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77th Year, No.36
Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts clear to partly cloudy skies tonight with mild temperatures 70 to 75 degrees through tomorrow. Southwesterly winds 15 to 25 hiles per hour.
Monday, November 7, 1966
Record number for Homecoming
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ROSES AND SMILES
Pi Phi is crowned queen
—Photo by Tim Switzer
Homecoming queen, Cindy Dickson, wore a crown and a smile. Attendants Jacki Settles (left) and Connie Myers smiled too. Gov. William Avery, class of '38, almost did.
Cynthia Dickson, Leavenworth senior who represented Pi Beta Phi, was crowned 1966 Homecoming queen during half-time of the KU-Nebraska game Saturday.
Her attendants were Connie Myers, Gamma Phi Beta senior from Chanute, and Jackie Settles, Lewis Hall junior from Garden City.
THE SWEEPSTAKES winner was a mechanized "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show," sporting nine figures in four tableau scenes.
McCollum Hall and Joseph R. Pearson were the second and third place winners in the men's halls division.
Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall walked off with its third consecutive win in the men's hall division of the homecoming decorations competition. The hall also received the sweepstakes award for the highest over-all accumulation of points.
"Head 'em off at the Pass" was the entry that gave Douthart Scholarship Hall a victory in the women's hall division. Miller Scholarship Hall and Lewis were the other winners in this contest.
Chi Omega won the sorority division with its "Battle of the Little Big Horn" or "Massacorn the Cob." Second and third place winners were Sigma Kappa and Kappa Alpha Theta.
The fraternity trophy went to Phi Kappa Sigma for its "Box Their Ears" presentation. Phi Kappa Theta and Alpha Tau Omega won the other awards:
Announcement of homecoming house decoration winners was made before the game Saturday, and trophies were presented Saturday night at the Al Hirt concert.
Spirit penetrates rain
By BETSY WRIGHT
Rain had little success in dampening the 156K KU homecoming festivities over the weekend.
In spite of the rain, which seems to be a part of every KU homecoming, 35 campus living groups produced colorful house decorations. Sightseeing visitors created the usual blocks-long traffic jams and 45,500 football fans set an attendance record at Memorial Stadium.
The fun, if not the work, began Friday night as residence halls, fraternities and sororities pulled protective plastic bags over their multi-colored creations. The unstable weather headaches, which have caused some living groups to forego elaborate decorations in recent years, had hit again.
CREPE PAPER COLORS became mingled, some decorations had unplanned droops and others suffered from mechanical difficulties. But the decorations, through heroic efforts of their creators, greeted visitors and judges in fairly good form.
Saturday morning brought a continuation of Friday's traffic jams as thousands of motorists converged upon Lawrence.
Visitorst attended a general Kansas Union reception, receptions by individual schools and
took sightseeing tours. Living groups turned on their best "Emily Post manners" as parents and alumni returned to share the day.
By 1:15 p.m. a record number of football fans had filled Memorial Stadium. Erratic weather had not kept them back, for they came with heavy coats and blankets.
A GROUP conspicuous in its bravery was the over 9,000 Nebraska enthusiasts. True to their "Go Big Red" theme, the Nebraska fans shivered in red sweaters, red blazers, red hats, red scarfs and red shirts.
White backlash is prime element in political races
By RUTH ROHRER
Earl A. Nehring, associate professor; Herman J. Lujan, assistant professor; and John G. Grumm, professor; have been active in politics on the local, state, and national level.
Three KU political science professors predicted the effect of the white backlash element on tomorrow's elections in some of the top races of the country.
Grumm, a former Californian and member of Gov. Pat Brown's staff in 1964-65, said the backlash will be a factor in Brown's losing in his race for governor to Ronald Reagan.
HE ATTRIBUTES the backlash feeling in California to the untimely riots in Oakland, San
Nehring, a 1961 special assistant to William Miller, the Republican national chairman, predicted that Reagan will win mainly because of his extremely effective sales campaign begun last year.
"BROWN HAS always been a come-from-behinder," Nehring said, "but people are getting tired of him. Because of the white backlash sentiment and the race riots, they are looking for a new personality.
"Brown supports fair housing and Reagan wants it abolished," Grumm said. "This appeals to the white racist sentiment."
Francisco and the memory of the Watts riots last year in Los Angeles.
"The true interpretation of the
concept of white backlash is that the whites are uneasy. They think the Negroes are pushing too fast." Nehring said. "There is a white backlash reaction in Massachusetts even though there is practically no Negro population there and they have never been involved in civil rights problems."
In Massachusetts' senatorial race, Edward Brooke (R), the first Negro to run for the U.S. Senate on a major ticket, is pitted against former Gov. Endicott Peabody, a liberal Democrat.
NEHRING PREDICTED that Brooke will win by a very narrow margin. "A few months ago, Brooke seemed to be a shoin- but because of the backlash ele-
As Homecoming queen finalists were presented and house decorations winners announced prior to the game, the prevalent mood in KU sections of the stadium was one of fairly nonchalant fatalism. Among the cherry-colored boosters of Nebraska, sixth-ranked team in the nation, gay self-assurance permeated the air.
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Avery served as coronator of the 1936 Homecoming queen, Miss Cynthia Dickson, Leavenworth senior, while Wescoe presented the queen and her attendants with bouquets.
At half-time, the three Homecoming queen finalists were driven onto the field in convertibles, followed by Gov. William Avery and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe in a 1931 Model-T Ford.
ABOUT MIDWAY through half-time, a break came for both the uncoated Nebraska fans and other football spectators as the sun came out and its warmth filled the stadium.
Following the game, and its not-quite-so-b-a-d-a-s-predicted 24-13 defeat for KU, many guests filled the Kansas Union Lounges for a
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Chutists invade Oread
KU dropped a ball game, but something else was dropped Saturday in or near Memorial Stadium.
By the fourth quarter, the traditional homecoming banner, "Welcome TNE Alums" still had not appeared. Airplanes had promoted political candidates and local businesses, but still no TNE banners were seen.
With less than half of the quarter remaining, a yellow airplane appeared in the skies, but without a banner.
AFTER QUIETLY circling the field several times, it dropped one man into the wooded area around Potter Lake. On the way down the parachutist tried to unfurl a banner, which supposedly read "Welcome TNE Alums."
With one more trip around the stadium, a second parachutist dropped. There was a cloth "X" laid out on the ground, which until then had been almost unnoticed.
As he descended gracefully from the sky, it was obvious that he and his red and blue parachute would come close to the mark.
When he landed on Campanile hill, just up from the stadium, he was converged upon by many people as well as local law enforcement officers.
IT WAS learned that both chutists were from the Kansas City Flying Club and had been hired to jump sometime during the game. They did not know exactly who hired them.
E. P. Moomau, chief of the KU Traffic and Security office, said that no charges would be pressed against the two. There is no local ordinance against jumping in the city limits of Lawrence.
He said that the case would be turned over to the Federal Aviation Agency in Kansas City. Any such jump should be scheduled with that office within six hours of the slated time.
Nebraska fans like red dress
One of the Homecoming attendants managed to win favor with Nebraska fans Saturday. Since she wore a bright red suit, every time her car passed in front of the Cornhuskers, a cry of "Go, Big Red," boomed out from the stands.