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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 97
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Friday, March 11, 1966
Jayhawks chase NCAA title
—Photo by Earl Hachl
THE MONSTER—A giant crane, so large it needs to be placed on a track like a railroad car, can be seen east of Memorial Stadium. The crane was brought in by the Topea firm which is enlarging the stadium. In the background, the Kansas Union and Dyche Hall are dwarfed by the crane.
Start with SMU at Lubbock
By Ron Hanson
It's like starting all over again, only this time the stakes are higher.
With the Big Eight title tucked under its belt, KU begins its long-awaited pursuit of the national NCAA crown. The Jayhawks travel to Lubbock, Texas, tonight to meet Southern Methodist in the first round of the Midwest NCAA Regional.
THE LAST TIME the NCAA Midwest Regional was held in Texas was in 1957, the only other time it has been held there. That year the Jayhawks, with superstar Wilt Chamberlain, beat SMU by eight points in overtime and went on to the NCAA finals in Kansas City where they were defeated in the championship game by number one ranked North Carolina in three overtines.
KU-SMU will play in the second game of the regional doubleheader at 9 p.m. Texas Western, 23-1, and Cincinnati, 21-5, square off in the opener at 7 p.m. Three of the four teams participating in the tournament are nationally ranked: Texas Western is number three, KU is fourth, and Cincinnati is ninth, according to the Associated Press.
SOUTHERN METHODIST,
with the least respectable record
of any team in the tournament,
16-8, is the champion of the
Southwest Conference. The Mustangs gained the NCAA tourney berth on the merit of 10 straight wins in the last half of the season
BAND STAYS HOME
DESPITE ASC PLEA
Even after encouragement of an All Student Council resolution the KU band will still not go to Lubbock, Texas.
The resolution, which urged Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, to reconsider his decision and let the KU band accompany the Jayhawks to the NCAA Midwest Regional Basketball Tournament, was rejected Thursday.
"I was pleased with student interest in our band but it was not possible for the band to leave town at this time," Gorton said.
DICK DARVILLE, Shawnee Mission junior (Vox—large men's), who introduced the resolution at the ASC meeting Tuesday night, said, "It was really too bad the band could not support our team at Lubbock, but if we are successful I hope to see them at the national tournament.
Gorton said that it would be possible to send a pep band to the national tourney in Maryland. "We will have more time to plan ahead." he said.
Russell Wiley, director of the KU band, said he was very pleased with the interest of the students and the ASC. "Naturally we feel good knowing the support we have."
that enabled them to win their conference.
Much of SMU's success can be attributed to two players: Carroll Hooser, 6-7 center, and Chuck Beasley, 6-5 forward. These two players have averaged 20 and 19.2 points a game respectively this season.
According to E. O. (Doc) Hayes, SMU head coach, the Mustangs' starting line-up against KU will be: Beasley at center, Hooser and JIAYHAXWHA CHASE page 2
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AWS PROCEDURE
Bloc voting system is out
By Elizabeth Rhodes Delegation voting is out and individual delegate voting is in.
This was the decision Associated Women Students regulations convention members reached last night at their first delegates' meeting.
The delegates, meeting in the Forum Room, Kansas Union, voted on procedural rules for Saturday's convention in Hoch Auditorium. The convention will be open to all students and faculty. It will begin at 9 a.m.
The convention will decide standards of conduct for university women.
Bloc voting, an agreement by sorority or residence hall delegates to cast identical votes, is highly discouraged, she said. Delegates are urged to follow the opinions of their living groups when voting Saturday. "Please vote separately, and according to the wishes of your living group," she said.
FRIOR TO DISCUSSION on the rules, Cathy Beagle, Boulder, Colle., junior and chairman of the steering committee, outlined suggested policy for the delegates.
how many members of a fivewoman delegation must be present in order for the entire delegation to cast their vote.
Most delegates felt delegation voting would stifle minority opinion. Many living groups expressed split opinions on major convention issues such as closing hours and sign-out procedures
Miss Beagle also condemned two "popularly-held misconceptions." The first, which has caused
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THE SECOND misconception she stated as "we know we won't
wide-spread discussion among KU women, she labeled the "our voice will not be heard so why try" attitude. She reiterated the position of the dean of women's office: proposals accepted by the delegates have an extremely good chance of becoming university policy.
Major issues considered were individual delegate versus delegation voting, and a ruling on
get what we want, so let's aim for the sky, and see what we can get." Miss Beagle condemned this as an immature attitude, and one that should be completely alien to the convention. "We don't want this kind of atmosphere," she said.
Rules convention to open
The convention, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., will be open to all interested student and faculty. The delegates' actions will largely be based on the results of questionnaires, living group meetings, and a confidence vote received last Monday. Through these channels the delegates have sampled the views of all regulations-minded women in each living group. Married and off campus women were also contacted.
Tomorrow morning a select group of KU women will meet in Hoch Auditorium. They are the delegates to the triennial Associated Women Students regulations convention. The decisions of these 140 young women will directly affect every unmarried woman student beginning next fall.
MAJOR ISSUES will be closing hours, sign-out procedures, senior keys, the code of conduct, men's visiting hours in women's residence, and women's visiting hours in men's residences.
Closing hours regulations will be the first topic under debate Saturday. A tentative schedule has reserved 9 a.m. to noon for discussion of hours, senior keys, and late permissions.
If senior keys exist after completion of the ruling, and if the keys are judged a right instead of a privilege, then senior women
will have the opportunity to fill the void created, with another privilege.
THE NEXT topic, signout procedures, will also depend upon the outcome of the closing hours voting.
The remainder of the discussion topics will fill the afternoon session. Delegates voted Thursday to adjourn the meeting at 5:30 p.m., and decide upon place and time of another meeting if the business Saturday is left uncompleted.
59 more rescued at fallen post
Convention interest began last December when a questionnaire was circulated by AWS to all living groups asking their ideas about closing hours.
SAIGON — (UPI)— U.S. Marine search and rescue helicopters today rescued five Americans and 54 more Vietnamese tribesmen who had hidden from the Communist force that captured the A Shau Special Forces camp. Another 69 had been rescued before the camp was overrun yesterday.
The Americans saved today in the daring rescue from under the noses of the Communists were helicopter crewmen shot down during the battle and reported killed when their aircraft crashed inside Communist lines.
IT MEANT 128 OF THE approximately 380 defenders were saved.
The spokesman also disclosed it took two full regiments — more than 5,000 troops — to overrun the camp 375 miles northeast of Saigon on the Laotian border. The defenders were a handful of the elite U.S. "green beret" troops and several hundred Montagnard and Chinese Nung tribesmen — about 380 men in all.
At least four of the Americans, and possibly more, survived the assault. U.S. Marine helicopters, flying toward the muzzles of the North Vietnamese guns, evacuated 69 defenders before the camp was surrendered yesterday.
TWO OF THE HELICOPTERS were shot down and five of the eight Americans aboard killed in the rescue mission.
U. S. Navy and Air Force pilots flew only 11 missions over North Viet Nam yesterday because of poor weather, it was reported today. The planes hit highways and storage areas south of Vinh along the panhandle.
It was revealed that 255 combat air sorties were flown by American pilots trying to aid the A Shau Special Forces outpost.