DON'T ANYBODY MOVE—This Sigma Chi homecoming project requires a delicate sense of balance and an even distribution of weight . . . if the three-story Jayhawker is to be completed on time. (Photo by Jim Bennett)
Homecoming'64 Blends Old. New
By Suellen McKinley
Homecoming is a time of tradition and change with some of the old cast aside and replaced by the foundations of future tradition.
The 1964 homecoming celebration at KU is no exception. One departure from tradition this year is in the election of the three homecoming queen finalists.
Though the selection of a queen to reign over the festivities is a tradition that is nearly as old as the University, this year was the first time in 18 years that the queen and her attendants have been selected by popular vote of the student body.
THE THREE FINALISTS were selected from a group of six semi-finalists, who had been selected earlier by a panel of judges. The name of the queen will not be announced until half-time of the Kansas-Nebraska football game tomorrow.
The three finalists are: Catherine Bergstrom, Kansas City, Mo., senior, representing Pi Beta Phi; Donna Lee Miller, Wichita senior, representing Kappa Alpha Theta, and Susan Jane Nash, LaGrange, Ill., senior, representing Gamma Phi Beta.
RICHARD WINTERMOTE, executive secretary of the Alumni Association and general faculty co-chairman of the Homecoming activities, said today this was also a precedent-setting year, because it is the first time that students have had much to say about Homecoming.
"This is the first year that the students have held co-chairmanships of Homecoming committees," Wintermote said. "All changes made on Homecoming this year have been made by the students themselves."
Wintermote said the students decided not to have a former Homecoming queen assist in the half-time ceremony this year.
"They felt that they didn't want to have anything to detract from the queen herself," Wintermore said. "This is fine. I think they should be able to decide—it's their Homecoming."
OF THE CHANGES, one is a return to a tradition which originated in 1880 with the now world-famous "Rock Chalk" chant.
Originally, the chant ended by building up the speed gradually on the last three times "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU" was shouted.
Vince Bilotta, field secretary of the Alumni Association, said that no one knows how the cheer changed to the rapid tempo that has been heard at KU games for many years.
"IT'S JUST GOTTEN faster through the years," Bilotta said. "William O. Rice, vice-president of the Harris Trust and Savings Co., Chicago, called my attention to the cheer when he led it at an alumni meeting there last March.
Rice, a 1926 KU graduate, was a cheerleader here in the late 20's. He told Bilotta that the purpose of doing the cheer at a slower pace was so the words could be heard across the stadium.
This fall the cheerleaders made a proposal to the Pep Council to change the cheer back to the traditional way.
The committee approved the idea unanimously, and the chant, as changed, was presented for the student body at the first 1964 football game.
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62nd Year, No. 36
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Brezhnev Makes Appeal For Unity Conference
MOSCOW —(UPI)— Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev today called for a World Communist Unity Conference.
Friday, Nov. 6, 1964
Brezhnev, who succeeded the ousted Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, made his appeal in a speech marking the 47th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
THE BID FOR a unity conference was an obvious bid to Communist China to talk over the split that has divided Moscow and Peking for the past three years.
Among the 6,000 persons listening to him in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses was Red China's Premier Chou En-Lai, who sat on the speakers' platform.
Western observers said Brezhnev appeared to be trying to smooth over the Sino-Soviet conflict and at the same time renew Kremlin support for peaceful coexistence with the United States and its Western allies.
Brezhnev made his call for world Communist unity shortly after the Kremlin received greetings from Red China's Mao Tse-tung, President Liu Shao-Chi and Chou who said:
"THE CHINESE PEOPLE wholeheartedly hope that the Chinese and Russian parties, the two countries and their great peoples, will closely unite on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and the Proletarian internationalism of the revolutionary principles of the 1957 statement and the 1960 declaration, to oppose our common enemy and advance our common cause."
"The American elections recently showed a majority of Americans cherish peace and are tired of the cold war," Brezhnev said. "The death of the American ultras is a good lesson for all supporters of adventurism."
CHOU, WHO HAD listened to the 90-minute speech with no sign of emotion, apolauded briefly. He was impassive by Brezhnev appealed for world Communist unity and said a meeting of all Communist parties "is right."
Brezhnev also praised the victory of President Lyndon Johnson over Sen. Barry Goldwater in Tuesday's U.S. elections.
The tone was cordial but the content indicated Peking's stand was unchanged: Red China is maintaining its hard line against the West
Covers and permanent receipts for the 1965 Jayhawker will be issued at the information booth Monday and Tuesday, between 8:15 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Jayhawker subscriptions may still be purchased for $6.50 at the Jayhawker office in the Kansas Union. Subscriptions will not be sold at the booth.
Bob Burkhart, Kirkwood, Mo,
junior and Jayhawker business
manager, stressed that students will
not be able to pick up the cover
and receipt at the booth when the
first edition of the Jayhawker is
distributed. According to editor
Larry Bast, Topeka junior, the first
section of the yearbook will be
distributed between Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
Students who purchased their yearbooks during fee payment period will need their KU I.D. cards to obtain their covers. Those who made their payment late will need both their I.D. cards and temporary receipts.
Covers Issued For Yearbook
and wants Moscow to get in step.
and wants Moscow to get in step. An editorial in the Peking People's Daily, Communist China's leading newspaper, in fact, demanded today that the Soviet Union's new rulers renounce peaceful coexistence with the United States as a price for reconciliation with Red China. It indicated Chou could be expected to push a hard line in his Moscow talks with the Kremlin leaders.
In the audience were top-ranking delegations from 12 of the world's Communist-run countries, as well as high-level representatives of other of the World's Communist parties.
Brezhnev, wearing gold-rimmed eyeglasses and appearing at ease, spoke with the assurance once displayed by Khrushchev, the man he helped oust last month.
CHOU, HERE TO renew the top-level Sino-Soviet contacts broken off three years ago, joined in the applause as Brezhnev spoke. But his hand-clapping was shorter in length than almost anyone else present.
Student Government; A History of Change
Chou did not clap at all when Brezhnev talked of the "necessity" for a new Communist world conference.
Editor's Note: This is the first part in a three part series on student government at KU.
By Judy Farrell
Student government — like all governments — is often pictured as a disorganized tangle of politicians, negotiations, amendments and adjournments.
But behind student government at KU—the All Student Council—there is a structure, a history and a reason.
THE ASC itself is only 21 years old, but student government has existed throughout the University's history. Until 1943 only men students were represented through the Men's Student Council The Women Students Government Association handled women's participation in campus activities.
Only men had voting privileges. In addition to student council offices, students ran for Jayhawker editor, head cheerleader and managers of the Sophomore Hop and Junior Prom.
Women were given the vote in 1922—but only for the College representatives and Jayhawker editor. That same year the "Dollars and Cents" political party passed out Eskimo pies and peanuts instead of campaign literature.
WOMEN received more voting privileges in 1927 when they were allowed to vote for secretary and treasurer of MSC.
School spirit seemed in danger in 1926 when several members of the football team opposed each other in campus elections before an important football game. The coaching staff issued a statement saying no man could participate in athletics while running for or serving in a campus office.
Election results were tabulated on a blackboard in Green Hall, a contrast to today's computation by an IBM machine. Then, as now, students gathered to watch and to phone the results into their living group.
Political rivalry was high in the 1930's. There were three political parties on campus—the Progressives, the Pachacamac, and the Oread-Kayhawk, Control of MSC switched yearly between Pach and Oread-Kayhawk.
Campus contention centered around a Greek-Independent rivalry. Pach represented Greek houses, while the other two parties vied for Independent members.
Weather
The football field at Memorial Stadium could be a little wet tomorrow in KU's homecoming game against Nebraska. The weather bureau predicts light rain or drizzle here tonight.
PARTY DISPUTES became so inflammatory that a Pach leader attended an Oread-Kayhawk rally surrounded by 10 bodyguards.
Mud-slinging became eggthrowing in the 1934 elections. One party tossed eggs and painted the porches on houses supporting the opposition.
Rumors circulated the campus that one party would request Governor Alfred M. Landon for national guardsmen to patrol the campus and polling places.
And a campus policeman told reporters he would "watch for high-powered motor cars racing across the campus with politically corrupt politicians in them"—but he didn't expect to see any, he said.
WITHIN A YEAR party rivalry lessened and a new party, the Progressive Student Government league, appeared. Political power bounced between it and Pachacamae for years.
World War II brought about the most dramatic change in campus politics. In 1942 campus elections were suspended for two years. Each party, instead, appointed the MSC president for a one-year term. Armed Forces men training on campus were also given representation on the MSC.
Women, too, began taking an active role in politics. With many students overseas women sought and received political positions.
Lecturer to Give Talk On 'Self'
An inquiry into "The Self and its Mask" will be made Friday by a professor from Northwestern University.
Eliseo Vivas of the Northwestern department of philosophy will give a University lecture at 8 p.m. in Dyche Auditorium.
Born in Colombia of Venezuelan parents, Vivas has A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, where he also taught. He has held professorships at Chicago and Ohio State and visiting professorships at Columbia, Puerto Rico, National University of Mexico, Maryland, and North Carolina.
He has held the John Evans professorship of moral and intellectual philosophy at Northwestern.
Vivas has been a Guggenheim fellow, was the Mahlon Powell lecturer at Indiana University in 1952, and is now associate editor of "The Modern Age." He is the author of three books, the most recent being "D. H. Lawrence: the Failure and Triumph of Art."