Thursday, April 18, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Greeks plan fun and games Greek Week and Fling share gymkhana, rally
KU fraternities and sororities sponsor individual social functions throughout the year. But Greek Week offers an opportunity for Greeks to socialize together.
Every special week has a queen and Greek Week is no exception. The choice of a queen is not based on beauty, but on poise, activities, and grades.
"The judges are looking for a good representative of the Greek system," Pam Pratt, Topeka sophomore and co-chairman of the Queen committee, said.
Three judges narrow the 13 candidates to three finalists, who will be announced at the Greek Week Banquet, Tuesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The ticket, issued to attend the banquet, becomes a ballot for voting by those attending the banquet.
The 1968 Greek Week Queen candidates are: Leslie Martyn, Clay Center junior, Alpha Chi Omega; Mary Allan, Ralston, Neb., senior, Alpha Delta Pi; Jane Rohrig, Leawood junior, Alpha Gamma Delta; Rita Rosander, Shawnee Mission senior, Alpha Omicron Pi.
Mary Kay Mueller, Red Oak,
Iowa, junior, Alpha Phi; Barbara
Hansen, Wheaton, Ill., junior, Chi
Omega; Nancy Mathews, Neodesha junior, Delta Delta Delta; Judy Cady, Boeit senior, Delta Gamma; Deanell Reece, Scandia senior, Gamma Phi Beta; Linda Sollenberger, Hutchinson junior, Kappa Alpha Theta; Sandece Glenn, Shawnee Mission junior, Pi Beta Phil; Valerie Lewis, Prairie Village junior, Sigma Kappa; and Barbara Newsom, Wichita junior, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Not unlike the Greeks of Sparta and Athens, the KU kind will hold their own "Greek Games" April 26 and 27.
The East-West All-Star football game will be held at 4 p.m. April 26 on the intramural field.
The Powder-Puff football game will be held at half-time of the East-West event.
The chariots are built as lightweight as possible so that two men may pull as one rides. They are not allowed to be strapped to the chariot itself during the approximate 200 yard race which will be held at 12:30 p.m., April 27 in Memorial Stadium.
Saturday events include a Chariot Race, East-West Tug of War across Potter Lake and the Greek Relays.
The Greek Relays begin at 1:15 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. Men's
events include: 120-yard high hurdles, 100-yard dash, mile run, 440-yard dash, 880-yard relay, 180-yard low hurdles, 220-yard dash, mile relay, high jump and broad jump.
Women's events include: 60-yard dash, 440-yard relay, three-legged race and the sack race.
The tug-of-war across Potter Lake begins at 4 p.m.
Although the focal point of Greek Week is on the members themselves, the "moms" of each house have not been forgotten. Sorority members will escort the houseothers of both sororites and fraternities to a combination fashion show-bridge party at 2 p.m., April 26 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
A type of party bridge will be played instead of the conventional kind. Special instructions will be handed out. In addition to the usual trump suit, extra points will be given to both housemothers with the highest and lowest number of points.
On April 26 between 10 and 15 members from each house will dine at other houses. The exchange dinner program is strictly for the purpose of getting around to the other houses and meeting new people, Punky Hemphill, Shawnee Mission junior and exchange dinner committee chairman, said.
Fraternities move west with campus
While most of the events held during the two "weeks," which run simultaneously April 22-27, will remain separate, two motor sports events, a gymkhana and a derby, will be sponsored jointly by Greek Week and Spring Fling. Both events will be April 27.
As the KU campus creeps west across Highway 59, it appears many fraternities and sororities plan to follow it.
The derby is a 20-mile rally course on public roads near Lawrence. The object is to negotiate one of six courses by answering a list of 20 questions concerning the areas through which the cars will pass.
The gymkhana, run in Lewis Hall parking lot, is a timed speed event in which a car is to navigate a closed course in the least possible time.
KU's fraternities and sororites are heading west.
While the derby is open only to residents of Greek houses and residence halls, the gymkhana is open to anybody connected with KU: students, faculty, staff—the chancellor could enter if he wished.
Three fraternities and one sorority will be building new houses during the next year and three fraternities and two sororities have constructed new houses in the last five years. Of these 10 Greek organizations, eight have selected sites west of the campus.
The gymkhana course is marked with rubber pylons and each driver must run the course without hitting the markers. There will be seven classes of car competition, ranging from Class A, for Jaguar XK-Es and Corvette Stingrays, to class G, with six cylinder Mustangs and eight cylinder American sedans.
Greek Week and Spring Fling have merged—slightly.
There are two areas in which the building is concentrated west of the campus—the new Stewart Avenue tract just east of Highway 59 between 19th and 21st streets and the Emery Road area east of Highway 59, south of 9th Street.
A person can only enter once, but the same car may be entered more than once by the driver drivers, Robert Entriken Jr., San Francisco, Calif, senior and gymkhana chairman, said.
Registration for the derby must be done in advance, Clyde Toland, Iola junior and derby chairman, said. There will be a 50 cent entry fee for each car. Entry blanks were distributed Monday to each living group and must be returned by April 25 so contestants may be assigned a course and starting time.
four drivers from each living group.
Six different courses for the derby have been laid out, each beginning at the Daisy Hill overflow lot west of Iowa Street. Contestants will read a story along the route and look for clues to answer the questions that will keep them on the course.
Two more international honors have come to Raymond C. Moore, emeritus Summerfield professor of geology at KU.
Five fraternities and one sorority have selected Stewart Avenue for their new houses and one fraternity and one sorority have selected Emery Road.
"It's almost like a scavenger hunt," Toland said, only the entrants will be "scavenging" for information rather than objects.
The Greek Sing is scheduled for 8 p.m., April 27 in Hoch Auditorium and will be the last Greek Week event.
Of the 22 houses entered in the Sing, only four have entered singly. The other 18 have formed pairs.
Geology honors come to Professor Moore
The single entries are: Lambda Chi Alpha, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Kappa and Alpha Omicron Pi.
The Norwegian Academy of Science has made Moore one of its few Foreign Members.
Sororities which are building houses this year or who have built new houses during the past five years include: Alpha Chi Omega, building a new house on Emery Road; Alpha Gamma Delta, finished construction of a house in 1967 on Stewart Avenue; and Pi Beta Phi, built a new house on 15th street in 1963.
Moore, who began his association with Kansas in 1916, will on April 24, become the 12th American to receive the Wollaston Medal, the highest award of the Geological Society of London. Previous recipients include Louis Agassiz, Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley.
Fraternities which are building houses this year include: Alpha Epsilon Pi, a new house on Stewart Avenue to be completed in the fall of 1968; Phi Gamma Delta, rebuilding their house destroyed
The National Academy of Science, Letters and Arts of Modena, Italy, has sent Moore a diploma making him an honorary member.
The paired entries are: Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Tau Omega; Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Delta Theta; Delta Gamma and Delta Upsilon; Pi Beta Phi and Phi Gamma Delta; Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Phi; Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Chi; Chi Omega and Sigma Nu; Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Alpha Gamma Delta and Alpha Kappa Lambda.
by fire in 1967 at 1540 Louisiana; and Phi Kappa Theta, building a new house in Stewart Avenue.
Entry fees are 50 cents for those living in Greek houses or residence halls, and 75 cents for all other entrants.
There will be from two to six people in each car—an even number of men and women representing one men's living group and one woman's living group.
"The winners will be determined by their answers, mileage and time," Toland said.
Fraternities which have built new houses in the past five years are: Alpha Kappa Lambda, a new house completed November 1967 located on Stewart Avenue; Lambda Chi Alpha, a new house built in 1964 on Stewart Avenue; Tau Kappa Epsilon, a new house in 1964 located on Stewart Avenue; and Sigma Nu, added to their last fall on Emery Road.
In addition, Alpha Delta Pi Sorority and Triangle Fraternity have tentative plans for construction of new houses. The locations of the two houses have not yet been determined.
Entrants will register at the event, go through a technical safety inspection and make a one-lap practice run and two 2-lap timed runs.
Sororities which will remodel or build additions onto their present houses this year are: Alpha Phi, Chi Omega and Delta Delta Delta.
Most important is the answers to the questions, he said. As a tie-breaker, their mileage will be noted.
Fraternities planning facelifting jobs are: Beta Theta Pi, Delta Chi, Delta Upsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
"We know the length of each course," Toland said. "If there is a tie, the entrant travelling the mileage closest to the course mileage will be declared the winner."
Trophies will be given for the best time of the day by male and female drivers and for the best time in each of the seven classes. Additional awards will be given to runners-up in the classes on a one-per-five-entries basis. Six team trophies also will be given, three to residence hall teams and three to Greek house teams. A team will be made up of the top
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