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Friday, March 8, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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"AND WE CAN FLY..."
Kansan photo by Moe Behravesh
Bob Hartman, Oceanside, N.Y., sophomore, a Jayhawk yell leader was caught in this show of high flying Jayhawk enthusiasm.
Yell leaders change image
By Jane Abildgaard Kansan Staff Reporter
KU's male equivalents to the pom-pon girls, the yell leaders, are striving to change their image.
The yell leaders, many of them high school athletes, are trying to destroy the effinate image of the group, according to Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and one of the yell leaders.
Craig and most of the other yell leaders—Jim Davis, Leawood senior; Rick Meier, Bonner Springs junior; John Geissal, Prairie Village sophomore; Paul Clendening, Lawrence senior; and Bob Hartman, Oceanside, N.Y., sophomore—were high school athletes who weren't satisfied with sitting in the stands.
They tried out before a board including Wade Stinson, athletic director; Vince Bilotti, alumni field director; and past yell leaders and pom-pon girls.
After their selection last spring, the men met "a couple of times to pick officers," Craig said. Practice began the week before registration when the group met twice
daily for one and one half hours each time.
All one needs to be a yell leader, according to Meier, is "a big mouth and lot of enthusiasm." Meier was "the man with the microphone" during football season because his hand was broken and he was unable to turn cart-wheels and jump.
Clendening, who admitted one obvious advantage to being a yell leader is association with the pom-pon girls, finds the five minutes before a basketball game the most exciting because of the Rock Chalk Chant and the alma mater.
Clendening was an alternate on last year's squad. Besides cheering at sports events, he participates in intramural sports. He is majoring in Spanish and political science and carrying 12 hours.
Craig, in his second year on the squad, is an advertising major taking 16 hours. He is student body president and plays football, basketball and golf in his spare time.
Davis, head yell leader, is a mathematics major taking 17 hours. He plans to be a commercial airline pilot after graduation. Davis has been on the squad three years.
Although this is Hartman's first year on the squad, yell leading is nothing new to him. He held the job in high school as a junior at Shawnnee Mission North. He also enforced for the Kansas City Chiefs football team as a senior.
The secret of success, said Meier, is to be able to do the yells while asleep. This is Meier's first
year on the squad. Meier is majoring in zoology and commercial art, the latter for medical illustrations. He tutors a photography class in human anatomy illustrations. In his leisure time, Meier draws, plays guitar and participates in intramural sports.
Sleep seems to be one of the things the yell leaders don't get time to do.
Sociologist studies,sex
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Ira L. Reiss, a University of Iowa sociologist doesn't buy the idea more permissive sexual codes are a sign of a breakdown of morality.
In "Transaction," a Washington University Journal. Reiss said;
His research into current sexual behavior involved 1,500 adults, 21 and up; and 1,200 high school and college students, 16 to 22.
- Guilt feelings do not generally inhibit sexual behavior. Eighty-seven per cent of the women and 58 per cent of the men said they had eventually come to accept sexual activities that had once made them feel guilty.
- Youngsters who rank high on church attendance rank low on premarital coitus and are generally conservative.
- The first-born are far less likely to approve of premarital intercourse than are the youngest children.
- The more daughters a white father has, the more strongly he feels about his standards. The more sons he has, the less strongly he feels about his beliefs. White mothers showed the reverse tendencies.
- Among the more permissive groups were those in which the fathers were professional men.
- The only child has the most permissive attitudes. Older children, generally, were fouid less permissive than their younger brothers and sisters.
Sorority household hints from Schlitz
If the house treasury is low and the drapes on the front window are a drag, here's a stunt to keep in mind.
Take an old sheet (perhaps your roommate's) and cut it to it fit the window.
Now set your work aside for a moment, and have a Schlitz. Schlitz is pure beer, carefully brewed to eliminate "beer bite."
Back to the window. Should your
roommate object to your using her sheet (she shouldn't but she may), simply collect all the empty Schlitz cans left over from the last beer party. Punch holes in the cans and string them on wires across the window.
You'll not only have a very "in" window,
but you'll be pleasantly surprised at the number of guys who'll offer to help make some more drapes.
When you're out of Schlitz, you'll have a good set of drapes;
1958 Jan. Schatz Bengo Co., Minneapolis and other great cities.