Disinterest Kills Card Sections
There will be no card section at the KU-Oklahoma State football game tomorrow—or at any KU home game the rest of the year.
KuKu Pep Club President Gordon Hofstra, Bonner Springs senior, said there will be no card section because "people don't seem to want to be bothered."
"At the last game (KU-Iowa State) the card section was a complete flop. There was such a hodge-podge of color in the wrong places no one could see what the picture was supposed to be.
"We were advised not to do it again." Hofstra said.
David S. Simonett, associate professor of geography, who is in charge of the half-time ceremonies of the home games, said the stopping of the card section displays was "a kind of collective decision made by the people involved in the home-coming ceremony."
Prof. Simonett added that "some people" said the reason for the sloppy performance two weeks ago might have come from the large number of parents helping the students flash the cards. About 2,500 parents were visiting the campus for the annual Parent' Day.
He said that other people credited the failure as a result of no one caring what happened. He said some
people said the card section should have practiced before the game, but that others said the card flashers didn't need practice to follow numbers.
Prof. Simonett explained the flash cards are used to fill in time between the rest of the half-time activities. He also mentioned that if the students had been on television, they might have done a better job.
Hofstra added that he was disappointed to see the pep club's work on the card section "go out the window."
"We did a lot of work on the card system. We sent questionnaires to other schools to find out how the system works, and we figured out what we were going to do before every game. But the students didn't seem to want to participate."
He said the card section at the first KU home game was satisfactory.
"It was fine, except there were not enough people. At the second game there were more people, but their work was not as good as it could have been.
"The third performance was horrible. Instead of the praise we had received before, all we got was uncomplimentary remarks from the alumni."
Cherries Take Place Of Union Cranberries
Student Union Cateteria diners can relax. They have been passing up cherry, not cranberry pudding.
Recently the Food and Drug administration released a notice saying that a new weed killer, aminotriazole, which some cranberry growers have been using improperly causes cancer in rats.
Parole Battles Not Political
TOPEKA —(UPI) — Atty. Gen.
John Anderson Jr. said last night
he is "willing to wait and see what
the court says" about his paroles
battle with Gov. George Docking.
Anderson denied the squabble is "purely political." The governor's pardons attorney, Dale Spiegel, used those terms in describing the conflict to the collegiate Young Democrats of the University of Wichita Wednesday night.
"His statement is just nonsense," Anderson said. "The action is not political and I feel that the governor, at least in part, admitted that when he put Mrs. Borserine back in the penitentiary."
The conclusion, based on experiments with the rodents, was that aminotriazole might cause cancer in humans.
Formal court actions, filed in San Francisco, asked for seizure of 14 tons of allegedly contaminated cranberries.
With the unfavorable publicity, many have been passing up the cherry pudding in the Union Cafeteria.
Sandy Eicholtz, secretary to the food service manager, said:
"Since no one was buying the cherry pudding because they thought it was cranberry, we had to put up a sign saying these are cherries, not cranberries.
"We definitely will not have any cranberries for Thanksgiving dinner." she concluded.
The annual William Lowell Putnam examination, a national competitive test for mathematics students, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 21.
Putnam Test Scheduled
The examination will be given at 119 Strong.
57th Year, No. 41
Dailu hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, November 13, 1959
Wiley to Be Honored By Scholarship Fund
By Byron L. Redding
A new scholarship fund, honoring a man who has devoted 25 years to KU and its students, will be established at half time ceremonies of the KU-Oklahoma State football game tomorrow.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will receive a check which will inaugurate the "Russell L. Wiley Band Scholarship Fund."
This fund indicates, not the culmination of the fruitful career of Russell L. Wiley, but rather another milestone in a full life, dedicated to music and the advancement of his students.
The scholarship was instigated by three members of Prof. Wiley's first band at KU. They and members of the band since then "hope in this way to indicate some measure of the admiration and affection" in which they hold Prof. Wiley.
"Prof, Wiley's influence on the young men in his bands through the years has been not only of a musical nature, but also meant a great deal to their personal outlook. The ideals and principles he instilled in them have contributed greatly to their lives," he said.
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, also said he holds Prof. Wiley in high regard.
"Prof. Wiley founded and developed the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. It was his creation and the credit for its tremendous growth can be attributed to him. In quality it is second to none, and in size it is the second largest of its type in the country," he concluded.
An article in the University Daily Kansas dated April 30, 1936, tells that the "University of Kansas, under the directorstaff of Russell L Wiley, will hold its first annual band and orchestra camp this summer."
Founded Music Camp
Weather
Cold wave warning East portion tonight. Light snow and unseasonably cold. Partial clearing West tonight with temperatures falling to 5 below zero extreme Northwest and to 15 above zero Southeast. Saturday snow ending East portion forenoon and continued unseasonably cold. High Saturday 20s.
Between 75 and 100 students were expected for this "first encampment" which university officials "hoped to make... an annual affair."
By June 14, 1959, over 600 boys and girls from all across the nation were enrolled in the six-week Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Now, not only was this a music camp, but, as Dean Gorton stated, "Almost a summer university for high school students."
There were now art, ballet, drama, science and mathematics divisions as well.
A five day Music Clinic, which Prof. Wiley modestly "hoped would be an inspiring experience was offered for the first time last summer.
Some insight into the measure of the esteem in which Prof. Wiley is held by his peers in the musical world can be gained by the fact that Prof. Wiley was, in 1935, elected to active membership in the American Bandmaster's Association, the most select organization of its kind in the nation.
He became the first man in Kansas ever to have gained that distinction. Out of a total of 22 applicants only eight were chosen for membership. In the entire 48 states there were only 58 active members. This group had as its presidents such greats as Edwin Franko Goldman and John Philip Sousa.
Prof. Wiley has been a guest conductor, contest judge, and music critic across the country He has been honored on the international level by such appearances as his guest conducting the National Symphony of Mexico, at Mexico City.
In 1958 the KU band was invited to the Brussels World's Fair but was unable to go because of the prohibitive costs.
Many alumni of the KU band will remember the old 7:30 a.m. marching band drills in what is now the zone "X" parking lot. Sometimes in mud, sometimes in snow, and almost always in a chilly wind Prof. Wiley, and his students drilled for the following Saturday's spectacular.
Began Directing Orchestra
Began Directing Orchestra In 1942, Prof. Wiley was asked to "temporarily substitute" as director of the KU Symphony Orchestra while its conductor was on a one-year leave of absence. This was in addition to his normal band activities. That year turned into 15, during
which a complete orchestral program was established.
In 1957, when Prof. Wiley relinquished his directional of the orchestra, Dean Gorton was quoted:
"Certainly there is no unhappiness with Wiley's conduct in the direction of the band or the orchestra." The change in Prof. Wiley's schedule was attributed "to the large growth of the fine arts school and the opening of the new fine arts buildings." There was just too much work for one man to do.
Prof. Wiley once described his relationship as a director to his musical groups. "It is like having a great keyboard before you. Each person represents a key, full of life, and all it needs is activation by the conductor. With a movement of the hand, to the right or left, the keys become an integral part of the music. A clarinet, a flute, a trombone...all are waiting for a command."
However, he warned, "The conductor must keep himself in obscurity, so the attention of the audience will be focused on the orchestra, and not on the antics of the conductor."
Saturday, however, it will be the "antics of the conductor" in the limelight.
Kansan Wins News Award
The University Daily Kansan was awarded the third place prize among student newspapers for the best news stories of the 1959-60 school year at the national Sigma Delta Chi convention in Indianapolis yesterday.
Robert Root, associate professor of journalism at Syracuse University and a member of the national executive committee of Sigma Delta Chi, presented the awards during a luncheon at the 50th anniversary convention of the professional journalistic fraternity.
Prizes were awarded in four categories: straight news, editorial writing, features and sports.
The Montana Kaimin won first place in the nation-wide student newspaper contest in the straight news category. The Daily Trojan, University of Southern California, was the second place winner.
Plastic Student Sculpture Makes Craftsman Show
By Thomas Hough
It started at 9:33 last night with a twiddling of plastic spoons in the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union.
Two students were drinking coffee and thumbing the spoons as they discussed world problems. A spoon splintered between one student's fingers as he impulsively gestured to establish a verbal point.
As the conversation continued, the other student —perhaps slightly bored with the worldliness of it all—struck a match. He held the flame under one end of a plastic splinter.
The two students. Jerry P. Shofer, Athens, Ohio, freshman, and Nathaniel E. Pearson, Kansas City, Kan., junior, soon forgot conversation when they learned that plastic becomes sticky when heated. Soon a structure began to grow on the table as plastic was welded to plastic.
This was the beginning.
Larry J. Hammond, Overland, Mo., junior, joined the absorbed construction crew. As the builders excitedly developed their project, the activity spurred suggestions.
"Let's make a circle here."
"You hold it up while I stick another leg on it so it will stand by itself."
That's how it went.
James B. Osborn, Lawrence graduate student, passed the engrossed trio on his way to the coffee pot. He stopped, looked, and dragged up a chair.
"I think we need some more spoons."
"I'm out of matches."
"Here. try my cigarette lighter."
"It's beautiful. I swear it's beautiful. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
Two books of paper matches, a lighter full of fluid, and six plastic spoons later, a red, yellow, and green structure struggled for six inches of height.
The operation had taken 27 minutes.
"What will we name it?"
"How about 'Flight Into Space?' "
"I think we ought to put it in the craft show upstairs (Kansas Designer Craftsman Show). It's just as good as anything up there."
And they did.
Spoons Become Art