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Show Winter quarter began with a freshness and renewed vigor that marked the advent of new classes and new activities. Marcel Marceau was the first in the series of visiting celebrities that included Martin Luther King, Senator Paul Douglas, and Werner Von Braun. The Union Ballroom was transformed into a Parisian garden for the Junior Prom, "Une Soiree a Versailles." Beginning the new quarter with more investigations, the Senate launched a probe into the campus traffic problem. The face of the administration changed as Academic Vice-President Sterling M. McMurrin left President Olpin's staff to join that of President Kennedy as Commissioner of Education. The University celebrated its 111th birthday with "Operation 111." Better intercultural understanding was promoted with a two-week presentation of "Spotlight on the Middle East." In basketball, the "Running Redskins" battled their way past foes to the NCAA Regionals, and then with the taste of that victory went on to Kansas City to win third place among the nation's basketball teams. Utes took a carefree mood for the WRA-Snow Carnival. But the face of ASUU President John Bennion was anything but carefree as he delivered his State of the Campus address to the Senate. The Senate responded to his recommendations by altering student government slightly, giving the ASUU President a permanent seat in the Senate.Basketball was a part of the changing countenance of Utah as the Redskins first defeated Colorado State in a tie-breaking conference game and then went on to a third place berth in the NCAA Championships in Kansas City. The University Theater's cast of "Damn Yankees" returned to the campus from its Asian tour which had been under the auspices of the USO and the State Department, and had taken the Utes on a route covering 20,000 miles in eight weeks.9 |