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Home Ec course will study
contemporary women's roles
When looking for a new and
different elective to take next fall,
slow down when going through the
Home Economics listings. The college
will be offering the course, "Women in
Contemporary Society".
It is designed to examine
contributions that women have made
from the standpoint of different
disciplines and the societal attitudes
toward them.
"The role of women has been
ignored and they have been left
without images to indentify with,
said Constance Kies, one of the
faculty advisers for the course.
ONE OF THE PRIME reasons for
originating the course is to make
people aware of what women have
done, according to Kies, and to make
them, especially women, proud of it.
Members of a committee from the
Women's Action Group organized and
developed the curriculum lor the
course.
Students can choose to receive
either two or three credits for the
course, depending cm whether or not
they decide to prepare an outside
project.
Lerturediscussion sessions will be
the basis for awarding two of the
credits and the selected special study
will be the other one. The topic will be
chosen by the student at the beginning
of the semester and a faculty adviser
will help him.
Order of MANS . . .
Paul, Brother John.
THE PRESENTATION of the
lectures will be by faculty members
from different departments and
colleges in the University. Kies also
noted that it is not restricted to
members of the academic community.
A st udent-faculty guidance
committee will co-ordinate the course.
Kies and Jacqueline Voss, both
members of the College of Home
Economics, will serve as
co-chairwomen.
The course will cover topics such as
theology and morality, laws,
economics, psychology and about ten
others.
ALL OF THE TOPICS have one
section devoted to the discussion of
women's contributions to the field.
The course is intended to be a
perspective or an introduction to
women's studies and the Women's
Action Group would like to see the
individual departments develop their
own inter-disciplinary courses.
Other women's studies courses were
in the planning stages last summer for
Cornell, Vassar and Princeton and San
Diego State has initiated an
eleven-course program dealing with the
subject.
Although over 45 faculty members
are tentative advisors and sponsors
already, anyone who has something to
contribute or is willing to participate
should contact Patti Kaminski,
member of the student guiding
committee for the course within the
next week.-
by BART BECKER
Staff Writer
Think about the places one might
go searching for God on earth. Think
of cathedrals with marble alters
gleaming in the light of myriad
candles. Think of parishoners in their
Sunday best filling the pews and
coffers of thousands of churches.
And, think of a small two-story house
in south Lincoln.
This house, furnished with a few
chairs, a sofa, a desk and a few
religious paintings, is the present home
of Brother John and Brother David,
missionaries in the Holy Order of
MANS.
And it is to this house that people
come thrice weekly to a class on the
Wisdom of the Tarot and often stay to
hear readines and prayers.
YOUNG PEOPLES predominantly
are attracted to the Order's meetings
because "they are the ones searching
to find themselves," said Brother
David.
The Order, according to Brother
John, is "an organization of men and
women who are banded together to
promote a more thorough
understanding of the divine laws of
God and of creation."
"We teach a balance of the occult
and the sciences," Brother David
continued. "God is inside each of us,
we only have to find him. We study all
religions. The Master Jesus is
considered and accepted by all as the
Master of this Order."
Although the Tarot instruction is
being presented in the structure of the
Free University, as was a series of
lessons during the first semester, most
people find out about the Order
through word of mouth.
THE ORDER was legally founded
in 1968 by Earl W. Blighton although
the work actually started in 1961.
There are now 33 active priests-both
male and female. According to Brother
David there are approximately 500
members in the Order.
Brother John spoke of trying to
find enlightenment through
transcendental meditation before
finding the Order. Brother David told
a somewhat similar tale of being "sort
of a hippie, you know, iust hanging
around" before a friend introduced him
to the Order's San Francisco house
and he "knew I was home".
A third resident at the Lincoln
Brotherhouse, Paul, has lived in
Lincoln all his life. He was also
introduced to the Order by a friend
and soon after moved into the house
at 1139 S. 11th.
Brother Paul is in a sort of novitiate
period now. He will continue his
training and will then wear the Order's
garb, gray suits, crosses hung by red
ribbon about the neck and clerical
collar.
THE BROTHERS agreed that their
work as missionaries is best done
inconspicuously. That is why they
favor the referral system of acquiring
membership.
The Lincoln house, one of 26 such
missionary stations across the United
States, holds meetings three days a
week and Mass on Sunday morning.
The missionary stations and the 1 2
Brotherhouses in the United States
provide bases for the Brothers to
pursue the guiding tenet of the Order,
service to all mankind.
The service is pursured in such ways
as the clasi.es and other community
ientuc piojects. For instance, the
Order maintains a Community Aid
Station in the predominantly black
Fillmore district of San Francisco.
OVER 4.000 people per month are
fed free meals, clothing is available on
request and there are facilities for
housing approximately 20 men per
night.
Brother John stressed that the
Order is entirely self-financed.
"We do not seek donations. The
Brothers and Sisters maintain regular
jobs and donate earnings to the Order.
Each Brotherhouse in the field pays a
10 per cent tithe to the main
headquarters, located in San
Francisco, for educational costs and
for the building fund, to finance
purchases of new Brotherhouses.
ALTHOUGH THE LINCOLN
Brotherhouse has facilities for housing
a few prospective male members,
females "would be sent to the San
Francisco house where there are
housing facilities while they are in the
training period.
In addition to the classes, the
Brothers conduct patrols whereby
members are available on the streets
for counseling or direction.
"We don't preach in the streets,"
Brother John said. "We make ourselves
available to people who wish to
approach us just as we maintain the
Brotherhouse for people who wish to
come here."
THE LINCOLN station has been in
operation for about a year. Brother
John arrived about six months ago and
Brother David came just two weeks
ago. They don't know when they will
be moved as such instructions "come
to Dr. Blighton through revelation."
The Brothers have a small chapel in
the second story of the Lincoln house.
They are beginning to make
improvements with such things is a
new altar-cloth and candle-holders.
Brothers John, David and Paul,
after searching for a long time, have
found God in the the Order and they
maintain the house in Lincoln so that
others, also, might end their search for
God and themselves in this humble
setting.
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