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Fridav. October 14, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Record-setter
A young KU athlete named Jim Ryan, with the help of his longtime coach Bob Timmons, set the sports world on its ear in 1967 by reeling off a 3.51 m lift in the national high jumping championship.
'Satchmo' highlighted last big homecoming
By CATHY RISCH
Staff Writer
Homecoming in 1967 was full of traditional parades, pep rallies, decorations and the crowning of a homecoming queen. The annual intricate rival, Kansas State University, in a football game, and Louis Armstrong played heart and soul into his trumpet at the homecoming
All the activities, in fact, made it impossible to tell that Homecoming 67 later would be considered the last of the big changes since the 2010 overcast by the shadows of disillusionment.
The year 1967 was one of foreshadowings of transition and change in the nation, and University of Kansas. In three years, immumu would be a homecoming without parades, displays or a queen as students voiced their disapproval of time-honored traditions.
HOWEVER, THE events that marked homecoming in 1967 showed no outward threat.
Throughout the week before Homecoming Day, decorations and displays on the theme "Jayhawker Headlines" were set up in front of various living groups.
The number of queen candidates was winnowed to three, and students gathered for what was to be the last torchlight parade. Grouping at different spots in
Lawrence, they marched to Hoch
Auditorium for a bounce rep pally. Pepper
Rodgers, head football coach, introduced
his players.
Cheers erupted a few days later when after a record 44,500 fans watched the Jayhawks beat KState in a close game. In the game's final minutes, Bill Bickell called a field goal from the 39-yard line, making the final score KU17, KState 16.
Louis Armstrong later played and sang before a sellout crowd in Allen Field House. One student who helped make the concert possible was David Pitts, SUA homecoming concert committee chairman. He concerted with many artists as the peak of traditional ideas and activities.
After 1967, the fervor and excitement surrounding homecoming wanted, Pitts who now lives in Denver, said recently. However, he said, some tensions that would create problems later were evident around 2005, although they did not surface until later years.
"The blacks thought that they were being discriminated against because no black woman ever made homecoming queen or was chosen for cheerleader," he said.
Homecoming lost its appeal after 1967, it said, because the students believed it was a failure.
"I think Homecoming '87 could be considered the last big one," he said. "It was a hard time for me."
KU took pride in '67 triumphs
By DICK DODSON and ALLEN GILSTRAP
The tall, gaud young man from Kansas limbered up beneath the hot California sun and moments later exploded past the other runners to establish a world record.
Staff Writers
As he walked from the track with thousands of fans cheering, the KU sophomore became the pride of Kansas for 1967.
The year began with a red-bot Jayhawk basketball team, led by All-America candidate Jo White. Coach Ted Owens was completing his third year at KU, and his team was on its way to a second consecutive Big Eight Conference championship.
Jim Ryun's 3:51.1 performance in the National AAU mile was the biggest triumph of the year in KU athletics, but it was not the only one.
The Hawk's first place finish gave them a berth in the NCAA N widest regional playoffs. They played well against the Cougars in the quarter-finals but lost. 68-55.
MEANWHILE, THE KU track team finished its indoor season by sweeping the Big Eight Championships and placing third in the NCAA Tour. He won both the Big Eight and NCAA mile.
The consolation game between Kansas and Louisville, both nationally ranked; KU won the contest and finished the season with a 234 record.
The world record for the sprint medley was broken by Ryun and his teammates at the Texas Relays. Gary Ard, Ben Olson, Jack Reck and Ryun set the world record of 3:15.2.
At the Kansas Relays, more than 23,000 fans from the Ryan race to a win in the Glenn Cannings Classic.
He continued the swift pace in the summer by breaking two world records in 16 days. On July 9, he defeated Keni's Kip Keino and set a world record in the 1,000 meters. Two weeks later, Ryan ran his 3:51.1 mile in the Los Angeles Coliseum, a record that was untouched for nearly a year.
Ryun continued his rampage of sub-four-
minute miles and won both the Big Eight
and NCAA mile run and the Big Eight 880-
yard run.
RYUN RETURNED from Los Angeles, having earned Sport magazine's award for "Top Performer in Track and Field for the California sun." He returned to the California sun continued to shine on KU.
UCLA assistant football coach Pepper
doggers left Los Angeles that summer to
be traded.
Looking back ...10 years
"The 1967 KU football team will win more games than the experts predict, but less than the alumni desire," Rodgers said prior to the season ooper.
Kansas had finished last in the Big Eight the previous year and was picked to finish seventh.
However, Rodgers' orthodox coaching theories, combined with the talents of sophomore quarterback Bobby Douglass, made Kinsel the cinderella team of the Big Ten.
The Jayhawks lost their three games by close scores, then strained to a second loss. The Eagles had
KANASS CLINICNED the tie for second place by beating Missouri for the first time
After the MU game, Rodgers said, "Football is over. We've had a great climax Now let's get behind our Big Eight champion basketball team."
It was a good year for the Jayhawks, and it set the tone for the following year when Jo White led his team to second place in the National Invitational Tournament.
Pepper
Colorful Jayper Rodgers began a four-year football coaching career at KU in 1987. The Jaipurists started slowly that year but rebounded to finish with a 5-2 score. Led by young quarterback Bobby Douglass, KU laid the groundwork for the following season's 9-1 regular season record and trip to the Orange Bowl.
Apathy, distrust marked student government
By MARY HOEN]
Staff Writer
Student government at the University of
ansas a decade ago was alive and barely
aware of what happened.
It was a time when apathy toward student politics had mushroomed to the point that only a fraction of the student body participated.
It was a time when students who were involved became frustrated with a vision of change.
Yet it was a time when attempts were made by that handful of students to reshape their government and make students aware of issues.
"For many years, the All Student Council (ASC) had been caught in an archaic and outdated system of student government," he said recently.
Change in the form of student government was past due, according to Al Martin, 1967 student body president and a 1968 graduate. Martin now lives in Olathe.
The reorganization bill created, the Feb. 10, 2007, issue of the Kaman state "a small step in the right direction," said
RECOGNIZING THE need for action, Martin made a proposal that spring for a complete reorganization of the ASC, emphasizing election reform.
The student government did not have a working role in the University, Martin said, because it had three separate branches like the national government and was too bulky.
one proposal included demands for a reduction in the size of the ASC, a reduction in the number of elections each year from two to one and elimination of a system under which the number of vetoes determined the size of ASC.
But the ASC, unable to agree on the specific aspects of the proposal, rejected the
Although discouraged by the defeat of the election reform measure, Martin said, he managed to revamp the ASC committee system before the elections in April 1967.
The spring presidential race pitied Kyle Craig of the University Party against Ken North of the Vox Populi party. Both were 1968 graduates.
CRAIG, PROMOTTING a platform that in-
  an alternative proposal for the revision
  of election of members.
Even though Craig's proposal creating new polling procedures was adopted, he remained dissatisfied with the way students were being represented.
*‘One area that we didn’t cover very well was representing the student voice in the classroom.’*
Craig, now an account executive in Tampa, Fa, said that the difficulties stemmed from conflicts on many administrative levels and a stereotype that assumed all ASC members were the same approaches to solving problems.
"We gave meaning to what we were doing," Craig said, "but we just didn't have the credibility. We needed divergent voices."
If a student was a member of ASC, Craig
was assumed he wanted nothing to do
with it.
THE PREVAILING opinion of ASC became increasingly apparent during the fall and climaxed in October when an issue evolved out of an administrative decision to reduce the number of open hours at Watson Library.
Craig said the initial stand of the ASC to back the administration decision was right.
"We had talked to student leaders and they had said that the change in library hours had not affected their groups because they were still working together with the library's period of least use."
But a group of students organized under the name of the Independent Student Party (ISP) took a stand against the administration and the ASC.
According to the vice chairwoman for the party's central committee, a protest petition, circulated by the ISP and signed by 308 members, demanded the reversal of the administration's decision.
Short was sweet for skirts, hair
Photo courtesy of the Stables
Fashionable
This clean-cut student bartender wears the proper male student outfit of 1987: V-neck sweater over a turtleneck shirt.
By MARY ANNE OLIVAR
Staff Writer
Evidence that the group existed was found in an ad published in the 1967 Jawhaker.
Women were no longer abiding by an Association of Women Students dress code, several former students said recently. And the new look delighted with the new look of KU women.
Short A-line skirts, about 2 inches above the knee, cotton blouses underneath V-neck sweaters, knee socks and loafers provided with extra padding. Those who were part of this small revolution.
In 1967, the University of Kansas went straight in a year when psychedelic fashions were on the go and mini-skirts were as high as boots could be without completely disappearing.
"Straight," a then-new hipknee word,
"steep." He now bove the knee for women
short or hip or knee.
issues," Craig explained, "and this created more apathy with only one side being represented."
By any standards, neither the hipie movement nor the Twiggy-ish styles were flowering at KU as they were on the East Coast, according to a number of 1967 students.
"The big thing for guys was to sit on the railing in front of a Bail Hall and watch the game."
But to many students, KU was "in" enough.
Linda Simpson, former KU student and a KU best-dressed coed in 1976, rememberms her feisty fraternity swater." Another craze, according to a Kanan article that year, was false eyelashes. Old make-up gimmicks, such as eyebrow pencil, were dropped for
'People would like girls' sit in the front 'People would like girls' sit in the front 'People would like girls' former student 'People would like girls' former student 'People would like girls' former student
THE SKIRTS ALSO may have provided some happiness to teachers.
But instructors were not the only ones to admire women.
Women usually used some white eve
It was a political organization named Pachacamac, which Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, remembers as a "campus" rooted in the Greeks" and clutched in secret.
BUT THERE WERE traces of another voice on the KU campus that might have been heard by members of those involved in student politics in 1967.
SIMPSON TERMED the kind of make-up very natural." Hair styles, however, were common.
shadow below the eyebrow for an added sparkle. Their lips sportedburned and white lipstick. And blusher and moisturizer were increasingly popular.
"Believe it or not, people were still ratting their hair." Simpson said.
To what extent Pachacamac was involved in the issues surrounding student government in 1967 is unknown, but it might have had a voice in influencing elections.
The issues that students were concerned with during the fall of 1967, according to Craig, included demands for increasing the number of hours that residence halls were open.
Bouffant hair styles were in. And to keep hair in place, Jo Jaurir, former student and an attendant to the 1967 Jayhawen queen, women had to use a lot of hair spray.
IN SUMMER, however, women had fewer problems matching colors; they were much less. Some T-shirts and blouses spotted high on the list of favorite chemistries — 'LSD-, Better living through chemistry.'
Simpson also remembers "a real craal for piercing ears." However, she said, tiny earrings were in, not the bigger ones that soon would become nonull.
Winter's cold dictated a new style: high socks for short-skirted women. Because of snow, low-heeled boots were more utilitarian than fashionable high-heeled boots.
Navy blue and camel cotavera were popular, Simpson said, and because it was so expensive, they were out of stock.
M men dressed in cords, loafers and V-neck and turtleneck sweaters.
"The Society of Pachacamac," the ad said, "although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in students' and affairs at the University of Kannas."
Joe Flannery, former KU student and now advertising manager for Weaver's, a Lawrence department store, said that the students were popular and that pants were worn short.
"You could always see socks and ankles," Burr said.
Generally, neither men nor women wore blue jeans to classes. However, "articles," as art students were called, were exceptions to this rule.
Lightstone said students were more concerned about what they wore than students are today. Simp'on agreed: "We were very square."
THEIS ISP VICTORY gave the party members momentum to create a platform stating their anger over a lack of concern for student body by the student government.
But according to Craig, the ISP, with about 15 hard-core members, was only a small minority.
Despite the group's efforts, apathy prevailed and the ISP did not obtain enough student signatures for recognition as a legal election party in time for the November elections.
"The group never really grew as an organized political group that year because they were dealing with issues that really didn't excite students at the time," he said.
with the ISP out of the race and with the vox Foppal party collapsed, the University Pepal
"The determining factor became who wanted to run rather than defining the
"THEERE WEREN'T many key issues," Craig said, "but we did try to expand people's thinking on national issues by bringing in speakers like Bob Kennedy."
Kennedy, a Senator from New York, was seeking the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.
Much awareness of national issues was given attention by the Associated Student Governments of America conference, which Craia attended.
"I found out that KU was pretty insulated from national issues," Craig said.
But he said that although KU was not doing as much as other schools in the area of national issues, it was far ahead of many other universities.
"Schools were really starting to get a grip on the issues, but nobody wanted to get involved in making changes," Craig said. "It is time we knew how to turn that corner of issues into action."
Craig said the KU student government of 1967 was one that helped set the scene for the governments of 1968 and 1969, which were forced into taking an active role and succeeded in forming an over-all program of change.
Wholesale campus facelift uprooted aging buildings
in 1967, at the beginning of its second century. The campus was built on the model of a whole building.
In a span of only five years, beginning in 1965, four major buildings along Jayhawk Boulevard were razed to make way for new high-rise apartment buildings made, old Fraser Hall, on the site of the present building of the same name; Myers Hall, across Jayhawk Boulevard from the Kansas Union; and old Robinson Gym and Bowling Green, across Jayhawk Boulevard from Strong Hall, would be gone.
Robinson and Haworth were removed to make room for Wescole Hall. Plans for Wescole were announced in November 1867, and more than a few eyewitnesses around the state.
As originally planned, Wesley was to be a 25-story skycraper, the largest building in Denver. It would be approximately 100 feet wide.
faculty offices, 28 graduate seminar rooms and 71 study rooms. Two adjoining five-story wings were to hold 51 classrooms and 11 undergraduate study rooms.
The original plan was scrapped because of high costs, and today Wessex Hall stands at 105m.
Meanwhile, construction on Spencer Research Library behind Strong was in full swing in 1967. West campus, the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory was being completed. The laboratory was designed to Taurus Higuera internationally known expert physician who arrived to become professor of pharmacy and chemistry.
At Memorial Stadium, football fans were using a 6,500-seat addition to the east side of the stadium. The addition made room for 200 boys. We've been watching games from end-zone seats.