THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
79th Year, No.5
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
June 24,1969
KU takes second in NCAA meet
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -- Marty Liquori of Villanova staved off a withering challenge by Jim Ryun to upset the KU world record holder and win the milie event of the 48th NCAA track and field championships Saturday.
Liquori was timed at 3:57.7, a new NCAA record.
San Jose edged Kansas by three points, 48 to 45 for the team title. Washington State and Oregon State tied for third with 40 points each and UCLA was fifth with 39. Southern California, last year's champion, finished eighth with 33 points.
Ryun stumbled as he raced around the far turn on his first lap and fell back to last as
Charles Labenz of Arizona State set the pace. Ryun moved to fourth by the half mile mark with Labenz still in front. But Liquori took over the lead in the fourth and final lap with Ryun at his heels.
It stayed that way—a two-man race into the home stretch. Liquori, a sophomore who had done the mile in 3:59.3, would not be intimidated, and went on to score the first major upset of the 1969 championships.
Ryun who pulled up at the finish, lost by about eighth yards and was timed 3:59.3. Frank Murphy of Villanova was third in 3:-59.8.
John Carlos of San Jose State
won the 220- yard dash as expected, clocked in 20.2.
Byron Dyce of NYU set new collegiate and NCAA meet records when he repeated as 880-yard champion with a time of 1:45.9. Dyce broke the NCAA 880-yard record of 1:47.2 set in 1957 and the collegiate mark of 1:46.1 set in 1967.
Ralph Mann of Brigham Young scored in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles in 49.6. Mann's effort tied the meet and American record.
John Van Reenen of Washington State set another NCAA record when he threw the discus 200 feet, 8 inches to win that event.
Sophomore Curtis Mills of Texas A&M cracked the world record in the 440-yard dash and upset Olympic champion Lee Evans of San Jose in the process Saturday with a time of 44.7 seconds.
Mills, who admitted after his 440-yard dash victory that he had put on "a heluva run," shattered the world mark of 44.8 set in 1966 by San Jose's Tommie Smith. Evans was second, timed in 45.2, with Bill Wehrwijn of Michigan State third in 45.7.
Bob Seagron of Southern California, who holds the world's mark of 17-9, captured the pole vault title with a leap of 17-7 $ \frac{1}{2} $ , a NCAA meet record. John
Seagren missed in three attempts at 18 feet.
Vaughn of UCLA, last year's winner,
was second at 16-8.
Dick Fosbury of Oregon State, who again delighted his audience with his backward "Fosbury flop," also set an NCAA record at winning the high jump in 7-2 $ \frac{1}{2} $ .
Ole Oleson of Southern California took the three-mile run in 13:41.9. Ryun dropped out after three and three-fourths laps.
Jo Jo has problems with draft; his enlistment may be fraudulent
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—Jo Jo White, the KU all-American drafted by the Boston Celtics, may have fraudulently avoided the military draft to play pro basketball, a selective service official said Friday.
Arthur Kreisman, chairman of White's draft board in St. Louis, said White apparently joined a U.S. Marine Corps reserve program in Connecticut after he had received orders for induction. The reserve program would require six months' active duty, while the draft would require two years of White's time.
Kreisman explained that, if a youth enlistes in a reserve program after he has received induction orders, he would be guilty of fraudulent enlistment. The reserve unit in Connecticut maintains that it had received clearance from White's draft board in St. Louis before he enlisted.
Kreisman commented in a copyrighted story in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Friday that White was given help in avoiding the draft by Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo., Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., and Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the Selective Service system.
Kreisman disputed the claim, reported in the Globe-Democrat, that Sgt. E. A. Seneri of the Connecticut reserve unit had placed a telephone call to the St. Louis
draft board "when White enlisted and that White was cleared for enlistment."
Commissioner Walter Kennedy of the National Basketball Association said according to the information he had on hand, he felt Jo Jo had done nothing wrong in
"You don't operate a system like this by telephone," Kreisman said. "We have only one office girl at our board who answers the phone. She has no authority to clear someone for enlistment and she says she never received such a call from Connecticut."
"No one else would tell Connecticut that White was clear," he said. "That's a lot of hooey."
joining the Marine Corps Reserves.
Kennedy, in a statement relayed from Los Angeles to his New York office, said he personally had contacted the offices of Senator Abraham Ribicoff in an effort to clarify White's position.
Kennedy said, "Although I believe this matter has been blown out of proportions, I have made a quick investigation into the Jo Jo White situation because the National Basketball Association has been involved in press reports that have been called to my attention."
He said, "Mr. White called to the attention of several NBA
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The long jump championship,
first to be decided, went to Jerry
Proctor of Redlands, who turned
in a leap of 26 feet. 11 $ \frac{3}{4} $ inches.
Wescoe's farewell
Editor's Note: Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe delivered his final "State of the University" message June 1st. We reprint it here in its entirety as a tribute to a warm and wonderful friend.
If there were some magic way to handle them in the spirit of the occasion with all the feeling of the heart, there would be no scuffling from one foot to another at airports, no embarrassing speeches after dinner, no awkward pauses at doors opening out into the night. Even the collected wisdom and literature of the ages offer no solutions. Some of our wise men say, like Byron and Disraeli, that "farewells should be sudden," but Shakespeare calls for "as many farewells as be stars in-heaven."
The problem with announcing one's departure almost a year in advance of the fact is that one may seem to be taking Shakespeare's advice even though he prefers the advice of Byron and Disraeli. For those of you, who may be remembering another quotation of Shakespeare, I can assure you now, no matter how long this address may later seem, that I have resisted the sentiment expressed in the lines: "parting
Farewells are difficult.
is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good-night till it be morrow”
Those of you who were a part of the University a little less than nine years ago may remember that I resisted a number of other temptations on the occasion of my installation address; for those of you who were not present then, let me mention some of them, for we might profitably point out (modestly so) examples of good character, particularly in this day when resisting temptations has been superseded by "doing your thing" and "if it feels good, do it."
On September 19, 1960, to be precise, I resisted the temptation to present a scholarly address, complete with appropriate quotations and numerous references. I also resisted the temptation to remark upon the brilliant history of the University and its growth over a period of years, recalling at the time the words of that distinguished philosopher, Satchel Paige.
But now I am leaving and I hope you feel I have displayed as much good character as it was possible to do; it is not important for an outgoing chancellor to be a paragon. The installation address was a time to look at the
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Proctor's distance was better than the existing NCAA record of 26-9 $ \frac{1}{4} $ , but his effort was aided by a wind clocked at 6.7 miles an hour. In order to count as a record, an event cannot be aided by a wind better than 4.475 miles an hour.
Proctor made his winning jump during the preliminaries, and it stood up. Earlier, he matched the NCAA mark, but that jump too was disallowed as a record because of the wind that swept across the Tom Black Stadium on the University of Tennessee campus.
Divergent views at symposium on communications
Daniel J. Boorstin, professor of American history at the University of Chicago, defined a university as "a place of communication—with all men, past, present and future—and a place of community."
Speaking Friday at the Speech and Drama sponsored Symposium on Issues in Public Communication with the specific topic of "Militancy and Anti-Communication, Boorstin said, "A central question is the purpose of the institution. We are in the university because we believe in man, the pursuits of the mind and on common humanity. A university is a place where we accumulate information about the past, and also reflect about the past. We are committed to the idea that persons long since dead have had experiences from which we can learn."
Harry A. Bailey, Jr.
Harry A. Bailey, Jr., chairman of the political science department at Temple University and who earned two advanced degrees from KU, stated in his speech that "confrontation is a healthy method to deal with unhealthy
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