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Thursday, November 16. 1972
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The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front (GLF) will appeal its case for recognition by the University of Kansas today in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
The GLF lost its bid for recognition as an organized group last February when a U.S. District Court in Topeka upheld the legality of University's refusal to recognize the group.
Jack Klinknett, attorney for the GLF, said representatives from the GLF and from KU would present arguments to the court on Thursday. The court will review that case, but it will not rule on the case until it has studied the arguments thoroughly, he said.
Recognition Still Sought By Gay Lib
Cecil 'Big Red' Samara
Named as defendants in the GLF suit are William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, and E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., former KU chancellor. The district court ruled that because KU was a state institution it could not be sued, but its representatives could be.
The University will be represented in court by Edward G. Collier Jr., special assistant to the Kansas attorney general. The GLF will be represented by Klinkett.
Reginald Brown, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore and GLF coordinator, said Lawrence Velel, former professor of law at KU, and William Kunstler, former GLF coculose, also would be present to provide legal aid to the GLF.
Samara's 'Big Red Rocket' Has Traveled 300,000 'Football Miles'
Kansan Photos by SUSAN HAYS
. . The 1923 Model-T Ford and its trailer are worth about $25,000 . . .
OU's No.1 Fan Is All Red
By DON JEFFERSON
Kanson Staff Writer
In legend are known as War, Famine, Pestilence and Greed, but to the University of Kansas football team this season, the University of Kansas is made as Pruff, Wiley, Crossley and Samara.
That's right. He's Cecil Samara, Omanian's undisputed one-foot ball
When KU and the University of Oklahoma meet in their annual football game, Samara, 55, nationally known as "Big Red," will be there with a cap pistol, one of 20 red stubs, one of six pairs of red and white jerseys, one of 30 sticks, a red and white Model I ball, a megaphone and a gravedive voice that have become familiar at OU football games.
Samara?
AND, AT Saturday's game, KU fans will have the opportunity to see Samara with a new addition to his wardrobe. He is replacing his red-rimmed glasses with a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with "OU" imprinted on the frames.
He will be there to give the third-ranked Sooners his virtual one-man cheering section without which, some say, might OU could not beat Slipery Rock. On top of that, he will buy his own ticket and gas to do it.
It all began in 1948, according to Samara,
although he has been cheering Oklahoma
athletes since he was nine, and that was 46
years ago.
BIG RED drove the restored Model T, which he dubbed the big Red Rocket, to the first home game of the 1950 season and he missed an Oklahoma home game since.
"In 1948 I found this model D_t Model," she said. "It was just junk but I worked on it for a couple of years, got it so it would run, and painted it red and white. My thought then was to drive it to Oklahoma home games only."
"The next year, the OU pup organizations asked me to drive the car to the Texas-Oklahoma game at the Cotton Bowl," Samara said. "I didn't think it would make the 225 miles, but the next year I tried and I've driven the car there every year since."
"The Nebraska game is played in late November and the weather has kept me from taking it there," Samara explained. "You don't get very good traction in bad weather."
Since that first journey in 1852, the Big Red Rocket has been to five Orange Bowls, two bluebonnet Bowls, the Gator Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, Chicago, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and all of the Big Eight schools with the exception of Nebraska.
OVER THE YEARS, Samara said, he has improved the car until it is now equipped with air conditioning, red and white upholstery, a custom-made loudspeakers for playing "Booner Snoop" and other OU songs and cheers as he travels. The luggage trailer, originally added to the Big Red Rocket in 1958, is the Model T in its "300,000 football rules."
The oranges on the front of the Big Red Rocket, according to Samara, are new additions this year and represent the team's goal—the Orange Bowl.
The Big Red Rocket and the trailer, which, according to Samara, have evolved over the years as has his traditional garb, are presently worth an estimated $25,000. However, he said, he would not sell them for any amount of money.
"ANYMORE, I DRIVE the car anywhere in the state and tell a garage or a filling station something needs to be done and the truck is compilied with no bills. Samara said."
Samarra, owner and founder of the Big Red Flag Service in Oklahoma City, never forgets that she spent her school stemmed from both an intense love for football and the kindness extended to
"I grew up in the slums of Oklahoma City," he said. "My dad died when I was 2%, and I quit school in the third grade to work on the state board. When I was 16 or 17 I played baseball."
"I didn't have anything but I wanted to teach. Teachers there would let me sit in on their classes and some even gave me tests to read and pencils and paper. I figure everything I've gotten from life I owe to the University of Oklahoma."
him by the university when he was a young man.
THE FURNISHINGS in Big Red's house in Oklahoma City reflect his reputation as Oklahoma's number one fan. Flying from the flagpole that stands in his front yard, he and his family play in the Oklahoma flag in the middle and in "A Beat Nebraska" 'flag at the bottom. Red carpets with the letters "OU" cover the floor of his house. The family room is furnished with two huge couches, one red and the other green. They are decorated and souvenirs dot the tables and the walls.
Samarra is fond of his scrapbooks that contain his story as OU's number one fan, an alumnus of OU football and particular clippings that tell of OU's 1967 loss to Notre Dame which ended the Sooners' record winning streak of 47 games in 2005. OU football coach Jim Mackenzie in 1982.
SAMARA SAID that he had cried for about 20 minutes after the loss to Notre Dame, but stopped when other fans came out and was over and there would be other games.
When Mackenzie died, Samara said, he could remember walking into a restaurant calling over his bull horn and being stopped by the somber faces of some OU officials. At the funeral he drove the Big Red Rocket in black crepe and a wreath, he said.
Kansans Seek Help for Juveniles
TOPEKA—Concerned Kansans met Wednesday in the Kansas House of Representatives Chamber to explore institutionalization of teen violence institutionalization of juvenile offenders
By SANDY HUNTER Kansan Staff Writer
"The goal of the conference, Youth in Trouble: Kansas at the Crossroads, was to create working with youngsters with emphasis on helping them to have access to successful experiences, said Forest Swall, director of the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare.
Swail said that the trend in the United States was to halt the construction of new correctional institutions for juveniles and to expand them with new programs, particularly in the community. He said that Kansas had three new correctional institutions in the planning stages, however, and that architectural or for one building were near completion.
These institutions have been replaced by purchased private care from private agencies, Miller said. Many of these agencies are private homes that have ap- plied with the approval by the Massachusetts Commission, Miller said, and some of the firms are sponsored by such groups as black women or behavior modificationists and ex-offenders.
JEROME MILLER, commissioner of youth services for the state of Massachusetts, told the conference about the Massachusetts experiment in the treatment of borderers in which Massachusetts did away with educational institutions begun in 1989
The conference drew on other resource persons to explore programs for youth in the region.
Miller said that he thought that recklessism, the rate of return of juvenile felons, would make home or institution because of a second chance, would decrease under the new system.
"We try to make as many alternatives available to juveniles as possible," Miller said.
"I had the flags on the trailer at half-mast." Samara recalled.
HE SAID that at the beginning of one program about 200-300 youths were placed with University of Massachusetts students because the institution in which they were being held was closed. He said that of these youths, nine were away. He predicted that at least that many, and probably more, would have run away from a correctional institution.
If the Massachusetts system fails, Miller said, it would be because of political pressure against the system and not because the system didn't work.
Miller said that in the Massachusetts system, no long-range plans were made for the closure of institutions. Plans for the closure of institutions were made just ten days before it was closed.
The concepts of the Massachusetts system have applicability throughout the United States.
Jack Pullman, director of state of youth services for the Division of Institutional Services.
*MASSIVE, QUICK change is easier than a change; the last QUICK change is the only way to change.
secretary of the Kansas Department of Social Welfare and director of Youth Director DPA grants in Kansas; and Swall and local programs in Kansas for youth.
TULLY McCREA, director of Correctional Services for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and Lamar Empey, sociologist at the University of Southern California, presented an overview of trends in other states.
Conclusions of the conference will be presented to a special committee of the Kansas Legislature for the continuing of institutions of the director of Penal In institutions and the director of institutional treatment as soon as a report is completed.
McCrea will conduct an informal discussion of trends in correctional intelligence.
When questioned about OU's game with Nebraska on Thanksgiving Day, Samara said that he expected OU to win by at least 10 points. He also said, is probably better than Nebraska.
"THE GREATEST compensation for this wonderful people I meet across the United States."
Samarra, who plans to write a book about his life as OU's number one fan, said that he was always "treated great by all the people," although he has occasionally been harassed.
Samara added that he was anxious to come to KU because it was one of the schools at which he felt "really welcome," but he declined to guess the score.
"We're going to win," he said. "That's all I'm going to say."
Travel Fair Hosts Speaker; Culture Shock to Be Topic
The travel fair also has scheduled a program sponsored by the KU Bicycle Club and American Youth Hostels at 2:30 p.m. today in the Council Room of the Union.
Nicholas Patinos, director of the Institute of International Education, will speak on "Culture Shock" at 7:30 tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
SUA World Travel Fair which runs through Friday in the Union.
Patinos is speaking at KU as part of the
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