Top campus story
"Victory Parade, Your Leader Is Ready"
Jack takes news crown
By IRVANA KEAGY
Jack Mitchell, former KU football coach, was the most important figure in KU news stories for 1966. Perhaps because his story is so recent, perhaps because it drew interest from fans throughout the campus and country, perhaps because the incident is not yet closed in many minds, his resignation and the events surrounding his departure from KU was voted the most important campus news story of the year.
The KU Centennial celebration occupied second place. The celebrations, including the convocation speakers, the world premiere of Douglas Moore's opera "Carry Nation," and Centennial Week last spring gained not only campus and state news coverage but found their way into national magazines and newspapers.
Sharing the spotlight as the third campus news story was the long-debated revision of women's rules. The plunge into the new and more liberal housing rules for upperclass women has affected more than half the KU population, and its successes and failures are of growing significance.
One story which has touched the lives of all KU men and many KU women can be placed under the broad category, the Draft. Draft examinations, the eligibility of students and the increasing of quotas were grouped into one of the top news stories.
KU's mile runner Jim Ryun was ranked fifth on the list as creating some of the biggest 1966 news. His 3:51.3 mile brought his name on to the front pages of almost every U.S. newspaper.
The Centennial College, known to some as the college within a college, was placed sixth on the list. The program, begun this year with freshman men and women, has been a topic of debates, discussions and controversies since it was announced last spring.
The dispute over the loyalty oath in contracts for state employees—"Should I be asked to pledge my loyalty to the United States, or should my loyalty be assumed?"—drew fire from administrators, professors and student workers, some favoring the oath, some opposing it, some having no printable opinion. The story was rated seventh among top campus news.
Another subject, which brings tears, shrugs of acceptance and frowns from most students is the raise in tuition fees. This story, which gained eighth place on the list, has become an annual event. Although this year's raise was only $5 to compensate for the Kansas Union expansion, next year's fees will be higher following recommendations by the Board of Regents.
The discussion over use of birth control devices—are they safe, are they moral, are they used much at KU—was a question that was researched recently in a series of Kansan articles. The articles probably prompted the subject's rating of ninth among the top 10 stories.
In tenth place is the ever broadening picture of the KU landscape and skyline. The story includes the expansion of the Kansas Union, the $5.5 million humanities building and the overall 10-year plan for the campus.
The remainder of the top stories are listed in order of their rating.
Another building story, yet not included in the 10-year plan, is the Spencer Library. The building was inspired and will be financed by Mrs. Helen Spencer as a memorial to her husband Kenneth F. Spencer.
KU did it again with another winning basketball team. The Jayhawks reigned as Big Eight Champs after the 85-65 victory over Colorado last spring.
The announcement of the resignation of Laurence C. Woodruff as dean of students came this fall. Choice of a successor still remains an open question.
Establishment of the KU Council for Progress became big news during Centennial Week. This group of men already has announced long-range plans for the university's financial and academic prosperity.
Weather dominates state news
By KAY HENDERSON and DAVID FINCH
The tornadoes which devastated Topeka and Manhattan swept all but two votes for top state story of the year.
The June 8 tornado made headline news not only in the United States but in the rest of the world. Seventeen persons died and 500 were injured in the state capital alone, and damage is still only half repaired, according to latest estimates.
Arkansas City banker Bob Decking became the first Demo-
Washburn and Kansas State universities were badly hit. K-State lost its radio tower and some married students housing: Washburn was nearly wiped off the map. Every major building at the university was damaged.
erat in history to oust an incumbent Republican governor, and this feat was good enough to rate this story second place.
Docking's upset victory, probably the result of the tax controversy, ran counter to the resurgence of Republicanism in the country. Although Republicans retained massive control of the other state functions, Docking achieved the distinction of following his father into the state house.
Kansas weather, or lack of it, grabbed third place. The shortage of rain was so severe in summer that parts of Kansas were labeled disaster areas. Despite this, there was a good wheat crop and farmers did not do as badly as they had feared. The drought continues, with rainfall still less than half the normal annual average.
This did not bring Jim Ryun his customary first place (in the state poll) but was good enough to bring him in fourth. Ryun also set a national record in the two mile and appears set to run even faster in the next few years.
The cinders were scorched in another field, this time by a freshman from Wichita who set two world track records in the half mile and mile.
Controversial state political issues filled the next two places. In fifth place was reapportionment of the state legislature, which affirms the principle of the "one man-one vote" voting basis.
Sixth place was given to the dispute over state inactive funds.
It's been a cold season for college football in Kansas and this has resulted in a mass migration of the head coaches from five of the major schools.
Jack Mitchell departed from KU for the Wellington News with $66,000 as consolation. He followed the worn path made by Emporia, Wichita, Pittsburg, and K-State coaches. The five of them marched into seventh place in the poll.
Viet Nam could not stay out of the news and the troop movements from Fort Riley were voted into eighth place. Fort Riley has become one of the major U.S. training centers in preparation for the conflict in southeast Asia.
2 Daily Kansan editorial page Wednesday. December 14, 1966
1964 HERBLOCK
THE WASHINGTON POST
Politics '66 take cautious pathway
Pu JOHN LOVEKIN
Politics held its breath in 1966. It scratched its ponderous head, looked important, and mumbled the same faint answer of "yes, no, perhaps, and maybe" to all questions. It was not sure whether the public wanted more or less. Occasionally it put a foot in the water, but kept the other one on the slippery bank.
It tried to hold its ears against the ever-louder voice of Sen. Fulbright and a few others, and the ear-splitting screams of U.S. jets over Viet Nam.
It listened to the pleas of Martin Luther King, interrupted by the shattering glass in Cleveland and elsewhere, and the mad yells of Stickey Carmichael.
IT SAW THE picket signs popping up in front of hospitals, schools, airports and fire stations, but did nothing but wait. It blushed when it heard about Sen. Dodd, and got slightly red over Rep. Powell. But still it waited.
Taxes, like its wife, kept getting fatter, with less ounce to the bounce. The Harvard experts read a 10,000-page document to it on why there had to be an increase in taxes, while at the same time, someone wrote a nasty postcard about higher taxes.
It was the year that Robert Kennedy started revising his inauguration speech for 1973, and just maybe 1969. Hubert Humphrey threw his away. And Lynden Johnson, with the closing of the year, probably wishes he had never read one.
ON THE OTHER SIDE, it was a year of hopes toward greater heights or stardom. With the elections of Percy and Romney, the Republicans began relishing the next two presidential elections. And adding the two Rockefellers and a few others, the American public may have wondered what happened to those plebeians of long ago, like Lincoln and Jackson.
But there was still, and forever, Dick Nixon. With his "humble, but important contribution" to the Republican landslide, it is rumored that he told "Pat" to quit wearing those fancy Paris dresses, and to start looking for a puppy cocker spaniel, or whatever the current middle class fad is.
THEN THEKE WERE these two glamorous people, who never once presented a shiny nose or smeared lipstick to the public—Mrs. Wallace and the "ex-old dirt dobber" Ronald Reagan. And if the country did not gain much from their elections, it lost something when the old senator from Illinois, Paul Douglas, lost because he thought political honesty was not a bad policy.
It was not the best political year, and it left many important unanswered questions, but somehow, a mystery to many, it kept the Ensign in honor, and the Noble ship on course.
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