Jayhawks Jubilant Over Win
The KU-MU game was over. Five minutes later in Lawrence, a honking, screaming, arm-waving motorcade formed on campus.
Fingers formed a "V" for Victory and signs suggesting a boycott of monday classes flashed from car windows. Bodies too numerous to fit inside cars were dangling outside.
Continuous yells proclaimed the Kansas 23-7 win and the first conference title since 1930.
A CARLOAD of girls organized a snake dance which started in front of Strong Hall. It soon developed into a line of 800 breathless students whipping a zig-zag pattern along Jayhawk Boulevard.
The excitement was equally high 185 miles away.
Everywhere excited Kansas fans were gathering together to celebrate the stunning victory.
In downtown Lawrence, townfolk lined the streets. Traffic was hopelessly snarled. There were no speed limits, no stop signs and no ordinances against excessive horn blowing enforced.
The game was hardly finished before the football field in Columbia was covered with scrambling bodies fighting for a piece of a goal post. Some were trying to rip the posts from the ground, others tried to stor
them. Fights broke out all over the field.
THOSE WHO weren't on the field scuffling for either a souvenir or the joy of punching somebody, stood in dead silence in the grey stadium.
KU student body president, Ron Dalby, said of the scene, "Never in my life have I seen a crowd file out so slowly. They said nothing. KU students seemed afraid to say anything, MU students were too stunned to talk."
Underneath the stadium, in the two locker rooms, there was a striking contrast in mood.
The Kansas dressing room was a scene of jubilation and activity. Coach Jack Mitchell said, "It was the best defensive job we have done all season. But everyone did a great job. It was the greatest game of my coaching career."
KU chancellor, W. Clarke Wescoe, said, "I can't conceive of there being a finer team anywhere in the nation. Frankly, I didn't have any doubts we would win. The University is very proud of this team that brought the championship to KU."
ACROSS THE field, in the Missouri dressing room, silence reigned. Missouri coach. Dan Devine, was downcast. He had only one consolation; Missouri had just accepted a bid to the Orange Bowl.
In Lawrence the celebration continued, sports cars bouncing over the curbing and racing about campus on the sidewalks and across the lawns. One celebrator stood atop his car and proclaimed a pep rally that night at the Field House.
At The Stables, a popular KU watering place, the crowd got so large and boisterous that the sale of beer was discontinued.
The Missouri campus was quiet. There were no horns honked except in disgust, as cars departed in all directions.
There were still fights breaking out in the stadium and on campus,
Football Convocation To Be Held Tomorrow
A special Convocation honoring the Kansas football team and its staff will be held tomorrow morning at 11:20 a.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
Tuesday morning classes will follow this schedule.
8 o'clock classes, 8-8:40 a.m.
masses, 8:35-9:10 a.m.
10 o'clock classes, 9:40-10:20 a.m.
11 o'clock classes, 10:30-11:20 a.m.
but Dalby said, "I was very pleased with the actions of the KU student body." Speaking for the MU students, student body president C. L. Holdren said, "I was glad there weren't any real outbursts of student reaction. There were only isolated incidents. I was pleased with the sportsmanship of both student bodies."
AMONG THE LAST to leave the field was the KU Marching Band.
Russell Wiley, director of the band, said, "We played for 45-60 minutes after the game to keep the band members in a group and out of the fighting around us."
There were many reports that members of the band were attacked, their hats stolen or destroyed, and minor injuries inflicted on them. Assistant band director Ken Bloomquist said, "We went to Missouri expecting trouble." Wind and percussion director George Frock stated, "I wouldn't go down there again. I have never seen a school like it."
Later Prof. Wiley said he knew of no injury to a band member. He said, "We were treated most excellently. The MU band was very hospitable. The only criticism is there was too much drinking."
IN LAWRENCE the celebration
continued into the night. Students eagerly awaited the arrival of the team. When the bus supposedly carrying the new champions arrived at Allen Field House, a group of about 50, laden with carefully lettered signs, was thoroughly disappointed to find only three players on the bus.
Close to 2,500 students gathered later to have the pep rally. The team never showed up, but those there still sang and cheered.
On the quiet Missouri campus, solemn radio announcements of the plans for the trip to Miami were made.
Scattered fighting continued, but the scene Saturday night in Columbia was mostly one of a quiet college town enjoying a Homecoming Dance.
THE FINAL reaction to the game came when Dalby announced there would be a special convocation Tuesday morning.
The Convocation will include the band, cheerleaders, the team and the coaches. The introduction of the players and presentation of a plaque to the team is to be the highlight of the Convocation.
The convocation is designed to show gratitude for the team's fine effort this season and for winning the Big Eight Championship, Dalby said.
23. 3 Per Cent Fail
Proficiency Test Passed by 672
For 672 students who did succeed, the ordeal of the English Proficiency examination is over. But another 205 students will have to try, try again.
Results released by the Examination Committee show 76.7 per cent of the 877 total who took the test on Oct. 13 successfully completed the graduation requirement. This is the second highest percentage since the examination began in 1938 and the highest number ever to take it.
This is the first year an inter-school committee has graded the tests. Previously, the Department of English was responsible for the program. Now, however, faculty representatives from each of the schools for which the examination is required for graduation graded the papers.
THE ESSAY test is required for all juniors and seniors in the Schools of Education, Fine Arts, Journalism, Nursing; the departments of architecture, architectural engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences upon completion of their freshman and sophomore English requirements.
Students passing English 2H with a grade of B or higher, English 1 and 2 with an A, English 1H with a B or higher or English 2 with an A are exempt from taking the examination.
The faculty graders selected the papers at random. All papers which failed or were considered questionable on the first grading were read a second time. There were 360 papers that fell into this category. On the second reading, 205 failed and thus failed the examination.
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58th Year, No. 47
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Waggoner Is Leading Choice For U of Oregon Presidency
Monday, Nov. 21, 1960
George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, appeared today to be the leading candidate for the presidency at the University of Oregon. Fugene Ore
The Eugene (Ore.) Register Daily Guard newspaper, as reported by United Press International, said yesterday that Dean Waggoner was the likely choice of the three candidates.
HE LEFT YESTERDAY for the west coast school and will return to KU on Wednesday.
The newspaper quoted William
Kansan to Resume Publication Nov.28
Walsh, the vice president of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, as saying Dean Waggoner was the likely candidate. The choice
This is the final issue of the Daily Kansan prior to Thanksgiving vacation. Regular publication will resume Monday, Nov. 28.
Blaze in Snow Hall Addition
Several hundred paste board boxes containing hot-air registers at the entrance to the new addition caught on fire on the ground floor of the north-east corner. A cutting torch is believed to have caused the fire.
The Lawrence Fire Department answered a call to put out a blaze in the new addition of Snow Hall at 1:53 p.m. Saturday.
A department spokesman said damage was mostly caused by smoke and was not too great.
Fixtures for the air conditioners and the walls and tile of the bathroom which was located here were burned. Also burned was the copper tubing on the ceiling of the washroom and the hall outside.
The damage is estimated to several thousand dollars by the building contractors.
(Picture by Calvin Wong, New York City graduate student.)
George R. Waggoner
will probably be announced at the Board's meeting tomorrow.
DR. JOHN R. RICHARDS, chancellor of the state system of higher education, said today, however, that the board has not decided on a successor to Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, who now heads the University of Minnesota.
The Portland (Ore.) Oregonian daily newspaper said today that Dean Waggoner was interviewed last June for the job. The paper went on to speculate that the three candidates included Robert D. Clark, dean of the University of Oregon College of Liberal Arts.
DEAN WAGGONER was appointed dean of the College at KU in March, 1954 after serving as associate dean of the college at Indiana University.
His tenure as dean has seen a tremendous rise in the enrollment of
the college, an increased faculty and increased research facilities.
Termed a man of "tremendous ideas who has the wonderful ability to carry them out" by his colleagues, Dean Waggoner was the moving force behind the College's gifted student program, advising system, principle courses and foreign language requirement programs.
The University of Oregon has an enrollment of 8,800 and is a member of the Pacific Coast Conference. It is the largest of five state schools of higher education with medical, dental and nursing schools in Portland.
New Orleans Calm
NEW ORLEANS —(UPI)— The New Orleans School Board, its stifterdom schools emptied by a week's holiday, today began trying to raise enough money to pay the teachers.
Police reported the city calmer than it has been since four Negro girls walked into first grade classes at two elementary schools a week ago.
Foreign Students Tour Deadline Tomorrow
The University will sponsor its annual fall field trip for foreign students Dec. 2.
Foreign students wishing to participate in the field trip should make reservations with the Foreign Student Advisor, 228 Strong Hall, before 6 p.m. tomorrow.
Weather
Kansas — Generally fair, windy and warmer this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and windy. Colder northwest and turning colder east and south portions Tuesday. Gusty south to southwest winds 25 to 35 miles per hour this afternoon. Low tonight in the 40's. High Tuesday 40's northwest to near 70 southeast.