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The dialogue is terrible and the acting's frequently worse, but KU students continue to flock to midnight X-rated movies shown at the Varsity Theatre. The films make a profit,
but manager Rance Blann says they're shown only once a month because modest community standards discourage more frequent showings. See story, page 3.
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KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 46 (USPS 650-640)
Fans drown goalpost after victory
With the scoreboard flashing "SUPER" injubilant football fans tear down the north goalpost in Memorial Stadium.
Buddy Mangine/KANSAN
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Renorter
As the clouds 'gave way at the KU-Oklahoma homecoming football game on Saturday, so did the Sooners. Kansas' victory was a dream come true for Javakhw fans.
After the 'Hawks made the Sooners settle for a field goal instead of a touchdown in the opening minutes of the game, the small team in Memorial Stadium began to come alive.
By half time, the open seating section began to fill up and the crowd on the hill overlooking the stadium swelled.
Leon Szeptyk, Lawrence senior, and Julie Nice, Hutchinson second-year law student, said they came to the game at the dayhawks cleared up and the dayhawks were winning.
THEY WERE ONLY two of the thousands of fans who cheered the Jayhawks on during the game.
Sal Lewis, Los Angeles junior and cornerback on the football team, urged those in the crowd to their feet before each kick off by swinging a towel and jumping around on the field. As the game moved on, his teammates hung him in shipping the crowd into a frenzy.
After the game, students swarmed onto the field, said Jim Williamson, Topeka junior. Police turned back the crowd as it approached the north goal post, so the swarm turned and tried to take down the south post, he said.
Fans in the student section began chanting, "Goal posts! Goal posts!" during the third quarter. During the fourth quarter, they alternated that chant with two others: "Warm up the bus!" and "Bring on Nebraska!"
AGAIN POLICE TURNED the crowd back, but when the crowd returned to the north goal post, it succeeded in bringing it to the ground. Williamson said
Monday, October 29, 1984
Two KU police officers suffered minor injuries when the post fell, KU police said.
A wall of students dragged the porton to Potter Lake, said Rod Sibbett, Harrisonville, Mo. senior. There, one student swarn out into the lake and submerged the hollow crossbar
KU police said they retrieved the crossbar later on Saturday. They recovered the base of the post from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, 1301 W. Campus Road.
Following the game, many fans filled local trays.
1340 Ohio St., said yesterday, "We didn't get many Oklahoma fans in. Normally we do. I think they must have put their tails between their legs and gone home."
JOHN WOODEN, OWNER of the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W 14th St., said few Oklahoma fans went to their taven before or after the game. The fall of Jayhawk fans during most of the day.
Bob Frederick, Williams Fund director, said about 2,500 people attended the buffet supper and official opening sponsored by the athletic department for all residents' donations for the athletic department
Ken Wallace, owner of the Javawk Cafe.
Fred B. Anschutz Sports Pavilion and the Shaffer-Holland Strength Center.
besides going to local taverns, many alumni, student athletes and KU officials celebrated the victory at the opening of the
Several football players said that warming up in the pavilion before Saturday's game, a first for the team, helped them play better.
See FANS, p. 5, col. 3
HOPE award tops off day full of surprises
Staff Reporter
By ERIKA BLACKSHER
The unexpected filled Memorial Stadium on Saturday
After the Jayhawks upset Oklahoma, thousands of KU fans left the stadium intoxicated with excitement and disbelief.
Mike Kautsch, assistant professor of journalism. felt pretty astonished himself.
journalism. It rest pretty astonished hissen,
but his surprise came before the game.
Wade, a medium announcer called his
name as the winner of the 53th annual
HOPE award.
"I didn't expect it," he said later. "At first it didn't register with me that the phone was dead."
Kautsch came to the University of Kansas in 1979 as a visiting lecturer. He applied for a full-time position and was hired in 1980. He is also a Journalism and Public Information, now
the School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
THE HOPE AWARD, short for *Honor*
for an Outstanding Progressive Educator.
The Hopeless Scholarship Award.
Kautsch said that after five years of teaching students the hows and whys of journalism, he thought the HOPE award that students liked what he was doing.
"The policy I try to follow is to get the students to teach themselves," he said. "I don't try to offer solutions. I am more interested in the process of discovering new information and generating new ideas."
Dan Lowe, president of the Board of Class Officers, said 380 seniors participated in the final voting. The HOPE award is the only award for teaching excellence given by students alone.
See HOPE, p. 5, col. 3
Todd Benson, center, sophomore class president from Overland Park, ap plauds as Chancellor Gene A. Budig, right, congratulates HOPE winner Mike Kautsch, assistant professor of journalism.
Presidential campaigns bring heated exchanges
By SUZANNE BROWN
Staff Reporter
In 1844, liberal Republicans charged that Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine "wallowed in spoils like a rhinoceros in an African pool."
The New York Sun called Blaine's Democratic opponent, Grover Cleveland, 'a'
Name was caited a liar by Democrats, and the Republicans who deserved their candidate to support Cleveland — who later won by 50 percent — everything from snakes to brawling Pharsisees.
coarse debauchee who would bring his barlots with him to Washington."
ELECTION '84
THIS YEAR, THE centennial of the infamous 1884 campaign that one magazine of the time called the lowest ever waged, finds a presidential contest whose exchanges
pale in comparison with the colorful attacks of a century ago.
Though both President Ronald Reagan an-
Democratic challenger Walter Mondale have attacked each other's policies throughout the campaign, their accusations have usually avoided prison. In the last 7 debate candidates Mondale even praised the president's sincerity.
principal.
Two KU professors agreed that, although political insult was probably as vicious now as it ever was, the harshness of campaign language had been considerably softened in recent years.
"Vituperation is not as great today as it was then," said Eilen Reid Gold, associate professor of communication studies. "What appropriate them wouldn't seem so now."
GOLD. WHO TEACHES a class in the rhetoric of political campaigns, said the candidates' charges this year were no less
See ELECTION, p. 5, col. 1
Mondale uses new strategy in final days
By United Press International
Walter Mondale, insisting he hears something from the electorate that the polls are missing, began his final uphill push for the White House yesterday with a "national strategy" aimed at holding Democratic strongholds and reaching out to the West and Farm Belt.
With nine days to go before Election Day and still trailing in the polls, Mondale hopes the strategy will shake loose what national polls show as Reagan's commanding lead. A Newsweek poll Saturday showed Reagan with a 17-point lead over Mondale and the CBS-New York Times survey showed the incumbent ahead by 18 points.
U. S. News and World Report said yesterday its new poll showed Reagan leading in 45 states "on the way to a smashing victory." It said Mondale led only in Massachusetts, the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota.
However, The New York Times yesterday endorsed Monday, citing Reagan's "dangerous" diplomacy. The Chicago Tribune agreed that the incumbent presented "a danger to world peace" and threatened to "bankrupt America," but backed him anyway.
OTHER PAPERS ENDORSING Mondale were the Arkansas Gazette, the St. Petersburg Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Among those backing Reagan were the New York Daily News, The San Francisco Examiner, The Indianapolis Star, The Oregonian of Portland, the Baltimore News American and the Miami Herald.
On CBS's "Face The Nation" yesterday, Mondale campaign chairman James Johnson predicted an upset victory and White House Chief of Staff James Baker cautioned Reagan's loyalists against over-confidence.
JOHNSON DENIED A published report that he told Mondale last week that Reagan had built up an insurmountable lead. Quite to the contrary, he insisted the Democratic nominee had hit his stride and was on the road to victory.
"I told him he can win. He believes he can win and . . . we will win," Johnson said.
Among Reagan aides, who privately talk of a landslide, the public emphasis was on Obama's policy.
Baker said Reagan would campaign hard in 12 states in the remaining days.
"We're not over-confident," Baker said. "It would be a terrible mistake for anybody who works for Ronald Reagan to think or assume that there's a landslide victory already in the bag, because the president is running like he's one's point behind."
MONDALE'S CAMPAIGN IS following a "national strategy," putting the candidate before large and enthusiastic crowds in front of the network to project well on the network television news.
Mondale has ordered his staff to stop discussing polls and is telling audiences "they stopped taking polls" in 1948 when his role model, Harry Truman, scored his upset. Pointing to the fact he is getting the largest and most enthusiastic crowds of his constituents said, "There's something going on in this country and the poll takers aren't getting it."
Pumpkin hunters come out again
Rv JOHN EGAN
Staff Reporter
DESOTO — Charlie Brown's little sister, Sally, and his best friend, Linus, impatiently waited for the Great Pumpkin in much the same setting.
Yesterday, Richard Krivjansky and his son, Jason, of Edwardville in Wyandotte County, braved the nippy weather to select their pumpkins at Few Acres Farm, about 15 miles east of Lawrence.
Pumpkins, row after row of them, await picking by customers. Children and their parents lug them home to carve into goulish or comical jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween, just two days away.
ALONG A NAMROW two-lane highway, a large white sign with a pumpkin and "U PICK" painted on it greeted the Krivjankys and other motorists.
Tromping around in the muddy, two-acre pumpkin patch, the father son team spent about half an hour searching for just the right shape. The bright green eyes pranced around the patch.
Both father and son turned over and picked up dozens of pumpkins, inspecting their size.
"I'm very chosy," said Jason as he tooted one of his pumpkins around. "And I wanted big ones. But I'll have to settle for these. We're lucky to find the two we found."
The elder Kriviansky said he thought the crop already had been picked over.
smape and condition. Some pumpkins had
blemishes. Others were caked with mud.
"I THINK WE waited too doggone long to come out here," he said.
preferred hand-picked pumpkins over
Nonetheless, Jason's father said the two preferred, hand-picked pumpkins over
MONDAY MORNING
Besides, Jason said, at a pumpkin patch "they're cheaper."
"Just getting your family outdoors is a beck of a lot better than going to the store," he said. "Fresh air."
store-bought ones. This was the second year they had purchased their carving pumpkins at a patch
So Jason and his father loaded the pumpkins, one tail and skinny and the other short and fat, into the trunk of their car and drove up a dirt road to the fruit and vegetable stand.
Charles Lawhead, wearing overalls, a cap from a farm implement company and cap
stubble on his face, rang up the Kriivansky's purchase on an old wooden cash register. At 15 cents per pound, their pumpkins cost $3.79
FOR 30 YEARS, Lawhare's family has operated the roadside stand, where pumpkins and other produce are sold. In addition to the two-acre pick-your own patch, the Lawhare farm includes five more acres of pumpkins and other crops.
For Lawhead, Halloween begins in mid-June, when pumpkin planting starts. The pumpkins usually are ready for harvest by the first week in October. Eager children and their parents arrive at the farm the same week to choose their pumpkins.
"You still have people Halloween night getting pumkins." he said.
Lawhead grumbled about this year's pumpkin crop as he stood near the cash register.
"No rain when we needed the rain," he said. "They're not near as big this year. They're light this year. The last two years have not been ideal."
NORMALLY HIS FARM produces about 15,000 pumpkins each year, he said This year, however, the lack of rain and a hard frost in September hurt the crop. Lawnward reaped only 7,000 pumpkins this year.