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USC draws ambassa College Press Service USC may attract political figures such as ambassadors, but other schools attract more important luminaries. Kansas State University attracts presidents like flies. Although the records are hardly definitive, KSU has been more successful in attracting U.S. presidents ? and the attendant publicity?than any other college. The most recent was the Sept. 7 visit of Ronald Reagan, whose popularity at colleges is depressed by his stance on military registration, his cuts of student aid and his administration's disruptive delays in making aid awards. BUT REAGAN'S Kansas State visit drew some 11,000 enthusiastic, supportive listeners. In 1970, President Richard Nixon's poll rating plummeted after the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, the killings at Kent State University and a nationwide student protest strike. That year he went to Kansass State, where he met a cheering crowd of students. Two years before, Sen. Robert Kennedy made his first presidential campaign speech at KSU. Republican contender Nelson Rockefeller "was sitting in a New York City restaurant, reading these glowing stories of Bobby Kennedy's spectacular reception here, and said, 'I could draw there too/" KSU administrator Carl Rochet said. 1 I 6062 Garners Ferry Rd. j | 1 _ Woodhill Mall 1 | Columbia, S.C. 29200 I 1 A 803-776-4151 | I IJBODA PIPES n7 DUMH ? ACCESSOR!ES ?? ^fJ^\ _ /^ FINE TOBACCOS "the Quality is in the Tuste" Pipes, Hand-Roiled Cigars, f, Fnroion ? Dnmpctir fioarpttps . - LMaruman Lifetime Lighters, : Pipe Accessories i j FULL REFUND on pipes 1 if not completely satisfied! i j I I . 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Out of "thousands and thousands of invitations the president gets each day," the KSU visit made sense to President Reagan for many reasons, White House spokesman Doug Elmets said. ONE REASON was that Reagan, who had addressed KSU's prestigious Alf Landon Lecture Series 15 years ago, wanted to celebrate Landon's 95th birthday by doing it again, Elmets said. It also helped that "it (KSU) is an agricultural school, and he had some things to say about grain sales to the Soviet Union." And the president, Elmets added, "wanted to speak with a group of students who would be able to appreciate what \ j YoU V6 ArtivitiCS ^ a \ f Parties, C .asses,. . ,h?rft anybody out \ I >'&" ? j hardly had time to thino I there in that "outside world" - maybe a . , I boyfriend up in Jersey, Aunt Martha in Spar- .11' I tanburg, or perhaps a long lost friend you met in 11 I Ft. Lauderdale in the spring. 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KSU's Rochet said the Landon lectures are the main draw )ut conceded the friendliness students express to visitors lelps elevate the Landon series over other prestigious senes )n other campuses. "STUDENTS HERE are less antagonistic, less likely to iemonstrate," he said. "Maybe it's the nature of the students. Maybe it's the nature of the school. I don't know for sure." One student group did plan a peaceful demonstration against sudent aid cuts, the nuclear arms buildup and other administration policies. But generally students stressed the honor of having Reagan visit. "I respect him because he's president, but I don't like all his cutbacks on welfare and education," sophomore Terry Stark said. "When I come back as an alum/' junior Mike Davenport added, "I'll be able to say, 'Yes, I was here when President Reagan spoke. 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