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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 13, 1967
KU residence halls paired for Homecoming displays
Bigger and better living group decorations is the prediction of homecoming committee members since they have raised the budget for decorations to $100 per entry.
Speaking about the $25 increase in expense allowance, Jay Strayer, assistant to the dean of men and co-chairman of the homecoming decorations committee, said, "We thought this would be a more realistic figure for the living groups to work with."
However, more money has not caused a flood of entries. Fred Krebs, Shawnee Mission senior and co-chairman of the homecoming decorations committee, reports the committee has received only two decoration plans.
Entry forms for decorations under this year's theme of "Jayhawker Headlines" must be turned in at the dean of men's office on or before 5 p.m., Oct. 20.
Decoration instructions said "the Jayhawks can be pictured in newsworthy events from fact to
fantasy as they march to victory over the K-State Wildcats."
No newspaper pages
Krebs said the committee did ask houses not to build a mockup of a newspaper front page because this shows little creative effort.
Paired entrants — a men and women's living group working together on one display—will be officially recognized as a decoration division for the first time this year.
The number of entries in the paired division have been limited to eight. The coed residence halls, McCollum and Naismith, are automatically placed in the paired division.
"If everybody paired, it would cut down on the number of displays," Krebs said.
Krebs said there were 35 display entries in the men and women's divisions last year. He said limiting the paired entries would insure a more even distribution of displays in each of the divisions.
Junior class congress announces party plans
The Junior Class Congress has announced plans for a party, to be held Oct. 27, at a meeting Thursday in the Kansas Union Meadowlark Room.
A first, second and third-place trophy will be awarded in each division in addition to a grand prize trophy for the best display from the total entries.
Winners will be announced at the half-time ceremonies of the KU-K-State football game.
The party, at the National Guard armory, will be free to all juniors who have paid dues. All other students will be charged $1.
The group also began organization of a dues drive, said Jim Blakely, junior class president.
"We are in need of fund-raising and service projects," he said. "If anyone has an idea for a project
please contact me or one of the other class officers."
Steak comes to 9 dorms
Blakely said the Congress is planning an all-university variety show this year to benefit Collegiates for Concern, a campus group raising money for a pediatrics hospital in Vietnam.
Elections will be held Thursday night for chairman, vice chairman and secretary of the congress, Blakely said.
Decorations will be judged between 6:30 and 10:30 p.m., Nov. 3, by five judges representing the faculty, students, alumni and city of Lawrence.
Representatives are elected to the congress by juniors in each living group. "We try to provide a liaison between the student and class officers," Blakely said.
The men of Templin Hall recently received what one student termed "a decent meal—for once."
Templin's cafeteria, and those of the other eight residence halls, served steak for dinner.
"Steak is the meal most asked for," said Mrs. Lenoir Ekdahl, supervisory dietician for KU residence halls. "We are glad we can give it to the students more often this year."
Mrs. Ekdahl and her staff have been aided by the $7.50 per month increase in dormitory payments
"The increase is not entirely used for food," she said. "There has also been an increase in the costs of labor."
Besides more steak dinners, the increase has made possible the innovation of a casual roll-and-coffee "continental" breakfast.
However, the meat itself is not as popular as the idea of steak for dinner. Above the cry of "quit complaining—it's steak, isn't it?" Ted McFarlane, Wichita sophomore, said, "It's a good idea, but if they're going to give us steak, it should be a better quality steak."
Nymphs, bods' featured in senior carnival booth
The seniors may be starting a new SUA Carnival tradition this year.
They will have their own booth at the carnival Saturday night at the Kansas Union. Steve Swift, Shawnee Mission senior, said the title of the booth will be "Nero's Nymphs or Bucchus and his Eods."
Swift said the booth was the idea of the Special Project Committee.
Tickets for the skirts and booths will be ten cents.
"Roman Jollies and their Dollies" or "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Union" is the theme of the 1967 SUA Carnival. In addition to the senior booth, thirty other booths and ten skits, sponsored by the various campus living groups, will compete for trophies from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Programs containing the locations of skits, lists of living groups and their booths, and names of queen candidates will be distributed at carnival entrances. Maps will also be posted in the Ballroom area showing booth locations.
Winners in the skit and booth competition will be announced at the 10:15 p.m. grand finale. First, second and third place trophies for the best boots, and first and second place trophies for the best skits will be awarded.
Trophies will be presented by the SUA Carnival queen after her crowning.
Pictures of the queen candidates have been posted in the Union lobby this week.
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