KU Students Take Big Step In 2000 ft. Skydiving Jump
Seven KU students will literally jump off the deep end tomorrow morning as they parachute from a plane which will be flying approximately 2000 feet high.
The students are members of the recently formed KU Skydiving Sport Club, under the supervision of Captain Merril Steele, assistant professor of Military Science. The club has been working since early October.
THE CLUB has 12 members, including one coed. Only seven, those who have completed their 12 hours of training on the ground, will have the chance to jump tomorrow in Topeka.
Sports parachuting and skydiving are experiencing a phenomenal growth in this country. It is estimated that more than half a million descents will be made this year by approximately 40,000 Americans.
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Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel. After mass, T.G.L.F.F., with dinner (50e) and social at Student Center CF-mening of recollection,
TODAY
Art Museum Reception for Dale Art Museum Reception for Dale Bauer's Popular Film, 7 and 3:30 p.m. *Last Session*
Foreign Film, 7:30 p.m. "My Name is Ivan," Hoch Aud.
Catholic Mass, 6:45 a.m. and 5 p.m.
St. Lawrence Chapel, confessions, 4-5
and 8:30 a.m.
AWS High School Leadership Day,
All Day, Kansas Union.
All Day, Kansas Union.
Football, 1:30 p.m. Nebraska at
Lincoln.
Popular Film, 7 and 9:30 p.m. "Lust"
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International Club, 8 p.m. Meeting, Kansas Union.
Catholic Mass, 8 a.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Hoch Aud. General meeting of Parish, 6 p.m.
Student Center.
University Lutheran Church, 9:45
Bible study and
lecture series,
University Student Association,
5:30 p.m. Sunflower Room (by
Union California), Topic "Golding's"
of the Bible.
SUNDAY
Dread Friends Meeting, 10:30 a.m.
The Sunday School meeting for worship, everyone woleme.
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AS A LAST desperate measure, the jumper threw himself into a spread-eagle position with his back to the earth. He hit the ground with terrific impact but remained alive and conscious. He had landed on soft, plowed ground.
The jumper's only injuries were four fractured vertebrae and a fractured pelvis. Fifteen days later, he was discharged from the hospital.
When an American sports parachutist jumps from a plane, his chances for a fatal accident now are only about one in 17,000.
This compares to 45 football fatalities in 1964 among an estimated four million participants.
This, however, is a participant fatality rate 80 times higher than that for football. The majority of parachuting deaths are due to inexperience, carelessness and failure to comply with regulations, according to two articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
More and better training and careful adherence to the rules, agree authors of both Journal articles, would reduce parachuting accidents.
THERE WERE 34 fatalities in sports parachuting and sky diving in 1963, and 32 in 1964 among approximately 40,000 participants.
On the other hand, there have been some amazing survivals of parachute accidents. In Oct. 1961, a 34-year-old ex-paratrooper started a free fall. When he pulled the ripcord at an altitude of 2,000 feet, the parachute streamed out but did not open. He opened his reserve chute but it wrapped around the shrugs of the streaming main canopy.
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An NOL representative will be on campus Tuesday, November 16 Contact your Placement Office for interview.
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Poet Donald Finkel To Read Own Poetry
Donald Finkel will begin the series of Readings by American Poets when he reads his poetry at 4 p.m. Monday in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
The 36-year-old poet has authored two books, "The Clothing's New Emperor" (1959) and "Simeon" (1964). His poems have been published in several magazines and have appeared in two anthologies, "New Poets of England and America" and "A Controversy of Poets." The latter is used in some English courses at KU.
Finkel is currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.
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