Bari Robinson joins pom-pon squad
A Negro coed performed her first duty Tuesday night as a KU pom-pon girl—she smiled for more than an hour for publicity pictures.
Bari Robinson, Kansas City Mo., junior, was selected in closed tryouts before ten judges, one of them being Negro.
The judges were Vince Bilotta, adviser to the pom-pon girls; Wade Stinson, director of athletics; Curtis McClinton, Negro fullback of the Kansas City Chiefs; Fred McEhlenie, assistant dean of men; Melinda Cole, assistant to the dean of women; Mrs. Judy McClaim, wife of an assistant football coach; Mrs. Mimi Frink Wycliff, the first head pompon girl and former Miss Kansas; Jennifer Nilsson, Chicago Heights, Ill, senior and president of Jay Janes; Jim Davis, Kansas City junior and head yell leader for 1968-69; Dee Dee Davis, Shawnee Mission senior and head pom-pon girl; and Fred Krebs, Shawnee Mission senior and chairman of the traditions committee of the All Student Council.
The special tryouts came as a result of a demand made by a group of discontented Negro students who charged discrimination in the original tryouts. Three Negro coeds competed in the first tryouts last month. Miss Robinson was not among them, Vince Bilotta, group adviser, said.
Miss Robinson was among nine Negro women who competed in the special tryouts for a position on the pom-pon squad.
In answer to the demand made by the group of Negroes, the Human Relations committee offered to hold try outs for a Negro for an alternate position on the squad. Then, one of the regular pom-pon girls—Sandee Gllem,
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Shawnee Mission junior—resigned to marry in September. The alternates agreed not to compete for the opening on the squad, leaving it for Miss Robinson.
Miss Robinson is joined on the squad by Shirley Gossett. Overland Park junior and head pompon girl: Karen Larson, Kansas City junior; Janet Merrick, Prairie Village sophomore; Lorlyn Seelbinder, Tonganoxie freshman; Linda Tate, Mission sophomore; and Mary Williams, Kansas City freshman.
The pom-pon girl who resigned her position last Friday to get married in September possibly gave up being head pom-pon girl.
Sandee Glenn leaves squad for marriage
Sandee Glenn, Shawnee Mission junior, would have served her second year on the squad, if she had not decided a week ago to resign in favor of marrying. The women who were returning for their second year on the squad were eligible for the head pom-pon position. Each—Shirley Gossett, Overland Park junior, Janet Merrick, Prairie Village sophomore, and Miss Glenn—were to lead a practice session. Then the pom-pon girls were to vote for the one of the three who would be the head pom-pon girl. Miss Glenn resigned before her turn to direct a practice session came
came. The election for the leader was Monday night. Miss Gossett won.
Miss Glenn will marry John Bork, Sept. 7. Bork, 1967 graduate of KU, is serving in the Army as a chaplain's assistant in California.
After becoming engaged in December, Miss Glenn and Bork planned to wait two years before marrying, she said. But, when Bork returned a week and a half ago on a ten-day leave, they decided to go ahead and get married.
Miss Glenn will work in California while Bork serves the remainder of his military obligation, then both will return to KU—he, to work for a master's degree in journalism and she, to finish her education.
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78th Year, No. 134
Republicans
Nixon 123,794—70 pct
Reagan 38,340—22 pct
Stassen 2,241—1 pct
Liberator 1,161—1 pct
Rockefeller 9,611—5 pct
Wallace 587—0 pct
In addition to bidding for writ-ins, Alabama's George C. Wallace had a compartment on the ballot all his own labeled the American Independent party. On that one he got 463 votes.
Republicans
DEHOCERATS
Johnson 8,23–6 pct
McCarthy 45,283 –31 pct
Kennedy 75,025 –51 pct
Humphrey 12,381 –12 pct
Wallace 1,393 –1 pct
Nixon 1,994 –1 pct
Others 1,884 –1 pct
Kennedy finally got a clear victory here Tuesday, stretching his margin over the Minnesota to 23 per cent against his 15 per cent in Indiana. A week ago Tuesday, a Kennedy slate also won over Vice
Democrats
The vote with 92 per cent of the 2,133 precincts counted on both the Democratic and Republican tickets was:
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, May 15, 1968
On the Republican side, Richard M. Nixon scored his fourth primary victory with ease, piling up a vote of 70 per cent.
Kennedy, Nixon win in Nebraska primary
The New York senator's presidential chances were boosted by an impressive victory over the Minnesota senator in this cornhusker state, winning more than 50 per cent of the vote. It was Kennedy's third straight primary win in a week—the Indiana and District of Columbia scalps were hung on his belt last week.
OMAHA, Neb. — (UPI)— Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, a victor over
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy for the
second time with a majority vote
in Tuesday's Nebraska primary,
was in a position today to start a
primary bandwagon. His prime
target is California.
President Hubert Humphrey's slate in Washington, D.C.
Kennedy and McCarthy move on to the Oregon primary May 28 and the California and South Dakota presidential tests a week later on June 4.
California will be the big one with a whopping 174 votes at the Democratic National Convention on the line. Kennedy's campaign manager, and brother-in-law, Stephen Smith, is in California preparing for that test.
A top Kennedy adviser labels the California test "D-day"—the day he hopes to "wrap up a package in blue ribbon" to be presented to the Democratic power brokers throughout the nation.
As the Nebraska votes poured in, Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's press secretary, claimed McCarthy was no longer a "credible candidate" after Nebraska. However, in the Kennedy camp, there was no inclination to coast into either California or Oregon. Kennedy turns his vote-wooing to Los Angeles today after a quick trip for a Detroit rally.
Kennedy's campaign team expects that after the California primary the race will narrow to him and Humphrey. He issued an implied invitation for McCarthy to join forces with him against the vice president.
McCarthy immediately rejected such an idea, "We are going on." he told his volunteer workers at a post-election rally in Lincoln. "We are going on to Oregon and California."
There was weariness but no sign of gloom at the McCarthy headquarters. His workers cheered as McCarthy expressed determination to continue the fight.
McCarthy beliltled the Kennedy Nebraska victory. "In the history of our country," he said, "it has been relatively easy to get to the
Missouri River. Those who went beyond were really tested and we are going on."
McCarthy's bags were packed to take him to Rapid City, S.D.
California Gov. Ronald Reagan polled a respectable 22 or so percent in the Nebraska test and expressed himself as surprised. In Honolulu for a conference of Western Republican governors, Reagan said what he had said before—that he would accept a draft—but refused to say whether the returns encouraged him to seek the Republican nomination actively.
Blue Cross price lower next year
Starting next October, the student Blue Cross-Blue Shield policy will offer more extensive coverage to the student at an increased price, according to Raymond Schwegler, director of the Student Health Service.
The new policy will cover the entire surgical fee, based on fee averages for Kansas doctors.
If a KU student with a Blue Cross-Blue Shield policy has surgery while away from the University, the policy covers the entire surgical fee based on the highest fee paid to Kansas doctors for the particular type of surgery. The Student Health Service does not provide coverage to the student while away from the campus.
The new rates for the extended coverage policy are $53 a year for unmarried students and $180 for married students. The old rates were $58 for unmarried students and $174 for married students.
The student Blue Cross-Blue Shield policy is effective for one year if purchased in October of the school year, even if the student drops out of school.
POM-PON HIGH JINKS
Pom-pon girls for 1968-69 are Linda Tate, Lorlyn Seelbinder, Shirley Gossett (head pom-pon girl), Karen Larson, Bari Robinson, Janet Merrick and Mary Williams. Kandee Klein is not pictured.