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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 20, 1968
JAYHAWK RALLY ON DAISY HILI
The 1968-69 Pom pon squad and yell leaders lead enthusiastic Jayhawks in a spirited chant at the Traditions Rally and dance at Templin during Orientation Week.
Yell team warns Big 8, revamps cheer style
Pom pon girls and yell leaders hope to make "Beware Big Eight—This is the Year of the Jayhawk!" a campus watchword during the 1968 football season.
The slogan, however, is only one of the innovations in this year's cheering style.
Bob Hartman and his fellow yell leaders are emphasizing gymnastics this fall by revamping standard cheers with new gymnastic stunts.
A miniature trampoline, "the mini-trim," which has a webbed jumping area of about 6 square feet, will be used especially for kick-off cheers, Hartman said Wednesday.
Shirley Gossett, head Pom pon girl, explained her squad has devised complementary motions for the gymnastics. In their new routines, the girls are working for more movement on the field instead of the traditional straight line. Miss Gossett said, "We'll try to move into more formations than in past years."
The yell leaders decided to experiment with gymnastics because two members, Mark Hannah, Overland Park sophomore, and Colin Martin, Rapid City, S.D., sophomore, have competitive gymnastic experience, Hartman said.
"We hope to move toward a completely gymnastic squad for next year." he added.
"We're all going to be gymnasts before the year's over," Hartman laughed. He said the team has already learned such stunts as back handsprings and pitch-ups.
For the first time, yell leaders will be stationed in the stands at football games. Miss Gossett explained, "Both groups will be working to develop a closer contact with the fans."
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Like the yell leaders, the Pompon girls have been practicing for their first appearance Sept. 28, when the Jayhawks meet Indiana. The girls will be featured during halftime.
"Everyone learned the basics and traditional routines in May, but practices were suspended for the summer," Miss Gossett said. Work on new routines began Sept. 5.
Away from home the Pompon girls will perform only when accompanied by the KU band. Miss Gossett explained that they found performing to organ music at the National Invitational
Hatman said that the yell leaders, Pom pon girls and the band will cheer at Alumni Association-sponsored pep rallies for most out-of-town games.
Are You A Slow Reader
Other yell leaders are John Gelissel, Prairie Village junior; Scott Curry, Prairie Village senior; White Prairie Village sophomore; Craig Pedicord, Corpus Christi Tex. junior; Rick Meyer, Bonner Springs senior; and Paul Clendening, Prairie
Four home pep rallies are scheduled for the 1968 season two more than last year. Hartman said the squads hope to have a torchlight rally, probably for homecoming.
Along with Miss Gosset, Pom pon girls include Mary Williams, Kansas City sophomere; Bari Robinson, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Karen Larsen, Kansas City senior; Janet Merrick, Mission junior; and Gwenaeus Klein, Mission junior; and Gwenaeus Steffen, Hutchinson junior; and Gwennaeus Steffen, Hutchinson junior.
Tourney in New York last spring upsatisfactory.
Deborah Youngstrom, Des Moines,
Iowa, junior; Elizabeth Fronto,
Topeka junior; and Connie Cerne, Lawrence sophomore are alternates.
Vietnam veteran enrolls in KU engineering school
by Alan Hansberry Kansan Staff Reporter
"We were walking down this trail, and we were ambushed. It was the first time I'd been under actual fire. I was the fourth man from the point."
Another nameless Vietnam skirmish had begun. For one GI, however, the road from high school dropout to the college campus has also begun.
The GI, Gary Renner, Overland Park freshman, realized for the first time since joining the Army he would have time to complete his high school education. Within weeks he had passed the Army's Education Development test, and had applied to the University of Kansas.
"As I rounded a bend a VC came at me with a bayonet. I dodged aside but caught it on my left arm. I pulled the trigger on my weapon and killed him." Wounded, the soldier spent the next four days in an Army hospital
Memories of the "land of the all night generator" influenced him to undertake a college career.
He said draft protesters and anti-Vietnam demonstrators bothered most GI's fighting in Southeast Asia.
Renner said, "I've got to sweat over here, why don't they" was the predominate attitude most fighting men held. "The GH's want them over there." He said, "Nobody likes to be drafted."
Renner remembered, "What got me was the race riots."
CONSERVATION
The ex-soldier will study engineering this fall after completing 16 months in Vietnam.
UNITED NATIONS —(UPI)— The Council of Europe has decided to launch two conservation measures -a clean water campaign this year and a Nature Conservancy Year in 1970, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reports.
THE KU B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL counselorship invites you to the
HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES
Sun., Sept. 22
Sun., Sept. 22
Rosh Hashanah Eve. ... 7:30 p.m.
Mon., Sept. 23
1st Day Rosh Hashanah ... Morning 9:30 a.m.
Tues., Sept. 24 ... Evening 7:30 p.m.
2nd Day Rosh Hashanah ... Morning 9:30 a.m.
Tues., Oct. 1
Yom Kippur Eve. ... 7:30 p.m.
Wed.. Oct. 2
... 9:30 a.m.
Yom Kippur Day ... 9:30 a.m.
Breakfast will follow at the conclusion of Yom Kippur Day.
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