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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Nov. 13, 1958
ZOOLOGY AWARD WINNERS—Dr. E. R. Hall, chairman of the department of zoology, presents academic honors awards in zoology to (from
left) Joanne Halderson, Bartlesville, Okla., junior; Freddie Wilson, Lenexa graduate student, and Marilyn Mull, Chanute junior.
Growth of Pep Clubs Began With Gifts of Food in 1921
Strange as it may seem there once was a time when there were no pep clubs, only cheerleaders, but once the first pep club was organized to furnish the football team with fruit there was no stopping the growth of pep students.
In 1919 a mob of men, all dressed in white robes and hoods, gathered on North College Hill to initiate the first tribe of the KuKu Klan.
The Klan banded together to help school spirit, for at that time the only activities at football games were stunts performed by the cheerleaders. For the games, the Klan discarded their mystic robes and donned white shirts, blue turbans and red sashes.
The big project in 1921 was a $1,000 drive to buy fruit for the team. Each team member received an orange every day and a big yellow lemon on game days.
The Klan decided to go national, but before it did, the University administration made them change its name to the KuKu Club.
It seems there was a group in the South that had a similar name and a rather infamous reputation. The University frowned on the connection.
KU had the mother chapter of Pi Epsilon P1 (PEP) in 1923. This was the first national pep organization.
In the same year the KuKu's discarded their old uniforms in favor of white sweaters with an insignia of the Jayhawk in a blue circle.
Now the women, obviously still fighting for women's rights, formed a little group of their own, the Jay James, founded by Dorothy McIvor in 1923.
The first freshman lads who dared organize, formed the Froshawks in 1947, pledging 100 men.
large that only half could sit in the pep section at the games.
Again the women rose up in defense of their rights, and 212 eager freshman women formed the Red Peppers in 1949. The group was so
This year, battle between sexes is over and the freshmen have formed a coed pep club, at the moment still nameless, known only as "The Freshman Pep Club."
Downslip Change for Engineering Students
A change in the method of distributing downslips has been announced by the School of Engineering and Architecture.
A list of students receiving downslips will be posted on the Dean's Bulletin Board. Sophomores, juniors and seniors whose names appear on the list may pick up their downslips immediately from a table on the first floor of Marvin Hall.
In the past, upperclassmen received downsips through the mail. Students may like the new system better, because there are always requests by engineering students to
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Distribution of freshman down-slips will be handled in the same manner as in the past. Freshmen may either see their adviser or wait for the mail. ___
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