University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 4, 1957
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Oh No! Sports Writer Now Slams KU's Wilt
The thing I see wrong with the KU team is Chamberlain, he's not playing as well as he is capable of playing, Jeremiah Tax, staff writer for Sports Illustrated Magazine, said before the KU-Iowa State game Saturday.
"I saw the film of the Iowa State game that KU lost. What impressed me was that Chamberlain just stood around most of the time and didn't put out what he was able. The other four players did a very good job. I thought King was terrific. He stuck to Thompson like flypaper," Mr. Tax said.
Admits He's Valuable
Mr. Tax said he thought the attitude of the other four players has been that they would play as hard as possible and somehow the big boy would do something to win the game.
"I wonder what the shock is like to those boys when he doesn't come through," he added.
"I'm not saying that he isn't valuable to the team. The fact that he is out there is a big factor. But he hasn't been doing as much for the team as he can." Mr. Tax said.
Mr. Tax was covering Saturday's game for the Sports Illustrated weekly round-up of basketball games. He said he didn't know if the KU game would be used as the lead article or not.
"I think Chamberlain was under other pressure besides just the pressure of the game. He knows there are 17,000 pairs of eyes on him, and he doesn't want to do anything to attract any more attention to himself. In practice Thursday he seemed to be a different boy. He did things I had never seen him do in a game or on film."
"I think Chamberlain will change in that respect later in the season, and in seasons to come. I also think he plays better at home because he realizes that a lot of the fans are his friends. They sure weren't friendly at Iowa State," the writer said.
Mr. Tax said the biggest story he had seen on the campus during the weekend was the track meet Friday. That Tidwell is a terrific runner, he said. He looked like he was just getting started at 60 yards, he added. There is also a good angle in the fact that Tidwell is Chamberlain's roommate — together they would make a great two-man track team, he commented.
Believes Wilt Will Change
Mr. Tax couldn't be reached for comment after the game.
(Related story, "Jay hawkers Stand Alone." Pare Six.)
Student Elected National Secretary
Robert E. Pope, Wichita graduate student, was elected national secretary and a member of the executive council of Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity, at a convention in Columbus, Ohio.
Jamison Vawter, class of '16, is delegate at large of the fraternity. He is a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
More than 500,000 men per year are acquiring a reserve obligation under the Reserve Forces Act of 1955.
Foreign Students Honor Allaway
The International Club met Sunday night to give tribute to the departing general secretary of KU-Y (YMCA-YWCA), William H. Allaway.
Mohamed Kazem, Cairo, Egypt graduate student, and Mollie M. Stamper, Hutchinson junior, representing the International Club and KU-Y's International Commission respectively, expressed their gratitude to Mr. Allaway for his efforts to further international friendship He is leaving the campus soon to study in Colorado.
A film, "Science at Work," featuring government mining research laboratories of Canada, was shown by Harold Zender, Canadian graduate student. It was an introduction to the activities of Canada's national film board. Zender gave a short talk on documentary film production in his country.
A dance and refreshments followed. ___
Bill Johnson holds the Nebraska basketball single game scoring record with 34 points.
Alumnus Given Award In Physics
Elias Burstein, a University alumnus with the Naval Research Laboratory, has been awarded the Washington Academy of Sciences' annual award for scientific achievement in the physical sciences for 1956.
ductors, a problem in solid state physics. Although Mr. Burstein earned the master's degree in chemistry from KU in 1941, his work has since shifted to physics.
The award is recognition of his study of impurity levels and effective electron masses in semi-con-
Dartmouth College's 1956 football record of five wins, three losses and one tie was the best grid record in seven years for the Big Green.
THE DRESS PARADE
What will the American college student wear this spring? Gather round, you rascals, and light a good Philip Morris Cigarette, and puff that rich, natural tobacco, and possess your souls in sweet content, and listen.
As we know, college fashions have always been casual. This spring, however, they have become makeshift.
The object is to look madly improvised, daily spur-of-the-moment! For example, girls, try a peasant skirt with a dinner jacket. Or matador pants with a bridal veil. Or Bermuda shorts with bronze breastplates. Be rakish! Be impromptu! Be devil-take-the-hindmost!
And, men, you be the same. Try an opera cape with sweat pants. Or a letter-sweater with kilts. Or a strait-jacket with hip boots. Be bold! Be daring! Be a tourist attraction!
Rock and Roll is Giving way to the Minuet
But all is not innovation in college fashions this spring. In fact, one of the highlights of the season turns time backward in its flight. I refer to the comeback of the powdered wig.
This charming accoutrement, too long neglected, has already caught on with style-conscious students all over the country. On hundreds of campuses rock-and-roll is giving way to the minuet, and patriotic undergraduates are dumping British tea into the nearest harbor. This, of course, does not sit well with old King George. For that matter, a lot of our own people are steamed up too, and there has even been some talk of revolution. But I hardly think it will come to that. I mean, how can we break with the mother country when we are dependent on her for so many things — linsey-woolsey, minie balls, taper snuffers, and all like that? She, on the other hand, relies on us for turkeys, Philip Morris, Cinemascope, and other valuable exports. So I say, if Molly Pitcher and those other Bryn Mawr hotheads will calm down, we may yet find an amicable solution for our differences. But let not our British cousins mistake this willingness to negotiate for weakness. If fight we must, then fight we will! Paul Revere is saddled up, the rude bridge arches the flood, and the ROTC is ready!
But I digress. We were smoking a Philip Morris Cigarette - O, darlin' cigarette! O, happy smoke! O, firm! O, fresh! O, fragrant! O, long-size! O, regular! O, get some! - and talking of new spring fashions, let us turn now to the season's most striking new feature: pneumatic underdrawers. These inflatable rubber garments make every chair an easy chair. Think how welcome they will be when you sit through a long lecture! They are not, however, without certain dangers. Last week, for example, Rimbaud Sigafoos, a University of Pittsburgh sophomore, fell out of an 18th story window in the Tower of Learning. Thanks to his pneumatic underdrawers, he suffered no injury when he struck the sidewalk, but the poor fellow is still bouncing and it is feared that he will starve to death.
$ \textcircled{c} $Max Shulman, 1957
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