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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 29, 1959
It's Do or Die on Decorations
By Roberta Laughery
Previous planning and lots of hard work go into successful decorations for any college house or hall on homecoming day and the KU campus is no exception.
Since the weather was so windy last year on homecoming day, the decorators are trying to prepare for any emergency this time. The figures for the scenes are sturdier and many are being painted with waterproof paint.
Gymnastics Included
People have been hanging from ladders and roofs trying to figure out how they can put up decorations so they are recognizable, but still original.
The lounes, living rooms, and other available rooms in the houses
Hint at Bowl Trip
Perseverance. Pays
Even though now some of the groups may wish they had disbanded campus homecoming decorations as proposed, they will undoubtedly be glad they worked so hard when Saturday comes and the campus is be decked in bright decorations.
All the ideas for the campus decorations had to be based on song titles. After each group had decided on a theme, they turned it over to a house decorations committee headed by Allen Edwards, assistant professor of education.
and halles have been taken over by these frustrated workers who are equipped with wire, papier-mache and anything else they can find.
Many of the themes this year hint at the possibility of KU going to the Orange Bowl. For instance, two of the song titles being used are "All or Nothing" and "Friendly Persuasion." In the actual decoration some of the groups are using orange-colored figures besides the usual replicas of jayhawks and tigers.
Badges, Rings, Novelties, Sweatshirts, Mugs, Paddles Cups, Trophies, Medals
prised of independent women, independent men, fraternities and sororities.
Fraternity Jewelry
Balfour
When it comes right down to the work, the individual chairmen have been pushing the people in their houses to work every spare minute they can in hopes of winning one of the possible trophies. The entires are divided into four divisions com-
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