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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 29, 1961
University Daily Kansan SPORTS Rice Situation Similar to KU's
Kansas' likely opponent in the Bluebonnet Bowl will be the Houston-based Rice Owls. Should they falter in their finale against Baylor, which is possible, Duke, Auburn and Tennessee are in contention.
Since the Owls are from Houston and have had a good season (they go into Saturday's game with a 6-3 record), they are the popular choice of the bowl committee. Therefore, from a brief glance at KU's probable host, it looks as though the second edition of this bowl may be one of the more interesting post season affairs anywhere in the nation.
BOTH TEAMS WERE SELECTED by national magazines to finish as the top team in the nation. Kansas was selected by Playboy while Rice was chosen by Stanley Woodward in his Dell publication.
In a third magazine, the thorough Street and Smith's Yearbook, the Jayhawkers were tabbed for second with the Owls listed ninth.
Thus the story of the two teams through the season has been similar. At this juncture, the Jayhawkers have climbed back into the national ratings, being tied with UCLA (which will play in the Rose Bowl) for 19th in the most recent United Press International selections. The Hawks have been as high as tenth.
BUT THE OWLS ARE NOT NAMED among the top 20 teams This does not mean they have not recaptured some of the power which was attributed to them in the pre-season polls. Last week they ran over a good TCU team, 35-16.
The Frogs are the only opponent common to both schools. But a comparison of scores is unrealistic because KU played the Horn Frogs 10 weeks ago (losing 17-16). This type of comparison has been proven senseless with the KU-California-Missouri situation.
Rice has suffered many of the same frustrations as the Hawks, losing crucial games to league opponents and seeing a good chance at the Southwest Conference title slowly drop from sight.
THE OWLS OPENED WITH A STARTLING defeat of now third ranked Louisiana State, 16-3. But, then misfortune like KU's brought losses to Georgia Tech (ranked thirteenth), Arkansas (ranked ninth), and Texas (ranked fourth).
The hub of the Rice attack is crafty, sharp-passing quarterback, Billy Cox. He and alternate Randy Kerbow provide a duo which equates with the effectiveness of KU's John Hadd.
ANOTHER RICE OFFENSIVE stalwart is outstanding fullback Roland Jackson who was a consensus all-conference selection a year ago and has had another fine season. He and Curt McClinton should tangle in an interesting duel.
Rice, like Kansas, boasts four tackles who are long on experience. But the Owl forwards are bigger. Rice should have John Cornett, one of the best in the Southwest, 240, Bob Johnston, 215, George Karam, 210, and Ray Alborn, 220, ready to tangle with Stan Kirshman, Mike Fisher, Larry Lousch, Fred Eiseeman, and Dick Davis.
Another good Owl in the front line is all-league end Johnny Burrell, 185-pound senior.
Faculty Members Discuss Athletics
A panel of six faculty members and a Kansas City alumnus found the merits of intercollegiate athletics a highly debatable subject last night.
The panel—which included three present and one past member of the KU Athletic Board—discussed the subject before an audience of about 35 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
TWO PANEL MEMBERS — Charles A. Leone, professor of zoology, and Frederick Samson, associate professor of physiology — attacked intercollegiate athletics for occupying too important a place in the University and for "creating the wrong type of heroes on a university campus."
James Gunn, assistant to the chancellor on University relations, and Roy Edwards, alumnus and past member of the Athletic Board, defended intercollegiate athletics.
L. R. C. AGNEW, professor of history, and Charles Oldfather, professor of law, agreed that athletics provide a meeting ground for students and alumni, but attacked the granting of athletic scholarships as merely favoring students with "over-active pituitary glands."
Athletics, they said, provide "a common meeting ground for students and alumni" and prepare athletes for competition in a "highly competitive business world" after graduation.
"I think athletics — to the athletes themselves — are overemphasized," said Prof. Leone. "Athletes get the idea they are here to compete, and everything else is secondary."
Prof. Samson said that this over-emphasis on athletics creates the wrong type of campus hero because intellectual and scholastic activities tend to be overlooked.
"IT'S THE DAY-TO-DAY intellectual competition between students that really counts," he said.
Countering this argument, Mr. Gunn warned that the University must avoid creating "an elite of the intellectual," and stressed that athletics provide a meeting ground for all types of students and graduates.
"A great part of the public will not be interested in intellectual or cultural activities. They must be reached through athletics."
PROF. AGNEW ATTACKED today's intercollegiate athletics as "big business" activities devoted to making money.
Athletes, he said, are granted athletic scholarships regardless of their intellectual ability and are then manipulated by coaches who seem to be "directing marionettes," not developing character.
Mr. Edwards argued that the present "big business" status of athletics will prepare athletes for life after graduation.
"If the time ever comes," he said, "when the emphasis in athletics isn't on money, we'll have a sad situation. Nothing else better teaches students to compete in a highly competitive business world."
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To the topic then: Should a coed share expenses on a date?
I think I can best answer the question by citing the following typical case:
I have asked the makers of Marlboro—an enterprising and aggressive group of men; yet at the same time warm and lovable; though not without acumen, perspicacity, and drive; which does not, however, mask their essential great-heartedness; a quality evident to all who have ever enjoyed the beneficence of their wares; I refer, of course, to Marlboro Cigarettes, a smoke fashioned with such loving care and tipped with such an easy-drawing filter that these old eyes grow misty when I think upon it—I have asked, I say, the makers of Marlboro—that aggregate of shrewd but kindly tobaccoists, that cluster of hearty souls bound together by the profit motive and an unflagging determination to provide a cigarette forever flavorful and eternally pleasing—I have asked, I say, the makers of Marlboro whether I might use today's column to take up the controversial question: Should a coid share expenses on a date?
Poseidon Nebenzal, a student at Oklahoma A and M, majoring in hides and tallow, fell wildly in love with Mary Ellen Flange, a flax weevil major at the same school. His love, he had
"Yes," said the makers simply. We all shook hands then and squeezed each other's shoulders and exchanged brave smiles, and if our eyes were a trifle moist, who can blame us?
"On, foolish reaper! Why have you not told me before?"
reason to believe from Mary Ellen's sidelong glances and maidenly blushes, was not entirely unrequited, and by and by he mustered up enough courage to ask her the all-important question: "Will you wear my 4-H pin?"
"Yes," she said simply. They shook hands then and squeezed each other's shoulders and exchanged brave smiles, and if their eyes were a trifle moist, who can blame them?
For a time things went swimmingly. Then a cloud appeared. Mary Ellen, it seems, was a rich girl and accustomed to costly pleasures. Poseidon was bone-poor and he quickly ran out of money. Unable to take Mary Ellen to the posh places she fancied and too proud to tell her the reason, he turned surly and full of melancholy. Soon their romance, so promising at the beginning, was headed for a breakup. But at the last moment, Poseidon managed to blurt out the truth.
"Oh, beloved agrarian!" cried Mary Ellen, grappling him close. "Oh, proud husbandman! Oh, foolish reaper! Why have you not told me before? I have plenty of money, and I will contribute according to my ability."
And it worked fine! They were happy—truly happy! And what's more, when they graduated they had a nice little nest egg—eight million dollars—with which to furnish a lovely apartment in Lubbock, Texas, where today they operate the local laundromat.
Poseidon, of course, protested, but she finally persuaded him of the wisdom of her course. From then on they split all expenses according to their incomes. Rather than embarrass Poseidon by handing him money in public, a joint bank account was set up to allow him to write checks. Into this account each week they faithfully deposited their respective allowances—35 cents from Poseidon: $2300 from Mary Ellen.
So you see? You too can salvage your failing romance if you will only adopt a healthy, sensible attitude toward money.
© 1961 Max Shulman
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