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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept 23, 1958
A Qualified Success
Well, it worked.
The pep clubs came up with a mighty fine idea when they inaugurated the white shirt cheering section in Memorial Stadium Saturday.
In the reserved bottom halves of four sections, the letters K and U stood against the white like glowing brands. Looking from the west side of the stadium, the sight of a multitude of students banded together for a purpose was inspiring.
However the success of the reserved area was anti-climactic. For, herded together in the unrestricted seats, there were enough white shirted students to adequately fill an additional six and one-half sections.
The reason for this great turnout is elementary. Students interested in aiding KU toward a greater degree of school spirit came up with a long-overdue plan to develop the pep at football games. They put out a call of help to the student body which was readily answered.
At least this is what we would like to believe. It is more than possible that large numbers wore white shirts merely to secure a decent seat at the game.Fine and dandy.The idea still worked.
With this kind of encouragement, the pep clubs can be expected to go ahead with their hopes to put KU on the map as far as large school color is concerned. They should also feel assured of enough backing to make the theoretical card section a reality.
Whatever happens now is up to the pep clubbers and to the students who will continue to respond. Congratulations and more power to them. —John Husar
A Note on Culture
We were out watching the fertility dances at a local establishment Saturday night. We didn't come to any conclusions, but took quite a few notes. The procedure goes like this:
With no apparent meeting time, the natives arrive in groups of two to eight throughout the evening. Unlike other backward peoples of the world, they seem to have no innate sense of rhythm, but need the backing of a full-blown orchestra to move them to revelry.
Once the music starts, however, the dancers can compete with anybody. A hashish stare clouds the eye, the jaw drops, and the knees grow limp. The hips loosen as if disjointed, and the dance is underway.
There is a sort of icon, with bright lights, which produces the music. It accepts small metal sacrifices and has a device for making the music louder, so the natives can still hear it at the height of the festivities.
Several sorts of music issue from the icon.
There is loud, fast music with oversexed saxophones; soft, moody music with violins; and novelty, or country music, with adenoids.
As a neophyte, we didn't understand the rituals, but it appears that the fast music is a signal to dance, while the other music calls for more private meditations with bottles and glasses of a pale amber liquid. The natives both dance and meditate in pairs, a seemingly inviolable rule.
The dances show some traces of South American or Caribbean derivation at times, but originality appears to be the main requisite for an adept.
No winners were announced at the end of the rites, but the goals seemed to be twofold: copious consumption of the liquid, and exhaustion from the dancing.
We spotted one small blond native who looked like a winner. His consumption was prodigious, and he was so exhausted he had to be carried out.
—Al Jones
Sprawling Spectators
Saturday's football game was not only a losing cause for the KU football team, but also for many students wanting to watch the game from the seating area within the playing field.
Several hundred students were pushed beyond the goal line because too many big-bottomed Jayhawkers sprawled over more than one seat near the 50-yard line.
If the students had to sit on an 18-inch seat, as the $4 customers do across the way, there would be room for most to sit no farther north than the goal line.
A little practice of the Golden Rule and/or the use of ushers would remedy this situation.
Gov. Harriman proposes that Harry Truman run for President again. Just when they got that drama critic calmed down, too.
—Harry Ritter
In 1948 it was Truman, now it's Rockefeller and Harriman. The century of the common man was one of the shortest on record.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"YOU ONLY FALL ASLEEP ONCE IN HIS CLASS."
Short Ones
To the older generation that claims hula hoops are a sign of our nation's decay, we can only point to mah jong and the old-time flagpole sitters.
Elvis is sent to Germany to drive trucks for the Army. That's the service for you—if you don't have a skill, they'll teach you one.
Every overseas tour has its own dangers. In Formosa it's snakes—in Europe it was the Volkswagens.
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It Looks This Way A Saturday Story
By John Husar
The leaves began to fall noticeably Saturday. The grass on the plains was turning brown and the wind felt chipper as it rushed at us in the top row of the stadium. The pale sunlight brought out the deep colors of the surroundings.
Far across the golden valley,
Glorious to view,
Before the game started, we glanced toward the Hill and noticed the flags waving above Fraser, and the gargoyles peering back at us from Dyche. We saw people on the Union sun-deck waiting for the team to enter. And the campanile smiled above the entire scene. After many years, we were seeing an aspect of the campus for the first time.
Stands our noble Alma Mater, Towering toward the blue.
Thousands of people sat expectantly. The band was there with its bass' exuberant thump, and the cheering section added body to the spectacle. The crowd cheered as the teams trotted onto the field. Then everybody sang the Alma Mater and chanted the Rock Chalk yell. The atmosphere of a great event penetrated us.
Lift the chorus ever onward,
Crimson and the Blue,
Along toward the end of the third quarter, after the enemy had made its fourth score, we turned our gaze from the pageant below and considered the great valley as it changed from gold and green to purple and blue in the late afternoon. Three children were playing tag outside the stadium's open gates. A couple passed by them on their way from the game. Then another couple left, and then two more. Giving up. Soon the stream thickened and many were milling through the gates. Their loyalties were not very strong. But thousands stayed on, beyond hope, but with spirit.
Hail to thee our Alma Mater, Hail to old KU.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
(Answer on Page 8)
ACROSS
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7 Prospector's backers.
14 Disregard deliberately.
15 Presidential advisory group.
15 Witty reply.
1 First man to reach the South Pole, 1911.
1 Presentation by 3 Down.
20 Tiff.
21 Money in Bologna.
22 Pollen sac.
24 Well-known comedian.
25 Error.
28 Top players.
30 Cheering.
31 Born.
33 Business resources.
38 Floes.
38 Pieces of furniture.
40 Social lion.
41 __ setter, a dog.
43 Inferior: Slang.
44 Person regarded as an ideal.
45 British Arctic explorer.
47 Frame for embroidery.
49 Function in accord with: 2 words.
52 Stinging insect.
54 Literary form.
55 Excellent.
56 Pulsation.
60 Concerned with penalties.
62 Wheel of a pulley.
63 Second sale.
64 Happy state.
65 Throwers.
66 Patriarchs.
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9 Be contiguous.
10 Relations.
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13 Unyielding.
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19 Mouslake mammal.
20 Mortise joints.
23 Mrs. Truman.
24 ship's jail.
25 Crazy: Slang.
26 Employer.
27 Large alligator.
28 Decline.
29 At any time.
35 Fag.
36 Locate.
38 Bird.
39 Extravagant: Fr.
40 The twins in "Comedy of Errors."
44 A harumscarum.
46 Tremble from cold.
48 Place of worship.
49 Appendix: Abbr.
49 Area for a ball game.
51 I hold: Latin.
53 Thumpers: Slang.
54 Bona —
57 Talk over-enthusiastically.
58 Beyond.
59 Peaks, in Scotland.
61 Treasurers: Abbr.
62 Pronoun.