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University Daily KansanWednesday. October 25. 1961
Cheerleader Blasts Lack of Enthusiasm
KU's head cheerleader rapped the knuckles of the student body for radiating a sense of false intellectualism and forgetting about cheering. He cited the football games this year as evidence.
Bruce Bee, Mission senior said, "The students are trying to act like alums. They are trying to act like people 40 and 50 years old. They come to the game dressed in suits and ties and act like it's above them to cheer."
BEE SAID THAT SPIRIT at the football games is being lost in an effort to act mature and adult. "I think it is fine that we act mature and adult in the classroom, but at football games I think we should be college students," he said.
Much discussion arose when Kep Kepner, Wichita junior, said that
GSP Night Guest Leaves 4 Matches
Four burnt matchsticks were the only visible evidence left behind by a quick-walking but taciturn man who flitted through the basement of Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall about 2:20 yesterday morning.
A GSP resident was in a basement study room when a man whose age was estimated between 22 and 25 years walked hurriedly through the room to a door leading to an exit.
The incident was reported to Mrs. Alice K. Hutchinson, housemother, and relayed to Lawrence and campus security police. A thorough check of the building and closets, produced no sign of the intruder, according to police.
But in an otherwise spotless kitchen, from which the man emerged in his journey through the study room, police found the four matchsticks, one on the floor and three on the stove.
the reserved seating plan was partially to blame for the lack of enthusiasm. "When you walk right in before the game to a reserved seat you don't feel like yelling," he said. "Last year when you had to stand in line for several hours to get a good seat, when you finally got in, you felt like cheering."
"I don't think it makes any difference where we sit," countered Bee. "They don't want to yell because of what an absolute stranger who they may never see again that is sitting in front of them might think. Others don't want to yell because somebody that they know is sitting several rows down from them and they might not like it."
"OUR STUDENTS ARE very conservative and reserved," said Tim Hamill, Colby sophomore. "A lot of times I don't think I'm noticed down there. I think we need some gimmick to attract attention. Colorado cheerleaders use a trampoline."
The cheerleaders were dismayed about the senior and junior support. They commented that the freshmen are the ones with the enthusiasm but they are way down at the end of the stadium.
THE CHEERLEADERS pointed to the absence of this lack of spirit at other schools. They agreed that, at Colorado, students were cheering hard for their team and having a good time doing it.
"The KU, cheering at Colorado was lousy," said Judy Kulowski, St. Joseph, Mo., junior. She said that there were 300 students at the Colorado game among the reported 2,300 KU fans. "There was one man on the front row that kept yelling at us Do a cheer, do a cheer." So we did one, and who was the only person velling? The man on the front row."
Justice Department Defends Negroes
"I was close to the Iowa State cheering section and they were doing a great job. There were not very many of them either," Miss Kulowski said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Justice has placed before the Supreme Court a brief branding as un-Constitutional the arrests and convictions of three Negro students engaged in sit-in demonstrations. If the court supports the position of the Attorney General, Southern prosecutors will have a much harder time charging integrationists with "disturbing the peace."
Burke Marshall, assistant attorney general for civil rights, made a distinction between sit-in demonstrators and freedom riders. He said, "The freedom riders have an absolutely unquestionable right to do what they are doing — testing state compliance with federal statutes. On the other hand, the legal status of non-interstate sit-ins is less clear."
The Justice Department filed a "friend of the court" brief alleging that in the three cases "there is no evidence that the students who sat down at previously 'white' lunch counters in Louisiana were disturbing the peace."
The Justice Department argues that the records in all three cases indicate the students were peaceful. If the students were not, in fact, disturbing the peace, then the Justice Department says they were deprived of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, which says persons cannot be deprived of "life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
The Justice Department further argues that if the students were violating the breach of the peace statute, then the statute is unconstitutional because it is so vague that no one could know when he was breaking the law.
Prof. Kleinberg to St. Louis
Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry, will present the lecture on inorganic chemistry at this year's Midwest Award Day Symposium, Nov. 4.
His lecture is entitled "Some Adventures in Inorganic Synthesis."
Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.-Emile Zola
MOSCOW — (UPI) — More than a dozen speakers at the Soviet Communist Party Congress heaped new abuse today on Georgi Malenkov, V. M. Molotov, and Lazar Kaganovich whose ouster from the party seemed certain.
Soviet Anti-Party Men Abused
Among the speakers were rank-and-file workers, coal miners, a farmer and representatives of the Venezuelan, Danish, French, Colombian, Australian and Lebanese Communist parties.
Spaceman Yuri Gagarin, just recovered from a bout of flu, attended the congress today. At the no recess, he and the second Cosmonaut, Gherman Titov, walked together through the lobby, attracting photographers and autograph hunters.
Meanwhile, the attacks continued on Malenkov, Molotov, and Kaganovich, members of the "anti-party" group who bucked Khrushev's plans five years ago. They were singled out yesterday for violent criticism by presidium member Nikolai Shvernik.
The sun has a right to "set"
where it wants to, and so, I may
add, has a hen. — Charles Farrar
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