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VOL. LVII. 57th year oj Publication RE Week Schedule .. . . . . appears on pago 7 of today’** papor, listing tho mooting** for tho ontire, \vook. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1996 NO. 65 DK. P \ 1 I. TIIXH II. of Harvard unl\«-r*Hy, It uliciun |,'l\inK the <>|w'n!nx itddrruo of the “Parliament of World HeU^lon*.” Sunday ni-ltt. Dr. Tillich Starts Week s Program It ligious (Evaluation week is underway. It began last night in the Stu dent Union ballroojn with intro duction of the week's speakers by University President O. Meredith WiL«on, and was followed with a very well-received speech by Dr. Paul Tillich. I>i. Tillich's topic was “Man and God in Protestant Christian ity." He spoke to an estimated audience of 5f»0. "Distinguished Protestant Theologian" Tillich was introduced by Presi dent Wilson as "perhaps the most distinguished Protestant theologian in the U.S., and per haps the most distinguished Prot estant theologian in the world." A full column in Time magazine was recently devoted to his views on the “Protestant picture of to day.” In his talk Sunday night Til Tickets Available For RE Fireside Living organization representa tives may pick up their tickets for the Religious. Evaluation week fireside with Dr. Paul Tillich be fore 5 p.m. tonight at the YWCA office Student Union 318. Each organization is allotted one representative for the fire side, to be held Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the SU. Remaining tickets will be available to all students on a first-come, first set ved basis after the 5 p.m. dead line today. Morning Services Held This Week .Morning devotional*, held at 7:30 a.m. every day during Religious Evaluation week, will continue Tuesday with services held liy A.II. Saint Khan, Islam speaker, and by the Rev. Charles Moore of Emerald Bap tist Church. The services are held in Alumni hall and the Men's lounge of Gerlinger hall, respec tively. Both will he held simul taneously. Hch brought out many thought provoking ideas. "The Protestant concept of faith should mean being ulti mately concerned . . . with the courage to take the doubt of one's symbols into one's self. This is a fundamental concept which fol lows from the Protestant con cept. We cannot remove the ele ment of doubt,” he said. Must Accept Doubt The courage to accept this doubt is the Protestant principle. Dr. Tillich said. Kverything con crete Is judged again by God, he said. Dr. Tillich went on: "There is no good of man in ( Please I urn In page eight) RE Speakers Named For Parliament' Talks Judaism Subject Of Third Talk Rabbi Saul White will be the third of seven featured speakers of the "Parliament of World Re ligions" when he speaks on "Man and God in Judaism" tonight at 8 in the Student Union. Me will follow Swami Asos hananda. whose talk is scheduled this afternoon, and the address of Dr. Paul Tillich Sunday. An address on Eastern Ortho dox Chi istianity by the Very Rev. Leonidas Contos of Los Angeles is scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. The Rev. Hogen Fujimnto of Fresno. Calif., will speak on Buddhism Tuesday at 8 p.m. Islam is the topic of A. R. Sahu Khan, acting head of the Moslem Society of U.S.A.. Wed nesday at 8 p.m. Thursday at 2 p.m. the Rev. Archibald Mc Dowell of Portland University will speak on Roman Catholic Christianity. Rabbi White is the spiritual . leader of Congregation Beth Sholom in San*Francisco. He is a graduate of New York university and the Hebrew Union college. Jewish Institute of Re ligion in New York City, where he was ordained rabbi. , The Rabbi participates in com munity activities in San Fran cisco, and is vice-president of the Board of Rabbis of Northern California. He has conducted a weekly column for one Jewish periodical for ten years, as well as written for many other magazines. SWA MI ASESHANADA Hindu Speaker Today RABBI SAUI. WHITE Will Speak Tonight OCA Members Schedule Cemetery Clean-up Plans By Phil Hager Emarald Staff Writer Pioneer cemetery, long regard ed as the “campus eyesore,” is going to be cleaned up. So have promised members of the Odd-Fellow Cemetery asso ciation (OCA). "We’re going to clean it up." said board member Dolph How ard, Monday night, and “try to improve it to a point that brings it up with the rest of the Uni versity.” The Cemetery association, just recently re-activated, has already taken some action towards get ting the cemetery in better shape. Members persuaded the city to enact an ordinance prohibiting anyone in the cemetery from two hours after sundown until sun rise. This move seems already to have helped the situation. Ac cording to Edwin Hansen, board chairman, only a few students have trespassed, and they did it only once. The cemetery has long been noted for anything but lovely grounds. It has long been used for anything but respecting the dead. A late evening winter stroll through the cemetery would be hindered by beer cans, papers, coffee cans, weeds, and other debris. One would note huge car tire marks over graves. Well worn paths run directly over I some graves. Monuments have been tipped over and broken; grass grows where they once stood. An esti mated 75 of the monuments were damaged last year, probably half ! of them during Homecoming weekend. A broken-down, unpainted, rickety fence surrounds only a small part of the cemetery. But all this will change, Odd Fellow Cemetery association members assure. Need Cooperation "We would like the proper co operation from the students. We want to avoid the necessity of fencing the property. We’re at all times willing to co-operate with the University as far as it is humanly possible,” Board Mem ber Howard said. "We want the cemetery to be a beauty spot . . . not an eyesore.” The cleaning up of the ccmc tery is apparently the first move of the newly re-organized Odd Fellow Cemetery Association. Previously, another organiza tion, the Pioneer Memorial Park association, had been set up. However, OCA members said Monday, that association will be dissolved in the near future. University Had Ideas In the past. University officials had toyed with various ideas that would take part of the cemetery for University use, such as for the construction of dormitories, intramural areas, or an audi torium. Those plans would have in cluded space for a “piojjeer me morial," as sort of a tribute to the pioneers of old. Now. it appears, it will be a very long time before there is University construction on the cemetery grounds. OCA members answer a firm "no" to the ques tion of the University buying space for any construction it might have had in mind. But regardless of whether or not the University ever builds on the cemetery grounds, those grounds, OCA members say, will most assuredly be beautified. Swami Speaks About Hinduism Swami Aseshananda will |speak on “Man and God in Hinduism” today at 4 p.m. in the ballroom of the Student ' Union. His address will be the 'cc ond of the 1956 “Parliament of World Religions,” which will feature speeches by rep resentatives of seven of the world’s leading faiths. Devotional* were held this morning at Gerlinger hall, which will be a regular event each morning of Religious Evaluation I week. The seven speakei s will also lecture in classrooms today, ; Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs day, the final day of the Parlia t ment. Swami Aseshananda represents a religion which centers in India. He has been head of the Ve danta Society center in Portland ! for the past year. Since coming to the United States in 1947 he • has worked with similar centers j in New York City, Boston and Providence, R.I. For five years he was spiritual leader of the Ramakrishna Monastery in Cali :fornia. Swami Aseshananda has writ ten several articles in Vedanta and the WTest. SU Petitions Due At 5 P.M. Tuesday Tuesday at 5 p.m. is the dead line for petitions for four stand ing committees of the Student Union. Openings are now available on the music, personnel, creative arts and hospitality committees, according to SU personnel chair man Dick Hyder. Students who petitioned in the fall and were not selected are urged by Hyder to petition again. Anyone with a 2.0 GPA may apply. Forms may be picked up and returned at the petition box on the third floor ,of the SU. 'Y' Hop Petitions Due Wednesday Petitions for committee mem bers for the Heart Hop are due Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the YWCA office in Gerlinger hall. Any student may petition for the committees, which are king selection and coronation, tickets, decorations, promotion, and pub licity. Petitions may be obtained in the ASUO petition box on the Student Union third floor. The Heart Hop will be held Feb. 11 at Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Kappa, and Chi Omega.