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 last night to demonstrate at St. Hall Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
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 laurent,
headmaster of St. Mary's, said the
protesters were there to pray and
serve penance in compensation for
the loss of their beloved wife in the
film and to distribute fliers to
dissuade people from seeing it.
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"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.
To protest the local sighing 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.
"I hope we're blocking the doors enough," he said.
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 bad 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 Tour said the policy stemmed from a similar protest of the movie "Hail Mary,"
testify for Christ," he said.
Coach Roy Williams handled many of the recruiting responsibilities at North Carolina and immediately hit the recruiting trail after taking the Kansas job.
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student who was in the seventh grade, and he didn't give the right answers. I think sometimes the teacher asks me to know what to say," by la tour Saure.
"I think it hurt them," said Van Coleman, publisher of the National Recruiter's Cage Letter. "But if I was Roy Williams, I would look at the kids I wanted to recruit and have them in during the December evaluation period. I think you can still save spring recruiting."
While hardly an ideal situation for recruiting, the three-year NCAA probation that Kansas is serving can be overcome.
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The Jayhawks can not pay for recruiting visits between January 1 and December 31 in 1898. The restrictions could have a negative impact on all-Star Sports Publications said.
"That could wipe out their late recruiting this year and their early recruiting next year." Gibbons said. "That bothers them for two years."
Good recruits possible despite NCAA probation
“Adonis can be an impact freshman,” Coleman said. “He's a flashy passer, tremendously quick and has a good jumper. He will package the package together and become a leader.”
Chris Heller of Kansas City (Mo.) Rockhurst High School appears to be the only highly-rated big man still considering Kansas.
"He is a highly-regarded player out in California," Coleman said. "But he's not quite the same player as Miner."
CUAH Pittsburgh. Kansas was also in the running for Jordan's high school teammate, Lucious Harris. Reseda Cleveland coach Bobby Brassell said Monday night that Kansas was one of two schools Harris was considering.
If Kansas doesn't use all three scholarships in the early period, Gibbons said Kansas may have to concentrate or in-state high school and junior colleges for the late signing period this spring. He said those players would probably be able to pay their own way.
"Heller would be perfect for that offense." Gibbons said. "He can go outside and shoot or play with his back to the basket."
Harold Miner, of Inglewood, Calif., is expected to play for Chapman between Kansas.
Guard Thomas Hill of Lancaster, Texas, reportedly commited to Kansas but changed his mind and signed with Duke. Another guard, Mitch Butler of North Hollywood, Calif., cancelled a scheduled visit to Kansas for quarterback Jake Suiter. McNair, Richion Park, III, was expected to visit Kansas last week but signed with Purdue last Wednesday.
The fallout from probation includes losing some of the nation's toon players.
Heller's final five schools are Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Southern Methodist and UCLA.
"I think you can recruit junior college kids, because they know the situation in Lawrence is a lot nicer than some of the junior college towns," Coleman said.
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ed that discontinuation was a students because many wanted the program. Also he said no to the program with the program's discontinu-
complain it is academically weak courses to continue," he said, y. Fairfax, Va., senior, and the 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 major a lot of people were really
band was killed . . . I gave Tom 22-caliber Woodman that he I to shoot my husband." she said. idridge, 35, awaits sentencing on second-degree murder charge is already serving 5 to 18 years an earlier unsuccessful plot on husband's life.
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hooting
the story of Eldridge and Bird, of whom have remarried, was subject of the CBS miniseries under Ordained," a movie filmed and around Emporia. It aired in y 1987.
bird was convicted in 1985 in the
thirty of his wife, Sandy, who at first
earned to be the victim of a traffic
ident at the Rocky Ford Bridge
or the Cottonwood River near
peria. The investigation was
pended after Bird's conviction
on solicitation charge. The prosecu-
tion that Bird threw his
from the bridge and tried to
puise the slaying as a traffic
ident.
habit today
habit of smoking is no longer in ion in New York City."
amish urged smokers uncon-
dent about their health to think
ut their friends and family,
ag the recent death of his friend
"A Chorus Line" collaborator
Kleban. The lyricist, a vy-smoker, died of cancer last
member.
he event, held under the big top "The Big Apple Circus" in john Center, ended with two joints crushing giant plastic n cigarettes as the celebrities nearby.
ne Tobacco Institute officially unceed its "Great American come" program in newspaper articles Tuesday, but a teaser said that the program was assumed as a rebuttal to Smokeout.