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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 5, 1967
Torch parade, opera highlight homecoming
Preparations are in full swing for the 1967 KU homecoming as committees work to schedule a weekend of activity.
Plans call for a new division in living groups' homecoming decorations awards, a torch parade and pep rally, performances of the opera "Gypsy" and a concert by jazz artist Louis Armstrong.
"Jayhawk Headlines" is the homecoming theme for this year's living group decorations.
"Individual living groups will be sent decoration instructions and regulations today," said Jay Strayer, assistant to the dean of men and co-chairman of the homecoming decorations committee.
Decoration plans will be submitted to the decorations committee to insure that the plans are in good taste and that there will be no duplications.
Three classifications
Three Classifications Strayer said decorations will be classed in one of three groups: men's division, women's division or a mixed division. The mixed division, used for the first time this year, will enable women and men's living groups to work together on the construction of a single entry, he said.
A team of judges including KU faculty members and Lawrence townspeople will judge entries Friday night, Nov. 3, on the basis of appeal, cleverness of expression, embodiment of theme, appropriateness, good taste and condition of the decoration.
Strayer said a first, second and
third place trophy will be awarded in each of the three divisions during the half-time ceremonies of the KU-K-State football game, Saturday, Nov. 4. An overall trophy also will be awarded for the best decoration.
"This will be a traveling trophy unless it is won three years in a row by the same living group and is retired." Strayer said.
Traveling trophy
Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall retired the traveling trophy last year.
"Plans are now under discussion for a possible repeat of last year's homecoming torch parade and pep rally," said Vice Chancellor in charge of University Relations James Gunn, co-chairman of the homecoming public relations committee.
SNEA members say teaching's exhausting
New and old members of the Student National Education Association (SNEA) met last night in Ellsworth Hall and heard a panel of teachers say, "It's an exhausting profession."
They told the future teachers to expect to work at least three
Mock Senate begins drive
The Freshman Model Senate membership drive goes into full swing this week, with members of the pilot Steering Committee visiting all living groups armed with posters and information, according to Dave Broyles, Kansas City freshman, publicity chairman and member of the Steering Committee.
The Senate, sponsored by the KU-Y and open to all freshmen, is organized and run entirely by freshmen. The Senate, modeled after the United States Senate, will meet three times, once to draw up bills and the second and third time to discuss them.
The Steering Committee, the organizing nucleus of the Senate, has a goal of 100 members in the drive ending Oct. 17. The committee is made up of ten freshman members of the KU-Y and headed by Bill Ebert, Topeka, and Charlene DeHaven, Hoisington.
'Sisters' elect
Judy Stout, Shawnee Mission senior, has been elected the first president of the Sisters of the Skull, an auxiliary to Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Dottie Cain, Atlantic City, N.J., junior, is vice president, Jan Haley, Kansas City senior, is pledge trainer and Karin Baker, Lawrence senior, is secretary-treasurer.
Sixteen pledges will take the same pledge and initiation tests given the fraternity's pledges.
The auxiliary plans car washes and slave days. Members will be involved in house improvement projects and will wait tables for the fraternity.
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Meetings are held once a month at the Phi Kappa Sigma house.
hours a night preparing for class.
The panel, all either first or second year teachers, told the students to be consistent in punishment and warned against "being a pal" to the children. This would complicate punishment when it became necessary, they said. The male and female panel agreed that women have more trouble with punishment.
Last year spirited KU students gathered hundreds of followers as they organized a torch parade which filed to Strong Hall for a bonfire and pep rally in below-freezing temperatures. The parade would probably be during the week before homecoming.
They said the eight week student-teaching period wasn't long enough to make the teacher realize all the problems he will encounter. It only brings out a fraction of the responsibility the teacher will need for the entire year, they said.
'Gypsy'in evening
Highlighting the evening activity during homecoming will be the University Theatre production of the opera "Gypsy" and the homecoming concert featuring jazz artist Louis Armstrong.
Performances of "Gypsy" will be given at 8:20 p.m., Oct. 26, 27 and 28, and Nov. 2, 3 and 5 in the University Theatre.
Theatre tickets will go on sale Oct. 12 for $1.20, $1.80 or $2.40.
"Students who bring their KU ID cards to the theatre box office can obtain one $1.20 ticket or a $1.20 reduction on a more expensive seat," said Tom Rea, speech and drama instructor.
Queen nominations begin Nominations for the 1967 homecoming queen are underway in each of the organized women's living groups. The nominations will close at 5 p.m., Oct. 10.
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These finalists will make personal appearances on TV and radio stations across the state during the week before homecoming.
"The three finalists will be selected Oct. 22 by the secret ballots of a panel of judges including faculty, students and townspeople," said Linda Gilkerson, Mattoon, Ill., sophomore and co-chairman of the homecoming queen committee.
The queen selection will be revealed during the half-time ceremony at the football game.
Candidates will be judged on poise, personality, appearance and their contributions to the University.
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