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 Suite 1.
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.
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.
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.
The Rev Herve de la Tour, headmaster of St. Mary's, said the protesters were there to pray and serve pence in compensation for an offense against them to distribute fliers to dissuade people from seeing it.
Jerry Kramer, a senior at St. Mary's, said he hoped the protest would keep people from seeing the movie.
"It mocks our Lord. It insults him. It's sickening. It's porno-
"I hope we're blocking the doors enough." he said.
To protest the local showing of the film, "The Last Tempation of Church gathered in front of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., last Christ," about 200 people from St. Mary's Academy, College and night.
The protesters, however, did not stop Sarah Buchmueller, Overland Park sophomore, from seeing the movie.
"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,
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
want. They have the right to protest."
John Winfrey, KU assistant professor of Army ROTC, also was protesting the movie.
Many of the students refused comment. De la la Tour said the policy stemmed from a similar protest of the movie "Hail Mary."
testify for Christ." he said.
student who was in the seventh grade, and he didn't give the right answers. I think sometimes the teacher asks what to know what to say," de la Tour said.
None of the protesters interviewed had seen the film or planned to see it.
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band was killed . . . I gave Tom 22-caliber Woodman that he to shoot my husband," she said. Eldridge, 35, awaits sentencing on second-degree murder charge it is already serving 5 to 18 years an earlier unsuccessful plot on her husband's life.
Bird was convicted in 1985 in the ath of his wife, Sandy, who at first speared to be the victim of a traffic incident at the Rocky Ford Bridge or the Cottonwood River near emporia. The investigation was opened after Bird's conviction on solicitation charge. The prosecutor contended that Bird threw his life from the bridge and tried to insuse the slaying as a traffic accident.
The story of Eldridge and Bird, oth of whom have remarried, was be subject of the CBS miniseries Murder Ordained," a movie filmed n and around Emporia. It aired in day 1987.
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University'Dally Kansan■Kansas Jayhawks Basketball November 16, 1988
ing habit of smoking is no longer in fashion in New York City."
Hamilisch urged smokers unconcerned about their health to think about their friends and family, citing the recent death of his friend and "A Chorus Line" collaborator Edward Kleban. The lyricist, a heavy smoker, died of cancer last December.
The event, held under the big top at "The Big Apple Circus" in Lincoln Center, ended with two elephants crushing giant plastic foam cigarettes as the celebrities stood nearby.
The Tobacco Institute officially announced its "Great American Welcome" program in newspaper advertisements Tuesday, but a spokesman said that the program was not planned as a rebuff to the Smokeout.
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