University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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, JL T1 .IL o . 0 cr,, . Cu i en i, luven Ls. the year in The transition of the current . of Laugh-In, along with quick events was dominated by politics - - flashes of graffiti like Forest during the fall of 1968. . r..- Fires Prevent Bears, and Hap- ' --- . College students, many of piness is bumping into Raquel became interested in pol- A , . z. - - , , -I- Welch . . . very slowly. :-- ,;...;,- - - .- itics for the first time, often ,..e. --, ---- ,-, . ...,. The Smothers Brothers host a found it very disillusioning. Pol- :1--- 1 , - --• :;:,) ' , , • , solid show of new talent such as ...:- itics, to many young people, was .... Glen Campbell, Mason Williams, kind of like banging your head , ,. k.,t, . r - . Pat Paulsen, and take a perverse against a wall—it accomplished delight in blending such ... just about as much and felt so y-- s - R. -- ' nations of special guests on the good when it stopped. same night as Kate Smith and And it stopped on Nov. 5 with . . ,. the Jefferson Airplane. Pat , Richard . Milhous Nixon, our sen, who ran a mock presidential 37th President of the Occasion- :-.;:,- -. campaign for months, became ally United States, elected by a ' almost as popular as his very narrow margin over Hubert :---- nent, Snoopy, with statements Humphrey and George Wallace, President-Elect Richard M. Nixon. like We have nothing to fear but who got 13% of the popular vote. fear itself . . . and the bogeyman. The Republican Convention at Miami Beach in Other television shows of the fall of 1968 that August resulted in Nixon ' s nomination on the first pealed to the college crowd in particular were ballot over the long-fought Nelson Rockefeller and the sion: Impossible, Star Trek, The Wild, Wild West last-minute Ronald Reagan candidacies. and Ozzie and Harriet Join A Wife-Swapping Club. Violence marred the Democratic Convention, which President Lyndon Johnson, who may be is more commonly known as the Battle of Chicago. bered as ending his term one of the most unpopular While Hubert Humphrey was given a first-ballot vie- presidents in history, called a halt to the bombing of tory over Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern, North Vietnam only a few days before the presidential who tried to win over the supporters of the late Robert election. The timing on this otherwise well-received F. Kennedy, Mayor Richard Daley ' s police clubbed announcement left suspicions of its political overtones thousands of demonstrators, causing all America to since Vice-President Humphrey was continually realize that a policeman can have a different image ciated with the Johnson administration. The Paris than that of nice Officer O ' Malley directing traffic on peace talks have been going on now for about six the corner. months with little or no progress and the war in Jacqueline Kenn edy suddenly married wealthy nam continues. Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, which Popular records during this time were Hey Jude, caused controversy and discussion, almost as though which is the Beatles ' all time best seller thus far, it were anyone else ' s business. We can be reasonably Harper Valley P.T.A. and a host of hits from the certain of an NBC special called Jackie Redecorates fresh new talent of songwriter-composer Jim Webb the Parthenon. who has written Up, Up, and Away, By the Time I Carrying with them a new outer space endurance Get to Phoenix, and McArthur Park. record and a sense of humor, Astronauts Walter On the KU campus, the All Student Council has Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele spent been busy amending the Senate Code, which makes eleven and a half days orbiting the earth 163 times up the findings of the special student-faculty aboard the Apollo 7, the first manned flight of the mittee which worked this summer to bring more spacecraft that will eventually carry astronauts to the dent representation to administrative decisions. At moon. The three astronauts had a successsful flight, this writing, the ASC has approved the oft-amended except that they all caught colds, and held up signs for Code, which calls for about 15 per cent actual voting TV cameras that said Keep those cards and letters representation in the proposed University Senate, and coming folks, and said things like, Here we in the the Faculty Senate will now approve or amend the beautiful Apollo room high atop everything. Senate Code. Two popular television shows among college stu- KU ' s powerful football season met its defeat of the dents are the Smothers Brothers Show and Rowan season recently against Oklahoma, leaving us with a and Martin ' s Laugh-In. Both are bold, extremely top- 7-1 record with two games left, and an outside chance ical and timely, and have found that sacred cows make for an Orange Bowl invitation. good hamburger. Laugh-In brought two phrases to But the big local news of 1969 may be that this is the national scene, Heah come da judge, heah come W. Clarke Wescoe ' s last year as Chancellor, yet da judge, and Sock it to me! which, come to think another indication of the continual transition of KU of it, will make as little sense to posterity that reads in 1969. this as they do now. Short, mini-skirts are the specialty —John Hill