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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 1, 1968
What happens to the leaves
Autumn paints KU campus
October's chill winds envelop the KU campus with color-oranges, reds and yellows of countless autumn leaves, flaunting riotous color on the trees below the Campanile, floating through the air like bright magic carpets and landing in mass confusion on campus lawns.
Although KU students marvel at the autumn beauty and revel in shuffling through piles of leaves on their way to class, few realize that even at KU the annual task of leaf-raking is part of October's labors.
Harry Blitch, the Buildings and Grounds supervisor of grounds and landscaping, said his men don't really mind raking leaves.
Men from the Buildings and Grounds department can be seen raking around bushes and trees and piling the leaves into neat stacks.
"It's just another job," he said.
Ten men rake the leaves, Blitch said. "They work raking on and off for about a month and a half."
Over large areas of lawn a machine sweeps up the leaves, transferring them to a dump truck. But the grounds workers must rake around bushes and trees by hand, keeping sidewalks and paths free from piles of leaves. Blitch said.
"We have our own standards and we try to keep the grounds looking a little better than presentable. But the University doesn't set any laws about how many leaves can be on a cubic foot of space or anything like that," he said, jokingly.
KU's colorful leaves don't
meet the usual fate of most autumn leaves. Instead of going up in smoke, the leaves are eventually reused to beautify the campus in later springs.
Blitch said the leaves are hauled every three days to farmland east of Lawrence where they decay into a mulch and are used as fertilizer a few years later.
Kansan Photo by Mike Gunther
The Buildings and Grounds department hauls it back to KU and spreads it around plants and trees to add nutriment to the soil, Blitch said.
At KU, the beauty of autumn isn't wasted but used instead to add to the beauty of future seasons.
Pants suits lead fashion trends
NEW YORK (UPI)-Yves St.
Laurent didn't have a kinky telescope or a foggy crystal ball when he predicted long pants suits will become commonplace for females.
Trend-setting American designers, showing spring collections to clothes buyers from stores across the land, do more than spice their collections with pants suits. They're showing the outfits as nonchalantly as they parade dresses and suits.
Most of the pants suits seen in early collections have hip length jackets or tunics. The length of these nicely takes care of the rearview-considered not attractive when a woman not built for pants wear some.
That means all of you out there who have been waiting for
the pants suit fit in the garment district to go away might as well accept them. In the office even, as St. Laurent predicted.
And you who have been waiting for skirts lengths to drop dramatically have something else to face up to. Short skirts—maxi minis halfway between knee and hipbone—also seem certain to stay on the American seene.
A wide-legged pants suit in the Bill Blass collection was typical of those taking care of the rearview. It had a tunic top and was high belted.
Chuck Howard, for Townley, was big on wide legged pajama pants treatments. A red and white tablecloth check pajama suit was topped with a white vertically pleated and sleeveless top.
One of the strongest statements for short skirts was made in the junior sophisticates' collection. Hemlines were pegged at midpoint between hipbone and knee.
Even Marie McCarthy, designing for the Larry Aldrich collection, kept the hems at between four and five inches above the knee. That's longer than the junior sophisticated' shorties but still, by a lot of tastes, too short for comfort.
One Big Run
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) THE STP-turbocar made only one run in Indianapolis 500 competition but the controversial race car established 17 track records in its 1967 appearance.
Stop in after the game.
Get your "I'm Hungry" button and fill up with a couple of good hamburgers, fries and a shake.
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Speech program director returns
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Bobby R. Patton, assistant professor of speech and drama and director of the fundamentals of speech program, has just returned from a two day visit (Oct. 24 to 25) as consultant to the department of speech and dramatic arts at the State University of New York in Albany.
Patton met with the instructors in the fundamentals of speech program at the university, and proposed modifications in the current practices of teaching basic speech.
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