Emphasis on the unusual
AURH's Spring Fling will throw tradition;
events include Kingsmen, volleyball, 'bod' race
By Cheryl Hentsch
Next week the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) flings aside tradition and the usual with the third annual Spring Fling.
Thayne Coulter, Clyde sophmore and Spring Fling committee chairman, said the week's events accent the unusual. Activities are planned with the idea that "if it hasn't been done before, let's do it."
MEN AND WOMEN residence and scholarship halls are paired for a week of activities. This year, freshman women participate in Spring Fling for the first time.
Paired living groups plan hour dances, exchange dinners, volleyball games, and "whacky" parties. One Joseph R. Pearson floor gives its men partygoers a locked pair of handcuffs and the women the keys. Couples try to match the sets.
The Spring Fling committee began work the third week of school. They imported ideas from other schools for different types of parties. Through a communication network of Spring Fling representatives in every hall, the committee organized living groups and stirred student interest.
THE MAIN SPRING FLING events occur on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Kingsmen swing into the three days at 8 o.p. Friday for a dance in the Alley Room. Coulter invites students to come and see the "new" Alley
Room freshly redecorated for the occasion.
Saturday's events begin with a gymkhana at 8:30 a.m. in Lewis Hall parking lot. "Anything with four wheels and a man on top." Coulter said, can register Saturday in the parking lot for the car races.
This year Munzer received the Paul B. Lawson Award as the highest-ranking senior.
"ENTRIES NEED NOT be race track material—Volkswagens won the last two years." Coulter said.
Open to men and women, the races emphasize ability to maneuver a car on a small race-car track. Any one can enter. Winners receive trophies and dashboard plaques.
the last two years, Coulier said.
Scheduled coed volleyball competition also starts at 8:30 a.m.
Saturday in Allen Field House.
Paired living groups participate in a single elimination tournament to choose the winning team.
Stephen Munzer, a Salina senior, recently received a Danforth Graduate Fellowship, his third national graduate scholarship. Other scholarships received this year by Munzer are the Rhodes Scholarship and Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
Senior wins Danforth as third grant
Munzer is the fourth KU student claiming this distinction. Breon Mitchell, Salina; Fred Morrison, Colby; and Ray Nichols, Jr., Lawrence, won the honor of holding three graduate scholarships in 1964, 1961, and 1960 respectively.
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A picnic lunch at Potter Lake begins at noon with box lunches and music. Students sign for the picnic at residence halls or at the picnic.
AN AFTERNOON of races and special events begins after lunch. Participating groups accumulate points in competition for trophies. Events will be held in Allen Field House in case of bad weather.
Girls riding human chairs formed by four men compete in team competition for the "Bod Race" at 1 p.m. Students tow raw eggs in the 1:30 p.m. amateur "Egg-tossing" championships. A marathon coed pie-eating contest follows at 2 p.m.
At 2:30 p.m. a Special Events committee announces their surprise competition games. Detailed information remains carefully guarded, but Coulter revealed that paired living groups will race
over a course carrying a bed with a girl on top. This event is known as the "Bed Race."
TANDEM BICYCLES career around Memorial Drive at 3 p.m. to conclude Saturday afternoon competition.
A 12:30 p.m. Sunday invitational banquet in Templin Hall recognizes the efforts of Spring Fling workers and AURH members. Invited guests include the Kansas Board of Regents and administrative officials who worked with the Spring Fling plans. Kansas Congressman Robert Ellsworth will give the main address.
Students relax around a bonfire for folksinging at a "woodsytype" party at 7 p.m. Saturday. Maps directing students to the site will be placed in residence halls.
THE SPRING SING at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom ends the week's activities on a musical note. Sponsored by the Inter-Residence Association, the Spring Sing awards trophies to winning musical ensembles.
The Spring Fling traveling trophies will also be presented to the two men's and women's living groups which accumulated the most points during Spring Fling competition.
Coulter noted that the Spring Fling activities are planned to create a pride among large hall and scholarship hall residents for their living groups. "The Spring Fling, through social activities and competition, tries to get students within the residence halls and freshman dormitories to know each other better. Of course, fun is one of our main goals, too."
SUA Presents
Sat., March 19 at Hoch Auditorium
Tickets on Sale at Kansas Union, Information Booth. Tickets will be sold at the door. $1.50,$1.75,$2
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THEATRE REPERTORY WEEK
March 18,19... "The Bedbug" by Mayakevsky
Performance at 8:20 p.m., Murphy Hall
KU students admitted free to $1.20 seats with Certificate of Registration at the Murphy Hall Box Office
Yarbrough here for Hoch concert
Glenn Yarbrough, former Limelighter, will be the main performer at the annual Spring Concert sponsored by Student Union Activities (SUA) at 8 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
Tickets for the concert are still available at all prices and they will be sold at the door, said Bill Brooner, Summit, N.J., sophomore and SUA ticket chairman.
DON SHERMAN, who regularly appeared on the Steve Allen Show, will replace Biff Rose as comedian of the event. Rose, who was originally scheduled to appear with Yarbrough, had a television commitment. The Stanyan Street Quartet also will perform.
Yarbrough has been performing alone since he left the Limelighters, a folksinging group, in 1963. He was the principal soloist when he left the group. He is presently making a cross-country college tour.
At one time he studied classical Greek and pre-Socratic philosophy and planned to teach philosophy. He gave this up to sing professionally in Chicago. He continued as a single until he met the other Limelighters, Lou Gottlieb and Alex Hassilev, in Los Angeles.
It had been planned where Greek Week trophies would be presented during the concert. Because the two events are not
associated the trophies will not be awarded at this time, said Brooner.
Bill Frick, Fort Scott senior and president of SUA, today said the announcement of trophy awards at the concert Saturday was made prematurely by the Greek Week organization, before SUA directors had met to make a decision.
"When the request was made," Frick said, "they were told this would be an SUA board decision. The board met Wednesday night and decided the concert would be a nice transition point between Greek Week and Spring Fling.
"But we thought it would be unfair to favor Greek Week in this way, when we couldn't do something comparable for Spring Fling. We felt there was no way we could be impartial."
Royal honeymoon on remote island
MERIDA, MEXICO —(UPI)— Honeymooning Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and her husband Prince Claus van Amsberg arrived Thursday on the remote Caribbean island of Cozumel.
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