Vol. 99, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday November 17,1988
200 protesters stage rally at Liberty Hall
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
"The Last Temptation of Christ," the film that has sparked protests across the country, tempted about 200 people into the cold last night to demonstrate at liberty Hall. 642 Massachusetts
the protesters, most of them from St. Mary's Academy, Church and College in Leavenworth sang hymns, carried banners and knelt in prayer in front of the theater for about an hour. They arrived about one-half hour before the 9 p.m. showing of the film.
To protest the local showing of the film, "The Last Temptation of Church gathered in front of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.last Christ." about 200 people from St. Mary's Academy, College and night.
directed by Martin Scorsese and based on a book by Nikos Kazantzakis, have focused on a scene where Christ is tempted by lust toward Mary Magdalene.
The Rev. Herve de la tour, headmaster of St. Mary's, said the protesters were there to pray and serve penance in compensation for the death of a priest who film the film and to distribute fluers to dissuade people from seeing it.
De la Tour said he hoped the protest would halt the showing of the movie at Liberty Hall. It is scheduled to run through Dec. 3.
"It mocks our Lord. It insults him. It's sickening. It's porno uncle."
Jerry Kramer, a senior at St Mary's, said he hoped the protest would keep people from seeing the movie.
"I hope we're blocking the doors enough," he said.
The protesters, however, did not stop Sarah Buchmuller, Overland Park sophomore, from seeing the movie
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"This guy was grabbing me and trying to get me to read this stuff," she said. "I said, I just want to see the movie."
"It made me want to see the movie more."
Jill Johns, a theater employee. said about 20 people bought tickets
for the film earlier in the week.
for the film earlier in the week.
Rob Fitzgerald, assistant manager at Liberty Hall, said earlier yesterday that three to four people had protested the film almost every night.
want. They have the right to protest."
John Winfrey, KU assistant professor of Army ROTC, also was protesting the movie.
My wife and I both believe that
testify for Christ," he said.
Many of the students refused comment. De la Trau said the policy stemmed from a similar protest of the movie "Hail Mary," shown it the Kansas Union in
student who was in the seventh grade, and he didn't give the right answers. I think sometimes the younger students don't know what to say," de la Tour said.
None of the protesters inter-
d had seen the film or
ed to see it.
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the story of Eldridge and Bird, b of whom have remarried, was subject of the CBS miniseries lurder Ordained," a movie filmed and around Emporia. It aired in 1987.
familisch urged smokers unconcerned about their health to think out their friends and family,ing the recent death of his friend d "A Chorus Line" collaborator ward Kleban. The lyricist, a smoker, died of cancer last avery.
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The event, held under the big top "The Big Apple Circus" in neoln Center, ended with two phants crushing giant plastic am cigarettes as the celebritiesod nearby.
The Tobacco Institute officially nounced its "Great American elcome" program in newspaper virements Tuesday, but aokesman said that the program as not planned as a rebuttal to e Smokeout.
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