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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday. November 28,1967
Cinderella and KU football
Well, sports fans, 'tis nigh on to the night before Christmas and time for the ol' rangey story-teller to spin another yarn you'll find familiar. So, sit down, take a glass of Christmas cheer—purely to cry in while I tell my tear-jerker—and I'll get on with it.
Once upon a mid-decade dreary, in the far hinterlands of a powerful and athletically-incited kingdom, there lived eight sisters. These fair damsels' names were Kitty, Buffie, Okie (and her twin sister whom they called "The Cowgirl"), Missie, Ida Sue, one whose name I never can remember but who was kinda husky, and Jayne.
Now, in this land, the people were also very social and liked to dance. They did a very spiritied type of folk dance called foot balls.
Some of the eight sisters danced very well. At the start of this year's social season, all the handsome princes thought Buffie would be the belle of the foot balls. However, there were those who thought Okie would be the belle, and there were a lot who were ardent supporters of the husky sister.
All the sisters used to love these foot balls, even those who weren't very good dancers. But the good dancers soon made jokes about those who weren't good dancers. They particularly began to laugh at Jayne.
"Look at Jayne," they would say while pointing and chuckling. "She has lead in her feet, and can't dance worth a tinker's dam. None of the handsome princes will like her."
And it was true. None of the handsome princes thought Jayne could dance well at all. She was never the belle of any ball, except when she would be at the same ball as Kitty, who danced even worse than Jayne.
Then, after the '66 (I think it was) season, along came a fairy godfather—a little angelic-smiling person named Peppy (all them magic people have them funny names).
And so Peppy did wonderful things and mumbled magic incantations, and Jayne got to
be a better dancer in a hurry. In fact, she get to be such a good dancer, she beat out the book sister at one of the foot balls dance contests. Then she also danced better than four of her other sisters.
Not only that, but she danced almost as well as the two other sisters. This amazed everyone, including and particularly the other sisters and the handsome princes who spread information abroad to the populace of the realm where the eight sisters lived.
Then it came time for the handsome princess to have their annual balls which were so big and so grand and so exciting they were called bowls.
Okie was the first to be invited. She was invited to go to the southern part of the realm. She was told the theme of the bowl would be "Orange." and to be sure to bring some oranges to throw at the other dancers-orange throwing being the custom in the South.
Then Buffie got an invitation to go to a bowl which was also in the South. The theme of this bowl would be "Bluebonnet" since it pictured the Old South.
Even the husky sister head rumers of handsome princes waiting to ask her to go to a bwlw.
All the sisters who were good dancers were invited to go to a bowl, except peer, peer Jayne.
She sat at home and moped. Nothing could console her, for she knew how close she had come to dancing better than Buffie and Okie and two beautiful dancers who had been from other parts of the realm.
But the magic godfather Peppy was doing other things. He sat in his cave in Allen Mountain and peered into a bubbling cauldron, muttering strange, wonderous and mystical sayings like, "Y'all wait 'til next year. Ah've got some tricks up mah strange, wonderous and mystical sleeves."
And that's the way the story ends, sports fans. The sisters had worked Jayne over again. They had turned the eyes of the handsome princes from the lovely and good-dancing Jayne.
Will Hardesty
...quotes...
"We Never Thought About The Possibility Of A President Becoming An Actor"
and showered him with orchid and rose petals on a recent trip: "This is great."
Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President, while Indonesian girls with flowers in their hair danced
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Back in 1947, a man named John Howard Lawson became one of the celebrated Hollywood group of film writers who tangled with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. As a man of the left in his political persuasions he was labeled "Red." Lawson's recent book, Film: the Creative Process, has been issued in paperback by Hill and Wang ($2.55; in cloth $7.95): It is not a Communist tract, if that's worrying you. It is a treatment of the film as art, and as such is a book that should be of special appeal to many students at the University of Kansas.
Unless, that is, their appreciation is for the "movies" rather than film." Lawson begins historically with the pioneers, such as Mélies and the other creators of narrative films. Then there are of course such obvious persons to consider as Griffith, Chaplin, von Stroheim, Eisenstein and Pudovkin, right up to such contemporary artists as Buñuel, Bergman and Fellini. On the way there are brief stops to look at John Ford, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Rossellini and others.
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Letters to the editor
OU fans apologize for orange-throwing
To the KU student body:
On behalf of the Oklahoma University student body, I would sincerely like to apologize for the juvenile and crude conduct of the student body at the game here in Owen's Stadium Nov. 18.
Steva Fitz
OU Cheerleeder
Although the game may have been one of the greatest comebacks in OU's history, it was definitely one of the worst marks on the reputation of the student body at OU.
Again, I would like to express our sincere regrets and I hope our apologies are accepted.
The shower of oranges at your fans and team was completely uncalled for and a very poor way of showing our enthusiasm for the victory.
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I would like to take this opportunity to express my apologies to the Kansas Jayhawk football team and the Kansas fans for the extreme rudeness exhibited toward them by a significant segment of the OU fans at the game in Norman, Okla. I am referring to the repeated incidents of orange throwing by these OU fans.
To the Editor:
There is really no excuse for the rudeness of these people. I just want to point out that a
great number of Scorer fans, myself included, were very much upet and angered by what happened.
Arthur Dudenhoeffer OU graduate student
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To the Editor:
I, as a student of the University of Oklahoma, would apologize to the University of Kansas, its student body and fans and, most especially, to its fine football team for the shabby display of un sportsmanlike conduct which I witnessed here at Owen Field.
Tonse people, students or no, who were involved in this disgraceful act are not representative of the people of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma football fans in particular.
I am reasonably sure the administration of the University of Oklahoma will submit a formal letter of apology to the University of Kansas but that seems to be too little too late since they took no steps to prevent this outrage. I would even say they encouraged it by allowing the oranges to be sold on the University grounds.
I would also say that the members of the University of Kansas football team showed remarkable restraint while being subjected to such outrageous treatment. Coach Rodgers are to be commended on
the fine job he has done as head coach and in building a team discipline that could play so well while being treated in such uncash manner.
Dissecrated.
John R. Stewart
CU student
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To the Editor:
As a student and football fan at the University of Oklahoma, I want to extend personal apologies to the University of Kansas football team, coaches, and fans for the unsportsmanlike, unnecessary, and untypical actions of some OU fans at the game between KU and OU here in Norman on Nov. 18. I can certainly sympathize with Coach Pepper Rodgers' and the players' bitter attitude following this game.
Since I was once a Kansan myself, I would hope that the students, fans, players, and coaches at KU can forgive the harsh excesses of some unthinking and inhospitable Oklahomans. I would hope that you would not think that this is typical of an Oklahoma host.
I also hope that you will try to understand our enthusiasm for what we think is a fine football team. Unfortunately, some fans were not content to toss a few oranges on the fields in hopes of an Orange Bowl bid; the few felt
it necessary to throw them at KU fans, players, and coaches.
You should realize that to most OU students and fans this was a shameful and disgraceful black mark against our school and state, and ruined an otherwise fine football game. These acts were personally degrading to many of us who deeply resented such behavior.
Next, let me say what a fne football team KU has. I have seen most OU games this fall and, in my opinion, KU is by far the toughest team we have faced this year—and that includes Colorado and Texas.
Also, let me mention that orange-throwing began on a very small scale at OU a few years ago as we were defeating Nebraska to win the Big Eight and land a bowl berth. But this involved only a few fruit thrown onto the field, nothing to disrupt the game and disturb the guest team, and I hope you could understand this type of colorful enthusiasm. But that was nothing to match the atrocious actions ofOU fans in the KU game.
This has been a most regrettable incident and I hope you will forgive your neighbors to the south and not let this cause hard feelings between two great states and great universities.
Ned Tuck OU senior