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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
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76th Year, No. 28
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy to cloudy skies today and tomorrow with the high in the mid 30's. Low tonight in the lower 30's. Warmer tomorrow.
Thursday, December 16, 1965
Blood Drive Set Up
As a result of an Alpha Tau Omega bull-session on "what can KU favorably do in support of the American Viet Nam war effort," a blood drive will be conducted from Feb. 14 through Feb. 19. It is being sponsored as a service project by all KU living groups.
"THE ASSOCIATED WOMEN Students had a blood drive project underway, but when they heard of our proposed drive, they joined forces," Nick Brocker, Prairie Village junior and ATO member, said.
The drive has been approved and is being supported by the AWS and the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC). Faculty sponsors are L. C. Woodruff, dean of students; and Charles H. Oldfather, professor of law.
The aim of the university drive is to collect 1,000 pints of blood. Already, more than 500 students have pledged their support for the drive.
THE AWS HAS more than 250 donors, Lambda Chi Alpha has pledged 80 per cent of its membership and Alpha Tau Omega, more than 86 per cent.
"We are getting real good endorsement at Templin hall, even though a blood drive was conducted about six weeks ago here in the hall." Tom McCrackin, Kirkwood Mo., junior said.
Donor lists are being circulated in KU living groups so that residents may pledge their support.
A Funny Thing Happened... A Combine Bagged, Skateboards Gone Wild. It All Happened in 1965!
It All Happened in 1965!
By Judy Farrell
A funny thing happened on the way to 1966.
In Kansas a hunter bagged a combine in the heart of deer season. In New Jersey a thief stole the samples from a shoe salesman's car—all for the right foot. In Tennessee police had to break up a riot following a softball game between two Lutheran churches. And all over the United States people continued to find the light side of life hidden among the headlines of Viet Nam. Watts, Santo Domingo, Rhodesia, civil rights, death and violence.
1965 WAS ONE of those crazy years when perhaps we had to be a little nutty, a little light in the head, to survive. The light side of life offered an escape from the oppressiveness of the world. Escapees came in all ages, sizes and colors, but the methods of escape were often similar.
There were surfboards, then skateboards, discotheques with the frug or watusi, slot racing, clothing fads—and always jokes.
Somebody remembered the skateboard. It used to be a two-by-four, nailed precariously to roller skate wheels, but in '65 someone polished the board, painted stripes on it and sold it for $14.95. Skateboarding required the nerve of an 11-year-old Cub Scout and the agility of a cat.
won for standing up. sitting down, lying down, even standing on one's head—all on a skateboard.
AS THE skateboarding fad coasted across the nation news columns were filled with stories of skateboard championships
Finally, when it appeared there might be a whole generation with broken arms, many cities took steps to limit skateboard use and in many cities the last news stories about the skateboards concerned city ordinances limiting them to private property.
FOR THOSE who weared of the watusi or were recuperating from skateboarders' elbow, there was always a smile to be gained in reading between the lines of the major news stories for the little chuckles which help us keep our sanity.
There were the jokes that came out of the huge electrical power blackout that encompassed the East Coast on Nov. 11. Trapped commuters invented imaginary pairs of people who would find it most uncomfortable to be trapped together—i.e., Robert S. McNamara and a draft card burner; Cassius Clay and Martin Luther King. And there was the famous question to a group of elevator riders who had been dangling in an elevator shaft for hours—"Are any of the women pregnant?" The reply, from a wry young man, "Well, we've only just gotten to know one another."
A funny thing did happen on the way to 1966—it was the whole year 1965. But having a light side of life has become a way of life and part of looking forward to '66 is awaiting all the funny things that will happen on the way to '67.
Marvin Explains Return
By Barbara Phillips
The sequence of events resulting in the resignation of former KU School of Journalism dean, Burton W. Marvin, from his post at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, has been revealed in a letter to current dean, Warren K. Agee.
Marvin, who originally went to Tel Aviv last year on an invitation to establish a Mass Communications Center and a journalism program at Tel Aviv, explained that internal difficulties within the university's structure had made it impossible to carry out his program.
THE NECESSARY facilities and help were not provided for him. Marvin explained in his letter. After he was hired, "a major controversy broke out within the university's administration lines regarding priorities in setting up new programs and consolidating disciplines already established, the letter continued.
Marvin will return to Lawrence in January and enroll his daughter in Lawrence High School and a son in KU. Marvin might take a refresher job at a newspaper, but the immediate future is not certain, the letter said.
The settlement from the University of Tel Aviv included a salary for the rest of the year. A position as professor of journalism awaits Marvin at KU next year, Agee said.
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
Merry Christmas from the Kansan staff!!