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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
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, 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.
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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
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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
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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.
