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
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, 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 Scorsee 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 his brother, the film and to distribute fliers 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.
Jeffrey Johnston/KANSAN
"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.
"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.
"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.
to*the* 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.
testify for Christ," he said.
Many of the students refused comment. De 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 he did not know what to say," de la Taoul said.
one of the protesters inter-
ved had seen the film or
used to see it.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPECIAL ISSUE
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The coach: Roy Williams...4
The Men's Team...6
The Championship...10
The Probation...11
The Competition...13
The Women's Team...21
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an earlier unsuccessful plot on
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abit today
the story of Eldridge and Bird,
of whom have remarried, was
subject of the CBS miniseries
border Ordained," a movie filmed
and around Emporia. It aired in
1987.
Bird was convicted in 1985 in the his of his wife, Sandy, who at first sared to be the victim of a traffic dent at the Rocky Ford Bridge the Cottonwood River near peroria. The investigation was opened after Bird's conviction on solicitation charge. The prosecution that Bird threw his from the bridge and tried to use the slaying as a traffic dent.
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dion in New York City." amish urged smokers unconed about their health to think at their friends and family, the recent death of his friend Michael Kilean andard Kleban. The lyric, a cry smoker, died of cancer last ember.
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