Homecoming
Daily hansan
Edition
59th Year, No. 41 SECTION A
34,000 May Be Attending Game
A near sellout crowd is expected for the homecoming game tomorrow.
"IF WEATHER and sales hold," he said, "we may have a sellout crowd."
Friday, November 10, 1961
A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, director of athletics, said 34,000 persons are expected for the game. Memorial Stadium holds 36,400.
Any of these 34,000 can expect a gourmet's delight if they plan to eat in the Kansas Union.
Dwayne Hall, food director of the Union said about 2,500 to 2,700 persons are expected in the buffet, cefeteria and Hawk's Nest.
MR. HALL said the cooks will prepare 800 pounds of roast beef, 360 pounds of ham, and 200 pounds of chicken.
They will also prepare 60 gallons of baked beans, a 50 gallon barrel of tossed salad, 230 pies, 250 gallons of coffee and 5,000 yeast rolls.
"The cooks started cooking the roast beef last night about 5 p.m. and will finish about 5 a.m. tomorrow." Mr.Hall said.
ANOTHER ANTICPATED adjunct to the annual Homecoming event is campus traffic congestion. Campus police expect to use between 30 and 40 traffic officers on the campus during periods of peak activity Saturday. They expect about 13,000 to 15,000 cars.
In addition to the 15-man campus traffic force, about 25 Lawrence auxiliary policemen as well as Sheriff's officers and Highway Patrolmen are expected to help with traffic control Saturday afternoon.
Joe G. Skillman, chief of the campus security and traffic office, urged students not to drive their cars on the campus if at all possible.
He suggested that those who had to drive on the campus and who wished to stay over for activities after the game should use either of the free parking lots—O, N or X.
THE TRAFFIC problem will be
further complicated because many persons will want to drive slowly to view the house decorations. A special problem in that respect is Edgehill Road because of its narrowness. Mr. Skillman recommended all traffic on that road enter from 16th St. during critical traffic periods.
After alumni registration in the Kansas Union tomorrow morning, the alumni will follow the schedule arranged by the Alumni Committee.
At 1:30 p.m. they will attend the KU-KSU football game and view a pre-game performance of the KU and KSU marching bands.
AT HALFTIME, the 1961 homecoming queen. Mary Nan Scamman. Tarkio, Mo., junior, will be crowned, along with the presentation of homecoming queens of past years.
After the game, cider and doughnuts will be served in the Kansas Union.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
At 9 p.m., the alumni can attend the homecoming dance with Ralph Marterie and his band in the ballroom of the Union.
Homecoming Today
4:00 p.m. Alumni Registration Opens, Kansas Union Lounge.
Evening Night tour of Decorations at Organized Houses.
6:00 p.m. Class of '34 Reunion, Rally and Mixer, Hotel Jayhawk Topeka.
6:30-7:00 p.m. Carillon Recital,
Memorial Campanile, Ronald
Barnes, Carillonneur.
7:00 p.m. Varsity-Freshman Basketball Game, Allen Field House. $1.00.
9:00 p.m. "Auntie Mame" University Theatre Production Especially For Returning Alumni, Murphy Hall Theatre. (Student LD.s and Season Tickets DO NOT Admit to this Performance.) $1.50.
We students of KU are happy that you could be with us for this, your 1961 Homecoming. You are invited to once again view the campus, see all the house decorations, participate in the activities on the Hill and at the Union, and, of course, watch the Jayhawks and the Wildcats at the football game in Memorial Stadium!
Glad to Have You Back
Welcome Alumni!
We are grateful and proud that the University of Kansas is one of the few state universities with a tremendous record of active, day-by-day support from its alumni. This is evident everywhere in the lands, buildings, scholarships, and interest that you, the alumni, have contributed. It is this support that has made the University of Kansas great and will make it even greater in the future, a goal whose attainment we present students hope to help work for as we join you as alumni.
Welcome back—we promise to be cordial hosts.
Sincerely.
Max E. Eberhart
President of the Student Body.
Political Fervor High on Campus
Fervor for campus politics runs high in this season of the year.
Primary elections were held this week and campaigns have started in earnest for the general election Tuesday and Wednesday.
THE UNIVERSITY PARTY last night outlined a four-point plan for overcoming student apathy and winning the ASC general elections next Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Talk to as many students as possible and urge them to vote.
- In its general election campaign, the UP will:
- Stage a campus car parade on Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Post UP campaign material on the bulletin boards of all living groups.
- Pass out lists of UP candidates to individual students.
James Anderson. Lawrence senior and co-chairman of the UP, told about 30 party members present at the meeting that student apathy is the major factor the party must overcome if it is to win the election.
In today's special Homecoming edition of the Daily Kansan, you will find:
Inside the UDK
Section C—Society, features and literature.
Section A—News and features
"THE PEOPLE WE ARE drawing our vote from are not in the habit of voting," he said.
"The larger the vote turnout there is, the better chance we have of winning.
"We're lacking support from the freshman women's dorms. Concentrate there," he said.
Anderson then turned to an analysis of the primary election vote.
(In the primary election, the two UP candidates in this district finished third and fourth in total votes behind the two Vox candidates. The two UP candidates polled 46 votes to 95 for the Vox candidates.)
THOMAS HARDY. Hoisington junior and independent co-chairman of the UP, said the party had a good chance to win in the sorority district, where UP's five primary candidates polled 284 votes and Vox's three candidates polled 259.
(Monday, University Daily Kansas editors will print recommendations of candidates for ASC posts.
Parody Defined At Poetry Hour
Parodies are an imitation of men and their manner of writing, Harold Orel, associate professor of English, said yesterday to a Poetry Hour audience in the Kansas Union.
"A person being paradied usually does not realize how effective the parody really is," Prof. Orel told an audience of about 70 students.
HE READ several parodies from an anthology by Dwight MacDonald. He said the book was the best collection of parodies he has read.
Prof. Orel read a parody of the Gettysburg Address as former President Dwight D. Eisenhower would have given it which brought chuckles from the audience.
"I haven't checked the figures, but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a government set up here in this country, I believe it covered certain Eastern areas, with this idea they were following up based on a sort of national independence arrangement and the program that every individual is just as good as every other individual...
"Well here we are at the scene where one of these disturbances between different sides got going...
"WE HAVE TO MAKE up our minds right here and now, as I see it, that they didn't just make a dry run here, and that all of us here under God, that is, the God of your choice, shall beef up this idea about freedom and liberty and those kind of arrangements, and that government of all individuals, by all individuals and for all individuals, shall not pass out of the world picture."
PROF. OREL said Oliver Jensen, the author, attended many of President Eisenhower's press conferences and knew the President's style when writing the parody.
Another parody read by Prof. Orel was by an anonymous poet about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha." The parody is called "The Modern Hiawatha."
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy with no important temperature changes today and tomorrow. Low by morning 35 to 40. High today around 60.
Deadline Nears—Work,You Fools
By Jerry Musil
Work you fools, work your fingers to the bone on the Thursday night before homecoming. Forsake sleep, forsake studies for tomorrow the judges will determine whether you consider the night a success or a total loss.
How do the judges spend Thursday night before homecoming?
They watch television, grade papers, help the children with homework or catch up on some back reading. And they go to bed early.
And how do they determine who should scream with delight and expand chests with pride during the half time of the homecoming game?
THEN ON Friday the judges sally forth to determine which group of students has the cleverest thinkers. the most talented artists and hardest workers.
The Homecoming Decorations Committee has a standard list of points to look for—originality, appropriateness of theme and skill of execution.
Mrs. Dorothy Graber, Lawrence businesswoman, said she would look for the points outlined by the committee.
The judges are three Lawrence residents and three faculty members.
"But imagination would rank high," she said. "Cleverness and humor will receive slight consideration, depending on the type of theme they chose."
Dr. Richard L. Hermes, a Lawrence physician, said he would follow the standardized list.
DR. HERMES said weather would not receive any
special consideration. He said he would look at the decorations the way they are and not as they should be.
"That's the way they do it in the Army," he added.
So workers, glory rests in the hands of six people. Your questions can only be answered by the judges and they will not release those answers until the half-time.
FINISHING TOUCHES?—Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity work feverishly to get their version of the K-State Wildcat ready.
News Briefs
LISBON, Portugal—(UPI)—Nine anti-government Portuguese rebels bijacked an airliner over Lisbon today, dropped leaflets supporting rebel leader Capt. Henrique Galvao on the city, and then forced the pilot at gunpoint to land at Tangier, Morocco.
The hijacking and leaflet-dropping came just two days before Sunday's parliamentary elections in Portugal. It obviously was designed to dramatize the rebels' opposition to the regime of Premier Dr. Antonio De Oliveira Salazar.
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CAPE CANAVERAL—(UPI)—An Atlas rocket with a tiny monkey riding in its nose blew up today less than one minute after it was launched.
The silvery, 82-foot intercontinental rocket, a veritable "flying laboratory" of scientific experiments inside its nose and hanging from its sides. blasted from its concrete launching pad at about 8:55 a.m.
But about 30 seconds later, the giant missile suddenly leaned from its vertical position. A split-second after that, an explosion turned the Atlas into a ball of boiling red flame and black smoke above the Cape.
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—(UPI)— Maj. Robert White, half his vision blocked due to a heat-shattered windshield, rocketed a record of 4,070 miles an hour yesterday in an X15 rocket plane.
The Air Force officer's oft-delayed flight to six times the speed of sound bettered the speed goal set by the X15's designers by 70 m.p.h.