Homecoming
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88, No.34
Friday October 14,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Back to back: John W. Starr, halfback for the 1927 KU football team, meets Bill Campfield, 1977 halfback, in the Jayhawks' locker room.
Staff Photo by BANDY OLSON
The Kansan today takes a few steps backward in time. This special homecoming issue looks at the way KU is today and the way it was 10, 15, 25 and 50 years ago. This first section in a three-section package has stories about the four Kansan campus issues. Then, beginning on page four, the Kansan backs up to Section B looks back at the way KU was 16, 1922, and 1927. Section C gives the news of the day on campus and around the world. Some highlights;
When alumni come back to KU, they return to a campus facing issues unique to 1977: the future of single-axx. honorary societies, the state funding activities of the University Events Committee. In 1976, students were more worried about the draft, growing anti-war sentiment and the New York City attackers were so weighty, however; 1967 was also the year of the last old-fashioned homecoming.
Just what did a KU student do in '62? Alumni from that period will recall the days of Ben Casey and Perry Como, or Chubby and Robert Brenner, and 33 years ago, in '$2, a Kanans like I was on his way to the White House and a bakery named Joe's opened on Ninth Street. In '72, he bought a home. Phil Alone coached basketball and every impusman was after a "hot sketch."
In a regular news section, the Kansas gives details of a busy homecoming weekend in Lawrence. There are homecoming displays, a football game with Colorado, a concert and a host of other activities. And the Kansas's everyday activities, such as sports and activities. Details are in regular form in this section. In sports, the Kansas' own football prognosticates give their fearless predictions.