KU
76th Year, No.121
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Details on Page 3
Monday, April 25, 1966
Ryun soars over cinders
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
JIM RYUN STRETCHING FOR THE FINISH LINE The Wichita Wonder cracked Wes Santee's Relays mark in the Glenn Cunningham mile with a 3:55.8, the world's fastest mile of the year.
AWS PROTEST
Petitions policy given
By Elizabeth Rhodes Controversy surrounding the Associated Women Students (AWS) Senate's alleged secret handling of women's regulations prompted two protest petitions and an AWS presidential statement concerning Senate policy this weekend.
The petitions, one directed to AWS regulations convention delegates, the other to residents of women's living groups, were sponsored by approximately 20 women, including Jacke Thayer, Ellsworth junior and spokesman for the group. According to Miss Thayer, both petitions will be released this evening. A time has not been set.
THE LIVING GROUP petition terms "the present position of secrecy in the AWS Senate deplorable and deeply distressing," AWS President Ann Peterson, Shawnee Mission senior, disputed the secrecy charge in a prepared statement to the Daily Kansan. She said, "To clarify: Senate does not have 'secret meetings, nor are pledges to secrecy (by Senate members) made."
GI bill aid forms available now
Applications for the cold war GI bill which provides support for veterans attending college are now available at the Veterans' Office, 134 Strong.
Financial aid under the bill will begin in June.
All veterans who have served more than 180 days since Jan.31, 1955, are eligible. Support ranges from $100 to $150 monthly.
"Certainly students are concerned with regulations and rightly have voiced their opinions. As represented by the recommendations of the Regulations Convention, all women's opinions have been respected and carefully considered by the Senate in making its decisions.
Miss Peterson's statement reads, "Misconceptions of AWS Senate and misquoting of Senate members have led to a grave misunderstanding of the Senate's procedure in dealing with regulations.
"TOMORROW THE SENATE will announce publicly its proposals to the Council on Student Affairs (COSA) after presentation in the afternoon. In order to insure a fresh, open-minded consideration of the proposals by Council members, the Senate decided not to publish the proposals in the newspaper previously."
The petition circulated to women's living groups said "secret executive sessions of the AWS Senate are not the proper prerogative of that body. A body making decisions for all women on campus should make these decisions public.
"If the AWS Senate really wanted to represent the interests and feelings of KU women, they would affirm the decisions made at the AWS Rules and Regulations convention. We feel that the AWS Senate should uphold the decisions reached by the more representative body—the AWS Rules and Regulations convention," the petition said.
Both petitions received "pretty fair response," Miss Thayer said
cinders Covers mile track in record time
By Steve Russell
Jim Ryun's 3:55.8 time in the Glenn Cunningham Invitational Mile during the 41st Kansas Relays was one of the greatest high-points for one man's total performance in a single meet.
The young Kansan from Wichita stuck to the heels of teammate Tom Yergovich, Kansas City junior, who was entered in the race as a pacer, through the first two quarters before streaking ahead on his own. From then on it was purely a race between Ryun and the clock.
HE BLITZED THROUGH those last two quarters with times of 62 seconds and 55.1 seconds, which when added to his first two splits of 57.6 and 61.1, gave him the record for the Kansas Relays and the fastest mile to be run this year in the world.
In true trooper fashion, he came back three hours later with an encore performance that had the crowd on its feet screaming for him again.
Anchoring the Kansas team in the Freshman-Junior college mile relay, Ryun grabbed the baton from Dick Bornkessel, Shawnee Mission, and overcame a 15 yard deficit and moved from third position to first to win the event with a 47 second quarter.
HE PROVED MORE than his great ability as a runner in that race, he showed everyone there his great spirit of determination and competition. He left everyone amazed at what he had accomplished in one day's performance.
But Ryun's part in KU's centennial year episode of the Relays was not a one day act. The curtain rose on the star last Thursday afternoon when he anchored the Kansas freshmen to national freshman and Relay's records in the Frosh-Juco distance medley.
Former J-school dean assumes religious post
Burton W. Marvin, former dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism, will become associate general secretary for communications of the National Council of Churches with headquarters in New York. He was to resume teaching at KU this fall after a year's leave to organize a department of journalism education at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Warren K. Agee, now journalism dean at KU, said he would begin a search immediately to find a replacement of senior professional caliber.
MARVIN'S NEW POSITION, will become effective May 23.
BURTON W. MARVIN
Parade views KU's century
Small, wide-eyed children lining Massachusetts Street and slate-grey skies overhead framed the scene of the KU Relays parade Saturday morning.
Bands, floats, beauty queens and would-be beauty queens, horses, motorcycles, ancient cars, mock covered wagons, boats on trailers, and a firetruck formed the parade that filed through downtown Lawrence at 9:30 a.m.
Four Jayhawks running down a track, and representing a hundred years of athletics at KU, won first prize in float competition for Sigma Kappa and Phi Kappa Sigma. The first Jayhawk, a trackman, had movable wings and a loud hoarse squawk that delighted the crowd. The legend read "Run of a Century."
SECOND PLACE went to Alpha Chi Omega and Lambda Chi Alpha for "Victorian Century," which showed a gold-painted papier-mache model of the centenial medallion resting on Memorial Stadium. On the track were runners from 1866 to 1966, exchanging a baton, and a scroll inscribed with names of famous KU trackmen.
Delta Delta Delta and Joseph R. Pearson won third place with "Victory Through the Years." The float carried two turntables with three men on each, representing football, basketball, and track. One turntable was 1866, and the other 1966. The float was ringed by small replicas of the Big Eight mascots.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe led off the parade which also featured the Relays queen and her
attendants, the Engineering Exposition queen, and candidates for the 1966 Miss Lawrence crown.
CHILDREN WERE everywhere, sitting on the curb or on the trunks of the cars that lined the street, laughing and shouting or just staring. Some munched the candy that the Pi Kappa Alphas tossed from their firetruck.
After the parade a harried merchant stood near the door of his variety store, hands jammed in pockets, and watched the streams of children rushing up and down the aisles, money in clenched fists, looking for something to buy. His comment, barely heard in the uproar: "I'm certainly glad parades aren't a regular thing around here. It's just too much for me."