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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 18.1962
Athletic Program-
(Continued from page 1) scholarships, or the current favorite, grants-in-aid, schools are paying athletes for services rendered on the athletic field. Under any name, the importance, effect, and need of such aid has been widely discussed in barnyards and living rooms alike.
MITCHELL FEELS that putting an end to scholarships would not spell the finish to collegiate athletics as they now exist.
"The financial help is the least important thing to a good athlete." Mitchell said "The good boys would find some way to compete in athletics. They would find some way to get into competition where they could gain pride and recognition.
"The good athletes would work at outside jobs or whatever they had to, to go to school and compete," he said.
Ending subsidization would not drop the level of competition throughout the nation, in Mitchell's opinion.
"EVER WITHOUT scholarships, 70 per cent of the schools would still have the same caliber of teams that they have under the present set up," he said. "Scholarships aren't the main reason athletes go to school."
Prof. Oldfather said athletic scholarships put schools in an unfortunate position of subsidizing athletes.
"Scholarships were begun as the only means available of controlling subsidization," he said. "A move to end scholarships would amount to a reversion to slush funds and they are uncontrollable."
Such a slush fund at Colorado resulted in the firing of football coach Sonny Grandelius. Since Colorado acknowledged guilt, a heavy penalty from the NCAA is expected.
"I KNOW OF NO RESPECTable substitute for keeping subsidization in bounds," Prof. Oldfather said. "But we need to work towards some method which will return us to a healthy, moral climate as far as athletics are concerned."
Prof. Oldfather said he feels that grants-in-aid are not the method to bring about this return.
Another member of the KU Athletic Board is opposed to giving any athletic scholarships at all. He is
Charles Leone, professor of zoology.
Discussing the spiraling tendency to offer an ever-increasing number of athletic scholarships each year, he said:
"IT IS TIME WE ASKED ourselves, 'What are we running here?'" There is even some talk of giving more money to athletes who are married or who have other dependents. The whole idea of giving scholarships is based on the premise that it is necessary in order to be competitive.
"Last year at my request, Dean Woodruff (KU's Big Eight faculty representative) brought a proposal up at the Big Eight meeting which would limit the total number of scholarships to 50 for all sports." Prof. Leone said. He added that the proposal was not met with enthusiasm.
"Whether we spend a million dollars or nothing at all the competitive spirit would remain the same between conference schools," Prof. Leone said.
The national championships and regional playoffs should be ended, Prof. Leone said. He believes that they have no place in a good, sound athletic program.
"THAT'S WHERE IT GETS out of whack," he said. "These play-offs keep growing until they are the total image of the school."
Prof. Leone said the idea that a good athletic program is indicative of a good academic program does not hold water.
"If this were true, then why wouldn't it follow that a good academic rating would indicate an excellent athletic program?"
He said that if the athletic program is to be a positive part of the university it should contribute something in a realistic way. He said that an athletic program being self-supporting is not enough justification for its existence.
"LET IT CONTRIBUTE SOMEthing for the good of the entire university—like a new swimming pool, for example." Prof. Leone said. "This talk of increasing the number of scholarships is foolishness.
"It is time to turn in the other direction. All these preseason and postseason games cause the athletes to suffer as students. Things are out of proportion."
Cheerleaders Chosen for 62-63
Eight cheerleaders and six alternates for the 1962-1963 school year were chosen last night at Robinson Gymnasium.
The new cheerleaders are Timothy J. Hamill, Colby junior, head cheerleader; Jerry A. Wiens, Hutchinson junior; Victor H. Voth, Wichita freshman; Ronald Ray Tucker, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Barbara A. Schmidt, Kansas City junior; Mary Louise St. Clair, Independence freshman; Mary Lynn Cooper, Prairie Village sophomore; and Mary Kathleen Riedel, WaKeeneer junior.
Miss Schmidt and Wiens are the only cheerleaders who were on this year's squad. Miss Riedel and Hamill were alternates this year.
Thirty-five women and fifteen men were at the trouts.
Alternates are: Sherry L. Wickliff,
Mission junior; Suzanne Fisher,
Prairie Village sophomore; Judith D.
Kulowski, St. Joseph, Mo., junior;
Robert Lightstone, Coffeyville sophomore;
Gerald R. Booth, Winfield freshman; and Gary C. Bond, Kalmazoo, Mich., sophomore.
The student-faculty judging committee included Robert M. Ash, traditions committee chairman; Bruce Bee, ex-head cheerleader; A.C. Lonborg, athletic director; Francis Prosser, physics department; Marilyn S. Cromb, Jay Jan, and Michael S. McCabe, KuKu's.
Art Film Series to Begin Tomorrow With 2 Showings
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"The Glory of Goya" and "Rembrandt Van Rijn" will each be featured in two showings at 7:30 and 9 p.m. in the museum lecture hall.
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