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Ho; aecommg ain't what it used to be by MICK MORIABTY Nebraskan Staff Writer "Homecoming is probably the most hallowed tradition this university has," read the Nebraskan editorial of 1940. "Hundreds of alumni, still faithful to the scarlet and cream banner, still proud of their alma mater, still en thusiastic about returning for a week end, are converging on Lincoln from all over the na tion." The editorial continued: "Undergraduates . . . treat these alumni with the respect and honor they deserve. We "We youngsters will probably learn a good deal about how to cheer for the team once the alumni get their yelling started." youngsters will probably learn a good deal about how to cheer for the team once the alumni get their yelling started." If alumni come back to the University in 1970 expecting to find the same spirit of homecoming there was in 1940, they're in for a shock. Some of the most ubvious visages of homecoming remain, the house decorations and the pep rallies, but even those sacrosanct festivities have changed. Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon have decided to move away from the traditional homecoming display this year. "We decided to do something different than the past," Paul Hrdy. a SAC member, said. He added that his house is donating money to the Heart Fund for homecoming. "We didn't want to spend two or three weeks working on a display that would last for two or three hours." Hrdy said. "We chose a better way to use the money." Frosty Anderson, Sigma Chi, said the members of his house will build a display, but added Amen 1 ' - ... ..J . ... V: , . - U I I ... j , that the display would take the form of a carnival. "All of the money raised at the carnival put on by the Sigma Chis and the Alpha Omlcron Pi sorority will be given to the Wallace Village Home for Orthopedic Children and the Heart Fond." However, some alums might be overjoyed to find that some fraternities and sororities are continuing the decoration tradition, which is as old as Memorial Stadium ( 19 2 3) itself. "Everyone wanted to build a display, but $100 (the expense limit) just isn't enough for all the wood and crepe paper we need," said one Pi Beta Phi sorority member. Meanwhile, the Pi Phi's and the Phi Delt's will try to figure out how to build a winning display before Saturday with "just $100." And the Sigma Phi Epsilon pledges are building a display because "The alums will like it," Dave Liddle said, "and because the actives asked us to." Some of the traditional homecoming events will still be around, but George Kline, former University alumni secretary and originator of Nebraska Homecoming ac tivities in 1912, might be disappointed. And former Innocent Society members also might be disap pointed to learn that Ken Wald, Innocent President, wont be judging displays to award the Homecoming Cup this year. It is also doubtful that alums will find anything at all reminiscent of the Homecom ing dance of 1946 when Lee Hancock and his orchestra played. It was billed as the top event on the Union calendar. "44 cents per person. Come do the conga, rhumba and sam ba." Twenty-four years later a fraternity is running an ad in the Nebraskan asking that all of our battles be fought on the football field. Indeed, the stu dent of 1970 has a different view of Homecoming. m FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Faculty Senate Restructuring The Faculty Senate Thursday began the lengthy process of its own restructuring by approving proposals to represent all ranks of faculty on Senate com mittees and to provide for the election of the presiding officer of the Senate. However, the Faculty Senate did not consider, due to time limitations, a controversial proposal to expand the Senate's membership to include about 225 faculty with the rank of in structor. The recommendation t o represent all ranks on Faculty Senate committees was pro posed because currently "nearly 70 per cent of the members of Senate committees Purple by JIM JOHNSTON Associate Sports Editor Kansas Governor Robert Docking instructed the Kansas State Wildcats to "beat the hell out of Nebraska." Usually soft-spoken KSU President James McCain urged the Wildcats to "win a share of the title at Nebraska Saturday and win it all next year." K-State sports information director Dav Nelson called Saturday's clash with unbeaten Nebraska "the bowl game for Kansas State." Two hundred and thirty purple-caped band members are traveling to Lincoln to see their Wildcats play Nebraska. That's the attitude in purple pride country as the probation haunted Wildcats try to clinch at least a share of the Big Eight title In Lincoln Saturday. There's a Kit at stake for both the Cornhuskers and the Wildcats. The Huskers are after sole possession of the Big Eight Ti tle, a high national ranking and a bowl bid. The Wildcats just have the conference cham pionship to worry about because you dont get to go to bowls if you get caught being naughty. But the hungry "Cats can smell the Big Eight title and Homecoming display, 1970 DU 13, 1970 LINCOLN, are full professors; and most of the rest are associate pro fessors," according to a report on restructuring the Senate. "This inadverent oligarchy tends to be self-perpetuating." Currently, the Lincoln cam pus president is automatically presiding officer of the Faculty Senate. The Senate's decision to elect their presiding officer makes President Joseph Soshnik inelible to be elected to the position he currently holds. The Senate also shifted the power to appoint faculty members to Senate committees from the Lincoln campus president to the Senate's own Committee on Committees. 'Cats hungry they already have shown that they have enough purple pride to stick in there under any condition. There are 24 seniors on the Kansas State squad. Those were seniors who were told they would be the first KSU team in history to play in a bowl game. That dream is down the drain, but these seniors have led the Wildcats to title contention. There's another individual at Kansas State who has overcome obstacles to bring the 'Cats into the Big Eight picture. He's Vince Gibson. He's the 'Cats coach. He took a job that they said couldn't be done. But Gibson, who was named Coach of the Year by Playboy Magazine has done it. "This job Is not for the timid, the skeptic, or the lazy," said PEP RALLY TONIGHT YELL LIKE HELL FOR HOMECOMING 6:00 South Door of Union ,1 NEB. VOL. 94, NO. 34 begins Before this change most faculty members on Senate com mittees were appointed by the Lincoln campus president while others were elected by the Senate. Currently only 29 are elected by the Senate. In addition the Senate gave the Committee on Committees the power to increase the number of committee positions the Senate could elect. Dean of Faculties C Peter Magrath, who presided at Thursday's meeting in place of Soshnik, announced that there would be another special Senate meeting before December 8 to continue debate on proposed restructuring of the Senate. Gibson when he took the job in 1966. "I love to compete and I intend doing that at Kansas State." Gibson turned Manhattan, Kan., purple and bui't a winning football program. There's purple beer, purple parking meters, purple underwear, purple eggs, purple butter and even some died purple hair. But most of all, there are purple football uniforms that are winning more games than they loose. Vince Gibson made a winner out of the losingest foot ball team in the nation. But the probation, now under furiher consideration by the NCAA and th? Big Eight, kil ed bowl hepes for the Wildcats. Now they eye the Big Eight championship. And Nebraska . is the only hurdle standing in the way.