newmark, visiting assistant professor, $21,542, National Heart Institute; Richard H. Himes, assistant professor, $16,960, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, and Frederick E. Samson, professor and chairman, and William M. Balfour, visiting associate professor, $15,120, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness.
THE GRANT to Prof. Newmark will support the first year of her research titled "Metabolic Regulation in Arterial Tissue." She hopes to pinpoint factors which regulate
metabolism in arteries and to see if alterations in these factors cause changes which produce certain types of heart disease.
Prof. Newmark also has been allocated $15,488 and $16,909 for the next two years on the project.
Prof. Himes' project, on the structure of enzymes, is concerned specifically with how enzymes are able to catalyze chemical reactions. The two-year-old study also has $13,300 tentatively allocated for next year. Research assistant is Teresa McGhee, Chatham, N.J. special student.
PROFESSORS SAMSON AND Balfour are in the third year of their investigation, described as "A Study of the Cerebral Subcellular Particles." It deals with the effect of various agencies upon commands involved in brain metabolism.
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