Vol. 99, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 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 Hall 642 Massachusetts St.
The protesters, most of them from St. Mary's Academy, Church and College in Leavenworth sang hymns, carried banners and knell 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.
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.
directed by Martin Scorsece and based on a book by Nikos Kanzantakis, have focused on a scene that will be used 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 an offense against God, to protest the film and to distribute fliers to dissuade people from seeing it.
"It mocks our Lord. It insults him. It's sickening. It's porno-
Jerry Kramer, a senior at St Mary's, said he hoped the protest would keep people from seeing the movie.
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"I hope we're blocking the doors enough," he said.
The protesters, however, did not stop Sarah Buchmuehler, Overland Park sophomore, from seeing the movie.
To protest the local showing of the film, "The Last Tempation of Christ," about 200 people from St. Mary's Academy, College and
"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."
move 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.
Church gathered in front of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., last night.
testify for Christ," he said.
Many of the students refused comment. De la la Tour said the policy stemmed from a similar protest of the movie "Hail Mary,"
student who was in the seventh grade, and he didn't give the right answers. I think sometimes the teacher asks "how can you know what to say" da la Tour said.
Picking up the pieces
None of the protesters interviewed had seen the film or jailed to see it.
KING
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moved from my all-improvement team to my Rolls Royce squad. He can do it all—block shots, score in the lane and from the outside. I don't think there's another big man right now who can play the full 40 minutes and run the floor like Stacey can."
Despite the lack of playing time his first
tournament said it was a good
learning experience.
"It's a big jump from high school to college basketball, especially for a big guy," King said. "Guards tend to have an easier transition than big men because in high school, if you're a big man, you usually don't have a lot of other big men to contend with.
"When I got to college I realized that everyone could play. I knew I would get better with time and the I just worked hard day, day and things started to fall in place."
For King and the Sooners last season, everything fell in place except for the national championship. The Sooners won the Big Eight title and finished with a record of 35-4, which tied Kansas' 1966 team for best overall record in Big Eight history.
With all that talent, King said he still could not believe that the Sooners lost the national championship game to the underdog Jayhawks 83-79.
"That championship game really hurts the most," King said. "Kansas was a good team and they paid their dues, but honestly I didn't think that they were the best team.
The best team doesn't always win. It was a great coaching job by Larry Brown.
Basketball didn't end for King after that game, however. He was invited to the U.S. Olympic basketball tryouts in May and was selected by the last players cut from the team in August.
"It all happened so fast. We went into the game and weren't overconfident or anything, but we knew our chances of winning were very good. We went out, gave it our best shot and came up short. It's hard to accept a loss when you've beaten that team twice and they come from out of nowhere and beat you."
King was cut from the Olympic team because he suffered from a pulled groin muscle that hampered his performance.
King said he could have helped the
Olympic team offensively.
Having been in the limelight during the past year, King said he had been able to keep his ego in check.
"The main thing you have to do is keep everything in perspective," King said. "I have a very good family and teammates who help to keep my head on the ground. I couldn't be the player that I am now without the players that I have around me."
Another reason that King said he was happy to be a Sooner was because of coach Billy Tubbs' coaching philosophy, which includes a lot of offense and a lot of fun.
happy to be a Sooner was because of coach Billy Tubbs' coaching philosophy, which includes a lot of offense and a lot of fun. "I'm a fun guy," he said, "I like to have a lot of fun. The system we play in. Coach Tubbs allows us to free lance and do whatever we want as long as it doesn't
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plain it is academically weak courses to continue," he said. y, Fairyra, Va., senior, and who attended the hearing, said with Drury that the program discontinued.
with a lot of freshmen and who were interested in majoring "he said. 'When told the larger a lot of people were really
ing habit of smoking is no longer in fashion in New York City."
habit today
The story of Eldridge and Bird, oth of whom have remarried, was the subject of the CBS miniseries "Murder Ordnated," a movie filmed n and around Emporia. It aired in May 1987.
Hamlisch 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.
Bird was convicted in 1985 in the aith of his wife, Sandy, who at first prepeared to be the victim of a traffic incident at the Rocky Ford Bridge er the Cottonwood River near emporia. The investigation was opened after Bird's conviction on e solicitation charge. The prosecutor contended that Bird threw his life from the bridge and tried to squisse the slaying as a traffic accident.
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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 t is already serving 5 to 18 years " an earlier unsuccessful plot on r husband's life.
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 spokeswoman said that the program was not planned as a rebuke to the Smokeout.