Sun shines on Jayhawk rodeo
"He loves the damned old rodeo as much as he loves me. Someday soon, goin' with him, someday soon . . ."
Judy Collins song
By RICHARD LOUV Kansan Staff Writer
The Jayhawk Rodeo Club has come a long way in three years. Their first Intercollegiate Rodeo in 1967 was a shambles because of the weather, and the club went into debt. Last year was the same, with falling rain meaning rising debts.
But this year the clouds lifted
And more than three thousand persons watched the third annual KU Intercollegiate Rodeo Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sunday was cloudy, and the judges at Douglas County Fairgrounds watched the sky, but the rain waited until dark.
Now the KU club is out of debt, but with everything good comes something bad. KU contestants didn't win an event.
"But it was a good rodeo, with thirteen colleges participating. We're out of the red, and
"If it weren't for our sponsors, Don Alexander and Chuck Belote, we wouldn't have had another rodeo. They drummed up advertising support in Lawrence, which made the monetary difference," she said.
that's important," said Jean Ann Groves, Arkansas City freshman and assistant events secretary for the club.
A new rodeo queen was selected this weekend, succeeding Jan Vandeventer, Raytown, Mo., senior and Miss Rodeo Missouri. The new queen is Janine Hassler, Abilene sophomore.
A highlight of the rodeo was the fraternity steer-riding contest, held each day with a keg of beer as the prize. The contest included 33 teams from most of the KU fraternities, including one fraternity from the KU Medical Center. The six-man teams had to chase a loose steer, saddle it, put a rider on it and ride into a designated circle. Lambda Chi Alpha was the grand prize winner over the three-day period.
Winning colleges were: Black Hills State College; University of Nebraska; North Dakota State University; National College of Business; South Dakota State University; Kansas State University; and Wisconsin State University.
Photo by Richard Louv
There's just no getting away
More than 3,000 rodeo fans thrilled to events such as bulldogging at the KU Intercollegiate Rodeo this weekend.
Inside...
Campus campaign See page 2 KU Intercollegiate rodeo See page 9
ROTC study recommended See page 10
Monday, April 14, 1969
79th Year, No.109
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Students close campuses
By United Press International
By United Press International Student strikers marched yesterday at Harvard University in protest of razing an apartment building to make room for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and antiwar demonstrators maintained control of a Stanford University electronics laboratory.
Elsewhere on the campus protest scene, a sit-in countined through its fourth day at New York City's Queens College, Kalamazoo, Mich., police sought youths suspected of fire bombing the student center at Western Michigan University. A black former athlete was charged with disorderly conduct in
connection with a bomb hoax which grounded a Purdue University plane Saturday.
Two of the 48 persons injured Thursday when club swinging police cleared Harvard's University Hall of anti-Reserve Officers Training Corps demonstrators remained hospitalized yesterday.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), sponsor of the Harvard demonstration and a subsequent student strike, sponsored yesterday's march from Harvard Yard to nearby Radcliffe College.
Cambridge, Mass., Police Lt. John Norton, who commanded the
detail which cleared University Hall, defended the tactics of his men. He said police were forced to use clubs on students- because "when they got within a few feet of the stairs, missiles of all kinds were thrown at them including bottles, sticks, pieces of metal and rocks."
Anti-war demonstrators, including the husband of folk singer Joan Baez, remained in occupation of Stanford's applied electronics laboratory, and weighed plans for a "lawn-in" today at the Stanford Research Institute, which handles most of Stanford's nearly $2 million in classified government research.
Fling Queen finalists
Spring Fling Queen candidates await next week's Fling festivities and the crowning of one of them as Spring Fling Queen. Finalists from left are Marilyn Marshall, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, Pam Hovland, Kansas City, Mo., freshman and Dana Nelson, Belleville junior.
All men living in residence halls will be eligible to vote for one of the women April 21-24. The queen will be crowned April 25 during a dance at the National Guard Armory.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Kansas editor dies
attack. He was hired at Harris was head of Publishing Enterprises, which owns eight newspapers and six radio stations in Kansas, California and Iowa.
HUTCHINSON-Pulitzer-prize winner John P. Harris, newspaper Publisher and head of the Eisenhower Library Commission, died in a hospital here Sunday after suffering a heart attack. He was 67.
Floods plague Midwest
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Rampaging Midwest rivers, swollen to record levels by an unprecedented melting snow pack, pressed against bolstered dikes yesterday and kept at least 8,000 persons homeless.
North and South Dakota and Minnesota have asked President Nixon for designation as disaster areas, making flooded communities eligible for federal aid.
Reds pound U.S. troops
SAIGON - Communist troops fighting from trenches 45 miles from Saigon stood off an attack by U.S. infantry, tanks and fighter-bombers for four hours and retreated after inflicting sizeable losses on the GIs, military spokesmen said today.
military spokesman. The battle yesterday took the lives of 15 American soldiers and wounded 16 more, spokesmen said. U.S. troops found the bodies of 11 Communist soldiers on the battlefield, 45 miles northwest of Saigon.
Go South, young man!
MIAMI — Four armed men hijacked a Puerto Rico-to-Miami jetliner with 91 persons aboard to Havana yesterday and the pilot calmly told his passengers that "we're having a routine flight. We're going to Havana."
It was the second hijacking within 48 hours, the 22nd of the year, and the 14th involving U.S. airplanes.
The Pan American 727, flight 460, returned to Miami from Havana at midafternoon with the 80 passengers remaining aboard, and a crew of seven.
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