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Tuesday, April 2. 1991 / University Daily Kansar
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Loss to Duke does not detract from Jayhawks' achievements over the course of winning season
Last night's final score attempted to deny what Jayhawk fans knew to be true: The KU basketball team is a group of outstanding athletes.
The team has given fans plenty to write home about, including breathtaking victories, sportsmanlike conduct in defeat and enough "remember when" stories to fill a scrapbook
taken when stories of the victims Today we will welcome home the athletic heroes in a pep rally at 2:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.
Fans will remind the players that they have been supported all season, not only after victories, but also in the face of defeat.
Proof of this unyielding support has been shown in the recent, large post-game turnouts on campus, the Student Union Activities' grand finale in front of Wescoe Hall and the enthusiasm that has reached from the Lawrence campus to alumni homes across the country.
Yes, victory against Duke would have been sweeter.
But what the team gave was the experience of the Final Four and a shot at the national title.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Tiffany Harness for the editorial board
Homeless problem
Lawrence needs money to maintain Safe House; no other resources available to city's homeless
The Salvation Army has estimated that 350 people without homes live on the streets of Lawrence everyday.
At night, many of them used to turn to the Salvation Army Safe House for a place to sleep. But today they will have to find shelter with a friend or sleep on the streets because the Salvation Army cannot afford to keep the safe house open.
A $70,000 debt and no promise of a significant increase in donations forced the Salvation Army safe house to close its doors.
An emergency shelter still is available, but a Salvation Army official said the shelter only could house a maximum of two families. The safe house provided counseling and job training in addition to housing. The emergency shelter will not be able to handle the needs of the people or give them the tools to gain self-sufficiency.
The Douglas County United Way, which has donated about $56,000 annually to the Salvation Army for the past two years, has
been a generous donor to the organization. The Lawrence City Commission also has given about $7,000 to the organization this year. Both of these groups need to find a way to allot more money to the Salvation Army so that the safe house can remain open for many years to come.
Nowhere in the city is there another safe place for homeless people to go. There are specialized facilities, such as a shelter for battered women. But many of the homeless are single women with children and families who receive state aid. Their needs are not specific or special. Rather, they are quite simple - a warm place to stay, proper nourishment and a means to get back in mainstream society.
The citizens of Lawrence have a responsibility to help people who are homeless in the city by putting pressure on private organizations and the city to save the Salvation Army Safe House.
Carol Krekeler for the editorial board
LETTERS to the EDITOR
A defense of the disc
by a Frisbee and has trouble contem-
ter large issues in the "age of the
Frisbee."
I resent the blatant prejudices of Rosenfield's cartoon sketch (March 28) depicting a woman that is "hwacked" or "wham o-bamowed").
This strip is pure prejudice against the true spirit of the disc. Discs are not violent or evil. Discs are an ultimate expression of spiritual freedom that can be developed from and in harmony with modern technology (see Tao of Disc, Chapter 3, the Age of Plastics).
Other cultural prejudices are riddled in this strip. "Heads up,
Babe" is cruel, childish name calling. The character bears no resemblance to a gigantic blue ox, and I simply hope no sexual bikes play into that name. One should also not publicly refer to a "100-year-old" bear, as their face, or their body; but trees are humble beings and consider it bad manners to brag about it, especially in the presence of annuals.
T. J. Meehan
Boring, Ore., graduate student
Natural Ties aims to break misconceptions of disabled
Ever since Natural Ties started the campus-wide effort to include people with disabilities into organizations, I have tried to think of different ways to recognize and thank all those who have volunteered their much needed time
I would like to recognize these people because they are doing something a little different, something people may laugh at, something maybe our society is really due for. They are trying to make the difference necessary to really help someone.
Two years ago I met Jay. He is mentally retarded, but as we spent a lot of time together, I began to realize that this guy who I thought was so different from me because of my previous knowledge and experiences was really no different at all. We all have our own difference in intelligence, but I look past the label of mental retardation, Jay is the same in every aspect.
He sleeps, drinks, has sexual desires (What?!) Sexual desires? Surely not! ) and wants to have friends just like you and me, but until you spend time with them, really will have the same misconceptions that I had.
After people heard of my relationship with Jay, they wanted to know how they could be involved with something like that. Well, because I was interested in learning the thought of myself as an expert in the disability field, initially I did not
Patrick
Hughes
Guest columnist
Natural Ties is designed for any organization to "adopt" or befriend a person with a disability and to make them part of that organization. Because everyone has been involved in the community during their upbringing, all the organizations involved with Natural Ties work differently.
really look to myself for that answer. Eventually as more people expressed an interest, I started realizing that maybe I could start something here. As I approached Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic to introduce it to the greek organizations, I received great response and from there we presently have 17 natural ties created. So far, the only organizations involved with Natural Greeks are the ties.
At this point, I want to recognize those that have founded Natural Ties within their organizations. Thanks to
'Two years ago I met Jay, Jay is mentally retarded, but as we spent a lot of time together, I began to realize that this guy who I thought was so different from me because of my previous knowledge and experiences was really no different at all.'
David Lies (Sigma Phi Epsilon);
Scott Schroff (Delta Upsilon); Karen Mullen and Kris Walt (Pi Beta Phi);
Jack O'Brien (Sigma Chi); Steve Bolling (Delta Chi); Andy Shore (Zeta Beta Tau); Kim Schmidt (Alpha Omicron Pi); Tim Barton (Triangle);
Amy Bortz (Delta Gamma); Gayle Prichard (Kappa Kappa Gamma);
Jon Taulbeer (Delta Tau Delta);
Shelly Dasko (Gamma Phi Beta);
Sherry Foresel (Delta Delta Delta);
Jennifer Stoner (Kappa Delta) and Doug Barnes and Bart Fisher (Sigma Alpha Epsilon). My hat goes off to you all. Thanks.
I encourage any organization to get involved with Natural Ties as it does not take a doctor or a professional to know how to be a friend. If you would like more information, call 843-1670 or attend our monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union. Please come
Patrick Hughes is an Evanston, Ill. senior majoring in communications and human development.
Poll results vary on students' belief in Jesus' resurrection
"O n the first day of the week,very early in the morning,the women
took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus." (Luke 24:1:3)
How does one explain the mystery of the missing body? For two weeks before Easter, KU students were polled by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to answer the following questions:
- Do you believe that Jesus actually rose bodily from the dead? Why or why not?
Of 46 students polled from the InterVarsity book table in the Kansas Union, 22 expressed a belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus, 17 did not believe it happened, and seven were unsure.
If yes, what difference does it make in your life?
Reasons why some students believe in the resurrection varied, but most were highly personal. A
Ed Killeen Guest columnist
senior majoring in psychology who is a believer in the resurrection said, "I have a personal relationship with Christ, and it saved my life."
A sophomore majoring in communications wrote that she believes 'because he lives inside of me, and it is what makes everybody possible.'
A freshman wrote, "I believe in the resurrection because the Bible says so, and I know that he died in my heart. Now I can spend eternity in heaven."
Other KU students were unsure of Jesus' resurrection. A junior majoring in political science wrote, "I am not entirely sure of my religious beliefs. I do believe Jesus existed, but I find some aspects of the Bible
hard to believe."
A freshman wrote, "The Bible says he does (rise) and he is the holy trinity, but sometimes I question my faith."
Finally, there were those who do not believe that Jesus rose from the dead.
A sophomore wrote, "Easter means the Easter bunny brings candy."
A junior majoring in psychology wrote, "I believe that Jesus was a great man who introduced many wonderful philosophies to mankind; but nothing truly proves that he rose from the dead. I find blind faith to be wrong for me, so I cannot believe he rose from the dead."
To claim that Jesus rose from the dead places him on the same level as God, and even students who did not believe it happened were faced with
One junior wrote, "I don't believe in Jesus: he is not God."
Others did not believe because they were athiest or Jews.
A junior business major said it was scientifically impossible.
the underlying claim of Easter.
If he did rise, he is indeed God, and
he deserves our personal response to
For these who claim he did not rise, what explanations do they offer for the empty tomb? Perhaps someone stole the body — either Romans or the Jews or the disciples. Does this make sense? The first two groups are unlikely grave robbers because they had done everything in their power to secure the tomb of Jesus. Historians tell us that Roman guards were placed outside the tomb. The troupe comprised 14 well-trained men with swords and shields. The disciples, on the other hand, had fled in fear, and one must wonder whether each of them would have suffered torture and martyrdom without even having admitted to such a deception.
Another explanation might be that Jesus was not dead — that he had merely passed out from exhaustion and loss of blood and that in such a condition was buried. Is this reasonable? Would three days in the cold
'A junior majoring in psychology said, "I believe that Jesus was a great man who introduced many wonderful philosophies to mankind; but nothing truly proves that he rose from the dead. I find blind faith to be wrong for me, so I cannot believe he rose from the dead." '
tomb — without food or medical attention — revive a dying man so that he could push away a huge stone door, terrify Roman guards, travel miles on wounded feet, and then somehow convince people that he was the Prince of Life?
Perhaps the resurrection accounts are legends. This explanation seems equally unlikely. First, the two most reliable documents giving detailed
accounts of the event are the records of eyewitnesses. Also, both of these documents were written within 14 years of the actual event — far too early for any legendary growth. Finally, the details of the accounts are too vivid and anecdotal to compare the 33rd chapter of Isaiah, which was written 700 years before Jesus was born, to Luke 23 is to see fulfillment.
No skepetic is ever convinced by evidence. Thomas, the doubting disciple, needed to probe his fingers into Jesus' wounds before he would proclaim, "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). Only Jesus can give us the faith to believe. Ask him, as Thomas did, to give you the certainty where you have doubts, and above all, tell him that you would like to meet him personally if he is there. He will do the rest. "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Ed Killeen is a St. Louis junior majoring in illustration.
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