Friday, November 3, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Jelly dates, Puff Pant Proms—
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shirts. Then they would march across campus and down Massachusetts Street to a free movie. The parade was discontinued because too many store windows along the route were broken.
Another traditional parade which still remains today is the Torchlight Parade. Torch-bearing freshmen marched to the stadium, where they became official Jayhawkers.
There were traditional days,
too. "Dandelion Day," began by
Charles Wright, present mayor of Topeka, gave students the opportunity to weed the campus grounds. Classes were dismissed for the day.
Classes were not dismissed for the annual "Hobo Day," however. Students wore patched and ragged clothing to class meetings.
An honorary men's pep society, the "Ku Ku Club" (originally the "Ku Ku Klan") initiated its members by paddling them and making them duck-walk up 14th Street.
Statues also have traditions.
The well-known statue of Jimmy Green in front of Green Hall has always been a target for rival engineering students. Armed with paint buckets, they vandalize the statue at irregular intervals. One year, Jimmy sported a pink coat and green-striped trousers.
The statue of "The Pioneer," which stood before old Fraser Hall prior to its removal when Fraser was torn down, had an interesting legend. If a virgin would have walked past the statue, the man would have turned the earth with his spade.
Old Robinson criticized-
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Continued from page 3 Only a month later, more discontent arose.
Apparently the complaints concerned inadequate gym equipment. An instructor of physical education was quoted in the Kansas:
'Little equipment'
"The athletes of known ability in the University are given every advantage in the way of equipment . . . and other necessities and luxuries. The average student, however, has to put up with scant and inferior apparatus and many other inconveniences. . . . The gym equipment, a great deal of which is homemade, clumsy and practically immovable, is by no means sufficient."
In 1925, a minor furor arose over other facilities in the gym. This time the issue was fire escapes.
"The risk of life has long been recognized whenever a convocation, a concert, dance or an athletic event has been held in the gymnasium," H. H. Ball, then superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds, said on Feb. 20 of that year.
Built fire escapes
Fire escapes were eventually built.
From then until 1938, Old Robinson apparently stayed out of the unfavorable limelight. However, on May 25, 1938, the Daily Kansan began to mention the need for a so-called "women's building" to supplement the gymnasium. The paper editorialized:
"We need a women's building because, for individual and dual sports, the department cannot handle as many people in the available space as desireable. . . . The present gym is inadequate for use by both men and women. Our need is not for a new gymnasium to replace the present one, but another gymnasium in addition. . . "
Nine years later, the need was filled—partially.
Surplus building for women "The new building next to the intramural athletic field may be familiar to you if you were ever
at the Coffeyville Army air base," said a newspaper article on July 22, 1947. "It's the new gymnasium."
The "new gymnasium" was Robinson Annex, a converted World War II army barracks adjacent to Malott Hall. Intended for use as a temporary emergency measure, it remained until 1966 when it was razed to make room for the new biological life sciences building.
The final death throes of Old Robinson began in 1961 with a final drive to replace the structure. A Daily Kansan survey in January of that year showed KU's gymnasium to be inferior to all other gymnasiums in the Big Eight—and even to many Kansas high schools.
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