Shockers everywhere, at occasions long ago to happenings just the other day, always have something interesting to say. Take this sampling as a Shock Talk example:
This is certainly a noisy crowd
The girls all talk and laugh so loud
But all is forgiven - they're only in fun,
Each out in life to be won by one.
They all sing well, I'm glad they came,
But all their songs relate to a name
As though the whole of this good life
Was couched in the thought of being a wife.
But dear young girls, let me suggest
That when you are older
and come to your best
You will find out as everyone can
That life means more than getting a man.
A rhyming address to the (apparently) man-hunting members of the women's basketball team, in the 1909 Parnassus
"Get your Shocker baseball tickets NOW."
WSU coach Gene Stephenson, as community excitement builds about construction to Eck Stadium Home of Tyler field. The $7 million stadium-improvement project, which is on track to meet its completion date of March 2000, includes enhanced seating, a new press box, 16 skyboxes and a new All American Club room. Selling $3.5 million in bonds will cover half the cost of the project, with the other half being financed through private contributions and personal seat licenses, All American Club memberships and luxury skybox suites. For tickets and membership information, call (316) 978-7469.
"If I had to work in order to obtain a living, I wouldn't live as long as I have."
Charles Lee McPherson '20,
from the 1920 Parnassus
The Shocker asks: "As the world prepares to enter a new millennium, what do you predict will be the biggest surprise for Shockers during the 1999-2000 academic year?"
"The biggest surprise this year will be the completion of the renovation of Neff Hall and the geology buildings. The ability to better display our holdings will make more of us aware of our strengths in anthropology and geology. In addition, the new home of the Honors Program should make a positive impression on our current and recruited honors students. The classrooms in these two buildings are vastly improved."
— WSU President Don Beggs
"In the new millenium we're finally going to uncover the reason why Grace Wilkie is the only building on campus that's always referred to by both first and last names. You never hear, for instance, 'That class is in Emory Lindquist Hall.'"
— Jeff Gates '98/98
"I'm hearing predictions that after the men's basketball team wins the 2000 Final Four and the university is overwhelmed with generous donations from proud alumni, WSU reinstates football and builds a huge parking facility."
— WSU Alumni Association President David Eads '84/86
"Shockers are going to be surprised that we'll actually have short-sleeved weather at WSU's opening baseball game, at which WuShock will announce during the seventh-inning stretch a run for the U.S. presidency. WU's running mate will be the Jayhawk, and his campaign manager, Willie the Wildcat."
— Joe Kleinsasser, WSU News & Media Director
