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University Daily Kansan Monday. March 13. 1961
By Bill Sheldon
At five minutes to one o'clock Saturday afternoon the Missouri head cheerleader took the public address microphone. He said, "In five minutes our team, and you as a student body will be on national television. Let's really yell and back our team and show our school spirit."
The Missouri student body showed its school spirit, from the moment the teams took the floor to the final buzzer. But if the manner in which they displayed their school spirit is any indication of the normal situation at Missouri, and from past experiences it is, the idea of school spirit has been unjustly interpreted.
THROUGHOUT THE GAME boos and unsavory comments were hurled at the Kansas players and the officials along with paper, popcorn and saliva from the student body. This continual outburst was the worst attack witnessed at a Big Eight game this season.
Seconds after the players began exchanging blows the playing court was flooded with hundreds of free-swinging and yelling students who had only one purpose in mind—taking an injury inflicting slug at a Kansas player.
FOR TWO OR THREE MINUTES the Missouri fans were very successful. They ganged upon the hapless Kansas team, taking several of them to the floor. Small groups of students engulfed the Kansas players, causing them to disappear from sight because of sheer numbers. When the players reappeared they showed signs of being thoroughly pounded.
During the final 14:49 of the game the Kansas team played in constant fear of another outbreak from the deplorable collection of people which the University of Missouri calls its student body. Certainly this affected the play of the Kansas team and could be considered among the factors which led to the Kansas defeat.
Although the Missouri student body can be blamed for a great deal of the harm which was inflicted, the problem goes much further. At the root of the situation lies a poor attitude among the administrators of the Missouri athletic organization.
Athletic Director Don Faurot apparently made no effort to prevent the possibility of the fracas which seemed inevitable. There were no policemen to be seen in the field house at the time of the fight.
There was one "stray" officer spotted after the game, but he did nothing to help the Kansas team as it made its way to the locker room.
HEAD COACH WILBUR "SPARKY" STALCUP is also to blame for the action. He has, or should have, control over his players. The Missouri team is known to be probably the most rugged squad in the conference.
Whether this comes directly from Stalcup or not is unknown. But, if "dirty" basketball, which included spitting on the Kansas players, isn't a result of Stalcup's theory of coaching, he still has the obligation to discourage this type of play. There was no evidence Saturday that Stalcup restrained his players.
Among the injustices which the Missouri team showed Kansas was the continual blast of rude and disturbing comments which were directed at Kansas players as they shot free throws at the basket which was right in front of the Missouri bench at the end of the court.
SINCE THIS HARASSMENT continued throughout the game it must be assumed that Stalcup made no effort to stop it for he couldn't help but hear the comments and therefore had every possible opportunity to tell his players to be quiet.
An example lies in one of the greatest players in Missouri basketball history.
During the fighting on assistant coach hardly moved from his seat on the bench. After the game he was bragging to friends about the beating which he had seen the Missouri players give a Kansas player. Of course, he had done nothing to interfere.
Must teams like Kansas and Colorado, which suffered a similar incident, along with the remainder of the Big Eight be subject to such treatment every time they travel to Columbia?
The answer is obviously—NO!
What can be done?
One solution is that teams can refuse to go to Columbia—at least until there is visible proof that the Missouri athletic administration has taken steps to alleviate the problem. This may be a long time coming unless the coaches and officials of the other schools in the Big Eight take immediate action at the next conference coaches meeting where such problems can be solved.
Hightower had scored 14 points and snared 21 rebounds while in the game. Without him the KU offense was centered around burly senior Bill Bridges.
The now second place Kansas Jayhawkers showed an almost unstopable come from behind spirit against Missouri, but the Tigers managed to pull themselves together in time and nipped KU, 79-76 Saturday.
Kansas Rally Falls Short; Hawkers Lose
After the fight which involved nearly all of the players from both teams with 14:49 remaining in the second half, Kansas showed no offensive punch whatsoever and fell 13 points behind.
WAYNE HIGHTOWER and Charles Henke, the principals of the brawl, were ejected. Kansas suffered greatly from Hightower's loss.
Bridges came through in great fashion, but despite his 18 points and 20 rebounds, the effort which the Jayhawkers displayed in the closing minutes wasn't enough to off-set the fine game which Missouri had played.
IN LEADING HIS team in its rally Bridges captured his third straight Big Eight rebounding title. His conference total is 182.
Al Correll also came through in the second half to aid the Kansas comeback. He tallied 16 of his 18 points then, most of them coming in the last few minutes. This marked a career high for the junior forward.
Nolen Ellison, playing despite a severely bruised nose and eye, along with Dee Ketchum and Jerry Gardner were also effective as they wove through the Missouri defense with crafty dribbling.
Henke led the scoring with 20 points.
ONE OF THE most outstanding factors of the game was the Tiger shooting. They hit 58.6 per cent in the first half and 42.4 per cent for the game.
The other big scorer for Missouri, Joe Scott who was trying to become the third best scorer in Tiger history, was held to only 12 points by the hustling Kansas guards.
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I WAS A TEEN-AGE SLIDE RULE
Mr. Sigafoos's article, it must be emphasized, was in no sense derogatory. He stated quite clearly that the science student, what with his gruelling curriculum in physics, math, and chemistry, can hardly be expected to find time to study the arts too. What Mr. Sigafoos deplores—indeed, what we all deplore—is the lopsided result of today's science courses: graduates who can build a bridge but can't compose a concerto, who know Planck's Constant but not Botticelli's Venus, who are familiar with Fraunhofer's lines but not with Schiller's.
Mr. Sigafoos can find no solution to this hideous imbalance. I, however, believe there is one—and a very simple one. It is this: if students of science don't have time to come to the arts, then we must let the arts come to students of science.
In a recent learned journal (Mad) the distinguished board chairman (Ralph "Hot-Lips" Sigafoos) of one of our most important American corporations (the Art Mechanical Dog Co.) wrote a trenchant article in which he pinpointed our gravest national problem; the lack of culture among science graduates.
He will know that he is a fulfilled man...
For example, it would be a very easy thing to teach poetry and music right along with physics. Students, instead of merely being called upon to recite in physics class, would instead be required to rhyme their answers and set them to familiar tunes —like, for instance, The Colonel Bogey March. Thus recitations would not only be chock-full of important faets but would, at the same time, expose the student to the aesthetic delights of great music. Here, try it yourself. You all know The Colonel Bogey March. Come, sing along with me;
Physics
25 wo
fo
Is what we learn in class.
Einstein
Newton
Said energy is mass.
Is highfalutin
WAN
Part
Brow
Thurs
And Pascal's a rascal. So's Boyle.
Do you see how much more broadening, how much more uplifting to learn physics this way? Of course you do. What? You want another chorus? By all means;
Leyden
Curie
Trolley
For $225.
Servi addin mime Busir VI 3-
He made the Trolley car.
He made the Leyden jar.
1. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Rode in a surrey.
And when the student, loaded with science and culture, leaves the classroom and lights his Marlboro, how much more he will enjoy that filter, that flavor, that pack or box! Because there will no longer be an unease gnawing at his soul, no longer a little voice within him repeating that he is culturally a dolt. He will know—know joyously—that he is a fulfilled man, a whole man, and he will bask and revel in the pleasure of his Marlboro as a colt rolls in new grass—content, complete, truly educated—a credit to his college, to himself, and to his tobaccoist.
And Diesel's a weasel. So's Boule.
Once the student has mastered The Colonel Bogey March, he can go on to more complicated melodies like Death and Transfiguration, the Eroica, and Love Me Tender.
And while he is rolling, colt-wise, in the new grass, perhaps he would stop long enough to try a new cigarette from the makers of Marlboro—unfiltered, king-size Philip Morris Commander. Welcome aboard!