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Creative community sought by UMHBcooroJnator
By Sarah Boslaugh
A search for a "more creative type of
community" has led to the beginning of a
'covenant community" at UMHE
Commonplace, 333 N. 14 St.. according to
the Rev. Larry Doerr, coordinator.
Six UNL students will live at
Commonplace, and at least six more will be
nonresident members, he said.
The six residents,' chosen by a
committee of Doerr, resource consultant
Sue Tidball, one student, two
representatives of the Commonplace
Porgram Committee and one from the
Personnel Committee, were notified of
their selection about a week and a half ago,
Doerr said.
For about five years, students have lived
in the house and paid rent, Tidball said.
Community with a purpose
The residents now will be starting "a
community with a purpose" rather than
just providing housing, she said.
Community members will spend time in
various disciplines, according to Doerr.
They will lead study groups on various
aspects of the Judeo-Christian heritage,
maintain the building and grounds, meet
together to learn to relate as a group and
counsel peers, perhaps "crashers"-travelers
who need a place to stay and come to
Commonplace.
Doerr said, "We don't want them to get
so involved in the community they can't
do anything else," and added that members
will be more involved with life outside the
community than with life within.
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churches: the Disciples of Chirst, Church
of the Brethren, United Church of Christ,
United Methodist Church and the United
Presbyterian Church. They are part of
UMHE (United Ministries in Higher
Education), national organization which
includes other churches.
Doerr said ha has been at Commonplace
since fall 1970. He is a Presbyterian
minister and was in campus ministry for 10
years at the University of Minnesota before
coming to UNL.
Kind of experiment
Tidball has been at Commonplace for
10 years. Formerly involved in Christian
education at First Presbyterian Church in
Lincoln, she said her job at Commonplace
began as "a kind of experiment-they
wanted to try having a woman on
campus."
Tidball says she has seen cycles of
change at Commonplace, beginning with a
formal church setting, moving in informal
and less structured activities, and back to
more structured activities, as exemplified
by the "covenant community."
"Ten years ago, we operated like a
church on the campus," she said. "We had
formal Sunday services and the students
dressed up for them."
About five years ago Commonplace
began to look for a more informal way to
worship because "many students were
turned off by the formality of our Sunday
services," she said.
Sit on carpet
The Commonplace chapel, built in the
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1950s, loaned
Omaha church
carpet, she said.
Doerr said Commonplace has held
services in the living room and basement to
try to achieve a more informal atmosphere.
These changes, Tidball said, were moves
to make Commonplace less like a
traditional church so they "could reach
people .who don't find what they want in
traditional ministry."
. Commonplace offers space to groups
needing a place, to meet .according to
Doerr. Groups have included the Gay
Action Group, Nebraska Civil Dberties
Union and the Lincoln Draft Information
Office.
The University Chid Care Project also
operates in space owned by Commonplace,
Tidball said.
Resource center
A resource center which contains tapes,
books and articles about such things as
meditation, Eastern religions and ESP is in
Commonplace, according to Tidball, who
said jt was begun in response to student
interest.
It has sponsored films through the
Nebraska Union Programs Committee,
including last year's "Human Potentials"
series.
The six students who will live in
Commonplace this year are Glenn Pflum,
Mary Stumf, Beth Ulrich, Invce Lococo,
Stanley Johnson and Rebecca Brite.
Pflum, a graduate student in
educational psychological counseling from
Longmost, Colo., said he has been involved
with UMHE since he came to UNL three
years ago to begin work on his master's
degree.
Group counseling
Pflum is working on his Ph.D. and
would counsel groups of college students in
life planning workshops and consciousness
raising.
The concept of "sharing combined with ,
personal growth" at Commonplace
interested him, he said, and that he hoped
to develop peer counseling through contact
with the other community students.
Lococo, a junior English major from
Roca, said he has been associated with
UMHE for four years and was the
building's janitor in 1972-73.
He said he first came to the building
when the Gay Action Group met there and
said Commonplace "has helped me work
through the problems of being gay so I
could go on to a more important
oroblem-human liberation.
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Lococo said he became involved in
other activities at Commonplace and
attended several weekend retreats and
Sunday community services.
He intends , to study psychology in
graduate school and hopes to learn
counseling skills through the covenant
community program, he said.
Commonplace will be moving in two
main directions," Doerr said. Leaders "want
to be a campus ministry rather than just a
student ministry" by involving faculty
members and other campus people in their
programs, he said.
Secondly, they want to "see the
university and community together rather
than isolated from each other."
Unique position
Commonplace occupies what Doerr
called a "uruque position" because it is
adjacent to campus but not university
owned or operated. Because of this, "we
can help students identify with the adult
world rather than as a special group, and:
we can help get community members to
the campus and involved with the
university," he said.
To this end, Doerr said, Commonplace
wilt begin a Sunday evening program which
"will aim to bring people together to
discuss issues of concern to both the
campus and the community."
The program will begin Oct. 5 and last
two months, and will be run again in
February and March.
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