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They say you can't fight the system.
One man dared to.
SUNDAY at 7:00
to impiwe (Greek
A full calendar of programs
and activities for residence hall
students is slated for Residence
Hall Week, which begins Sunday.
The week's activities include a
free campuswide dance at the
Nebraska Union, a trivia bowl, a
mock election and a free showing
of "The BigChilL"
RH Week chairman Kevin Kis
singer said the event was origi
nally planned by the officers
elected last spring in an effort for
more special programming.
Twenty-seven teams will com
pete in a trivia bowl for $280 cash
beginning Tuesday, with the final
four competing Thursday. A $1 60
first prize will be given to the
winning three-member team.
On Friday, the pop-rock band
Inasense will play at a free "Cam
pus Pride" dance in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom.
The dance kind of goes in with
our effort to improve Greek rela
tions," Kissinger said. He said it
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Sinclair's best advice was to "lie
round in the sun and read story
books and take care of your body,
and leave the soul-exercise and
the nervous efforts until the fast
is over."
Fasting as a sacrificial rite goes
back many centuries. In his "Sac
rifice in the Old Testament,"
Buchanan Gray quoted a sacrifi
cial fasting prayer:
"Master of the Universe, it is
revealed that men sinned and
brought sacrifice, of which the fat
and blood was offered and this
atoned for them; and now I have
st fasting and my fat and blood
has been diminished. May it be
Thy will that it maybe accounted
unto me as though I had offered
- it on the altar, and do Thou
accept it from me with favor."
Gray shows in his book that
fasting and other sacrificial rights
are largely based on ancient pagan
practices performed for a multi
tude of gods gods of the ele
ments, seasons, the harvest.
Now this idea of pagan origins
may not bother Falwell's flock.
Alter all, I'm sure they celebrate
Christmas and Easter, which were
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was called a "Campus Pride" dance
because it would not only be
open to hall residents, but also to
fraternity, sorority and off-campus
students.
Greek relations is set as the
main topic of Thursday's RHA
meeting. Presidents of the Intra
fraternity Council and Panhellenic
Council will be there to discuss
problems and answer questions.
Special educational programs
in each residence hall complex
will be offered in conjunction
with RH Week on Tuesday and
Wednesday. Programs will include
a sexual awareness seminar at
Burr-Fedde and a program on
alcohol and drug abuse at Harper-Schramm-Smith.
Students at Abel-Sandoz can
hear a talk on ways for the career
minded to maintain a successful
relationship. Selleck Quadrangle
residents can hear Administra
tive Dietician Anne Dumper ad
dress the problems of "surviving"
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purposely scheduled by early
Christian fathers in winter and
spring to coincide with pagan
festivals of the winter solstice
and the new year, and the coming
of spring and the planting season.
November is full of big festivals.
Nov. 1 is the Feast of All Saints,
celebrating the conversion of the
pantheon in Rome to Christianity
in the seventh century. And Nov.
2 is All Soul's Day for Roman
Catholics, who traditionally threw
a sumptuous feast for souls in
purgatory who were supposed to
revisit earth temporarily and
make merry on the scene of their
pilgrimage.
While this feasting may also be
based on pagan rites, at least it
was positive action. If I was the
Master of the Universe, I would
rather watch people have fun
with their belief than sadistically
watch them test themselves
through voluntary starvation.
And least you try to argue that
such positive behavior could lead
to extremes gluttony, orgies,
widespread drunkenness I will
again refer you to history. '
Sergius Morgulis, a University
of Nebraska Medical Center pro
fessor, wrote the following in his
book "Fasting and Undernutri
tion:" Fastillf! never an even-
handed phenomenon. In the Mid
die Ages it seems that the rich
could forgo fasting and obtain
absolution for a price by buying
indulgences.
"Mass starvation from religious
devotion is an important phe
nomenon in Greek Catholic
societies. Three days of the week
were fasting days, besides several
prolonged seasons of fasting. In
fact, half the year seems to have
been spent fasting. Alcohol was
used to deaden the pain of con
stant hunger, and alcoholism and
liver disease were widespread."
Fasting for political or social
relations
eating in residence halls.
The full schedule of Residence Mall
Week activities:
Sunday:
Residence II til NMjht Downtown
Ted & Wally's, P.O.Pears and PontlUos will
offer special discounts to all hall residents
who show their Validine cards.
Monday:
Mock Election All students will be
able to vote for president, senator and
representative In a straw poll of student
opinion.
Movie Night - "The Big Chill" will be
shown In the Nebraska Union Rostrum at
7 and 9 p.m. No charge for residents with
yalidine.
Tuesday:
EII Week Pronuns Every residence
complex will have special educational
programs conducted by the residential
education staff.
Wednesday:
Trivia Bowl Preliminary rounds will
be from 5 to 11 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union's Georgian Suite. This round is
open to the public. More programs will
continue in individual halls.
symbolism is as old as the Bible
and as new as Bobby Sands' hun
ger strike in strife-torn Ireland.
But such strikes have seldom
brought new converts to any
cause; instead, they merely
heightened the fervor of confirmed
believers.
So instead of fasting for guid
ance or political symbolism, per
haps Falwell and his flock should
take a lesson from America's
"Mother England," land of our
founding fathers.
For hundreds of years, Eng
lish men brave and true would
gather in the tavern and perform
an elaborate toasting ritual to
their sovereign, their government,
their land and their people.
In an edition of the "Book
of Days" found on a dusty shelf in
Love Library, we can read de
scriptions of the political history
of toasting. In ancient scripts, a
maid named Rowena bowed low
before the Celtic king Vortigern
and said, "Waes Heal, hlaford
Cyning" meaning "Be of health,
Lord King." He toasted her in
return, and so the custom began.
Willam of Malmesbury wrote:
"It is said that the death of young
King Edward who was stabbed in
the back by his stepmother as he
was drinking led to the tradition
of holding up a knyfe, pledging
protection as a toast."
"The loyalty of the English to
Charles II was shewn by such a
frequency of drinking to his heal
th,as to threaten to disturb the
peace," the "Book of Days" says.
Ward's "Living Speeches of Dying
Christians," dated in 1600, cites
one martyr as saying "My Saviour
began to me in a bitter cup; and
shall I not pledge him?" (drink to
him the same).
Through the Middle Ages and
English renaissance, an elaborate
toasting ritual had developed. On
the night before new crownings,
meetings of new Parliaments, and
so on, lords and peasants alike
would gather in the castles. Toasts
typically began with: The Queen!"
or "The King!", followed by "Weale
and worship!" through "The
Queen's College!" and "The Good
Court!" By the end of the night,
revelers may have toasted the
lord's wife, children, crops, bowl,
dog and horse depending on
how fond the lord wa3 of ale.
So rather than fast before the
election Nov. 6, perhaps we should
feast instead I think folks think
clearer with a full stomach' and
clear head
As for myself, IU be down at
Chesterfield's, toasting hopes for
a fresh start In the new year
and the foolishness of the old