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Daily Hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, Dec. 13, 1963
61st Year, No. 61
HEAVYWEIGHTS CLASH — Fred Elder, Wichita senior and KU football tackle, strains to put the other shoulder of Jim Lind, Warren-s
Varsity Wrestling Returns After Absence of 31 Years
By Bob Jones
burg, Mo., on the mat seconds before the referee announced his pin. Elder pinned his opponent in 4:45 minutes.
Two men struggled on a mat before a small crowd of people in Robinson Gym.
The spectators were screaming, "Go after him! You've got him now! Finish him off!"
It was the return of varsity wrestling to KU after an absence of 31 years. KU was battling a team from Warrensburg (Mo.) State College.
Inquiry as to how these points are awarded to each wrestler would bring answers in such terms as take-downs, near-falls, escapes, predicaments and riding time. Some of them, such as take-downs, and escapes are evident to the spectators, but on some of the others, the crowd must watch the referee who indicates the points scored.
Collegiate wrestling is not the "grunt-and-groan" style of wrestling seen on television. It is a fast-moving sport which demands tremendous physical stamina from its participants, and which is governed by a set of rules that do not allow submission holds.
SOME OF THE spectators at last night's match were confused at first as to how points were scored in the matches, but they soon learned to watch the referee as he called out the points won by each wrestler while the match was in progress.
Anyone who watches a match soon learns to see all of these point-scoring situations, and soon the crowd was applauding the efforts of a KU wrestler who got a takedown and a near-fall on his opponent.
International Club Dance Saturday
The International Club plans a Christmas semi-formal dance at 8 p.m. Saturday in the National Guard Armory.
The dance is the result of a cooperative effort by the International Club and KU People-to-People.
Milly Yumang, Philippines sophomore and social secretary of the club, said those planning to attend the dance should meet at the north front door of the Kansas Union. Transportation to the armory has been arranged by People-to-People.
These points are used to decide the winner of a match only if neither of the wrestlers is pinned.
WRESTLING seemed quite welcome again at KU after its long absence, because everything about the match seemed highly enthusiastic.
The partisan KU crowd roared its approval as wrestlers pounced on each other, the wrestlers waiting their turn to go on the mat were shouting advice to their team member in the ring. The two coaches were pacing back and forth, lending all the vocal support they could.
If there were any favorites of the spectators, they would have to be the three wrestlers who also participate in football, Gary Duff, Phil Doughty and Fred Elder.
IN SPITE OF the enthusiasm of everyone present, the match ended on a slightly sour note for the KU fans. KU lost to Warrensburg 23-18. The KU coach, Terry Shockley,
To the delight of the spectators,
they all scored impressive victories.
said, "The most important thing, about the match was that the team got to wrestle. I believe they gave a good showing for their first match."
He said this early in the season, some of the team members were not in good shape, but he expected a tremendous amount of effort from the team and believed they would show much improvement as the season progresses.
Now a graduate student at KU, Shockley wrestled in high school and at Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill. He said that he would like to see wrestling become a popular sport at KU like it is at many other colleges.
In the last NCAA wrestling tournament, the top three teams were Oklahoma, Iowa State, and Oklahoma State. All are in the Big Eight.
Winning wrestlers for KU last night were Bill Brackett, Hinsdale, Ill., junior; Duff, Salina junior; Doughty, Oelwein, Ia., senior, and Fred Elder, Wichita senior.
Bomb Scare Chases 400 From Classes in Malott
About 400 KU students vacated Malott hall at 4:35 p.m., yesterday seven minutes after an anonymous caller warned that a bomb was hidden in the building set to go off in half an hour.
Rose said that at first Mrs. Berg thought it was a practical joke and laughed. The caller insisted that it was "no joke."
Jack Rose, assistant instructor of chemistry and director of the chemistry laboratories, said that his secretary received the warning call a little before 4:30 p.m.
Rose said the caller first asked Mrs. Berg, "Is this Malott Hall?" When she answered "Yes," the professor said Mrs. Berg was told, "There's a bomb in the building that's going to go off in half an hour."
THE SECRETARY. Mrs. Blanche Berg, told Rose, "someone just called and said that there's a bomb hidden in the building."
THE PROFESSOR immediately called the KU traffie and security
office to see what steps he should take. He was told to wait for a call back from that office, but after a few minutes, he decided to call the Chancellor's office.
Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor of operations and physical plant coordination, told Rose to "Evacuate the building immediately."
Rose broke the glass in one of the first floor fire alarm boxes sounding fire horns throughout the building.
STUDENTS AND teachers in 16 occupied laboratories and the sixth floor library left the building quickly and in an orderly fashion.
There was no panic. Many of the students in fact laughed and joked about leaving when they found out why the alarm had been sounded.
KU and Lawrence police waited until about 5:15 p.m., before starting a search of the building. No bomb was discovered and the search was called off at about 6:45 p.m.
The State Board of Regents may ask the Kansas Legislature to increase the sales tax in order to finance improvements in Kansas colleges, the board's chairman said here today.
Henry A. Bubb of Topeka told the Kansas Conference on Higher Education this afternoon that a halfcent increase in the state sales tax, raising it to 3 percent might be the best method of helping state-supported colleges and universities meet the demands of the future.
Lawrence police are investigating the incident and the FBI has requested a copy of their report.
Tax Rise Favored For College Needs
Bv Fred Frailev
"Perhaps the most effective way to take care of the increasing needs of our six state institutions of higher education would be a half-cent increase in the sales tax earmarked for this purpose." Bubb said.
STUDENT LEADERS from the six state colleges and universities—KU, Kansas State University, Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia, Fort Hays State College and Kansas State College of Pittsburg
—met in the Kansas Union today to discuss problems in education common to all of their schools. Bubb's remarks were made in a speech at the conference, which was also attended by Gov. John Anderson.
But besides Bubb's "bill for excellence in education" which will be put before the Legislature, perhaps when it meets for its annual budget session in January, he also called on citizens to plug the financial gap which the state cannot completely fill with private gifts and grants.
"Private funds today provide the difference between good and better, between better and best," Bubb said. "Just as private institutions increasingly have become dependent upon public sources of funds, the public institutions are looking for their major improvements toward private sources."
THE TOPEKA banker said the future of Kansas is resting upon its educated men.
"He is a magician, a scientist. He is the future; without him we have no future."
He pointed out a defense department reports which said that availability of trained minds overshadows the labor market, water supply and power resources when management planners consider new industria sites.
"In this nation and in this state we have no choice." Bubb said. "We must cast our lot with the educated mind. Even without the competition of alien ideas, economic currents and technological events are moving too fast for us to keep up in our horse-and-buggy."
EVEN THOUGH Kansas has a solid foundation upon which to build its achievements in higher education, he said, it cannot attract
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the interest of industrial leaders by being only "good."
"We must be very good; we must be excellent."
To move from "good" to "excellent." Bubb suggested:
- Kansans be informed of the state's need for excellence in education. "We must ask for a commitment by Kansans to the goal of seeking a place in the future through higher education. We must itemize what will be necessary to achieve this goal. And we must pay the bill when it is presented."
- THE STATE BOARD of Regents be aided in achieving the needs it identifies. "There must be no need to choose between economy of operation and excellence of performance, but if we must lean one way or the other, let it be toward excellence."
Bubb compared excellence in higher education to a safe which requires two keys to open—the able student and the gifted faculty member. He said Kansas must keep its best minds in the state and put them to work. He challenged the conference delegates to direct talented high school students to Kansas universities.
"One of the major achievements of the Board of Regents has been the improvement of faculty salaries," he said. "With the aid of an understanding legislature, increases have been made available until today we are close to competitive levels. In top salaries we are within reach of Big Ten averages."
BUBB SAID only those who choose not to invest in education are gambling.
"Every cent this state and its people have put into higher education has turned into dollars. The dollars they put into their colleges and universities today will be transformed by factories and laboratories into marvels of abundance."
Meetings were held at the conference during the morning and afternoon to discuss such subjects as the economic picture for Kansas, attracting Kansas high school graduates to state colleges, special programs for gifted students, and keeping Kansas college graduates in the state.
DISCUSSION leaders included James R. Surface, vice chancellor, and Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
A meeting of student body president of the six schools was scheduled for 5 p.m. this afternoon.
KU delegates to the conference are Reuben McCornack, Abilene senior and student body president; John Stuckey, Pittsburgh senior and chairman of the All Student Council; Marshall Crowther, Lawrence second year law student and ASC vice chairman; Ray Edwards, Bethesda, Md., junior and president of the Big Eight Student Government Association; Jane Lefebure, Prairie Village junior; Brian Grace, Lawrence senior; and Mike Miller, Independence, Mo., senior and managing editor of the University Daily Kansan.
NO BRAKES—John McGee, Glendoro, Calif. freshman, zips down the slopes above Potter Lake with only his hands to help him dodge trees, rocks and other sledders. His tray sled, borrowed from a men's dormitory kitchen, gave him several spills and chills yesterday afternoon.