Tuesday, March 19, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Angel Flight drill team ranks high
The KU Angels — the Angel Flight drill team—ranked fourth in the nation in their first appearance at the National Invitational Drill Meet Saturday at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
This was the first time KU has been represented at the drill meet and the first time Kansas has had a representative rank in the top ten.
The participating teams accumulated points according to the originality of routine, precision of movements, individual mistakes, uniformity of movement and the
commander's appearance, bearing and attitude.
The KU Angels received their rating immediately after their performance which was the last one and received a standing ovation. The team is composed of 21 members including the commander and the color guard. They were the only team there which had a color guard.
Eileen Ireland, Kansas City, Mo., junior and commander of the drill team, said the KU Angels were organized two years ago, while the other winning teams have been organized from 20 to 25 years.
The drill team was penalized
several points, Miss Ireland said, by the women judges because their skirts were too short and "unfeminine." However, the team still had enough total points accumulated to place fourth in the competition, she said.
Since the drill team participated in the national meet, they have been invited to Wisconsin, Purdue and Notre Dame drill meets. They also have been invited to participate this May in the Cherry Blossom parade—the presidential review—but because of the nearness of the event they don't know if they will be able to go.
Forum to discuss Kansas, minerals
What future has Kansas in the mineral industries?
This sums up the myriad questions expected to develop from the "Forum on Long Range Planning for Kansas Mineral Resources Development" at KU Monday through Wednesday. A 10-man team will gather to design a mineral resources planning program for the future of Kansas.
Cosponsored by the Kansas Department of Economic Development in Topeka, the State Geological Extension, this conference brings together men with knowledge and experience in several geological specialties. Ronald G. Hardy, Chief of Mineral Resources at the State Geological Survey, will be Forum coordinator.
These men will spend three days with staff members of the sponsoring organizations, state officials, research men and business men in a "workshop" format intended to encourage a maximum of interaction and discussion among all participants.
The panel members include Ian Campbell, chief of the California Division of Mines and Geology in San Francisco; Frederick C. Krugar, executive head of the Department of Mineral Engineering at Stanford University; and William A. Vogely, assistant director of Mineral resources development, United States Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C.
AKL pledges-
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"Willie McDaniel is a person," says Bill Sampson, Topeka senior and AKL president. "Then he is a Negro."
Emphasizing that McDaniel was pledged on the basis of his "outstanding qualifications," Sampson noted that after the chapter's 75 actives voted to pledge McDaniel—the fraternity's rules say at least 80 per cent of a chapter's active members must approve before pledging—"there was a lot of applause."
Several other AKL chapters have pledged Negroes, Sampson said.
McDaniel said the reason he decided to join the fraternity was because, "They're nice fellows—they have treated me very well."
He adds, however, that he hopes his AKL membership will help lower any racial bars in other KU fraternities.
"This is the best way to get the ball rolling." McDaniel said.
Dennis Taylor, Rancho Cordovn, Calif., senior and president of the KU Interfraternity Council (IFC), agreed.
McDaniel's pledging "is a beginning in rectifying a major problem—our membership and its 'WASPish' demands of conformity." he said.
Ron Sable, Kansas City, Mo,
senior and former IFC executive,
said McDaniel's pledging "is significant because it came when
the fraternity was under no pressure, but acting on its own initiative."
According to Sampson, the fraternity wasn't under any pressure to accept or reject McDaniel.
Donald Alderson, dean of men,
"encouraged" the AKL's to consider
McDaniel "but he certainly
didn't pressure us," Sampson said.
Sampson also said one of the fraternity's national officers, when told that the KU chapter might pledge McDaniel, "told us to do whatever we wanted."
He said the chapter officers last semester asked the chapter if it wanted to consider pledging a Negro. The vote was a solid no.
"Members explained they weren't going to vote on 'Negro,'" Sampson said, until they met the specific individual.
They met McDaniel. His football scholarship will keep him in Joseph R. Pearson residence hall this semester, but next fall he moves in, a full-time pledge of AKL.
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