—Photo Courtesy K-State Collegian
RIVALRY RETURNS — The work of evening artists greeted students at KSU yesterday morning. The familiar "KSU" on K-Hill, east of the Manhattan campus, had been changed during the night to "KU," through the use of black paint and lime.
RIVALRY RENEWED
'KS' turns to 'KU'
By Jack Harrington
By Jack Harrington Persons "beyond to be students from the University of Kansas" may have gained sweet revenge for the prank played by several K-State engineering students at the KU-K-State basketball game here last year, according to the Kansas State Collegian, the daily newspaper.
The large concrete letters "KS" on what is known as K-hill overlooking the Kaw River east of Manhattan now read "KU" after a daring commando raid Wednesday night.
THE "S" HAS been altered, with the help of black paint and white lime, to read unmistakably as "U." The top crossbars of the block letter were darkened with paint and the gaps at either corner connected with the lime.
The feat was apparently not in violation of any existing "peace pact" between the schools. The
Last year's game had to be interrupted while officials removed two electronically-triggered signs from the scoreboard in Allen Field House which read, "Kill Snob Hill."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 92
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, March 4, 1966
Storms rage across nation
Bv United Press International
One of the worst blizzards on record slammed across the northern Plains and upper Midwest today, isolating entire towns and trapping scores of travelers. Some persons were reported missing and concern mounted for their safety.
Power freight trains were all but buried under towering drifts of snow in the Dakotas. Hundreds of schools were closed and power failures hit many communities.
TORNADOES BATTERED sections of Mississippi and Alabama last night and early today, killing at least 57 persons and injuring more than 400 others. Rescue workers set up floodlights to search for additional victims through the night.
The series of Dixie twisters took the highest
tell of life since last year's Palm Sunday tornadoes carved a path of death and destruction from Illinois to Ohio, killing more than 270 persons.
High winds howled across northeastern Colorado, sending at least six automobiles and two semi-trailer trucks reeling off highways. No serious injuries were reported.
WINDS MORE THAN 60 MILES an hour rammed snow into mountainous drifts in the Dakotas.
Schools remained closed today through most of North Dakota and wide sections of South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana and Minnesota. Travelers were warned to stay off highways in those states.
Excitement grips company in Rock Chalk premiere
Bu Kathu Vaughan
"That's Entertainment," the 1966 Rock Chalk Revue could be relabeled "That's Camp." As usual, the annual event was composed of a mixture of satire with barbs at different aspects of life at KU.
Backstage last night there was a strong smell of theater makeup and rustling of skirts as the InBetween Acts group waited to "warm up" the first night audience of about 1,500.
Their job is to build an excitement and momentum that will hopefully be continued by the members of the four skits. One dancer, as tense as anyone participating in Rock Chalk asked after the first number, "Did we get applause? I forgot to listen."
SKIT MEMBERS arrived shortly prior to their performance because of the lack of space and confusion. Waiting to go on stage in the first skit were Chi Omegas.
They whispered their songs being sung on stage while waiting in the wings. After nearly 100 hours of rehearsing, many students in Rock Chalk knew the words to the songs sung by their preceding act.
The spark of excitement and practiced dancing backstage was the needed touch for the Chi Omega-Alpha Kappa Lambda skit "What TNE Means to Me, or AWS I Love You Best." The keyed-up pace typical of the roaring twenties remained through the skit as the evil TNE boys battled with the virtue of AWS. Also barbed in the satire were Miss America, the funeral business, Shakespeare, old Fraser, and campus institutions.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA members cheered silently backstage as their partners, the Sigma Chis, received their first laughs, to be followed by many more.
Then it was everyone against the walls as the coach carrying Mamma Mohammod, came rushing backstage on the shoulders of four large bare-bellied Sigma Chis. Big Mamma had the concession on desert girls madly desired by the French Foreign Legionnaires. The men turn to the camp junior executive officer, Lt. Archibald Lunch for help, deriving the title for the skit—"Lunch."
In organized confusion backstage, students were assembling a large tent to be carried onstage. The front half of a camel was instructing a Kappa on the arrangement of the burlap humps to go on his head.
Props backstage were mounting in increasing size as new props were brought in by members of upcoming skits and used props were removed. During in-
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last such agreement was a resolution adopted by the All Student Council (ASC) the week before the 1964 football game.
BEFORE 1964, a formal pact was signed every year between student leaders and deans of the schools, and was violated almost as frequently. It was first signed in 1931 and revised in 1947.
Pranks in past years were much more destructive. In 1950, K-State students tore down the north goal post in Memorial Stadium, while KU students destroyed one goal post and partially dismantled the other at the football field in Manhattan. Both raids occurred during the week before that year's football game.
Records indicate numerous other peace pacts and violations of these, such as statue paintings, mascot kidnappings, and "KU" shaved neatly on the hide of a prize Black Angus bull at K-State just before the American Royal Livestock Show.
There is no evidence that a pact was signed during the 1965-66 school year. The school's basketball teams will meet in Ahearn Field House in Manhattan Saturday night.
Unanimous vote for Walt Wesley
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — High-scoring Walt Wesley, the big man of the Kaw River campus and its fifth-ranked Kansas University Jayhawks, was the lone unanimous choice for the second straight year to the All-Big Eight basketball team announced today by United Press International.
The 6-foot-11 Kansas pivot was also a narrow selection for the second straight time as Big Eight Player of the Year, edging Nebraska's sparkplug guard, Grant Simmons.
Simmons joined Wesley on the first team, which also included Colorado's sturdy Chuck Gardner, Kansas guard Delvy Lewis and Iowa State's high jumping
WEATHER
Strong winds and partly cloudy skies with snow squalls are predicted by the U.S. Weather Bureau today. Generally fair Saturday. Low tonight will be near 15.
sophomore Don Smith. All are seniors except Smith.
WESLEY polled a possible 50 of 50 points, followed in the voting by Smith, 44; Simmons, 43, and Gardner and Lewis, 36 each. The balloting was conducted by conference sportswriters and broadcasters.
Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano, who guided the cinderella Cornhuskers from an obscure seventh place finish a year ago to their first winning team in 16 years and the thick of the pennant race, was voted Coach of the Year over Kansas mentor Ted Owens.
Smith topped Oklahoma Center Don Sidle and 7-foot-1 Nick Pino of Kansas State for Sophomore of the Year honors.
Wesley, named to UPI's second All-America team Thursday and third leading scorer in KU history, is currently engaged in a shooting dual with Missouri's fine shooting guard Ron Coleman for the individual crown. He won it last year with a 26.9 average.
—Photo by Stephen Everley
MAN AND MASCARA — Applying make-up is one of the final jobs before the curtain goes up for the annual Rock Chalk Revue. The stage lights for Rock Chalk go on again at 8 p.m. today and Saturday.