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By Becky Brita
Of the eight campus ministries listed in the UNL
Campus Ministry Directory, only six are housed in
actual earn pus centers. -
The Baptist Student Fellowship and the Hillel
Foundation (for Jewish students) both are
coordinated by clergy from Lincoln.
The Rev. Tom Kramer, associate pastor of First
Baptist Church and director of the Baptist Student
Fellowship, said he believed his church is "fortunate
to have students involved."
First Baptist makes no special arrangements tor its
student members, he said, but encourages them to
participate in the congregation's functions and study
groups.
"We hope they (students) will feel as if they are
going to their home church," he said.
Worship is emphasized, he said, and University
'students also may join in Sunday morning and
evening groups which include unmarried career
persons.
Kramer also meets once a week with students or
campus, and he said campus students have organized
Bible studyTgroups in past semesters.
He has had some trouble contacting Baptist
students on campus, he said. Students are asked to fill
out religious preference cards at the beginning of each
semester, and Kramer visits those who indicate
Baptist backgrounds. But he said many students don't
return the cards.
Kramer said he thinks human spiritual needs "have
been repressed for many years, and the seams have
suddenly burst.
"$tdi Jen?v t?v?re is openness to !?2?ous areas ard
freedom to talk about religious interest," he said. "In
some cases, it almost amounts to a new evangelism.
"But human originated spiritualism will not fulfill
religious needs," he cautioned. "That fulfillment
must be sought in God, through Jesus Christ."
Rabbi Robert Kaiser of the South Street
T e m p I e C ongregation B'Nai Jeshurun (Reform
Judaism) receives a small stipend from the Hillel
- Foundation to coordinate ministry to Jewish students
at UNL
Kaiser meets quarterly with about 25 students. He
is also available for counseling and arranging social
activities. On the High Holy Days he is reponsible for
insuring that Jewish students have "a place to go."
There probably is not as much religious activity
among Jewish students as among students of other
faiths, lie said.
"Judaism is not a catechistic (doctrine-based)
faith," he said. "Religion is not separate from our
cultural and social backgrounds-it is part of them."
Kaiser said the tack of a campus center and a
full-time director limits ministry to Jewish students at
UNL He is working now to get funding for a house
or apartment where students can "feel at home with
themselves."
"There is a need for quiet, contemplative places on
this campus," he adrtod,
Kaiser and his colleague, Rabbi Mark Bisman of
Tifereth Isreal Synagogue (Conservative Judaism)
both are relatively new to Lincoln, he said. Because
of this, he said, he was not sure he could comment
accurately on whether interest in religion is increasing,
at UNL.
He said he has noticed an increasing conflict
between "personal interests and interests in causes."
He related it to the drug culture and to "the
experiences of the late '60s.
"(In those years) education was a highly saleable
experience' he said. "It was called a separata culture
and it developed mythic expression; like 'generation
Sap
There was then a tendency, both on the parts of
students and the "establishment," to consider
universities as different from the "real world," he
said. . , . -
"Now students are beginning to examine mottoes
such as 'generation gap' and Establishment,." he said.
"They are discovering that the anxieties of our time
transcend classes and ages.
"instead of looking for differences, they are
searching for the experiences that bind a society
together."
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EAST CAMPUS UNION
Tickets
$3 UN-L Student
$4 NON-Student
. DOORS OPEN AT 7pm
(Near 35th & H0!dredg6) Sponsored by Union Black Activities
Students interested in
applying next fall for the
Fulbright-Hays Scholarships
should attend a meeting at
2:30 p.m. today in Stout Hall
311.
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The UNL Extension
Division will offer English
498F, "Native American
Literature of the Southwest,"
from May 15 to June 7. The
course will Include a field trip
to' Arizona and New Mexico.0
In addition to readings, the
course will offer a study of
geography, personal contacts
with Native Americans, visits
to schools and museums and
attendance at accessible
ceremonials and rituals.
Cost is $200, including
tuition. For further
information contact Alien
Yates, Joe DeFlyer or Russell
Semm in the English Dept.,
Andrews Hall.
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, W. Stevenson's Show
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Blackberry Winter
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Froggie Beaver
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Flippers
12:30 -1:30 p.m.
Friday Rpril 26
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Sheidon Art Gallery
12th & R Sts.
TiHS WEiiC AT SlIELOOrJ
Phillip Strick's
Ulysses
from the novel by James Joyce
starring Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea,
oc iviaufice noeves
Screenings on April 24 at 3, 7 & 9:30pm
Peter Brook's
THE PERSECUTION AND
ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL
MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE
INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF
CHARENTON UNDER THE
DIRECTION OF THE
MARQUIS DE SADE
O3S0 d on a play by Peter Weiss
starring Patrick Ma gee, Glend3 Jackson
Bt Ivan Richardson
Screenings on April 25 at 7 & 3 pm
Admission $1.25
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