THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Campus Life
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Tough team
The University of Kansas has had many football teams, but few could consider themselves tougher than the team in the tail of the Bulldogs.
stomping or being stomped. Protective gear was nearly empty, while lightly padded pants, thin shin guards and high sheeps for keltings.
BY SHIRLEY SHOUP Staff Writer
Rough and ready football was early KU trademark
Staff Writer
"The game is really a wonder," reports from the East said. Inhabitants of the hill were curious to see it. They said the new building in Harvard, Yale and Princeton by storm.
Somehow students got hold of a rule book from the East. Acting on their own and with no prospect of support from the University, a group of students formed a team of their own.
Interest in the sport grew and the interest year they found a coach. He was W. H. Carruth, a professor at the University. No one could doubt that he was the most qualified for the job. He had seen the game played. No one else at the University had.
The first practice was called and candidates for positions reported to a vacant lot. They had no coach. They did little real work. They only but they were determined to have a team.
Carruth had watched them play football
court but he alma mate "Puncton. They
had to move it."
Problem solvers serve students
By the time football reached Mount Oread
Bv SHIRLEY SHOUP
Staff Writer
When a student has a complaint, there is probably someone on campus who can help.
He has dealt with grade problems, accusations of cheating and unfairness, and misdemeanor charges.
At the University of Kansas three sources of information are available to students with questions or complaints: the University ambudsmand, William Ballour; the University Senate complaint service and the University Information Center.
Englemann, Shawnee Mission senior,
The position of ombudsman was created one year ago to help resolve grievances between students and faculty, Balfour, who is also professor of cell biology, functions as a student and the students and the University and is available to students and faculty who have complaints.
handles complaints for students as the Senate complaint service director by making contacts or setting up meetings between students and faculty members.
Complaints about residential halls should be made to the Resident Assistant, then
IF A STUDENT has a complaint or suggestion about facilities, she would act upon it for the student by passing the information on to the appropriate person.
The University Information Center, 105 Strong Hall, can refer students to various locations.
for academic or administrative problems, the Information Center recommends seeing the ambassador and his advisors. The center advises students to see the professor first and then work up in the department to the department head, dean of the school and then the
move up the ladder to the Resident Director and dean of student life.
Orientation problems are handed by the Office of Admissions and Records, 128th Strong Hall. The Financial Aid office, 26th Street, is responsible for concerns concerning scholarships and loans.
PARKING PROBLEMS are handled by Parking Services in Hoch Auditorium.
Complaints concerning health services or Watkins Hospital should be directed to the Director of Student Health Services, Martin Wollmann.
For complaints of discrimination, the Office of Affirmative Action and the Office of Minority Affairs, 235 Strong Hall, are available.
Balfour said some students came up with a solution to their problem while talking about it. If that doesn't happen, he can help them by putting out where to fake the grievance, he said.
But some students seem to be born to have trouble, Balfour said. Sometimes a problem with graduation requirements is the result of the student trying to advise himself or relying too much on the advice of one person.
HE SAID students should keep in mind
the laws and regulations and not depend
on them.
Concerning grades, Balfour said,
Frequently the problem is personality
cues.
He recommended the same procedure that the Information Center recommended,
Balfour said he gave a lot of advice to students. "It may not be the time they want to hear."
The important thing is that the student has someone to unload on, he said.
"They don't get mad at me," he said.
"They are just grateful to talk to someone."
Loneliness stalks new students
Staff Writer
By MARY-ANNE OLIVAR
Although they have found friends and begun to like life in Lawrence, many University of Kansas students can recall the years they suffered when they first came to KU.
For some it was almost traumatic, and the traces of remembered hardships are visible as they talk about how they had been ready to give up and go home.
For others, it was the normal feeling of being lost in a strange new place filled with the same things.
The first year blues are over for Kathy Hickert, Bird City senior, one of the many who talked recently about what it was like in the beginning.
"It was really bad," she said. "I knew no one. I was very lonely and very homesick.
"Even though some students knew a few people here, it was nothing like back home."
MARY ANN Bosch, Idana sophomore.
knew five or six persons when she came here but said it was scary nonetheless.
"At home there are always people you know and that gives you a sense of security," she said. "Here you are completely on your own."
Although Bosch's hometown, Idaho, has 35 persons, she went to High School in Clay Center, which has 5,000 people, and she said she knew all of the 500 high school students.
The normal thing to do for people who are lonely would be to make friends. But according to most of the students interviewed, making friends at KU was somewhat more difficult than what they had been used to. The atmosphere was not friendly, they said.
For instance, one of the hardest things to get used to, according to many students, was walking around campus seeing people who avoided your glance or did not offer any
"I would still say 'B' to them," Brenda Spraker, Larned senior said. "But I thought you were the same."
FOR MOST people it took at least one semester to a year to get over what they learned.
But the streets of the campus are not the ideal place to make friends. And Tracy Atherton, a recent graduate, acknowledged this when he explained why it was almost impossible to make friends at KU unless you knew people who already had friends.
Atherton lived in an apartment complex during his first year at KU. He agreed that the University's residence halls might have been built to hear meetings place necessary for finding friends.
"There is no common meeting place for
"students' hearsay." "Even the Union is not
"competent to deal with this issue."
However, a number of students who had lived in GSP-Corin during their freshmen year found the atmosphere somewhat less than ideal for making friends.
According to them, most of the women who lived in their women's residence hall were not admitted.
Shawne Mission schools and had several old friends at the hall already.
IT SEEMED that many of these women wanted to enter sororities, and that they were all very strong.
Jackie Allen, an Oneida senior who started out at GSP-Corbin, said, "They were nice but they really did not want to meet me."
Allen also said that these women seemed fake.
"They were more interested in going out and notarying than studying," she said.
However, students who are now in sororities and who also lived in GSCP-Corbian areas need to be educated.
Although they acknowledged that some Shawnee Mission people were snobbish, that snobbishness was not generalized, they said.
Museum shows art for everyone
the finer lines had already been worked out by the eastern schools.
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BvCINDY McKELVEY
Lisa Blinzler, Leawood junior, who lived in GSP-Corbin and who went to Shawnee Mission East, said, "I think that the teacher can teach me some students create in their minds."
According to Charles Eldredge, director of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, the museum would be ranked third in the country behind Harvard's Fogg Museum and Yale Museum of Art. Eldredge also owns museums that are comparable to Spencer.
The University of Kansas may have one of the best college art museums in the country.
They had eliminated the scrum although it remained an integral part of rugby. During the scrimmage a dowed ball was passed to the teammate pushed and shoved each other, not being allowed to touch the ball with their hands, into the air so the air a player could kick or run with.
From Aug. 27 to Oct. 8 there will be a textile exhibition of dyer's art in the Kress Gallery. It will include 125 works on cloth. The dyer's art features the art of resist and the dyer's patterns either fabrics or yarn by protecting parts of them from dye penetration.
The museum houses more than 25,000 pieces of art in 90,000 square feet of galleries, classrooms, workshops, offices and storage space.
The museum also attracts special exhibitions. From the Esmark Collection of Currier and Ives, more than 100 prints selected from the finest private collections of Currier and Ives are on view in the White Graphics Gallery, from Aug. 20 to Seent.
THE MUSEUM'S collections are very strong in medieval and 17th and 18th century art, including painting, graphics and photography. Master works in the collection range from a sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider to a painting by Roselli Rosetti to graphics by Rembrandt.
The first floor is still unfinished, but an art library will eventually be built there. The Kress Foundation Department of Art has set up the fifth floor contains offices and storage.
These techniques have been used for
treasure house on the prairie," has the only comprehensive art collection in Kansas.
There are 11 galleries, with everything
from the 20th Century art on the
third and fourth floor.
FROM EARLY October through early November there will be an exhibition of the Mildred Lee Ward Collection of Reverse Painting on Glass from Kansas City. These European, American and Oriental reverse paintings are from the 15th-20th centuries. The technique is painting from the detail of a marble surface, the first comprehensive exhibition of reversed paintings on glass. It will be in the White Graphics Gallery.
centuries in many cultures and are still used today. The exhibition was organized by the American Crafts Council and circulated by the American Federation of Arts.
The museum, which Eldredge calls "the
An exhibition of 50 or 60 pieces will be exhibited from Nov. 15 to Dec. 17. It will be paintings by Hung Hsien, who is now working in Chicago. Her exhibition will feature works by Harper. Her style combines Oriental and American for a unique effect, Eldredge said.
From Nov. 19 to Dec. 24, the museum will offer a holiday buying exhibition. This is the
WALTER CAMP, known as the father of football because he influenced it so much in its infancy, reasoned that the ball could be gotten into play much sooner if it could be kicked back from the scrimmage. So in 1880 the team was known as the line of scrimmage was born.
See SPENCER page 13
Students who are from small towns said they had encountered another problem.
"WHEN THEY  find out you're from western Kansas they put you down," Spraeter
One student who is now living in a sorority and who lived in Corbin during her freshman year.
A boring Princeton-Yale game in 1881 initiated talk of a system of downs. This was the first criticism of football other than that of the University system of downs to which the Intercollegiate Football Association agreed. He also originated the system of marking the field by throwing the ball.
But the game was still decided by goals and it took four touchdowns to equal one.
"Many Shawnee Mission people see people from small towns as asks," Parm said. "We don't."
Ron Allen, Sabeth junior, described a similar atmosphere at a fraternity where he lived during his first year. There were many people from Kansas City who knew each other, he said, and he felt that he did not belong with them.
"I was the only one from a small town and they excluded me," he said.
Camp introduced point scoring the following year. With the realization that a touchdown was more difficult to make than a field goal, players scored five points. A field goal remained five points, a goal after a touchdown was worth two and safeties, which previously had no scoring opportunities.
THIS, THEM was the game the Jayhawks played when they took the field, a 110-yard long and 33-yard wide field, against Baker University in 1890. KU won that first game 14-12.
Jackie Allen also says that things changed for the better during her second year when she lived in Lewis Hall, where there were few people from Shawnee Mission.
He left the fraternity after the first year and then went to another one where things
"IT WAS A whole different thing," she said. "Everybody was more friendly."
Debbie Eiffert, a resident assistant at
See LONELINESS page five
Baker, Washburn and KU then formed the
But Carruth, who was acting as umpire, walked calmly to the center of the field and announced that he had bled his whistle to Coleman, the team captain, Coleman, the center, had grabbed the ball.
Triangular League. Each team played the other twice and the KU team played well, until the final game of the season with Baker.
Then as a Baker man fumbled the ball ue center grabbed it and ran the length of the rope.
There were only a few minutes remaining in the game and Baker held the lead. They also had the ball. The ball was pulling for KU but little chance was left for the 'Hawks.
Oh, somewhere in that favored land the sun was *shineing bright*.
THE BAND WAS playing somewhere,
and somewhere hearts were light.
And somewhere men were laughing, and children gave a shout.
But there was no joy on Oread, the touchdown did not count.
KU rooters never quite forgive Carruth for awarding the game to Baker.
The next year E. M. Hopkins of the English department coached the team. He started a training program that resulted in a winning season.
The 1891 season gave birth to the KU-Missouri rivalry.
Just before the game began the Missouri coach brought out a 300-pound center. The KU men were understandably apprehensive. Because of his size it was assumed he would make the Missouri line impregnable.
The Missouri quarterback had arranged a signal so that when his center was tapped on the field, he'd be gone.
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Helping hand
Staff Photo by TRISH LEWIS
The KU Information Center keeps an eye on campus 24 hours a day, ready to answer students' questions about campus events, rumors, and schedules. The information center also provides access to library resources.