CAMPUS AND AREA
Jayhawk mascots replace old feathers with new plumage
University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1984
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
This year's homecoming will see two new, but familiar, sights on the football field.
The new Jayhawk and Baby Jay mascot will make their debut during halftime of the Oct. 27 game against the University of Oklahoma.
"We've been working on this for over a year," Elaine Brady, spirit
squad adviser, said about the new uniforms.
made of Styrofoam and durable plastic, rather than steel. They will be lighter and easier to travel with. The new big Jayhawk mascot will weigh 20 pounds; Baby Jay will weigh only 8 pounds.
Last year's head mascot, Phil Schmidt, pushed for replacing the uniforms and eventually found the donors. Brady said.
In his search for donors, Schmidt found the Paul Ross Charitable Foundation. Trustees of that foundation agreed to give $2,000 for the new outfits to the Kansas University Endowment Association.
The old uniforms have been badly damaged and needed to be replaced, Brady said. The big Jayhawk mascot, which has been broken too many times to be repaired, is 30 years old and weighs 85 pounds. Baby Jay is 15 years old and weighs 40-45 pounds.
"Each time we take it on the road it gets damaged a little more," Brady said.
Besides football and basketball appearances, the mascots also receive about four calls a week to appear at alumni events and special events. Some events are screened out, Brady said, but the mascots do appear once or twice a week.
ON CAMPUS
THE NEW MASCOT suits will be
Schmidt will be the big Jayhawk mascot for homecoming because of his part in getting the new outfits, Brady said.
TODAY
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union
THE INTERNATIONAL FOLK Dance Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Military Science Building. Romanian dancing will be taught this week. No partners are needed.
TOMORROW ALLAN CIGLER, associate professor of political science, will
speak about elections at a panel discussion from 2 to 4 p.m. at Nunemaker Center.
MONDAY
ERNEST GARCIA, deputy assistant secretary in the office of legislative affairs in the Department of Defense, will speak at 12:30 p.m. at a brown bag lunch in Nunemaker Center.
THE STRATO-MATIC BASE-BALL Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Union.
UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY
Oct. 26, 27
Fri. and Sat.
$1.75
7, 9 & 11 p.m.
Downs Auditorium
in Dyche Hall
11-5 M-F, 10:30-5:30 Sat.
UNDERCOVER
LAGE EMBRACE
LLY OF FRANCE*
HARD TO FIND EASY TO REMEMBER
TIN PAN ALLEY
841-8010
2214 Yale Rd.
Security will be provided.
in the Kansas Union Ballroom Lawrence, Oct.26,8:00 $4.00 by Promethean Sounds with Guest DJ Michael Cipolla from Fannie's, Westport Cash for best costumes A GLSOK event
A Costume Ball
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