Novices' Exam: Survive the Week!
By Jim Sullinger and Eric Johnson
The myriad of events of Orientation Week—1965, drawing to a close today, offered an inviting forecast of life at KU to novice freshmen and transfer students.
The week, known traditionally as "Country Club Week," featured the traditional activities forum where students are introduced to various campus organizations, the Traditions Rally and Street Dance, a night of cheer-leading and learning, movies and frequent hour dances.
Amid the muscle-work of moving in, picking up packets, pandemonium in the "Pen," and appointments with advisers, more than 4.000 students and guests paused Tuesday to hear an address by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Dr. Wescoe stressed the individuality of students in the huge University community.
Coupled with this individuality, he said, is a need for "individual responsibility, reason, respect and rectitude."
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JUST THE BEGINNING-All students facing enrollment begin their trek at Hoch Auditorium by picking up packets of IBM cards. The scene remains the same each year-only the faces change.
Enrollment Nears Peak As Registration Closes
By Judy Farrell (Managing Editor)
With registration for fall semester classes drawing to a close today. KU is nearing an all-time record enrollment.
Though final enrollment figures cannot be completed for some time due to the immense paper work involved, estimates have placed the total KU enrollment as high as 14,500. This would include more than 13,000 students expected on the Lawrence campus and 1,100 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
The anticipated 14,500 enrollment tops by 1,000 the previous KU record of 13,475 set last year
THE ESTIMATED figure for this year indicates KU is rapidly approaching a 15,000 enrollment predicted for it by 1970.
About 3,000 of this year's 4,500 new students are freshmen. The first hint of larger freshman classes came last year when 2,505 new freshmen—or 26 per cent more than the previous year—enrolled.
The total number of students classified as freshmen last fall was 2,951 compared with 2,085 sophomores, 2,124 juniors, 2,370 seniors, 207 special students and 2,609 graduate and law students.
THE SNake-Like lines rambling about the Kansas Union during enrollment are only an indication of the crowds to come.
In addition, it takes a touch of gold—a staff or faculty gold-coloured parking sticker—to get a parking place in one of the University's zoned parking lots. And even then finding a place is a problem.
Convocation Is Monday
The annual All-University convocation, heralding the opening of the 1965-66 academic year, will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Hoch Auditorium.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will preside.
All 9:30 a.m. classes will be cancelled so students may attend.
Living conditions in University housing have been eased somewhat this year. Last year's sudden overcrowding forced some residents of Hashinger Women's Hall to live in laundry rooms and made triple rooms out of many doubles.
THE LARGEST GROUP of residence hall dwellers — freshman women—now occupy three large halls, with Lewis, a 500-place hall on Engel Road joining the long-time freshman halls, Gertrude Sellars Pearson and Corbin.
Fred Ellsworth Hall, a 10-story structure housing 700, is also experiencing a first. The two-year-old hall is being occupied by upperclass women—many of whom were former residents of Lewis Hall.
Sororities and fraternities are also experiencing growing pains. Many houses are filled with members as a result of fall rush week and pledging.
Daily hansan
63rd Year, No.1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, September 17, 1965
Rush Week Finale Shows Changing Face of Mt. Oread
By Jane Larson
The pledging of 637 men and 58 women climaxed months of planning for men's rush and the fall rushing period for women.
"I think the results speak for themselves." Donald Alderson, dean of men, said. The men's pledge class is the largest in KU's history.
HOWEVER, Alderson continued, the total enrollment of the University is sharply rising, making larger pledge classes a necessity.
the increasing number of KU students necessitated women's fall rush, reinstated only last year for upperclassmen and transfers.
"We feel real happy about the way rush went." Jill Newburg, president of Panhellenic Council and Carmel, Ind., senior, said.
FALL RUSH gives sororities a chance to concentrate purely on freshmen in the spring, Miss New-burg said. Two rush periods is actually the only wav, she said.
"Summer rush gives the house
an opportunity to look at more men," Jim Pitts, Wichita senior and president of the Interfraternity Council, said, "and it gives the rushee a chance to make up his mind sooner. It alleviates pressure on both sides."
THE SUMMER rushee is given a more concentrated rush, Pitts said, which gives him a better chance to know the men with whom he may soon be living. It also eliminates the freshman problem of having to deal with residence hall contracts.
Fraternity and sorority pledge lists are on pages 7, 9, 11, and 13.
Although enrollment has influenced both men's and women's rush there was another, though almost invisible, factor present during rush: integration.
Although no Negro registered or participated in rush, Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calif, senior and former president of the Civil Rights Council, said the impact of last year's demonstrations is still being felt.
Sims' sentiment is illustrated by the statement made by Pitts at an IFC rush meeting. Pitts stated that he believed fraternal integration to be inevitable for the fraternities to continue on campus in their present strength.
WHILE SIMS supports Pitts' viewpoint, he said that it is the outstanding Negro who will be the first to be integrated.
"It will not be the average Negro," Sims said, "but the Negro who excels in athletics and scholarship."
Sims said he felt no Negroes participated in rush partially because the new Negro on campus is totally unaware of many things.
"However, as the Negro becomes more aware I suspect that more will try to go through rush in the spring. The Negro will eventually see new channels and some will have desires to pledge other (than Negro) fraternities and sororites," Sims said, "and will try."
Homecoming Promises Excitement, Fun
From a football battle with K- State to a concert by Robert Goulet, the 1965 KU Homecoming celebration will blow up a storm of activity not seen in these parts for 100 years.
The theme for the Oct. 29-30 festivities has not been announced by the Homecoming committee. Themes for decorations in the past have included "The Greatest Show on Earth" and television commercials.
Festivities actually begin a week before Homecoming weekend with a Queen's Dance, Oct. 22. The finalists for Homecoming queen will be selected by vote of those attending the dance from more than 25 women representing living groups. The finalists will be announced at the dance and will attend receptions and interviews during the week.
Homecoming weekend begins unofficially, Friday. Oct. 29. with
the viewing and judging of the decorated fraternity and sorority houses and residence halls. The campus becomes a stream of cars during the evening as Lawrence residents, KU students and campus visitors view the decorations.
Weeks of work, reams of crepe paper and yards of chicken wire go into the elaborate decorations urging the Jayhawks to victory over their Homecoming opponent.
A football battle with traditional rival, the Kansas State University Wildcats, will kick off the events of Homecoming Day, Oct. 30. Game time is 1:30 p.m. in Memorial Stadium with more than 40,000 expected to attend.
This is the 63rd meeting between the two state universities with KU ahead in the series 42 to 17 and three ties.
The Jayhawks beat Coach Doug
Weaver's Wildcats 7-0 last season
at K-State. KU lost its own Homecoming game against Nebraska last year, 14-7.
A car parade around the stadium and a performance by KU's marching band will honor the queen and her attendants during half-time.
The 1965 Homecoming Queen will begin her reign during halftime ceremonies when she is crowned by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Winners of the decoration contests will also be announced during half-time.
Post-game receptions for alumni and guests are scheduled throughout campus during the afternoon. The Museum of Art also will be open.
The University Theatre will contribute to the weekend's excitement with a production of "My Fair Lady" Friday and Saturday
evenings. Students will be admitted on their ID cards while seats last.
A concert by Robert Goulet, star of Broadway's "Camelot," is the featured event of the evening. It begins at 8 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Goulet, a 31-year-old baritone, played Sir Lancelot in the longrun Broadway musical of life in the mythical kingdom. He also appeared in a movie comedy, "I'd Rather Be Rich."
Records by Goulet include the Camelot album and "My Love, Forgive Me." He is married to Carol Lawrence, star of Broadway's "West Side Story."
The Homecoming eve concert, introduced last year, replaces the traditional Homecoming dance. Folk singer Harry Belafonte drew more than 13,000 people for a three-hour concert last year.
Robert Goulet Homecoming star