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Gradex may create representative body
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
The Graduate Student Council Executive Committee last night discussed the creation of a Graduate Representative Assembly in its review of a proposed constitution for the council.
All GradEx members at the meeting supported the creation of an assembly to help consult with GradEx, but they didn't decide on the assembly's powers and responsibilities.
Mike Anderson, who drafted the proposed constitution, said the assembly would advise graduate students to consist of a union of department representatives.
Michael Foubert, a GradEx executive coordinator, said an assembly was needed to assist graduate students in organizing a teaching assistant's union
"A graduate representative assembly would be the perfect way to keep in touch with every department and would greatly facilitate a teacher's assistant association." Foubert said.
Foubert said contacts at the universities had been established in the late 1970s when GradEx members pursued the idea of forming a union
GradEx has been actively pursuing formation of a union or association for teaching assistants by contacting universities with existing unions.
Gradex already has consulted Clifford Griffin, professor of history, for his input on the formation of a teaching assistant union. Foubert suggested he consult the Kansas National Education Association about forming a union.
Foubert said he had contacted the Universities of Wisconsin, Oregon and California at Berkeley and Buffalo University for information on their union organization. Some of the universities had both faculty and teaching assistant unions.
John Richards, a GradEx executive coordinator, said a copy of the proposed constitution had been presented to George Woodyard, associate dean of the graduate school. Woodyard had not reviewed and commented on the constitution, Richards said.
Churches should use education against cults
Bv PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Mainstream churches should oppose religious cults with education, not violence, a visiting lecturer said yesterday at a conference sponsored by the department of religious studies.
J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion at the University of California at Santa Barbara, said if churched they created their members well. they had little to tear from so-called cult groups.
"What needs to be done is simply to demythelogize the cults, so they don't have the glamour, and to challenge their claims." Melton said.
"In the middle of the major religious traditions is the best of religious experience. The major religious traditions in the world got to be that way because they found something really good."
Melton, described by Tim Miller, lecturer in religious studies, as the country's foremost authority on religious minority groups, spoke about "Violence and the Cults" at a two-day seminar on "Religion and Violence" at Smith Hall.
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 3, 1987
Melton, a Methodist, defined a cult as any religious group that mainstream churches viewed as threatening.
If mainstream churches avoid extremism, most of their members who try other religions are likely to see them as a time of searching, Melton said.
Churches need not use forceful methods to regain former members, because the idea that cults brainwash their members is nonsense, he said.
"Cult evangelism techniques aren't any more coercive than Christianity."
When churches use force to remove former members from cults, they only make the situation worse by provoking the cult into violence, Melton said.
See RELIGION, p. 6, col. 5
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HUMAN RELATIONS WEEK "Together We're Better"
Human Relations Week activities are designed to provoke thought and discussion about human relations issues on campus. WE NEED YOUR PARTICIPATION! Come to our free films each afternoon, and stay to talk about the issues they raise. In the evenings, we will hold an open forum where we can come together to discuss human relations problems and what to do about them. This is a chance to let the University community know what you think about such issues as racism, sexism, sexual harassment, religious and ethnic tolerance, free speech on campus, problems faced by non-traditional students or by foreign students, and many more.
Mondav. March 2
"Together We're Better...at Play"
1:00 p.m. Tale of "O" -Kansas Union
Movie: Running Brave -Burge Union
3:15 p.m. Movie: Running Brave-Kansas Union
Tale of "O" -Burge Union
7:00 p.m. Open Forum, Alderson Auditorium
Moderator: Robert Shelton, Ombudsmar
Wednesday, March 4
"Together We're Better...at Work"
1:00 p.m. Movie: Norma Rae -Kansas Union Tale of "O"-Burge Union
3:15 p.m. Tale of "O"-Kansas Union Movie: Norma Rae, Burge Union
7:00 p.m. Open Forum, Alderson Auditorium Moderator: Professor Barbara Ballard, Director Women's Resource Center
Tuesday, March 3
"Together We're Better...at School"
1:00 p.m. Movie: To Kill a Mockingbird -Burge Union
Tale of "O" -Burge Union
3:15 p.m. Tale of "O" -Kansas Union
Movie: To Kill a Mockingbird -Burge Union
7:00 p.m. Open Forum, Alderson Auditorium
Moderator: Professor Alan Sira, Sociolay
"Together We're Better...in the Community"
1:00 p.m. Tale of "O"—Kansas Union—Movie:
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3:00 p.m. Movie: Moscow on the
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Thursday, March 5
Films will be shown in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union, and in the Conference Room at the Burge Union. All members of the University Community are invited. Sponsored by: University Senate Human Relations Committee
Black Student Union
Hispanic American Leadership
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Inter-Fraternity Council
Native American Student Association
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Thanks to the following organizations and individuals for their assistance with the planning:
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A Sunday in the Country
Amadeus
Annie Hall
An Unmarried Woman
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Big Chill
Blue Collar
Breakfast Club
Brian's Song
Chariots of Fire
Charly
Citizen Kane
Cocoon
Conrack
Crossroads
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Diner
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Educating Rita
Elephant Man
Falcon and the Snowman
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Footloose
Four Seasons
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ordinary People
Passage to India
Plenty
Pretty in Pink
Ragtime
Running Brave
Salvador
Silkwood
Sophie's Choice
Streetwise
Sylvia
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Terms of Endearment
Terry Fox Story
That Was Then, This Is Now
The Candidate
The Dresser
The Great Santini
The Turning Point
Thief of Hearts
Tootsie
Trip to Bountiful
Twice in a Lifetime
Witness
Whose Life is it Anyway
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