Monday, April 19, 1965 University Daily Kansan
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Phi Psi Fraternity Sponsors Own Relays
With whipped cream dripping from their faces, 90 coeds battled mud, sun, raw eggs, and squeaky tricycles for prizes in Saturday's Ph Psi "500."
Alpha Delta Gamma's team, led by Sharon Taylor, Shawnee Mission sophomore, won the event, initiated by Phi Kappa Psi this year. Runners-up were Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Delta Delta, and Alpha Phi.
A crowd of about 300 students watched the representatives of five women's halls and 13 sororities, clad in sweatshirts and cut-offs, race through a difficult course in relay style.
PEDDLING TRICYCLES DOWN the slopes in N-Zone, just north of Allen Field House, the contestants came to a grinding halt at the first obstacle of the race: pie pans filled with whipped cream. In the midst of the whipped cream were ping-pong balls which the contestants had to pick up in their teeth, then give to a Phi Psi assistant.
The trip uphill was no easier. Beyond a mattress barrier, which the contestants had to push their tricycles over, lay perhaps the most dreaded obstacle of all: the raw egg curtain.
Down the hill waited the mud-pit, another terror of the course. The contestants discovered that an arrangement of barrels was the next obstacle. A few girls forgot the pattern, and had to race back to re-do it.
A line of raw eggs suspended by strings from a wooden frame, helpfully swung by Phi Psis as the contestants drove full speed through the curtain.
Pope Talks Peace
VATICAN CITY —(UPI)— In an Easter message Pope Paul VI Sunday urged that "every war and guerrilla operation give way to constructive collaboration," obviously referring to negotiations to end fighting in Viet Nam.
He told 150,000 persons in St. Peter's Square that such talks for peace could become "a new start in the history of man."
"May the day come on which the discords among peoples will be resolved . . . in the light of reasonable negotiation," he said.
ONE GIRL, eggs streaming down her face, tossed back her head, threw her glasses to the sidelines, and bravely pushed on.
As the contestants switched partners, the course was repeated. At one point, the contestants had to pick
up their tricycles and leap over a plank and a sand pit.
The sunburned crowd of students in cut-offs, bermudas and shorts laughed and cheered their favorites Some had practiced, or perhaps retained some talent from childhood as they skillfully glided through the
obstacles, while others were not so adept.
THE FOUR TEAMS which were finalists in the contest received trophies, while the participating teams who were not winners received record albums of "The Songs of Phi Kappa Psi."
Members of the winning team were: Marilyn Folkert, Kirkwood, Mo., freshman; Janet Bradley, Topeka freshman; June Barnes, Shawnee Mission freshman; Jeanne Purcell, Wichita freshman; and Jeanne Spiller, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore.
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CAMPUS CHEST DRIVE
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