KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
kansar Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Yea
77th Year, No. 52
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, December 6.1966
Coach's leaving ends 3-year controversy
By ROBERT STEVENS UDK Managing Editor
Three years of controversy centering around KU Athletic Director Wade Stinson and Head Football Coach Jack Mitchell were brought to a close Saturday, when Mitchell agreed to leave the University.
It was reported Monday night by Bob Hurt, in the Topeka State
WADE STINSON Athletic Director since 1963
Journal, that "Mitchell agreed to leave without a cash settlement if Stinson was removed too.
"According to an informed source, Mitchell said he would leave without cash settlement, if Stinson was removed too." The Athletic Board refused and paid Mitchell an estimated $56,000 to $36,000 to terminate the contract.
UNDER MITCHELL'S PLAN the new football coach would also assume the duties of Athletic Director, placing more emphasis on football. This is an arrangement many alums have felt was needed to bolster KU's football chances.
Mitchell's first three games at KU were far from spectacular. He began with 42-0, 12-0, and 31-0 defeats.
After three games "Cactus Jack" blew his top as the players showered at the end of the defeat, and tore into them:
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"You're nothing," he roared. "A big, fat nothing. You get up in the morning and look in the mirror, and what do you see . . . nothing, a big, fat nothing.
"WE ARE GOING to be coaching here for a long time and we're going to have good football teams. You can be remembered as the last of the nits or you can be remembered as the first of the good players."
The team shaped up and went on to win four and tie one of their remaining seven ball games.
After two mediocre seasons Mitchell came up with an undefeated team in 1960--undefeated until officials forced KU to forfeit two games because Bert Coan played illegally.
After a spectacular showing, coming from the depths of the cellar, Mitchell was given the phenomenal life-time contract. He continued to win in 1961, giving KU its first bowl win in the Blue-bonnet Bowl.
IN 1963, THE team hit the skids—the same year C. A. (Dutch) Lonborg was to step down as Athletic Director. Mitchell's record for that season was 5-5.
It has been reported, Mitchell assumed he would be appointed the new athletic director and that his plans were to stay as football coach until he grew a few years older then step out and remain at KU as athletic director.
There were reports that Mitchell had received a verbal promise of the athletic directorship from Franklin Murphy, the Chancellor when he was hired. But Murphy was gone and a new man—W. Clarke Wescoe—had taken the helm of KU.
Wescoe declined to promote Mitchell to the athletic directorship. At the time, Wescoe said he did not believe in combining
TOKYO —(UPI)— Red China today charged that U.S. planes bombed and sank six Chinese fishing boats in the Gulf of Tonkin in two separate attacks last week killing 17 crewmen and wounding 29 others.
Red China charges U.S. with attacks
"Such gangster attacks must stop at once." a statement by the Chinese defense ministry said. "Debts in blood must be repaid in blood."
In Washington a Defense Department spokesman said: "We have no comment on this Chinese propaganda."
the jobs of football coach and athletic director.
Lonborg's contract was extended one more year in a surprise move in order that the Board of Regents could examine the matter.
Some Pentagon sources speculated the Chinese charges were a reaction to recent U.S. successes in bombing and shelling of coastal shipping off the coast of North Viet Nam.
It was one of the strongest warnings against alleged U.S. "war provocation" the Communist nation has made in recent years.
In late February of 1964, Wescow announced that he had hired a man two years younger than Mitchell. The position was
JACK MITCHELL
Head football coach, 1957-1968
handed over to Stinson, an insurance man from Chicago and a former KU sports star in the late 40's. Stinson had no previous experience as an athletic administrator.
Those close to Mitchell say he was crushed at this development.
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Peace Corps test gets 45 takers
KU responded to a saturation program of seven returned Peace Corps volunteers yesterday, with more people signing up during the first day of Peace Corps Week than did during the whole corresponding week last year.
Five of the volunteers, now serving as Peace Corps recruiters, discussed their early success and its implications last night as they relaxed in their motel rooms.
THE 45 WHO signed up yesterday were not putting their life on the line exactly, as they were only agreeing to take the language aptitude test being given this week. To take the test, one was to fill out a Peace Corps application, but it in no way obligates the applicant.
"We've been tremendously impressed by this first show of enthusiasm for our program," Mike Riley, returned volunteer rom Venezuela, said. "We were swamped with people all day."
Nor does the test in any way cause a person's exclusion from the Corps. It merely estimates a person's potentialities for learning languages.
One who scored high on the test would be eligible for placement anywhere in the world. A medium score would probably all for a relatively easy language, such as Spanish. But even a language flunk-out has a future in the Peace Corps; for the group has several programs in English speaking areas, such as Jamaica
THE FIVE PEOPLE assembled last night were living proof that it takes all kinds to make a Peace Corps. Pat Roark, a returned volunteer from Brazil, had had two and a half years of college and a year spent as a telephone service representative before joining the Peace Corps. Her project was public health work in the poverty stricken town of Souza Paraiba, in northeastern Brazil.
An economies major who "crammed a four year program into five years" at the University of Nebraska, Ed Connerley, found a previous two and a half year stint as an engineering major qualifying him for road construction in Africa. Connerley, whose irregular college career included one semester at KU, "where I experienced cultural shock," now speaks fluent Swahili and plans to return to Tanzania in December for an additional year.
One of the two husband-and-wife teams at KU this week, Kay
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Coed warned of Leary
BOSTON —(UPI)— A federal judge has advised a coed convicted of sending the hallucinatory drug LSD through the mails to "disassociate" herself from LSD champion Timothy Leary.
"If I were you, I would disassociate myself from Dr. Eary's group and think for myself," the US. District Judge told Lisa Bieberman, of Cambridge, Mass., Monday.
Miss Bieberman, studying for a Master's Degree in Psychology at
Brandsis University in Waltham, was given a six-month suspended jail term and placed on probation for a year.
She had been convicted earlier during a jury-waived trial for shipping LSD to California and Kansas in violations of federal law.
Miss Bieberman was a follower of Dr. Timothy Leary, a former Harvard faculty member who now heads a New York-based religious cult dedicated to LSD.
UDK Photo by Emery Goad
STRONG LIGHTS BEAM CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
The main entrance to Strong Hall is wreathed in evergreen boughs and colored lights to guide the passers-by to the University's Christmas tree in the Rotunda. The tree is approximately 20 feet tall and rotates. The Christmas lights went on all over campus yesterday afternoon.