University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 26, 1990
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Nancy Schwarting, director of WILDCARE, hand feeds a high-protein solution to an iguana at the KU Animal Care Unit. The iguana has a broken right front leg because of a calcium deficiency.
Eight champion, a national ranking and a postseason bowl game bid. Mitchell promptly delivered.
In 1960, Mitchell had in place the players who could achieve lofty goals. John Hadi was the quarterback, and several transfer students were bringing considerable talent to the djahawks. One of these was running back Coan from Texas Christian University.
During the 1960 season the Jayhawks played a tough schedule against national powers like Iowa and Syracuse. The Big Eight was tough too, with Oklahoma and Missouri ranked. The high point of the season for the 'Hawks came at the end when they beat number one Missouri 28-15 this victory the Jayhawks won. The Big Eight and finished the season nationally ranked. In mid-season they were as high as No. 5.
But, the first of several incidents in KU history of questionable athletic integrity happened at just the wrong time. The Big Eight Conference, after the NCAA placed the football and basketball teams on probation on Oct. 26, found Coan to have been ineligible when KU played Colorado and Missouri. KU forfeited those two victories and subsequently their 1960 5-41 record isn't as glamorous as 7-2-1.
Controversy in KU's history isn't confined to athletics. When the rest of the nation was in turmoil in the late 1960s because of civil rights, war protests and a sexual revolution, KU wasn't left out. 1970 was a black year in the chronology of the school.
On April 19, an arson fire at the Kansas Union accounted for $1 million damage. Racial unrest stemming from confrontations between Lawrence police and Black residents and students led to the deaths of two youths and the injuries of several more. Summerfield丸 was bombed, and Black KU students went on strike. 1970 capped off
several years of unrest at the University
Unrest began when, in 1967, students began to demand more of a say in campus government. KU students, generally classified as conservative and free of radical activists so typical of the times on other campuses, began to feel the winds of war.
in April 1967, 400 students peacefully demonstrated on campus, showing their displeasure with the size and impersonality of KU.
"Student Voice," an activist group, led a protest in 1968 with 1,500 students gathered on the lawn of Strong Hall. They wanted more voting for them at University Senate and the Senate Council.
During most of KU's history, greeks controlled campus politics. But in the turbulent '60s, the fraternities and sororities felt apart and student activists were given more power.
"Student Voice" demonstrations arose from efforts to revoke Reserve Officer Training Corps class credit given by the school towards a Liberal Arts Degree. Other student complaints were faculty apathy, irrelevance of certain classes and the University's indifference to student needs.
the administration appeased the students with the "college within a college" structure, pass/no-pass grading system, a relaxation of women's residences' closing hours and co-educational living arrangements in 1866 became the first co-class dork at KU.
Many students may not realize that what has become an issue this year traces back to anti-Vietnam War protests in 1968. Then, as the outbreak of TPCW was at the center of campus crises.
As KU continues to advance into its second century, one wonders what the next 125 years will bring.
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