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Less than half the degree candidates showed for a streamlined Class Day. It lasted barely an hour. Robert F. Wagner Jr. '65 delivered a brief W. Jamesian oration in which he attributed collegiate ferment to a dearth of "adventure" on American campuses. Wegner lauded protest and demonstration as an impetus to wider reflection about "vital issues" and as a healthy expression of student dissatisfaction...
...Last year Wegner won $20,757-enough to make him the world cham pion of bull riding and the proud possessor of a nicely tooled leather and silver saddle (worth $800) awarded in Denver last week. His winnings so far this season total $2,556, more than $1,000 ahead of his closest competitor on the rodeo circuit. But Wegner's traveling expenses alone run to $12,000 a year, and he bets on himself to make ends meet. "I went up to Omak, Wash.," he says, "and this outfit had a bull they said had never been ridden...
Shot from a Cannon. Compared with a bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping...
Last week, at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver, Wegner never even got to count one. The luck of the draw gave him Bull No. 89, a cream-colored crossbreed that had never been successfully ridden. Grasping the rails of the chute, Wegner gingerly eased himself onto the bull's back and began to wrap the rope around his hand. The angry animal chose that instant to leap 4 ft. straight up, 10 ft. forward, and dig its front hooves into the dirt. Wegner flew headfirst over the horns ("like he was shot from a cannon...
...Hock to Ride. "Luck is about 80% of bull riding," Wegner says, and he is luckier than most: he has only a smashed vertebra and a broken foot to show for 14 years of competition. Raised on a wheat farm, he got his start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have...