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Friday, December 4. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Gymnosophistae
Neither East Nor West
Holiday
Continued from p. 1
To realize these goals, we have set up literature tables on campus and downtown, sent petitions with almost 90 names to the Kremlin and the Soviet Embassy in Washington for the release of political prisoners, and sponsored speakers, such as Donna Hickey, to speak on attempting to bring Soviet rock star Boris Grebenshikov to Lawrence.
Our gift to students and to the world would be the disappearance of nuclear weapons. We were unable to come up with a tangible gift that we would request for Christmas, but we certainly know of a lot of nuclear weapons that we wouldn't mind having disappear!
Amy Humphrey, president of Neither East Nor West and a Wichita junior
Students for Creative Anachronism
Students for Creative Anchronism
The Students for Creative Anchronism club is part of a larger organization called the Society for Creative Anchronism. The SCA is a non-profit educational organization that studies and selectively recreates the historical Middle Ages. We hold tournaments and feasts and recreate many of the arts and sciences of the Middle Ages. We do dances, theater, music, costuming, calligraphy, illumination and embroidery.
If we could have any tangible holiday present,
we would like a group trip to Europe and a tour.
This would enable us to better understand the Middle Ages and would be a lot of fun.
Alyson Burnett, president of Students for Creative Anachronism and an Overland Park senior
Operation Friendship
Operation Friendship is an organization for international students, including students from the United States. We meet together on a monthly basis to establish and build relationships involving people of diverse cultural, language and religious backgrounds. Operation Friendship averages an attendance of 65 students at activities that include discussions, meals, square dancing and parties.
If the people of Operation Friendship were to receive a gift for the upcoming holidays, it would be a world map. People take pride in their home countries and their home towns. In fact, we all come from important places and appreciate opportunities to describe our native land with others. A world map would be a helpful visual aid that would accurately illuminate the world from a global perspective. A world map would allow us to visit all places at any given time.
Bryon Howell, president of Operation Friendship and a Lenexa senior
Transcendental Meditation Club
The KU Transcendental Meditation Club is dedicated to making available to the entire KU community the knowledge of pure consciousness, the Unified Field of all the laws of nature. In a perfect world, life would be guided by natural law, and spontaneously lived at its full value, with all of the most fundamental human qualities — creativity, intelligence, happiness, friendliness, compassion, and love — fully expressed in the collective consciousness of the people. While the abstract, unbounded Unified Field of pure intelligence cannot be adequately embodied in any single concrete symbolic form, it is ever present everywhere.
The gift we offer is the direct experience of pure consciousness, the inner bliss of life in its most pure and simple form through the technique of transcendental meditation. Because the true gift is already present within each of us, all that is required is that we learn to turn our attention back upon itself to experience the source of thought, the Self, the key to perfect health and fulfillment in life.
Dorothy Black, president of the KU Transcendental Meditation Club and a Merriam senior
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Operation Friendship
Transcendental Meditation Club
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