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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.44
THURSDAY OCTOBER 22,1992
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KU gears up for homecoming festivities
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
What started as a joke about homecoming weekend and Saturday's game with the Oklahoma Sooners has evolved into the theme for this year's homecoming festivities at the University of Kansas.
"I'd Soon Be A Jayhawk Celebrating KU Traditions" is the theme of this year's homecoming, said Sue Morrell, coordinator of the homecoming committee and program manager at Student Union Activities.
Although the theme is a play on words on Oklahoma's mascot, the theme also signifies Jayhawk spirit and the student effort behind it.
Morrell said that with the Jayhaws being the nationally-ranked team this time, the game against the Sooners
had people interested more in the homecoming game itself rather than in the day's festivities.
"I think that there is a little more excitement about the game because of the team's national ranking," Morrell said. "That makes it almost as exciting as the K-State game."
"This is a student parade, so I thought they should do it, and they have really worked hard at it," she said.
This year's homecoming and especially the parade, organized by members of the Board of Class Officers, SUA and the Student Alumni Association, was designed by the students for the students, she said.
And students' work has paid off, tomorrow's parade has attracted 28 entries from the campus and the area community, including five more
floats than last year's parade.
The parade will begin at 2:20 p.m.
tomorrow and will wind down Jay-
hawk Boulevard from the Chi Omega
Fountain to Adams University Center.
This is the second consecutive year
the parade has been held on campus.
One aspect of KU traditions that the homecoming theme centers on will be the 20th anniversary of the Hilltop Child Development Center. As part of its celebration, the center will showcase about 50 toddlers in the parade.
Another homecoming tradition celebrated this weekend will be the 21st birthday of Baby Jay, said Robert Foster, head of the University committee that oversees Parents, Band and Homecoming Days.
Foster, who is also the director of
bands, said that Baby Jay was hatched from a blue egg during half-time of the 1971 KU-K-State game and was the brainchild of Dick Wintermote, director of special projects at the Kansas University Endowment Association. Baby Jay was Wintermote's method to rejuvenate student interest in homecoming.
"Homecoming was canceled a some campuses including KU and never came back," he said, referring to the turbulent years of the late 1960s and early '70s. Homecoming Day was brought back to the University in 1971.
There will also be a pep rally from 6 to p.9. tomorrow in front of Wescoe Hall. A free concert by Baghdad Jones and Hangdog Willie will follow the rally.
Alpha Kappa Lambda and Gamma Phi Beta members prepare their float for tomorrow's homecoming parade. They worked on the float yesterday afternoon behind the Alpha Kappa Lambda house, 2021 Stewart Ave.
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Jayhawks marching on
Band highsteps to centennial
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan staff writer
The Marching Jayhawks will toot their own horn this weekend during homecoming with the celebration of the band's 100th anniversary.
The band, organized in October 1892, made its first official appearance in April 1893 at a Kansas-Baker University baseball game. Twelve students were in the marching band and the entire KU band program.
Today the marching band has about 260 members, and the KU band program has more than 600 members in more than 18 different bands including jazz, concert and basketball bands.
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Festivities this weekend will include a reception for alumni band members Saturday in Memorial Stadium. Robert Foster, director of bands, will then put the annual alumni band to work, rehearsing the music and marching for the halftime show of the Kansas-Oklahoma game. The alumni band, which performs every year at the homecoming game, will have more than 200 members this year. Foster said. The alumni will play before the game and will join the Marching Jayhawks for the halftime show.
Foster said the halftime presentation would be the biggest in KU history. In celebration of the band's anniversary, the show will highlight past and present KU traditions like waving the wheat, Baby Jay and the Crimson Girls.
(Top) The first University of Kansas Marching Band began playing in 1892 with only 12 members. Today the KU Marching Band is an award-winning band with about 260 members. (Above) The 1992 edition of the Marching Jayhawks march down Massachusetts Street as part of an instructional day for high school bands earlier this month.
"This is the most traditional homecoming I've ever done," he said.
Drew Brown, Alexandria, Va., freshman, said he was excited about the weekend events and playing with the alumni.
Foster, the mth full-time director in KU history, said leadership had been critical to the success of the band. Foster said past directors J.C. McCamles, 1906-1934,
"I think they're going to star in the show," he said. "The show is theirs. They'll be great."
Gus Anneberg of Fort Scott and a 1936 KU graduate, is the oldest living KU drum major and will participate in the halftime show. Anneberg, who will celebrate his 89th birthday Saturday, has played in 19 of the last 20 alumni bands.
and Russell Wiley, 1934-1971, played a big part in shaping today's band. McCannles and Wiley directed for a combination of 65 years.
But Anneberg, who marched under both McCannles and Wiley, said the band had some problems during McCannles's last year.
Foster said the tradition of the Marching Jayhawks was deeply rooted at the University.
"The uniforms looked like Salvation Army uniforms, a let diskuft he said. "Wear were nattie that year."
"It's like Phog Allen and the basketball tradition," he said. "I've been here since 1971 and I'm still the new kid on the block."
KU has a great past in music in general. We have to be moving towards the future with one foot rooted firmly in the past - in tradition."
KU College Republicans push Bush
Re-organized group trying to make up for lost time
By Kristy Dorsey Kansan staff writer
With only 13 days left until Election Day, KU College Republicans is hustling to inform college voters about President Bush's campaign message.
David Olson,
Topeka senior and head of College Republicans, said the group was working to make up for campaign time which was lost earlier this
semester when the group was in disarray
"I think we are having to work really hard to get our side of the story out," he said. "We've been very busy, and we have got a lot of stuff coming up."
Olson said the group had an informational table in front of Wescoe Hall Tuesday, and it plans to have the table out at least twice a week until the election.
"It's going really well," Olson said. "We have had a lot of people come forward on campus. It's really kind of a grassroots movement. It's very impressive."
At a meeting Tuesday night, about 35 people came and elected officers to fill the three remaining positions within the group
Treasurer Kevin Admiral, Leavenworth junior, said he collected dues from 22 people at the meeting. Another 15 people filled out membership forms and are expected to pay next week.
Olson said the group was organizing several other activities for the upcoming weeks, including an airport rally for Sen. Bob Dole on Saturday night; the establishment of a weekly "Rush Room," where students eating lunch can listen to the nationally broadcast show of radio personality Rush Limbaugh, in Alceve A of the Kansas Union; and a debate, to be held at the end of next week, between the College Republicans, KU Young Democrats and KU Libertarians.
"I think the debate will be real interesting," Olson said. "We'll talk about the presidential candidates' stands on health care, education, trade, the deficit, foreign policy, abortion and crime reduction. And we'll also take questions from the audience."
The time and location of the debate have not been set.
Student Senate early this morning killed a bill to finance the KU Lecture Series and failed to approve a bill to finance the Black Student Union's Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government.
Student Senate
See story, Page 3.
Sex sells
University plans to raze worn-out Jolliffe Hall
Madonna unleashed her book "Sex" upon the world yesterday with her typical, controversial flare.
Find out where you can get the book in Lawrence and what you will be getting for your 850.
See story, Page 7.
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
Peeling paint, broken windows and a deserted interior give Jolliffe Hall the look of a haunted house.
Tucked away down the hill from Fraser Hall, the building that some call a nightmare is riddled with structural and mechanical problems. It has remained unused for more than two years.
The University plans to destroy Jollife within six months and replace it with a parking lot. The Board of Regents last week approved a plan to raise the building, which last housed radio, television and film studios.
Allen Wiechert, University planning director, said that the building's failing heating, air-conditioning and plumbing made the building unusable.
"The building is basically worn out,"
Wiechertsaid.
Jolliffe also posed fire safety problems. Because no fire exits existed on the second floor, safety regulations restricted occupancy to six people on the floor.
"If there were a fire, it would have been hard to get all the people down the one stairwell," said Ed Small, professor of theater and film who worked with students at the building's film-editing labs.
A $50,000 gift from an Emporia banker, Orlando Jolliffe, gave birth to the hall, according to University archive materials. From 1942 to 1969, it served as a men's scholarship hall, then as a women's hall and then as a men's hall again.
Those who later used dollife — radio, television and film students and faculty — poked fun at the building's residence hall design, which included showers in the bathrooms.
"Every now and then someone would head
Small found little humor in the building when he first visited Jolliffe after moving from his University of Missouri job in 1980.
off to the bathroom saying they were going to take a shower," said Max Utsler, associate professor of journalism.
Jollife was legendary for being a gross, undesirable place to work, Utsler said.
Even though it was not attractive, Jolliffe provided plenty of space to work and served its occupants well, he said.
"If they wanted somebody to blow it up, I would help light the dynamite."
"I was actually almost ill," Small said. "It was so bad. It was really very dirty, even filth. It was infested with roaches, massive ones. It was a very unpleasant place.
"It sort of reminded me of one of my first cars, a '25 Chevy.' Utsler said. "When I turned the car, all my friends made fun of it. But it got us to where we wanted to go."
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