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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 22, 1997
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Fear prompts student to abandon religious group
Control of church made leaving tough
By Kevin Bates
Kansan staff writer
Todd Masters left the Kansas City Church of Christ because he was tired of the paranoia and fear the church caused him. Masters, a 1996 KU graduate, said that the church, a branch of the International Church of Christ, tried to control everything in his life.
Masters and two current students, Misty Rohrig, Sylvan Grove junior, and Devon Deshazo, Lawrence senior, shared their experiences with about 75 students in the Sunflower Room at the Burge Union last night. The discussion focused on why the three joined the church, what they endured as members and how they gathered the strength to leave.
The Kansas City Church of Christ was
forced out of the Organization and Activities Office in the Kansas Union in 1991 because of parent and student complaints. The church has been banned by several other colleges, including American University, Boston College, Marquette and the University of Southern California, but it is also one of the fastest growing sects in the world.
"I've never been easy to control," Rohrig said. "But with them, I just let it happen. After four or five months, I couldn't even go home by myself. I had to have someone from the church come with me."
The church controlled the lives of all its members, Deshazo said. Deshazo had to participate in church activities so often that he had no time to study. He soon found himself on academic probation.
"I fell apart," Deshazo said. "They wanted me to quit my job. I found members of the church going through my checkbook, and they chastised me for my foolish purchases. I decided it wasn't worth it to not be who I was and turned into something I'd didn't like."
Masters said the church had wanted to control his life so much that they had told him he
should break up with the girl he had been dating. He and his girlfriend had a meeting with church members in which he learned that the church did not approve of the match.
"We maintained a close secret relationship," Masters said. "I'm glad I did that. They thought they had the one true doctrine. I never fully agreed with that."
Rohri, Masters and Deshazo told similar stories of leaving the church. All three said they lost the friends they had made in the church instantly.
"I would see someone from the group walking on campus and they would just turn around and walk away," Robríg said. "I felt alone. I didn't want to talk with anyone."
Masters based his reasons for leaving in part on Romans 14:23. He said that the verse, "for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin," told him the church should not be a part of his life.
"The church leaders told me I was an enemy of God because I left," Mastas said. "They said I was going to hell unless I came back. It was not fathomable to them to leave the one true church."
Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
Misty Rohrig, Sylvan Grove junior; Devon Deshazo, Lawrence senior; and Todd Masters, 1996 KU graduate, speak about their experiences in the Kansas City Church of Christ. The three spoke to a crowd last night in the Sunflower room in the Burge Union.
Student-made Jayhawks centerpiece of auction
Kara Fiene, Concordia, Mo., freshman and Amy Joy Stillwell (left), Hallsville, Mo., freshman won the Rock Chalk Ball Architectural Centerpiece contest. Fiene and Stillwell put 40 hours of work into the project and will split a $300 cash prize.
By Doug Weinstein
Kansan staff writer
From a carved Jayhawk holding a basketball, to a Godzilla Jayhawk loppeling over campus buildings, to a Jayhawk rising from the ground to swallow a Wildcat, more than 130 architectural models lined the main hallways in Marvin Hall on Friday, waiting to be judged.
Students in the Architecture & Urban Design School were asked by the University of Kansas' Alumni Association to showcase their work as centerpieces for the Alumni Association's annual fund-raising event, the Rock Chalk Ball on January 24 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Alumni Association awarded the top 13 winners cash prizes totaling $1,000 for the project that exemplified an experience or favorite part of the University and evoked the memories of previous KU graduates. The works were judged by eight KU graduates Friday afternoon.
Kara Fiene, Concordia, Mo., freshman, and Amy Joy Stillwell, Hallsville, Mo., freshman, were shocked to learn that they had won first place for the project they worked on together.
"It feels really great," Fiene said, "I still can't believe that we actually won."
The contest was introduced to all students in the Architecture School on Monday, and students had until Thursday night to complete the project. But Fiene wasn't worried about the limited time.
"Since we're architectural students, we're used to short amounts of time and working late at night," Fiene said.
The inspiration for their piece came from their first experiences at the University.
"When I first came to KU, when driving through Lawrence, the first thing you notice is the hill. Mount Oread is the symbol of KU to us," Stillwell said.
Fiene said that the project was supposed to illustrate that if a tornado came through Lawrence, KU's buildings might not be there, but Mt. Oread would still be standing.
Last year, $120,000 was raised through auctions at the Alumni Association's ball to assist the University in its efforts to recruit and retain National Merit Scholars.
Any student interested in attending the event should call the Alumni Association's Kansas City office at (913) 248-8458.
This year more than 200 items are expected to be auctioned off, including some of the centerpieces from the contest.
Soup easy, but not enough
Meat, veggies needed for proper nutrition
By Emily Vrabac
Kansan staff writer
Open the can, pour the contents into a pot, heat and eat. Instructions for preparing soup are simple and quick, as many college students know. They can have a nutritious, hot meal in little time.
However, soups are not the answer to every individual's nutritional needs, said Ann Chapman, dietitian for student health services.
"Students tend to think that one item is a meal," she said. "They need to complete the meal and fill in the missing food groups."
Chapman had many suggestions to compensate for the nutritional inadequacies of canned and prepared soups.
"Canned soups have a lot of sodium and that's the biggest culprit," Chapman said. "You often have half of your sodium for the day in one serving."
She suggested that students read the labels and look for soups lower in sodium. There is a way to counteract soups that are high in sodium.
"If you're going to have canned soup for lunch, don't have a salty dinner," she said.
Chapman said students may miss some flavor in the lower-sodium soups, so she suggested adding flavors by putting in chopped onion or garlic.
"Another potential inadequacy is that they don't tend to have much protein," she said. "If a college student is using the soup as a main course, they're not getting enough protein."
Chapman has ideas for adding protein to the soup. She suggested adding dried beans such as kidney beans or navy beans to the soup. Cooked ground beef is also a good protein supplement to the soup.
"Take a piece of bread and melt some cheese on it to eat with the soup," she said. "Even just drink milk with your dinner."
Most concentrated soups can be mixed with milk instead of water, which will provide protein and extra vitamins.
Chapman said that soups are lacking an important food group.
"Many soups don't give you very many vegetables," she said. "They put in so few vegetables, it's a joke."
"It itdoes' cost much money to do at all," she said. "And you can get two or three good nights of meals."
Nutritious soup
She suggested adding canned or frozen vegetables, rice or pasta.
add beans or meat
drink milk with your meal
add cheese
mix condensed soups using milk instead of water
For fiber and vitamins:
■ add canned or frozen vegetables
- sauté and add raw vegetables
- add cooked pasta or rice
- add some pasta or noodles
- eat an apple or orange for dessert
- For more flavor to low-sodium soups:
- add chopped onion or garlic
- add spices
Mike Kelly, Lawrence senior,
said he eats canned soup because
it doesn't take long to fix.
"It's something that fills me up," he said. "I don't think it's that nutritious. It's fast, you can microwave it and it's done."
Chapman said the bottom line is not to avoid soups just because they don't provide enough nutrition as they come in the package.
"It's okay to eat those foods," she said. "but you can be creative, and they not only taste better, but your diet is better overall."
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