Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No. 53
Monday, Dec. 2, 1957
Mitchell Is New KU Coach, Gets $15,000 Yearly
By GEORGE ANTHAN (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
It took the University and Jack Mitchell only five weeks to get together.
KU named University of Arkansas' Mitchell its 28th football coach last Thursday and gave him a 5-year contract at $15,000 a year.
Mr. Mitchell and four of his assistants, Gene Corrotta, former KU assistant under Jules Sikes, George Bernhardt, former Washington assistant, Dixie White, and Bill Pace, arrived in Lawrence at noon today.
Another assistant, Steed White, did not make the trip and Mitchell said it still had not been decided whether he would join the KU staff. Steed White joined the Arkansas staff this fall after coaching at Fort Smith and Little Rock Central High Schools in Arkansas.
Look for Housing
Mr. Mitchell said the immediate problem for the staff was to find housing for their families. After that, he said some of the staff will make a tour around the state to lay the groundwork for recruiting. The new coach said he is anxious to meet the KU team and hopes to hold a squad meeting later this week. The new coaching staff hopes to be installed in the football offices by next week.
The announcement came from the chancellor's office early Thursday morning after interviews with Mr. Mitchell Wednesday and a lengthy athletic board meeting Wednesday night.
"After we get settled, we hope to start recruiting around the state. Then we'll start making plans for a spring practice," Mr. Mitchell said.
Mr. Mitchell, who was considered a top prospect for the job vacated by J. V. Sikes in 1953, has been at Arkansas since 1955. Mr. Mitchell was head coach at Wichita University in 1953 when Chuck Mather was chosen to replace Mr. Sikes.
In contrast to the long search for a coach in 1953 after Mr. Sikes resigned, there was seldom any doubt that Mr. Mitchell was the top candidate for the job this time.
"The decision to leave the fine University of Arkansas was a difficult one, for we have been happy indeed these past three years," Mr. Mitchell said.
"On the other hand we are very proud to return to our home state to join the Kansas University family."
Mr. Mitchell's hiring put to a final end the 4-year tenure of Mr. Mather under whom Kansas football fortunes started at a low ebb but continued to climb until KU reached second place in the conference and Mr. Mather was named the Big Eight's coach of the year by the United Press.
Mr. Mitchell, who will be 33 Tuesday, signed a 10-year, $15,000 a year contract last year at Arkansas and in coming to Kansas clearly indicated that salary was not the main consideration with him.
Oklahoma All-America
Mr. Mitchell was an all-America quarterback at Oklahoma. After graduation he coached the Blackwell, Okla. high school for one year then was an assistant coach at Texas Tech in Lubbock in 1951-52.
He became head coach at Wichita in 1953.
Mr. Mitchell was the first coach to be interviewed by athletic director A.C.Lonborg
Mr. Mitchell's hiring at the
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JACK MITCHELL
highest salary ever paid a Kansas coach (Mr. Mather received $11,000) seems to definitely stymie (for a time anyway) administration efforts to play down football here. His salary will be paid out of the athletic fund except for about $2,400 which will be paid by the state.
Reports that fringe benefits such as a TV show and radio commitments were squelched by Chancellor Murphy when he said that $15,000 was the compensation Mitchell would receive and no more. Mr. Murphy said Mitchell was Lonborg's choice and that the athletic board and the Board of Regents have unanimously approved of that choice.
Writer For Kansan Predicted Switch
The report that Jack Mitchell was interested in the Kansas coaching job was published first in The Daily Kansan Oct. 28, three days before Chuck Mather resigned. The story also predicted accurately Mitchell's salary, $15,000 per year.
The report, published in a column by Daily Kansan sports editor George Anthan said, "A new Kansas coach would reportedly be offered $15,000 per, a sum which would put him with the rest of the Big Eight coaches instead of at the tail-end.
"Arkansas' Jack Mitchell seems interested. He sees opportunities at Kansas not available at Arkansas and the Board of Regents may be interested in him."
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Colder southwest tonight and south portion Tuesday. Low tonight 20 northwest to 25-30 elsewhere. High Tuesday 45-50.
Low this morning was 32. Low Sunday was 30, high 61. Low Saturday was 17, high 48.
Weather
Coed Dies After Jump From Hotel 5th Floor
Campus Chest Concert Tickets On Sale Today
Tickets for the Four Freshmen's concert Sunday in Hoch Auditorium went on sale in the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard this noon. They are also on sale at the Student Union ticket office.
The concert is a part of the annual Campus Chest drive which will begin solicitations Wednesday at the KU-Canisius basketball game.
About 200 solicitors are expected to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Union when they will receive information and instructions about soliciting.
The winner and two runners up will be announced at intermission of the Four Freshmen's concert. The candidates were nominated by the organized women's houses where they are waiters.
Wednesday through Friday, persons may vote for Mr. Campus Chest candidates by putting money in the jar with his name on it in the rotunda of Strong Hall.
No goal has been set for this year's drive. Last year a total of $4,150 was contributed. Rebate slips will be accepted as contributions.
Register For English Exam
Registration for the English proficiency examination to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday began today and will continue through Wednesday.
Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English, said, "This is an examination in composition. The students usually write one or two papers on subjects chosen from a prepared list. The topics are general and consider majors and interests."
All students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Schools of Journalism, Education. Fine Arts, Medicine, and the department of nursing are required to take the examination before graduation.
Students who have reached junior standing may register in the office of the dean of their school. Room assignments for the test will be given at registration.
Memorial Services At 7 p.m. Today In Danforth Chapel
IFC To Nominate Officers Tonight
The election of officers will be held Dec. 16. The national conference was held in Colorado Springs, Colo. Thursday through Saturday.
Nominations for officers and reports by the National Inter-fraternity Conference delegates are scheduled for the Inter-fraternity Council meeting at 9 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Student Union.
A committee of the national conference issued a report naming 63 U. S. college campuses on which it said anti-discrimination "agitation" is practiced.
The body of Virginia Maddox, 18, Tulsa, Okla. freshman, who died at 5:50 p.m. Sunday of injuries suffered in a five story leap Saturday, will lie in state at the Cooper-Warren Chapel from 5:30-9 p.m. today.
The report criticized what it called "planned attempts to reduce Greek-letter societies to a position of importance, if not to eliminate them entirely."
The report was submitted to the general assembly comprising more than 700 college students and alumni who represent 61 national fraternities.
The report rapped the universities of Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Kansas City and Lewis and Clark college. They are schools which have announced they will not permit fraternities which prohibit membership on the basis of race, color and creed.
Conference will be given by George Smith, Lawrence junior; Bruce Rider, Wichita, Gene Paris and Stuart Gunckel, both Kansas City, Mo., all seniors.
Reasons For Drop Outs Vary
McCook Break-In To Be Investigated
Campus police officers will begin today to check with residents of McCook Hall to see if anything was stolen after a break-in Nov. 28.
This semester 284 students have quit KU for reasons varying from the dissolving of a car pool to getting married.
Sixty-five freshmen, more than from any other class, dropped. Only eight special students have left.
Officer Victor E. Elliot spotted some broken screens on the hall when he was patrolling that night. He found one window unlocked and lights on in two rooms.
Forty-five were women and 239 were men. Sixty-four of the men were in the School of Engineering and Architecture. The school hit hardest was the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences which lost 71.
The lock on the door to the television room had been broken.
The reasons listed were written by the students in a "drop book"
kept in the registrar's office.
James K. Hitt, registrar, said there is no way to be sure the reasons the students give are valid. He believes many of the students are reluctant to give the real reasons and take the easy way out by saying they are having financial trouble or that they have personal reasons
He said the reasons given are about the same as usual, with the addition of some for "illness" because of the flu outbreak this year.
Forty-seven students gave no reason for quitting. Eighteen said they had "personal reasons." Thirty said illness had made them
fall too far behind to catch up before the end of the semester. Nineteen said they were changing schools and 15 were going to work.
Two left to go into the army. Four women gave their reason for leaving as "getting married," and two said they "want to get married." One married woman quit to have a baby and another because she found it "too difficult to arrange for baby sitting."
Other reasons included, "not ready for mid-terms," "lack of prior preparation," and "the work is too difficult."
Miss Maddox died of brain injuries suffered Saturday morning in a fall from the fifth story of the Eldridge Hotel. The attending physician, Dr. Glenn A. Lessenden, said she was in a severe state of shock following the fall and never quite regained her senses.
She talked to her parents Saturday afternoon and evening but could not remember anything about the fall, the doctor said.
MISS VIRGINIA MADDON
The doctor said Miss Maddox improved steadily until 4 a.m. Sunday when she went into a coma. She became worse about 1 p.m. Sunday, he said, and it was evident she would not survive.
Memorial Service Slated For Coed
A memorial service for Miss Maddox will be held at 7 p.m. today in Danforth Chapel, Dr. Alan Pickering, assistant director of the Westminster Foundation and associate pastor to Presbyterian students, will officiate. The Westminster Fellowship will be in charge of the services.
Miss Maddox was a member of the Presbyterian Women's Organization in which she was a member of the spiritual life committee and the prayer fellowship. She was also a member of the Presbyterian Sunday evening fellowship.
The doctor said she died of brain damage caused by a skull fracture. She also suffered a broken pelvis and multiple fractures of the legs.
She Was Found In Kansas City
Miss Maddox was found Friday at the Town House Hotel in Kansas City, Kan., after having been the subject of a wide search since Wednesday when she did not arrive in Tulsa for Thanksgiving vacation.
She had registered in a room on the fourth floor of the Eldridge with her parents about 10 p.m. Friday after returning from Kansas City.
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