Greek Week Has Queen, Tug 'o' War, Races --
Sherry Wickliff, Mission senior, reigned over the festivities of Greek Week as Greek Week Queen. Tommy Thompson, Springfield, Mo., junior, and Ken Coleman, Wichita junior, brace against what proved to be an irresistable force in the tug 'o' war across Potter Lake. Coleman and Thompson, members of the West team, got wet
- Photos By Murrel Bland
when the East team pulled harder. And Clare (Shrew) Casey, Alexandria, Va., sophomore, and an unidentified friend watch the braver men from each house tow the chariots down Jayhawk Boulevard.
Greek Week Fete Over
Swirling. humid winds didn't halt the annual Greek Week celebration Saturday.
Temperatures about 23 degrees above normal encouraged about 2,000 spectators to attend the "Parade of Champions," Saturday afternoon.
The parade—colorful chariots drawn by toga-clad fraternity men contrasted sharply with the sleek convertible sports car which carried the Greek Week Queen and her attendants.
SHERRY WICKLIFF, Mission senior, Delta Gamma, was Greek Queen. Edda Bucherherger, Gmunden, Austria, graduate student, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Sherry Zillner, Mission junior, Pi Beta Phi, were her attendants.
Twenty-two entries competed in the chariot race. Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Theta Chi fraternities tied for first place with a 30.0 seconds effort.
See related story on page 9.
Rather than stage a second race between the two winners, it was decided to flip a coin for top place.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon called "heads" and won its second first-place trophy in as many days.
THE SAE's WON first place in the Greek Week Sing Friday night.
Following the races, the action shifted to Potter Lake for the Greek tug-of-war between the east and west campus fraternity men.
A 300-foot rope, stretched across the lake, snapped after the first trv.
The battle was moved to the south end of the lake which is narrower. With the rope doubled, about 18 fraternity men, compounding nearly 4,000 pounds on both ends of the rope, pulled again.
IT TOOK ONLY THREE minutes for the east campus men to show the west who was boss. The east group pulled several west men into the water.
About 21 Topeka orphans joined fraternity and sorority members late Saturday afternoon for the Greek Week picnic at Potter Lake.
Two May Hold Kite Title
Two members of Phi Kappa Theta believe they might have set a kite-flying record Friday.
Richard Babcock, Parsons junior, and Larry Toombs, Fairway junior, set out for an afternoon of kite-flying with Babcock's small newspaper kite.
By the time the afternoon was over, they had used nine spools of kite thread, and had sent the kite one and one-fifth miles into the sky.
"We had to quit because we ran out of thread, and all the stores were closed," Babcock said
Earlier they had made two trips
After running out of thread, the boys tied the kite to a pole at the U.S. Army Reserve Armory. They returned to the fraternity house and spotted the kite flying approximately 6,000 feet above.
"If it's still up tomorrow morning" Toombs said "we'll buy more thread and send it up higher
to town for additional string. They were using 700-foot spools of nylon thread.
Apparently Lawrence became entangled in 6,300 feet of thread overnight.
The kite was not up Saturday morning.
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Weather
Generally fair weather through Tuesday is forecast by the weather bureau. Cooler temperatures are expected today with a high in the 60's and northwesterly winds 20-30 miles per hour. It will be colder tonight, with a low in the 30's. A high in the 60's is forecast for Tuesday.
KU College Bowl Moderator Errs; Round Canceled
Only one of the two scheduled rounds of the College Bowl competition was played Sunday.
A. A. Strassenburg, associate professor of physics who was to act as a faculty moderator for both rounds, asked the Pearson and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Counselors teams the semi-final round questions in the quarter-final round.
SINCE ALL the prepared questions had been used, the semi-finals had to be rescheduled for next Sunday to give the College Bowl Questions Committee time to compose a new set of questions.
In contrast to the competition in other rounds, there were no close matches this week. The closest contest was the JRP-Phi Delta Theta match which ended, after several shifts in the lead, in a 190-155 victory for JRP.
The quarter-final round was played as scheduled, but the semi-final round had to be postponed because the wrong set of questions was used for one of the quarter-final matches.
Scoring in the quarter-final matches ranged from Stephenson's high score of 355 to Joseph R. Pearson's low winning score of 190.
OFFICIAL RESULTS WERE:
Stephenson Hall 335-ki Kappa Alpha 145. Pearson II20 -Gertrude Sellards Pearson Counselors 55, Beta Theta Pi 220 -Alpha Kappa Lambda 115 and Joseph R. Pearson Hall 190 -Phi Delta Theta 155.
In the semi-final round to be held Sunday at 2:15 p.m. in the Kansas Union, Joseph R. Pearson Hall will meet Beta Theta Pi in the Meadowlark Room and Pearson Hall will meet Stephenson Hall in the Forum Room.
WINNERS OF THESE two matches will meet at 3:00 in the Forum Room for the final, championship match
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Monday, March 25, 1983
One Union Balks; Strike to 108th Day
NEW YORK —(UPI)— A deadlock between publishers and 320 striking photoengravers today pushed the New York newspaper blackout into its 108th day, despite a 3-2 vote by printers to end their walkout.
The printers, who had rejected a $12.63 weekly package increase proposal a week earlier, reversed themselves yesterday and voted 2,562 to 1,763 to accept the contract terms.
WHILE THE printers cast their ballots on 50 city voting machines at Madison Square Garden, their striking sister union, the mailers, used black and white marbles as ballots to approve their contract by 466 to 256.
"It's wonderful!" exclaimed Walter N. Thayer, spokesman for the Publishers Association of New York City, on learning that the printers had changed their stand.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner callec for a new round of negotiations between the photoengravers and publishers to start this morning. A 13-hour bargaining session ended late last night with the two sides described by Wagner as "stalemated."
The photoengravers are demanding a cut in the work week from 3C1/4 hours to 35, which they claim would be in line with their craft's work week in commercial firms. Publishers contend that resulting increases in overtime pay would be too costly.
THE PRINTERS maintained their picket lines today outside plants of the eight dailies involved in the shutdown. The union said they would keep picketing until a settlement is reached with the photo-enragers, who went on strike last Monday.
"We won't be back to work until the photogravers and we sign a contract, but that can be done very fast," said Bertram A. Powers, president of the International Typographical Union (ITU) Local 6.
The city's long-absent dailies will be able to return to the stands about two days after a settlement is reached with the photoengravers. A membership ratification meeting must be held before picket lines can be withdrawn and the presses roll again.
Coincidentally, it was the photo-
engravers whose strike in 1953
caused the city's first newspaper
blackout. The walkout then lasted
11 days.
WAGNER SAID if today's negotiations fail to result in a contract, he will propose settlement terms. The printer's dispute was settled on the basis of recommendations by Wagner.
"A lot of people are suffering and a lot of people want to get back to work," Wagner said, commenting that the costly shutdown had lasted long enough.
A management spokesman said the Publishers Association "does not intend to change its position."
Guatemala Declares 'State of Siege'
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala
GEMALA CITY, Guatemala
— (UPI) The government declared a state of siege today because of a “vast plot” aimed at its overthrow.
The presidential decree revoking constitutional guarantees for 30 days came after weekend acts of sabotage and terrorism which the government attributed to "armed bands of subversive elements."
These acts include cutting communications lines between Guatemala City and the Atlantic port of Puerto Barrios and seizures of dynamite and subversive documents
in the border town of Pedro Alvarado.
The government said there had been "contacts" between National Guardsmen and anti-government forces, but did not elaborate.
"Recognized communist elements acting in concert with countries of the same ideology have prepared a vast plan of agitation and violence throughout the national territory endangering public order, life and property . . . whose principal objective . . . is to overthrow the constitutional government," an official statement said.