Photo by Ron Bishop
High on helium
Balloons took to the air and students took to lolling on the grass around Potter Lake Saturday as part of the "unplanned" activities of Spring Week. A quiet weekend after a hectic week, coupled with beautiful weather, added to the prevalent feeling of "relax and take it easy."
Spring Week activities by Potter's Lake Saturday were sometimes fast and furious contests while other events aroused only negligible interest from some of the people participating, according to Bill Perkins, Kansas City junior and games committee chairman.
Spring Week activities end
Perkins said that the undressing contest was devoid of contestants.
"No one would enter the contest," Perkins said, "even after we gave a demonstration."
In the tug-of-war, Perkins said,
no official pairings were made.
Perkins said the balloon toss was won by two couples. Linda Johnson, Wichita freshman, and Van Larson, Overland Park sophomore, won one heat and Mike Walker, Caney sophomore, and Tom Hyde, Kansas City, Mo., senior, won the other heat.
In the iceblock race, Keith Kozler, St. Louis junior, and Dave Gardner, Overland Park junior, tied for first place.
"It was just people who wanted to get together and have a tug-o-
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war," he said. "Mostly the kids were out to have fun.
"The pig we got for the greased pig contest was really lazy," Perkins said. "He just wasn't worth a darn. Someone would try to chase him and he'd go over by a fence and just sit there."
The winners in the greased pig contest were Alice Wagner, Bennington sophomore; Steve Wehmeyer, Prairie Village freshman, and Warren Gross, Overland, Mo., freshman.
"We ran the pie-eating contest in two groups," Perkins said. "The winner of the first group and the two fastest in the second group got to go to the finals."
Ben Mann, Independence, Mo. freshman, won the first group and went on to beat Ray Hodges, Ava, Mo., senior and Berg Keshian, Arlington, Va., senior, in the final round.
A dance featuring the "T.I.D.E." was held at Oliver Hall parking lot at 8 p.m. Saturday.
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Local groups meet to discuss racial problems
Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Lawrence City Commission, the black community, the Lawrence School Board and the University of Kansas met last week to discuss racial tensions which have plagued Lawrence for two weeks.
Morris Kay, Chamber of Commerce president, said the meetings were merely open discussion and that the groups had never taken action on any issue. The idea of the discussions, he said, was to pool ideas which might be used by the organizations represented at the meetings.
Vernell Sturns, head of the Lawrence Human Relations Commission, said last week's meetings were proposed by Leonard Harrison in an attempt to reach a working agreement with the black students' demands.
The meetings were started two years ago to help secure summer jobs for the youth of Lawrence.
Kay said he thought last week's meetings had brought about a better understanding of the Lawrence High School black students' demands.
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