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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
Pageant set for May 9-10
All of the 27 entries in the annual Miss Lawrence-KU pageant, which will take place May 9 and 10 in Murphy Hall, are KU coeds and none of them is from Lawrence.
The women will be judged on appearance in a swimsuit, in formal dress and in a talent presentation.
The winner will go on to the Miss Kansas Pageant July 8 in Pratt where the Kansas entry for the Miss America contest will be chosen.
Linda Kay Croman, Shawnee sophomore from Watkins Hall; Catherine R. Gilmer, Tulsa, Okla, freshman; and Janell Diane Smykil, Arkansas City freshman—both from Corbin Hall.
Residence hall entries are:
Lynette Kay Butler, Cheney freshman; Janet Louise Swinson,
Pratt sophomore; Pat Mullen,
Shawnee Mission sophomore—all from Oliver Hall.
Karen Mills, Convent Station,
N.J., junior; and Cheryl Orth,
Overland Park sophomore—both
from Hashinger Hall; Gwena
Steffen, Hutchinson junior; and
Pamela White, Winfield sophomore—both from Lewis Hall.
Monica Flinner, Manhattan junior from Sellards Hall; Valorie Kay Frame, Wichita senior from McCollum Hall; Pamilla Kay Kohler, Beloit sophomore from Naismith Hall; and Dana Rae Nelson, Belleville sophomore from Miller Hall.
Conrad: bogged but happy
Lynda Kay Parker, Belpire freshman from Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall; and Kelleen Kay Stein, Topeka sophomore from Douthart Hall.
Entries from sororities are Jane Frances Edgar, Prairie Village junior, Alpha Phi; Pamela Fankhauser, Lyons sophomore, Alpha Gamma Delta; and Beverly Joan Gibbs, Kansas City junior, Delta Delta Delta.
Katherine Anne Hall, Houston,
Texas sophomore, Kappa Alpha
Theta; Patricia Ann McKenna,
McPherson sophomore, Delta
Gamma; Janet Louise Merrick,
Prairie Village sophomore, Chi
Omega; and Vicki Louise Pyle,
Kingsdown sophomore, Alpha
Delta Pi.
Karen Marie Rhea, Paola senior,
Sigma Kappa; Judith Ann Strunk,
Abilene junior, Pi Beta Phi;
Mary Tudor, Shawnee sophomore,
Gamma Phi Beta; and Cindy
Earp, Kansas City, Mo., senior,
Alphi Chi Omega.
Both the preliminary contest and the final contest will be open to the public.
Although Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., junior and newly elected KU student body president, was just sworn into office Tuesday night, he said Wednesday jokingly, "Already I feel like switching from my history major to something easier like physical education."
Since returning to the campus after spring break, Conrad said he's put in more than 15 hours at the All-Student Council (ASC) office.
He said, "I'm getting so bogged down with such things as going to banquets, opening mail, organizing committee interviews and writing letters . . . it's easy to get involved in things that are not really important."
"For instance, sending a sympathy letter to Mrs. Martin Luther King is something that needs to be done," Conrad said, "but I feel it's really important that I spend my time doing something pertinent to students—something bigger in scope."
Conrad seemed to be quite enthusiastic about starting a University-sponsored program similar to Upward Bound which will be oriented towards encouraging underprivileged high school students in the Kansas City area to attend college.
Starting this program, Conrad said, will be a step in the right direction to helping racial minority groups. He said he feels more Negro students should be encouraged to go to college, and he said if necessary he would travel to high schools and talk to students.
Conrad said, "You know, we're not gods, or glamour people over here at the ASC. But, we want to try and show persons that KU students are interested in them."
This weekend Conrad, Joe Goering, Moundridge junior, newly elected student body vicepresident, and Gus DiZerega, Wichita junior, elected ASC representative, will be at K-State for a Conference on Educational Reform and a regional National Student Association (NSA).
"I hope then to find out about
CLIF CONRAD
getting an NSA grant to start the course-teacher evaluation which I advocated as part of the platform when I ran for office," Conrad said.
Also advocated by Conrad in his platform was a committee for re-evaluation of KU student government which Conrad said he will set up next week. He plans to appoint the members, who will meet frequently this spring.
"I'm convinced that KU student government has a long way to go," Conrad said, "and needs to be more prestigious to the students as well as to the administration."
He said he wants the ASC to be the focal point of all organizations and coordinate such interest groups as the Interfraternity Council (IFC) and the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH), and "also in a sense over-riding the student body."
Conrad also emphasized that the money students pay to the University should be directed through the ASC.
"That $24 student activity fee from each KU student should be in the control of an organization
representing the students rather than through the administration," he said.
"I've already written letters trying to get Richard M. Nixon, Edward Brooke and Mark Hatfield to come speak at KU this spring," he said. He also said he's written to Robert Dole (R.-Kan.) for arrangements.
The student body president said he'll be going to summer school at KU this year so that he'll only need to take 12 hours each semester next year.
"This summer I hope to research such programs as the world-famous Godkin Lecture series at Harvard on which I'd like KU's lecture series to be patterned," he said. Conrad said the late managing editor of the Kansas City Star, Roy Roberts, has given KU a $25,000 endowment for a speaker's program.
"A believer in non-violence," Conrad said he'd like to join the Peace Corps later because he feels he "has a lot of idealism and could make a contribution in some way, and also derive from the learning experience a personal satisfaction."
He said he'd like to go to South America—either Bolivia or Peru. A Latin American history major, Conrad said that area is a "most neglected part of the world."
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Why Wait For China In The 70's . . .
International Club
invites you to the annual
BANQUET OF NATIONS
Sunday, April 21
5:00-7:30
Union Ballroom
Food from many countries
Scheherazade Beauty Queen Contest
International Entertainment
Tickets: $2.00 each
Union lobby ticket counter