Ides of March may strike us
By JOHN MARSHALL
Today, the Ides of March, is the day for the destruction of KU. Thus snake the rumor, anyway.
A rumor has been circulating recently, attributed to Jeanne Dixon, noted predictor of many things, that a giant tornado would cut a diagonal swath through the KU campus from Allen Field House to the Kansas Union.
MISS DIXON AND a local newspaper today denied this statement. The paper and KCMO said the story was originated by a group of high school pranksters.
The Ides became famous, or infamous, back in 44 B.C., when Julie Baby scoffed the soothsayer and was stabbed for ignorance. The Ides correspond to the full moon. The Romans celebrated $a$ with the sacrifice of a white sheep to Jupiter.
THE IDES OF MARCH have brought new draft laws to a flock of 19-year-olds who await them with about as much enthusiasm as spring finals.
President Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy continue in a much publicized debate over U.S. Vietnam policy. Perry Raymond Russo (a witness for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison) has accused Clay L. Shaw as one of three who plotted to assassinate John F. Kennedy.
Last night, the headlines of many local papers were ominous. "... Cong Unleash Mortar Fire On U.S. Camps . . . Witness Claims Shaw One Of JFK Plotters . . . Magazine Says LBJ Castigated Kennedy . . ." and a Soviet "fishing" boat loomed three miles off the the shore of Guam waiting to fish while Johnson has his war conference.
BEWARE THE IDES of March. . .
At KU, students are wading through the middle of mid-term week. All enrolled in Psychology I are cramming for their departmental exam tonight at 7.
The Ides are upon the "Econ 10" students as they receive the results of their first big exam.
Meanwhile, the Red Guards get redder, the Vietnam jungles get hotter. Adam Clayton Powell announces he's coming back to New York, and the drought in Kansas gets drier.
Many soothsayers are saying many things today, about morals, about our declining youth, about the war in Vietnam, about the ASC, about poor sportsmanship, and about new Fraser.
But what do soothsayers know?
Battle lines drawn
Gas war rages
By NED VALENTINE
There has been a war going on for the last year and Lawrence is the battle ground.
Like Vietnam, no one knows exactly whose fault it is or why it is being fought. Everyone admits there is a reason but denies being a part of that reason.
Although no-one will make outright accusations, there seems to be a general feeling among dealers that one or two of the smaller cut-rate companies are responsible for holding the prices down in Lawrence.
A LONG-TERM gasoline war has made prices take a temporary dip in Lawrence, with regular gasoline costing from 22 to 24 cents a gallon.
"The gasoline situation doesn't bother me," said one major brand dealer. "Dealers are usually hit the hardest when the prices are back on the upgrade. People will not buy for a period of four or five days thinking the prices will drop again.
"When they start running low they purchase only two or three dollars worth at a time.
"MOST MAJOR BRAND companies will cover their dealers up to 70 per cent." he continued.
No one ever knows exactly what causes gas wars. They seem to crop up at any time for one of many reasons. There is no doubt that once a few prices drop, jittery dealers will also drop to stay in the running.
Grand openings, in which prices are cut, often start a price slashing trend. This is especially true if the new station holds its price
IN EFFORTS to get rid of "rotten gas," some dealers will cut prices. "Rotten gas" is gaso-
down for a period after the opening.
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77th Year, No.99
Dabbie Bryant. Overland Park junior and 1966 Miss America, is now engaged to Rod Wilson, Paola law student. Official announcement of the engagement will be made on Easter Miss Bryant said. No wedding plans have been announced.
Wednesday, March 15, 1967
FRASER IS SECOND TALLEST
A part of a series of drawings by Robert Green shows new Fraser Hall the second tallest structure on the campus.
Jayhawks rate section as best NCAA regional
It's probably the best NCAA regional this year, said KU basketball player Ron Franz last night. "It will be the best because of the talent, the size of the teams and their national ratings."
Debbie is engaged
Franz was referring to the three teams that will invade the Allen Fieldhouse this weekend for the NCAA Midwest Regionals. Three of the top ten basketball teams in the nation will be competing with KU for the national finals in Louisville March 24-25.
POWERFUL Louisville, ranked No. 2 and piloted by All-America Westley Unseld and District 5 choice Butch Beard, will meet Southern Methodist University in the 7:30 p.m. Friday game. Big Eight champs KU will face Houston in the second game. KU and
Houston, ranked No. 3 and 7 by the Associated Press, will fight for the Saturday night battle with the winner of the Louisville-SMU game.
"Houston is probably the biggest team in size of the tournament," said KU coach Ted Owens. Owens feels that the tournament is pretty evenly matched. He also said that the pressure on the team will be no greater than in some of the tough conference games.
Franz feels that playing in the tournament this year is a much greater honor than last year. He said, "last year, people expected us to go to the regionalia, but this year, people thought that we would be lucky to end up near the top of the Big Eight."
FRANZ SAID that this year's
team is sort of funny. Last year the team would get together before the game and try to psyche each other up for the game. This year, the boys are quiet before the game, more of trying to phyche the individual.
Coach Owens and Franz agreed upon one thing; Southern Methodist is underrated. KU beat SMU last year by only six points. The Mustang return four starters this year. Franz said that a lot of people are paying too much attention to the "big three" and thinks that SMU will surprise some of them.
Franz, however, says that the Jayhawks are confident and that they are not scared of any team. He added that having the home court is a great advantage.
Non-meal begins fast
The compassion fast will begin with a non-meal today in the Kansas Union Cottonwood Room. This will be the time when the fasters make a declaration of their intent by their presence.
According to Sara Paretsky, Eudora senior and chairman of the fast committee, 30 to 40 people will take part in the compassion fast. An official list of the fasters will not be given because the fast if for mental religious reasons.
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Downs to talk on disease
Development of a technique for rapid diagnosis of disease will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. Cora Downs, retired KU Summerfield professor emeritus of microbiology, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Dyche Auditorium.
In the sixth of this year's series of lectures sponsored by Sigma Xi, honorary society for scientists, Dr. Downs will discuss "The Development of the Fluorescent Anubody Method." The public is invited.
Heading a team of researchers at KU in 1957, Dr. Downs devised a technique by which certain pathogenic microorganisms can be identified in only a few hours instead of days. The method involves a special dye, patented by the university, which causes micro-organisms to fluoresce under ultraviolet light.
Although she retired from KU's faculty in 1963, she continued research subsidized by the U.S. Public Health Service into viral and rickettsial agents. Along with the then-associate professor David Paretsky, Dr. Downs succeeded in growing rickettsiae outside a living organism for the first time.
CORA DOWNS