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Vol. 110 • No. 47
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After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling banning them from wearing masks, only 16 Ku Klux Klan members showed up and faced thousands of protesters at a New York City Rally. SEE PAGE 7A
Vol.110·No.47
The layhawks won their first conference football game of the year, shutting out arch rival Missouri 21-0.
SEE PAGE 1B
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Goalposts swim in Jayhawk victory
Javhawk fans toss the Memorial Stadium goalposts into Potter Lake after Kansas defeated Missouri 21-0 on Saturday. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
By Michael Rigg
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
After a 21-0 Kansas Jayhawk victory on Saturday against the Missouri Tigers, Kansas students celebrated on the field — and walked off with a $6,000 set of goalposts.
Jubilant students tore down the goalposts minutes after game ended. The goalposts tumbled into students' hands, where they were broken into pieces, paraded around the stadium and dispersed to nearby Potter Lake and various Lawrence locations.
Bob Frederick, athletics director, said he was excited about the victory and ensuing celebration, but he remained worried about injuries such a ritual could present.
"I'd rather that the goalposts didn't come down," Frederick said. "It's not the expense that worries me, it's the chance for injury."
Despite the opportunity for injuries when 30-foot goalposts tumble, the KU Public Safety Office said no injuries were reported in connection with Saturday's celebration. Still, the lack of injured injuries doesn't mean close calls didn't occur. Christy Ogle, Fredonia sophomore, said she tripped during the celebration and was worried about getting hurt.
"I thought I was going to be trampled," Oole said.
items worth more than $500 could be subject to a felony criminal charge.
No arrests were made for the goalposts' disappearance, even though anyone caught stealing
Frederick and the athletics department decided not to pursue charges against the jubilant
students, and the KU Public Safety Office will not arrest anyone who is in possession of goalobst segments.
"If the victim doesn't want to pursue it, then it's not an
issue," said Sgt. Mark Witt of the KU Public Safety Office.
"when I heard we won and the students tore down the goal-posts, I had an idea some pieces of it might be coming by," said
Instead of worrying about criminal charges, students carried the goalposts to various Lawrence locations including
Lewis Hall and the Wagon
Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St.
Rob Farha. owner of The Wheel.
Roo Farah, owner of the place. Although a piece a student brought to The Wheel remained on the bar's patio for quite some time, eventually it was hauled away, Farha said.
Other pieces of the goalposts didn't make it to the bars.
Darin Brubaker, Topeka sophomore, dove into Potter Lake to retrieve the top portion of one of the goalposts' uprights. After retrieving the upright, Brubaker hauled the 10-foot section to Lewis, where he lives, but he was turned away by front desk personnel.
Brubaker disposed of the upright at an unnamed location, but remained proud of his find.
"It's the ultimate trophy," Brubaker said. "What's better to remember tearing down the goalposts than to take a piece of the goalpost home with you?"
Today, athletic department personnel will focus on ordering a new set of goalposts and having them shipped in time for Saturday's game against No. 8 Nebraska. Darren Cook, the department's director of facilities, will call companies today regarding new goalposts.
After the season, Frederick said he would look into ordering a reinforced goalposts similar to the set on Wagner Field at Kansas State. The goalposts at Kansas State are made of heavier metal and guaranteed not to be torn down.
"It's definitely something we'll look into," Frederick said.
—Edited by Katrina Hull
For some, college is about classes; for others, it's about husbands
Story by Sarah Hale * Illustration by Kyle Ramsey
n 1955, when well-known politician Adlai Stevenson
politician Adalai Stevenson assured Smith College's graduating class that they would "love the humble role of housewife," no one questioned his advice. Women were encouraged to quickly add Mrs. to their names and to give up the B.S. or B.A. that they had just earned.
Today, nearly 45 years later, some of the old-fashioned values that motivated women in the 1960s live on. The term 'M.R.S. degree' is widely recognized at private colleges ranging from Baylor University to Texas Christian University to state schools such as Iowa State University or the University of Kansas.
talla, a student at Harvard,
said she knew what a M.R.S.
Linda Stanley, a 65-year-old woman who lives in San Francisco, was in the audience during Stevenson's commencement address at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. She said that she didn't oppose his message, because that's what women were supposed to do.
"I can give you 15 names right now of women from Harvard or Duke." she said.
degree was.
"There were 18 seniors in my residential house," she recalled. "Five got married right away, five more within a year and the rest shortly after that. It was the time period."
She said there was a picture in the Smith College yearbook of a woman showing her engagement ring. The caption below it
Even at the University, the number of weddings at Danforth Chapel on campus has remained consistent. On June 17, 1946, Commencement Day, there were seven weddings at the chapel. Fifty years later in 1996, there weren't any weddings scheduled for Commencement Day, but there were five on the day before, the maximum amount allowed per day. For the past two years combined, 392 couples have gotten married at Danforth.
Today that time period has passed, but not the concept, according to various wedding experts, marketers and research analysts across the nation.
read "her future is secure"
See BALANCING on page 5A
Library research areas wanted
Many students occupy spaces in libraries, but don't use them
By Jim O'Malley
They look like the old cellblocks at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, but they're in the stacks at Watson Library.
And people actually want to occupy them—not to be locked in, but to reserve a space of their own in the library for research.
Special to the Kansan
Of Watson's 46 research studies, 31 are small rooms on two quiet corridors on the fifth floor. But 15 are cell-like spaces with metal desks behind sliding steel mesh doors deep in the stacks on levels 1 center, 1 1/2 center and 2 center.
Faculty, graduate students and visiting and resident scholars are eligible to apply for Watson's research studies. There is so much demand that there is a three-year wait to get one, said Kent Miller, library facilities officer for Watson. He said there was a waiting list for both the fifth floor rooms and the studies in the stacks.
"The fact that people would compete for something like that is a sign of how scarcity space is on campus." Miller said.
Under a policy adopted by a faculty committee in the early 1970s, once studies in Watson are assigned, the holders can keep them as long as they remain faculty or are enrolled as students, he said.
Sarah Couch, head of access services for Watson, said there was no assurance that the library would be informed if a holder of a study was no longer enrolled.
"It's hard, almost impossible, to turn the studies over for people on the waiting list." she said
Applicants who do get studies end up not using them very much. Miller said.
The stacks are not the most pleasant place to sit and study, especially at night, said Kathy Gunter, circulation supervisor.
"I would need a flashlight and safety whistle," she said.
"I would need a flashlight and safety whistle," she said. Donna Mitchell oversees the stats at Watson. She said she occasionally saw people using the studies there, but more for storage of research materials than as a place to sit down and read.
"It's sort of a mystery when these people come and what they do there," Mitchell said. "The evidence of life isn't readily apparent."
The holder of study number 32 on level 2 center, for example, appears to be researching writer John Dos Passos.
But she said she knew people used them, because the books stored in them changed.
But other studies show few signs of use. Most are empty, except for trash in wastebaskets. Last week, number 33, 34 and 40 were completely empty except for form letters dated Aug. 14, 1997 from Watson's staff asking if the occupants
A research study on the second floor of Watson Library is cluttered with books and papers. Watson has 46 research studies open to faculty, scholars and graduate students. However, there is a three-year waiting list for reserving these rooms. Photo by Chad Cummings/KANSAN
Anschutz Science Library and Spencer Research Library also have research studies available for use by faculty, graduate students and visiting and resident scholars for specific research projects.
still wanted the studies.
Anschutz has five individual locked studies on the north side of the second floor stacks. The studies are small rooms with wooden doors.
Judith Emde, science librarian at Anschutz, said each study was assigned to two people for a semester at a time, but that occupants could reapply.
"We haven't had much call for them, so there is no waiting list," Emde said. "We've been able to accommodate everybody."
Spencer has 45 research studies. Like the studies in Anschutz, they are small rooms assigned for a semester at a time for specific research projects, and can be renewed.
Edited by Brad Hallier