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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1957
By GEORGE ANTHAN (Assistant Sports Editor of The Daily Kansan)
What did the Jay Watchers do in Topeka Tuesday? The truth is that they didn't do a thing.
True, there was a meeting at which was discussed the problem of televising one of KU's remaining regularly scheduled out-of-town games and, or two games at the NCAA playoffs in Dallas, Texas.
No figures came out of the meeting, no concrete plans—only possibilities and desires. One solid tact seems to have been brought out—the televising of the K-State game would cost $15,000. That possibility was dropped.
Bebe Lee At Meeting
Bebe Lee, K-State athletic director was at the meeting as were four representatives from Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and Jim Schmitz, an engineer from WAF-DTV. Jay Barrington, WDAF program and sports director, was there, too.
There is nothing at all wrong with an organization like the Jay Watchers trying to do what they are. However, the Jay Watchers gave the impression at the KU-Oklahoma A & M basketball game that they were asking for donations which would be used to put the KU basketball team on television.
It seems as if the Jay Watchers did not know positively whether or not those donations would or could be used to televise any games. They didn't know then and they don't seem to know now all the very necessary and orderly facts which are so essential in the launching of such a project.
The money donated at that game has just as much chance of going into the KU Endowment Assn. as it has of putting the KU basketball team on television.
Endowment Assn. All Right
The KU Endowment Assn. is a good thing. It should be contributed to by all loyal Kansas students and alumni as they see fit. It does not seem, however, as if money collected by the Jay Watchers was meant by the donors to go into the Assn.
We would like very much to see Kansas basketball on television. But it's advertising money that's needed so the job can be done in the tradition of American communications — with commercial sponsors. These sponsors, of course, must be acceptable to the University.
The Jay Watchers may have the right idea but they are going about it wrong. It seems as if they rushed into the raising of money through donations too quickly. The place to raise sums like $10,000 is in, for example, Kansas City. But many members of the KU Alumni Assn. there are of the opinion, "that it's a good idea and we are for it but we have our hands full too."
Eugene Morgan, the president of the group, suggested that KU students might make a concentrated effort at obtaining funds in the Kansas City area. That takes time and planning.
If concrete figures, definite plans and a course of action had been evolved by the Jay Watchers weeks ago and if they had obtained the full backing of civic and alumni organizations, then there would have been nothing wrong with presenting the plan to the area's basketball fans. If the plan did not work, it would not be because of disorganization and lack of time.
We have been accused of not backing our athletic teams. We must disagree with that. There are many ways in which a school newspaper attempts to back its teams and many of these ways are often misinterpreted by the shallow thinker.
In this case we are all for the Jay Watchers idea, basically, but wed like to see it carried out in an orderly fashion. That way the chance of failure would be less and the final product would be something very satisfying.
Up To Alumni Now
What's going to happen now? The Jay Watchers do have some money and those funds should be used for the purpose the donors intended. It's now up to the area's baskelton fans to decide whether or not they want
to lend full support.
If nothing happens, well let it be a lesson to all future Jays who want to be Watchers . . . the commercial is the most important part of the program, once it has been arranged for, the rest falls into place naturally.
College Basketball Results
Dartmouth 73, Holy Cross 69.
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Maine 86. Bates 84.
Connecticut 90, Massachusetts 77.
Georgetown 83, George Washington 75.
Virginia 90. Duke 81.
Virginia 90, Duke 81.
Citadel 17, Newberry 63.
South Carolina 85, Furman 77.
Georgia Tech 87, Tennessee 85.
Kent State 80, Bowling Green 75. Abilene Christian 90, Trinity (Tex.) 66.
North Carolina 86, North Carolina State 57.
Gustavus Adolphus 85, St. Johns (Minn.) 81
George Williams 61, University of Chicago.45
Rice 82. Arkansas 69.
Wartburg 83, Dubuque 68.
Southern State 77, Arkansas State 75.
Southern Methodist 71, Texas A&M 55.
Finks Leaves Notre Dame
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—(UP) -Jim Finks, former star quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers of The National Football League, resigned yesterday as backfield coach at Notre Dame to become assistant coach in charge of player personnel for Calgary in the Canadian Football League.
Michigan beat Stanford 49-0 in the first Rose Bowl football game in 1902.
ENGINEERS and SCIENTISTS
we'll be on the campus Thurs. Feb. 21 Fri. Feb. 22 to discuss your future at Boeing
...where you can rise to the top
Right now you're in the process of making one of the most important decisions of your life.
Your decision is important to us, too, because we are interested in engineers and scientists who want to get ahead. We're coming to the campus to give you the facts you need to judge whether Boeing can help you reach the goal you have in mind.
The fact that Boeing is an "engineers' company" is important to your success. At Boeing, you'd work with, and for, engineers—men who talk your language, understand and appreciate your work.
Boeing encourages graduate study, reimbursing full tuition and fees, plus an additional amount for incidentals. Every six months, each Boeing engineer is given a merit review—a personal opportunity for recognition and ad-
Personal interviews on Thurs., Feb. 21, Fri., Feb. 22 See your Placement Office for time and location
Another advantage: Boeing assignments are interesting. You'll work on such famous projects as the 707, America's first jet transport; the intercontinental B-52, the nation's principal long-range jet bomber; the supersonic BOMARC guided missile, and top-secret programs that probe beyond the frontiers of the known. At Boeing, you'll be in a young, expanding industry, one with its major growth still ahead.
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