University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Just as students and faculty at KU began their semesters with great expectations, the 1989 football team kicked their season off with hopes of long-awaited victories. Glory Days was the theme of the season that opened with a game against the Baylor Bears. At the game, Martin Diggs, Wichita senior, became the new tan man (pictured right) when he won the suntan contest at the beach party that was part of the pre-game festivities sponsored by the athletic department. Attendance topped 42,000, considerably higher than the previous year ' s opening game attendance of 32,000, and when KU faced New Mexico State, 73 high school bands turned out to perform during halftime. Camping out on the Hill during games was another familiar sight at KU; straying from the tradition of tailgating in the parking lot, fans brought their barbeques, blankets and coolers to the hill overlooking the stadium. Seeing the unusual in the usual at KU - on nearly any given day Hare Krishnas could be found passing out pamplets in front of the Kansas Union, and because of the unusually limited amount of parking spaces, bicycle racks became flooded with parked bikes.

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Only at KU. Both students and graduates of the University share memories of a place that is somehow different from anywhere else - set apart from the realities of life after college and from the plains of a Midwestern state by its rolling hills, tree-lined boulevard and enveloping academic atmosphere. The beauty of the campus speaks for itself; the quiet moments of reflection spent at Potter Lake, the 84-year-old columns of Lippincott Hall standing proud on Jayhawk Boulevard, and the twin sets of doors of Strong Hall opening up to the center of enrollment and administrative activity on the campus testify that KU is a place rich in tradition and constantly subject to change. On these opening pages and throughout the book, you will find bits and pieces of life on the KU campus - sights that are often overlooked in the mad rush of the day, but then recalled years from now. And you ' ll remember what it was like then, standing in long add drop lines, watching the band play on the field of Memorial Stadium, and having high hopes and frustrations as KU tried to build a new football team.

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Dale Fulkenon