CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 29, 1995
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Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
A stab in the chest
Peter Brul, Hays senior, scores a point against his opponent Jeffrey Brul, Hays freshman, while practicing with the saber. The KU fencing club meets Tuesday and Thursday nights at Robinson Center.
Pope's abortion letter draws varied responses from Catholics
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital board met with representatives of a Leavenworth hospital corporation to discuss closer ties between the two.
But unlike Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., the Louisville, Ky., company that has proposed buying a 50 percent stake in LMH, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health Services Corp. made no specific proposal in yesterday's talks and left it to the LMH board to initiate further discussions.
Sisters of Charity operates eight hospitals, including Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Topeka. The nonprofit company also runs hospitals in Colorado, Montana and California.
In January, the LMH board of trustees invited executives from Columbia and several other area health organizations to discuss how they are working to create what are known as integrated delivery systems.
Columbia, the nation's largest for-profit health care company, opened a medical office and urgent-care clinic in Lawrence in July 1994. The company has said it will build a new hospital in Lawrence if it can't invest in LMH, which is not-for-profit and owned by the city.
The LMH board put off a decision on Columbia's proposal until it could hear from other area health providers.
Hospital board talks options with nonprofit
The board also plans to meet with Health Midwest, the Jayhawk Alliance and Kansas University Medical Center tomorrow and with MidAmerica Health First Friday.
By Paul Todd Kansan staff writer
The position of the Catholic Church is that abortion is wrong. And now the pope has set it in stone.
On Sunday, Pope John Paul II announced that he had written an encyclical, which is the most important official papal declaration a pope can issue. The pope said that abortion was a threat to peace and democracy.
"Every breach opened in the front of full respect for life constitutes a land mine placed in the foundations of human coexistence, of healthy democracy and of true peace," the pope said.
The encyclical, called "Gospels of Life," should be released to the public tomorrow by the Vatican.
Paige Grauer, Marysville freshman, said the encyclical was the right move for the pope to make.
The Associated Press
Although the encyclical is supposed to be the law for all Catholics to follow, some KU Catholics have mixed feelings about how it will sway Catholics' opinions about abortion.
Grauer, who is an abortion opponent, said that the church was her basis for her anti-abortion beliefs, but her beliefs were constant even
"Maybe there will be less question within the church," Grauer said. "People will realize that it's not right, and that's it."
Sisters of Charity latest to vie for Lawrence medical services
"The faithful's basic obligation is to know what the authentic teachings are and to understand them clearly."
Pat Lechtenberg director of adult initiation at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
without the encyclical's message.
"If I was an atheist, I would still be
Not all abortion opponents think the encyclical will have much of an influence on the abortion debate.
Matt Krische, Topeka sophomore,
said the encyclical would
strengthen the pope's stance on
abortion but would not influence
Catholics who support abortion
rights.
"I think most people have their minds set on how they feel about it," Krische said. "I don't know that it has that much impact as far as
The pope did not, however, make his most recent encyclical an infallible teaching, which would have made supporting abortion rights cause for excommunication from the church.
changing peoples' minds."
"In general, if you deny an infallible teaching, you remove yourself from the unity of the church," Lechtenberg said.
"The faithful's basic obligation is to know what the authentic teachings are and to understand them clearly," Lechtenberg said.
Pat Lechtenberg, director of adult initiation at the St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church, 1299 Vermont St., said that encyclicals gave weight to the pope's teachings and mainly were used by bishops and archbishops to help them know what to teach the public.
Jennifer Ross, however, is an abortion-rights advocate and a practicing Catholic. She said that a person's opinion about abortion should not be decided by the church.
"The issue is intensely private, and people should stay out of it," said Ross. Hays graduate student.
"The pope is a man," she said. "And if men could get pregnant, maybe I would take their words."
The encyclical was the 11th issued by the pope in his 16-year papacy.
She said that following a man's decree about abortion was difficult.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
AUGUSTINE: Fairness is key for candidate
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keeping Lawrence Memorial hospital city-owned and her support of maintaining downtown as the central business district as issues that affect all Lawrence residents.
Al Hack, Augustine's campaign coordinator, agrees. "One thing about Bonnie is that she cuts across a lot of lines in our community," he said. "She appeals to a lot of people in the community."
The qualities Augustine would bring to the commission if she were elected make her an ideal representative for all sectors of the community. Hack said.
"She is fair-minded, a good listener and very objective," he said. "She is going to come in and make the right call on each and every issue she approaches. She has no set agenda she wants to try to put in place."
BONNIE AUGUSTINE
The following are Bonnie Augustine's top three priorities if she is elected to the city commission:
Improving Lawrence's infrastructure by improving sidewalks and sewers.
- Completing and implementing Horizon 2020, a developmental land use plan for the next 25 years.
- Creating a wide variety of jobs in the Lawrence area.
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TIBBETS: Theater professor draws stars
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lar — Schwarzenegger and Michael Douglas both held them up and talked about them during their interviews.
Many actors, including Denzel Washington, request personal copies, which Tibbetts is more than happy to provide.
One of his better moments came in an interview with Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Richard Harris. As they talked about the movie "Unforgiven," the discussion turned to the history of the western.
Tibbetts suddenly realized he was
The best interviews, Tibbetts said,
"take you places you had no idea
you were going."
in a room with three men who shared 75 years of movie blood, gore and violence.
John Gronbeck-Tedesco, chairman of the department of theater and film, said Tibbetts' interviews were in-depth and went beyond the surface level of a film.
"It generates primary resources, primary material," Gronbeck-Tedescoa.
in the classroom, Tibbets often will use an example of his interviews to illustrate the life of an actor, technical aspects of the
Film students may be attracted to the department of theater and film for the hands-on work in film, but the material available from Tibbett's interviews is also an academic resource, Gronbeck-Tedesco said.
movie or behind-the-scenes action.
move of befuddle-scene actors. "Usually, if we are going to analyze film or look at editing techniques, he'll bring in a director or actor related to the topic," said Eric Madden, Ellinwood senior, and student in Tibbett's introduction to the film medium.
Tibbets hopes to donate his collection of more than 150 videotapes to KU, a donation Gronbeck-Tedesco said would be used for future film research.
As summer nears and studios prepare for their biggest season, Tibbetts is looking forward to starting his portraits of Jim Carey and Val Kilmer, who star in "Batman Forever," and Streep and Eastwood, who star in "The Bridges of Madison County."
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