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Thursday, April 23, 2015Volume 1 Issue 1 KANSAN.COM
Celebrating 150 years of campus history as told by The University Daily Kansan
UNION BURNS!KANSAN
STAFFAPRIL 21, 1970
The Kansas Union was rav-aged Monday night by a fire that caused extensive damage to 40,000 square feet in the south half of the building.
The fire, confined to the up-per half of the building, ap-parently started near the Pine Room and spread immediate-ly to the roof, which was com-pletely destroyed in the older section of the building.
Bill Rowlands, information counter manager and night manager of the Union, discov-ered the Union fire.
“I heard something pop,” he said. “It sounded like a light bulb exploding, and I ran up-stairs. I think that everyone in the building noticed the smoke about the same time and evac-uated the building.”
Firetrucks arrived 15 min-utes after the fire was reported. Frank Burge, Union director, told firemen when they arrived the fire was confined to the center and western sections of the roof at that time.
After an hour and a half of fighting the fire, flames of 20 to 30 feet shot off the roof and scorched the center tower of
the Union.The intensity of the flames
caved in the roof and leaped to the south addition of the build-ing, caving in that section.
The fire was finally brought under control around 2 a.m. today after flames had gut-ted the top two floors of the Union’s main section.
Lawrence Fire Chief Fred Sanders said the fire started near an elevator on the third floor near the Pine Room.
“The man in the Union said there was a definite explosion,” Sanders said. “It blew plaster off the ceiling and tore off the elevator door.”
Later this morning Sanders said it could be possibly three days before the official cause of fire was known, but added, “In my opinion, it was set.”
Sanders said he reached his conclusion after talking to firemen and policemen at the scene.
University of Kansas Chan-cellor E. Laurence Chalmers, who is in Washington D.C. attending a conference of Uni-versity presidents and admin-istrators, said in a telephone
statement early this morning, it now may become an obvious necessity to appeal to strength-en campus security to prevent further incidents from occur-ring at KU.
Chalmers said he was first informed of the fire in the Kansas Union at his hotel in Washington. He said Uni-versity Executive Secretary Ray Nichols called him about 1 a.m. (EST) and at that time little information was available
concerning the fire.“It certainly seems,” Chalm-
ers said, “that the three at-tempts at arson on the KU campus on April 8 and the three actual fires in the com-munity the last three weeks seems to suggest that it is a py-romaniac at work. I do think, however, that it is the work of one person or perhaps two or three people.”
Chalmers said he does not plan to return to Lawrence any earlier than scheduled unless he gets a report that there is something he can do.
An estimated 2,000 people viewed the blazing building while several more aided fire-men in any way they could. Many attempted to clear the building of furniture, helped balance fire hoses, and provid-ed coffee and doughnuts to the firefighters.
“The fire could have been a lot worse without student help,” Sanders said.
Burge said the building was adequately insured, but for all practical purposes the entire south half of the building is a total loss.
The Union, Burge said, will definitely be closed to all stu-dents until further notification from him.
“The man in the Union said there was a defi-nite explosion. It blew plaster off the ceiling and tore off the elevator door.”
FRED SANDERSLawrence Fire Chief
University Archives
Male Students Raid Women’s Dorms
KANSAN STAFF
MAY 20, 1952
The current seige of panty raids hit KU last night when an estimated 50 boys broke into Templin, Miller and Wat-kins halls. Mrs. Lela Whiteford, Templin housemother, said “a gang” ran around the house “stealing things” around mid-night. Doors were broken and screens ripped when the raiders broke into Miller and Watkins halls.
“The girls who were unfor-tunate enough to have washed last night lost almost every-thing they had,” a resident of Miller was quoted as saying.
Last night’s raids brought to 26 the number of American seats of learning that have wit-nessed raids by male students bent on carrying off unmen-tionable trophies this year.
By far the wildest and the most destructive raids occurred at Columbia, a city of 32,000 and site of the University of Missouri and two girls’ schools, Stephens and Christian colleges.
More than 2,000 men students from MU stormed the dormito-ries at Stephens. They battered their way into the buildings through broken screens and windows.
Squads of coeds, wielding mops and brooms and dousing
the boys with buckets of water, failed to halt them. Once inside, the boys snatched armfuls of underthings just as police ar-rived and routed them.
The party was diverted to school buildings and the boys smashed glass and broke several pieces of furniture.
At this point, acting Police Chief J. Lewis Parks declared the situation out of hand and beyond the ability of his 22-man police force to handle.
He called Missouri Gov. For-rest Smith who authorized the mobilization of the Columbia unit of the Missouri National guard.
But by the time the company of 56 guardsmen was mustered, the raiders had spent their en-ergy, and most had returned to their books.
The largest raid in terms of numbers was at the Universi-ty of Wisconsin in Madison, where 5,000 male students
chanting “Go, Go, Go” and led by a trumpet blowing ringleader stormed 10 dormitories and so-rority houses.
No arrests or injuries were re-ported at the KU raid.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala., about 1,000 men of the University of Alabama raced up and down the campus bent on staging a panty raid. But University of-ficials and police armed with nightsticks kept them from en-tering any girls’ quarters.
The coeds had to content themselves by tossing old socks, scraps of cloth and bottles to the stymied raiders. All underth-ings had previously been locked up in trunks in anticipation of a raid.
University resident Dr. John M. Gallalee appeared at New hall and shouted to the girls. “Don’t worry, everything will be all right.”
Dr. Gallalee was met by a bar-rage of eggs and mud.
“The girls who were unfortunate enough to have washed last night lost almost everything they had.”
RESIDENT OF MILLER HALL
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KANSAN STAFF
MARCH 8, 1965
A group of about 150 Civil Rights Council members and sympathizers staged a protest demonstration in Chancellor Clarke W. Wescoe’s office today at 10:30 a.m.
The group was led by Wal-ter Bgoya, Tanganyika senior; George Unseld, Louisville, Ky., senior; and Nate Sims, resi-dence and standing unknown. The three men are the newly elected co-chairmen of the CRC. The election was held last night.
The CRC members were protesting “the tacit approval of discrimination in campus housing.”
The statement, which was mimeographed and distributed to CRC members at the meet-ing, said the demonstrators would “remain in his office un-til the chancellor has taken im-mediate action to include our demands in policies and regula-tions of the University.
“UPON SUCH ACTION, a pamphlet should be published by the University and a state-ment sent to the UDK for im-mediate release,” it read.
After two and a half hours of discussion and debate in the corridor outside the chancel-lor’s office the only statement that Chancellor Wescoe has made is that he will not issue an executive order as requested in the first demand of the Civil Rights Council and Interested
Students Protest.He also commented that the
University Daily Kansan board will be meeting with the All Student Council to discuss the sixth demand.
He added no complaints concerning housing have been lodged in his office during the last two and a half years.
At a meeting held by the council last night in the Union, Sims suggested that perhaps the whites in the group couldn’t un-derstand the situation because they hadn’t been “sat” upon.
Sims’ comment brought disorder among the group as members began talking to one another. Some white members suggested that their coworkers be a little less emotional and more rational about the matter.
150 Sit-In-Stand-Out by Wescoe’s Office
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JayhawkBlvd.
150KUyears of
Millions of students have
strolled Jayhawk Boulevard since the University’s incep-tion in 1865. Over the past 150 years, countless events have shaped the University that we know and cherish today.
History is an important part of who we are as the Univer-sity community. We embrace the Jayhawk, a storied Kansas tradition that derives from the Civil War. The Jayhawk isn’t just our mascot; being a Jayhawk is a way of life. Upon graduation, Jayhawk pride
isn’t something that leaves us as we walk through the Cam-panile. Jayhawk blood runs through our veins for the rest of our lives. Over the past 113 years, the University Daily Kansan has been there to cover it all, from the University’s first home-
coming in 1912 to President Barack Obama’s visit in 2015. This section retells some of the historically significant events that have happened on Mount Oread since the Kansan’s beginning. Unfortunately, an entire novel consisting of Kansan
articles wouldn’t even make a dent in the history of the Uni-versity. I realize it’s impossible to fit 150 years of history in 10 broadsheet pages. Determin-ing what story has more cul-tural significance over another story is no simple task because everything that has happened
here is important. Looking back on the 150 years of history at the Univer-sity of Kansas, one thing is for sure: I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.
— AMIE JUST@AMIE_JUST
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK:
TIM JONESNOV. 20, 1967
Plans for the “tallest building in Kansas” — a $5.8 million, 25 sto-ry humanities building- — were unveiled today by University of-ficials and designing architects.
The building, to be on the site of Robinson Gymnasium and Haworth Hall, will house 51 classrooms and 11 undergradu-ate study rooms in two, five story wings and provide 487 faculty offices and 28 graduate seminar rooms and 71 study rooms in the 25-story tower.
Bids for construction will be let in mid-spring 1968, said R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor for op-erations. Actual construction will begin in the late summer of 1968; the building is expected to be fin-ished by the fall semester of 1970.
The state will provide $3.9 million and the federal gov-ernment the other $1.9 million.
Construction will be in two phases. The first phase, includ-ing the east wing and tower, will begin next summer. When the Experimental Biology and Hu-man Development Building, un-der construction south of Malott Hall, is completed in early 1969, Haworth Hall will be razed and the second phase of construc-tion, the west wing will begin.
The architectural firm, Wood-man and Van Doren, Wichita, and William Hale, state architect, said they were faced in designing the building, with the limitations of making the building com-patible with the rest of campus, giving access from all directions, and avoiding “canyonizing” the campus by bringing buildings too close together.
The building, part of KU’s mas-ter plan, is designed to bring the largest group of students, arts and sciences majors, back to the center of campus.
Lawton said because general classrooms were the easiest to make temporary, the construc-tion of a permanent general classroom building was post-poned while specialized facilities — science laboratories, for exam-ple — were built.
The high-rise tower was de-signed to maintain the open-ness of the top of Mt. Oread. A glass-enclosed concourse and study area connecting the wings at all five levels will provide a see-through effect between Jayhawk Boulevard and the valley to the south.
The building includes a 150-car parking area in the basement for “prime” faculty and handicapped students.
There will be six elevators serv-ing the tower but none for the classroom wings.
Refreshment facilities, now in the basement of Strong Hall, will be moved to the building.
Woodman said the building will be constructed with poured or pre-cast concrete and will be an off-white or sand color. Win-dows and frames will be bronze-glazed to cut down the solar heat and increase air conditioning efficiency.
A two-duct heating and cooling system will be installed to allow year-round temperature control.
Facilities will include many
multi-media devices such as closed circuit television, video tapes and electronic language labs. Woodman said to avoid the future obsolescence of the building, room would be left to accommodate any electronic fa-cilities the University might want to install.
The building will rise approx-imately 280 feet above Jayhawk Boulevard.
“At the risk of being corny, this building is the high point in the University’s master plan,” Chan-cellor W. Clarke Wescoe said.
Editor’s note: Due to high con-struction costs, the University chose not to use this design and in-stead went with a design for what is now Wescoe Hall.
MARY ANNE OLIVAR
JAN. 18, 1978
The $5 million Helen Fores-man Spencer Museum of Art, which houses 25,000 works of art, was opened to the public for the first time last night.
The museum’s opening co-incides with the 100th anni-versary of the establishment of KU’s art collection and the 50th anniversary of the dedi-cation of the Thayer collection, the core of KU’s art holdings.
From 7:30-10:30 p.m. people streamed into the museum, braving last night’s cold weath-er to browse through the gal-leries on the building’s third and fourth floors.
The museum’s first floor is being considered for the art library, which is now in Wat-son Library. The department of art history and a museum shop are on the second floor. Officers and storage rooms are on the fifth floor.
Spencer Museum was a gift from Helen Foresman Spen-cer, a member of the KU Class of 1926.
Charles Eldredge, director of the Spencer museum, said in an opening announcement, “This is a gift from Mrs. Spen-cer especially for the students.”
Spencer was not able to at-tend the grand opening. How-ever, she attended an inaugural preview Sunday night, which several dignitaries and distin-guished people in the arts also
attended, including the direc-tor of Harvard University’s art museum, Seymour Slive.
Former chancellors Franklin W. Murphy, W. Clarke Wes-coe, Raymond Nichols and Dean W. Malott also were at Sunday’s preview.
Like the opening of an old 20th Century Fox movie, beams of light from two large spotlights pierced the sky an-nouncing the festivity.
For the first time since 1971, visitors were able to see about 2,000 seemingly forgotten art works that had been in stor-age.
Lee Bishop, Bonner Springs senior and an art history ma-jor, was excited about the ex-hibit.
“We’re seeing things that ha-ven’t been shown for years,” she said, referring to the stored art works.
Part of the museum’s collec-tion previously was displayed in Spooner Hall. However, Eldredge said 97 percent of the collection could not be displayed in Spooner because of a lack of space. Many of the art works were stored in a fire-proof, humidity controlled area in Spencer Research Li-brary.
Admiring the exhibits, Bish-op said of the $5 million gift, “The museum was worth ev-ery penny of it.”
A number of other persons shared her enthusiasm.
J. Theodore Johnson, profes-sor of French said, “It is a re-
markable teaching museum. I am really extremely pleased and will bring my students here so that they can experi-ence some of the works of art that are here.”
Musical groups played in six of the museum’s 12 galleries during the grand opening. Each group played music that correspondent to the gallery they were in.
For instance, a country mu-sic group played in the 20th Century gallery and the Col-legium Musicum played in the 18th Century gallery.
“After so many months of planning,” Johnson said, “the art works are coming to life in this atmosphere, among peo-ple and music.”
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes praised the museum and said it was one of the finest univer-sity museums in the United States and would attract peo-ple to Kansas.
“It will enrich and enhance the cultural lives of students for years to come,” he said.
According to Eldredge, KU’s collection is one of the most comprehensive collections in Kansas.
Ralph T. Coe, director of the Nelson Art Gallery, has said KU’s art collection ranked among the finest in any com-parable institution in the country.
The collection includes Ori-ental and Western decorative art, Japanese prints and Amer-ican paintings.
According to Eldredge, KU’s collection is particularly note-worthy in the areas of medie-val art, 17th and 18th century art, American painting and graphics.
A number of the collection’s paintings have been shown recently in exhibits in Europe, Canada and the Orient.
KU students, staff, faculty, and donors helped plant
over 50 trees and shrubs on campus last year.
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humanities building to reach 25 stories
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Many fight cold to open spencer museum of art
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Opening night for Lied Center
“Secret Garden” is center’s
debut
SARA BENNETT
SEPT. 27, 1993
Less than 24 hours before opening night, “The Secret Garden” bore little resem-blance to an award-winning Broadway musical.
Bird-shaped trees perched amid black crates, only hinted at the elaborate production in the works. But the secret to transforming the Lied Cen-ter stage into a child’s garden lay hidden within those very crates.
The Tony Award-winning musical “The Secret Garden” opens with an invitation-only performance tonight at the Lied Center, ushering in the $14.6 million performing arts complex’s first season.
Eric Insco, stage manager for the touring company of “The Secret Garden,” said he was excited to be involved with the center’s first produc-tion.
“I feel kind of lucky in a way,” he said, gazing into the crimson and blue auditorium. “It really is a treat. The house is stunning, and I just know it’s going to sound wonderful in here.”
Insco and his crew will spend 14 to 16 hours in-stalling the six truckloads of equipment required for “The Secret Garden.” Although the Lied Center has new state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems, the touring company brought its own equipment, including an ornately painted proscenium, backdrops never before used on tour, lights and a large turntable that rotates to change scenes.
Lee Saylor, technical direc-tor for the Lied Center, said the center was providing 30 of
its 44 rigging lines from which the troupe will hang scenery, more than 70 crew members and stage hands, spotlights and 100 pounds of dry ice.
Preparing for the center’s first performance has been nerve racking, Saylor said.
“The Lied Center staff is tied up in knots,” he said. “We’ve spent months getting ready for this, and now it’s here.”
Insco said opening a show in a new hall had inherent chal-lenges, but the quality of the Lied Center was good enough to bring in other big-name shows.
“ ‘Phantom of the Opera’ will be able to play here,” he said. “I bet you’ll see ‘Les Misera-bles’ here within the next two years.”
Nevin Steinberg, sound technician for the touring group, said the Lied Center was one of the better halls “The Secret Garden” has played in.
“It’s smaller than most, and the seating is intimate, which is good for this kind of show,” he said. “I much prefer it to some of the caves we’ve played in.”
As stage hands bustled about hanging lights and stacking crates, Insco shielded his eyes and peered into the Lied Cen-ter balcony. “It’s pretty won-derful, isn’t it?” he said.
“It really is a treat. The house is stun-ning, and I just know it’s going to sound wonderful in here.”
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Hoch Auditorium catches fire, reduced to limestone wallsJEFF MEESEY
ANDROCHELLE
OLSONJUNE 19, 1991
The fire that gutted Hoch Au-ditorium on Saturday afternoon caused more than $12.8 million in damage and drew a crowd of 500 to 600 to Jayhawk Boulevard, KU police said.
Rich Barr, Lawrence fire mar-shal, said the department re-ceived a call that Hoch was on fire at about 3:20 p.m. Firefight-ers arrived within a few minutes.
Five firefighters immediately entered the burning building and attempted to extinguish the fire on the roof from the third floor balcony, Barr said.
He said the firefighters were or-dered to leave the building when parts of the roof began falling.
At 3:55 p.m., the roof collapsed, Barr said.
Arlan Maltby, Lawrence grad-uate student, said the fire was spectacular. He saw the roof col-lapse.
“The center went first and a ball of flames shot out of it,” Maltby said.
The fire was declared under control at about 7 p.m. Saturday.
A fire is considered under con-trol when its progression has been stopped, it is contained and it is not a threat to other build-ings, Barr said.
Because of the intensity of the blaze, fire departments from Overland Park, Shawnee, Lenexa, Wakarusa Township, Eudora and Lexington Township were called to help.
Barr said up to nine fire trucks were on the scene during the fire.
KU police officer Burdel Welsh said control of Hoch was turned over to KU police early Sunday morning.
Maj. Ralph Oliver, assistant
director of KU police, said light-ning had been declared the cause of the fire.
Mike McClure, Overland Park senior, said he saw a lightning bolt strike the building.
He was on break from his Fish Kansas class and was standing near the northeast corner of Robinson Center.
McClure said the lightning hit the center of Hoch’s roof.
The flash was so bright that Mc-Clure and several classmates had to look away after it struck.
“We were blinded for a cou-ple of seconds,” he said. “I knew immediately that Hoch had a 95 percent chance of going down.”
McClure said he called 911 to report the fire after he saw smoke coming from Hoch’s roof.
He said the operator did not seem to believe him at first.
“They said, ‘Yeah, we’ll go check it out,’ ” McClure said.
Craig Kokesh, Scottsdale, Ariz. senior, was standing in the same area and also saw the strike.
He said he saw white smoke coming from the roof as if it were coming from a chimney.
“An hour later, the roof was gone,” Kokesh said.
Liz Blass, Lawrence graduate student, said Hoch was an im-pressive part of campus.
She said she remembered standing in the un-air condi-tioned Hoch for enrollment.
“I thought, ‘This is the worst part about going to school,’ ” she said.
Lori Reasoner, Lawrence soph-omore, said she cried when she found out Hoch was burning.
She said she hoped the shell of the building could be saved.
“I remember coming up here when I was young, and I thought it was really cool,” she said. “I thought I would always come here for Vespers and Rock Chalk.” University Archives
KANSAN STAFF
OCT. 12, 1912
Saturday, October 29, marks an epoch in the histo-ry of the University of Kan-sas grander and more sub-lime than the day 29 years ago when McCook Field was first opened. This day will officially open the Kan-sas Stadium. The Coliseum of Kansas, a memorial and monument to the past and a challenge to the future will be dedicated when the bear-ers of the Crimson and Blue carry on the fight that tied the great Nebraska team last
year in the final game on Mc-Cook Field.
Kansas possesses a most en-viable athletic tradition. Mc-Cook Field has witnessed the development of the Universi-ty’s athletic history as scenes of many noteworthy contests in which the name of the Jay-hawker has been linked with that of Honored enemies, the Tiger, Cornhusker and Soon-er. The stadium will carry on the spirit of Kansas, will make greater and bigger the ideal traditions of the Crim-son and Blue.
The result of the game Sat-urday will not be decided until the final whistle blows,
but Forrest C. Allen, director of athletics, only wishes that the Jayhawker team may car-ry on that wonderful fighting spirit that has made Kansas so worthy a foe; that same spirit that tied Nebraska; that spirit of the student body last year when they made the sta-dium a reality instead of a possibility.
Although only two sections of the stadium, 9,500 seats will be available for the game Saturday. Of this number, 4,780 are stadium seats and the remaining number con-sists of temporary bleachers that have been arranged on the opposite side of the field.
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Coliseum is a Memorial to Fighting Spirit of Kansas
KANSAN STAFF
OCT. 28, 1921
The first “Homecoming” to be celebrated by Uni-versity alumni will be No-vember 23, the day of the Missouri game, and the alumni office is already getting reports from many who are planning to come.
Several student organiza-tions have announced that they will be prepared to entertain visiting alumni. Fraternities and sororities are expecting a large repre-
sentation from their alum-ni membership.
For visiting alumni, this “Homecoming” has one advantage over com-mencement in that visitors can see the University in operation. Special oppor-tunities will be given for the observation of all de-partments of University work.
“County clubs should be organized early this year,” said Prof. L. N. Flint, gen-eral secretary of the Alum-ni Association this morn-ing, “because they will
need to make plans for in-viting the alumni in their home counties to attend the ‘Homecoming’ and for entertaining as many of them as possible. The alumni records show the list of graduates by coun-ties and as fast as student organizations are perfect-ed they will be supplied with such lists. The Home-coming anniversaries at Il-linois, Indiana, Wisconsin and other universities have become as interesting as their commencements and attract even larger crowds.”
Alumni to celebrate first ‘Homecoming’
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ELAINE SUNGAPRIL 5, 1988
In 1980, when the U.S. hock-ey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., in the Winter Olympics, sports commentator Al Michaels uttered his now-fa-mous question: “Do you believe in miracles?”
The Jayhawks did. They defied all logic, beat the odds and con-quered the previously unstoppa-ble Oklahoma Sooners last night 83-79 in Kemper Arena and took the 1988 NCAA Champi-onship, the first national title for Kansas and the Big Eight Con-ference since 1952.
But the situation did not look good for the Jayhawks when they fell behind by five points with more than 13 minutes left in the game. The Jayhawks looked grim as they huddled during their time-out, and the Sooners did some preliminary dancing, thinking the champi-onship was all theirs.
The Sooners, though, over-looked two things: substitution and experience. Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs substituted only 12 times the entire game compared to Kansas’ 42. In ad-dition, forward Dave Sieger, who hit six of eight three-point shots in the first half, faltered at the three-point line and eventually gave up long-range shooting and passed it inside to Stacey King.
The Sooners also thought that their full-court press would car-ry them through. It had intimi-dated other teams, but not the Jayhawks, who had seen it twice before and were no longer afraid of it.
“We know what they do in the game,” said Kansas forward Milt Newton. “With other teams, they’re in shock with the press. But we’re accustomed to that. We didn’t think that we could get beat a third time. This third time was for the national cham-pionship.”
The Sooners tried to speed up the tempo as they had done in the first half, but several times the Jayhawks deliberately held the ball at the top of the circle to rest and throw Oklahoma off the game.
Oklahoma called a time-out with 1:39 remaining. The score was 77-73, and Grace just com-pleted two free throws. After the time-out, guard Terrence Mul-lins fouled Kansas guard Clint Normore and Normore missed the front end of his one and one.
Kansas coach Larry Brown sent in Scooter Barry, one of the team’s top free-throw shoot-ers. Sieger fouled Newton, who made the front end of his one and one. He missed the second shot.
With less than a minute in the game, Grace hit a jump shot for a 78-75 score, and Oklahoma called a time-out. With :41 left, guard Mookie Blaylock hit a jump shot and made the score 78-77. Tubbs called for another time-out.
Oklahoma applied pressure as the Jayhawks passed the ball around the perimeter. Blaylock fouled Barry, but Barry complet-ed only the first of his free throws with 16 seconds left in the game.
Oklahoma called its last time-out. On the in-bounds pass, Pip-er was stuck and and could not find anyone open. He called a time-out, and on the second try he passed it in to Manning.
“That was about as nervous as I was in the game,” Piper said. “They switched a couple guys on us. I didn’t have a clear pass, and I wasn’t going to take a chance. I told Danny out of the huddle that the ball was coming to him. The other guys were so quick, we needed to use Danny’s size.”
With 5 seconds left, Grant fouled Manning. And Manning sealed the victory by once more completing both his free throws to make the final score 83-79.
“This feeling is great to be able to close out my career like this in Kansas City, in front of peo-ple that have supported me for four years,” Manning said. “It’s something that’s well deserved for them, but it wasn’t a gift. Some people said we got lucky, but what’s luck? Luck presents opportunity, and we took that opportunity.
“This is for all the people who said it couldn’t be done, that we wouldn’t make it. This is from the national champions, the
No. 1 team in the country. How do you like us now?”
When the final buzzer sound-ed, the players rushed onto the center of the court and became one tangled mass, surrounded by cheerleaders, security officers and cameramen desperately try-ing to capture the moment.
The crowd was screaming in the stands, and Kansas students who were lucky enough to get tickets for the game were danc-ing on the press tables that lined the court. The Kansas basketball band played “Goin’ to Kansas City.” The CBS cameras were pushing to get Manning, who finished with 31 points and 18 rebounds and was voted the tournament’s most outstanding player.
The players donned national championship T-shirts. Guard Kevin Pritchard searched for his parents and saw that they were still in the stands waving. He demanded that the security offi-cers let his parents on the floor, and together they celebrated the victory.
Somewhere in the middle was Brown, who has taken two dif-ferent schools to three different Final Four appearances in the last seven years. Brown, at age 47, had succeeded in leading the Jayhawks to his first national championship.
Just two months ago, Kansas was 12-8, and people wondered whether the Jayhawks would re-ceive a berth in the NCAA tour-nament.
Last night, they shook off the skeptics, played the game of their lives and sent Manning and fellow senior forwards Piper and Archie Marshall off with the greatest farewell present possi-ble.
The stepladders were set up under the baskets at each end, and Marshall, as he did in Ponti-ac, Mich., was the first to mount the ladder and cut the net.
The crowd had its eyes fastened on the Kansas team as each play-er received his chance to cut the net. The Sooners linked off to their dressing room, heads down. There would be no victo-rious dancing on the basketball rims this night.
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MARCH 27, 1952
Kansas won its first NCAA championship last night as the Jayhawks rolled over St. John’s of Brooklyn 80-63 in the tourney finals in Se-attle. The win sends Kansas into the Olympic playoffs in Kansas City on Saturday.
Control-playing and ball-hawking by the Kansans proved to be too strong a fac-tor for St. John’s Redmen as Kansas took an early 1-0 lead on a free throw by All-Amer-
ican Clyde Lovellette and was never heeded.
Lovellette turned in his usu-al impressive game, hitting 12 from the field and nine from the charity stripe for 33 points. He was important to the rebounding as he con-trolled the boards for Kansas.
Lovellette swept the NCAA record book clean as he gar-nered the most field goals (56) the most free throws (35) and the most points (141) made by one player for the four-game round of NCAA play. The old records stood at 41, 27 and 53, re-spectively.
Going into the game, Lovel-lette only had to make two free throws to break the ex-isting record. Within one minute of play, he had tied the record. It was broken be-fore the first period ended.
Lovellette was given the “outstanding player” of the tournament award.
Bill Lienhard was impres-sive with his ball hawking and sharp shooting from the outside. He sank five field goals and two free throws for 12 points. St. John’s attempt-ed to stop Lovellette by drop-ping back to two or three men to guard him, which left
Lienhard open on the outside to shoot.
Bob “Trigger” Kenney was an important aspect in the Kansas win as he knifed through the Redmen defense to steal the ball.
Dean Kelley was sharp in his floor play and rebound-ing.
Bill Hougland, playing with a bad leg, also was a fac-tor in the win with his long shot artistry. Charlie Hoag, hitting for nine points, and John Keller showed speed and good defense in the win.
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SEPT. 17, 1974
Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, Uni-versity of Kansas basketball coach for 39 years, died early yesterday morning in his sleep at his home in Lawrence. He was 88.
Allen had been hospitalized several times in the last year and taken to a rest home last month, but he returned to his Lawrence home at his own request two weeks ago.
Allen coached at KU from 1908 to 1909 and from 1920 to 1956. During those years the Jayhawks won 591 games and lost 219.
Allen also coached seven years at Central Missouri State, two at Baker University and one at Haskell Institute. When he re-tired from coaching in 1956, Allen’s 771 wins made him the most victorious coach in basket-ball history.
That record stood until 1968 when one of Allen’s former play-ers, Adolph Rupp of the Univer-sity of Kentucky broke it.
Allen led his teams at KU to 24 Missouri Valley, Big Six and Big Seven conference champion-ships before the league became the Big Eight.
Allen’s 1952 team won the NCAA Championship. His 1940 and 1953 teams lost in the na-tional finals.
Allen helped found the Na-tional Basketball Coaches Asso-ciation and headed the organiza-tion from 1927 to 1929. He also was instrumental in starting the NCAA tournament in 1939.
Allen was born in Jamesport, Mo., on Nov. 18, 1885. He played basketball for Independence High School. It was during an Independence game that he met Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, who later coached Allen at KU.
One of Allen’s most prized possessions was an autographed picture from Naismith with the inscription, “From the father of basketball to the father of basket-ball coaching.”
After two years of coaching basketball at KU Allen attended
medical school for four years. In 1913, he accepted the head coaching position at Central Missouri State in Warrensburg, Mo. While at Warrensburg, his team won the Missouri Valley championship.
He returned to KU in 1919 to become the athletic director for 19 years. He coached football for one year in 1920. He became head basketball coach in 1920 and stayed in that position until 1956 when he was forced to re-tire at the mandatory retirement age of 70.
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KANSAN STAFF
NOV. 29, 1939
Doctor Naismith died ear-ly yesterday morning at his home on University Drive, after having been suddenly stricken by a cerebral hemor-rhage Nov. 19.
Doctor Naismith had been actively connected with the University’s department of athletics for 40 years, having begun his duties here in 1898. He resigned from full-time teaching duties in June 1937.
“The youth of the world has lost a great benefactor in Dr. James Naismith, the father of basketball,” Dr. F. C. Allen, chairman of the department of physical ed-ucation and head basketball coach said yesterday.
“Eighteen million young men all over the world are playing his game of basket-ball, which he originated for 18 troublesome young men in a class in Springfield, Mass., Y.M.C.A college in 1891.”
Chancellor Deane W. Ma-lott yesterday made the fol-lowing statement on the work and influence of Doctor Na-ismith:
“In behalf of the University of Kansas, I express sorrow at the death of Dr. James Na-ismith, professor emeritus of
physical education. Not only the University and the state of Kansas, but the United States and many nations of the world as well, will feel the loss of this man who set high standards of personal, clean
living and was able to infuse these same standards into the lives of hundreds of young me. His contribution to the athletic world of the game of basketball will leave a mark even time cannot erase.”
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2008
Mario Chalmers could dance now, now that his name had been permanently etched into the Kansas bas-ketball history books.
He moved his hips to “Cel-ebrate” and slapped hands all around with his teammates in the confetti-filled jubilation of their national champion-ship.
That’s right — national championship. Kansas (37-3) beat Memphis (38-2) 75-68 in overtime Monday night at the Alamodome, winning its first title since 1988 and third in program history af-ter coming back from a late nine-point deficit.
“God, we competed hard,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “It’s one thing to win. It’s an-other thing to win the way these guys did.”
Chalmers’ celebratory dance moves seemed so natu-ral, just like the shot he made about 30 minutes earlier that sent the game to overtime. The play started with Sher-ron Collins. He had 10 sec-onds to make sure Kansas extended the game and kept its dream season alive. He dribbled to the right wing be-hind the three-point line and nearly lost the ball.
Then, Chalmers separated
from his man for just long enough. Collins found him. Trailing 63-60, Chalmers shot a three near the top of the key. Overtime.
The game should’ve been finished long before that play. The Jayhawks got a gift from the Tigers when they missed five of six free throws that would’ve iced the game. They didn’t waste the good fortune in overtime. The extra period was all Kansas.
Brandon Rush started out with a layup. Chalmers and Darrell Arthur combined for an alley-oop. When Collins made two free throws to put Kansas up 75-68, the game was finished. Chalmers’ shot had sparked all of it.
“I just knew we had the game after that,” Arthur said.
A happy ending seemed im-plausible late in the second half. Memphis’ Derrick Rose nearly killed Kansas. He was ready to put himself at the top of the list of Jayhawk Final Four villains right up there with Carmelo Anthony, Juan Dixon and Grant Hill. With Memphis down 45-42 mid-way in the second half, Rose scored 12 straight points for Memphis. He couldn’t miss if he tried. Really. Rose fired a long off-balance jumper at the end of the shot clock and banked it in. The basket gave Memphis a 56-49 lead with 4:10 left.
The Tigers stretched that lead to 60-51, and it looked
like Memphis would cut down the nets.
“A lot of guys thought the game was over,” Darnell Jack-son said, “but we just kept saying believe.”
Self said those exact words to his team. Chalmers used Self ’s message and the mem-ories from last season’s come-back victories against Texas to motivate him.
Arthur took the inspira-tional words to heart as well. It was no surprise to see Chalmers take over in the clutch. Arthur was more of an unexpected hero.
Kansas has known all sea-son it plays superior ball when Arthur is active. Prob-lem was, that didn’t happen too often.
In the tournament, Arthur’s
inconsistency got even worse. The one they call Shady reverted to his mind-bog-glingly inconsistent ways throughout the postseason, disappearing in every game.
Monday night he was a changed man. Arthur scored two big baskets toward the end of regulation and got another one in overtime. He finished with 20 points. Ar-
thur had played his best game in the biggest game of his life.
It’s something he’ll never forget, something all of the Jayhawks will never forget. They battled through adver-sity after two losses in three games in late February and didn’t lose the rest of the way.
Now, they’re champions. They’ll go down as one of the best teams in Kansas history.
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STAFFJAN. 4, 2008
Kansas didn’t do anything out of the ordinary to defeat Vir-ginia Tech and capture the 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl title. Well, at least nothing more unex-pected than the 12-1 team had done already this season.
The team that turned analysts’ predictions and preconceptions on their heads all season con-tinued to upset college foot-ball’s natural order Thursday night in a way that has become strangely normal for the win-ningest team in the history of Kansas football.
Over the course of the season, the Jayhawks emerged from a decade-long stint of mediocri-ty to win 12 games and a BCS bowl. On Thursday night in Dolphin Stadium, the Jayhawks defeated Virginia Tech, 24-21, by beating the Hokies at their own game: special teams. The
Jayhawks (12-1) overcame sev-eral exceptional kick and punt returns by Virginia Tech (11-3) with a timely blocked field goal and an expertly executed fake punt.
“We were able to make a big, big play on that punt and turn the game around with the blocked field goal,” Kansas junior wide receiver Dexton Fields said. “When we blocked the field goal it was really a big momentum-stopper and it gave us some extra confidence.”
The blocked field goal may have been the biggest play in a game full of momentum swings, big hits and closely con-tested short-yardage struggles. With six minutes and 31 sec-onds to play in the third quar-ter, Virginia Tech was picking up steam. An 84-yard punt re-turn touchdown by senior wide receiver Justin Harper with 11:35 remaining in the third pulled the Hokies within three points, 17-14, and the pro-Vir-ginia Tech fans at Dolphin Sta-dium were at full volume.
The game-clinching touch-down run was one of many ex-cellent plays the Jayhawk field general made Thursday night. Kansas sophomore quarterback Todd Reesing finished 20-of-37 with 227 passing yards and one passing touchdown. Senior wide receiver Marcus Henry was the beneficiary of Reesing’s touchdown pass, and totaled 20 yards in his final collegiate contest. The Jayhawks spread the ball around on offense, completing passes to eight re-ceivers and rushing the ball nine or more times with three different ballcarriers. The Kan-sas defense made the offense’s job easier by forcing three turn-overs, setting the team up with good field position.
“It was really an up-and-down game, a roller coaster of emo-tions,” Reesing said. “Our de-fense was able to get turnovers and get us the ball in good po-sition, and that was huge for the game. The offense came through when we had to, made plays when we needed to and
got the ball in the end zone and points on the board.”
The Jayhawks needed nearly all of their 24 points to hang on and defeat a Virginia Tech team
that fought until the clock filled with zeros. The Hokies scored on a 15-play, 78-yard drive with 2:51 remaining to cut the Jayhawks’ lead to three, but
McAnderson rumbled his way to the first down marker several times on Kansas’ next drive to run out the clock and seal the victory.
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ROSS STEWART
AUG. 17, 2009
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Berna-dette Gray-Little shoots a con-templative look at the ceiling for a moment then points out the window at something she’s go-ing to miss.
“I enjoy that sight right out there,” Gray-Little said. “More days than not I stop on the way in or out or I look out my win-dow and I look out on that sight. It’s a great sight.”
She points out a window to a building, the university’s Wilson Library, which looks like a regal whitewashed capitol building. It’s two football fields away from her office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, across a vast courtyard filled with criss-crossing sidewalks, surrounded by trees and old ac-ademic halls.
Gray-Little ended her 38 years of employment at UNC as pro-vost July 8.
She began her role as the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas on August 15.
Born and raised in Washing-ton, N.C., a small town in the then-segregated South, her par-ents placed a great deal of worth on receiving an education. Her younger brother, Mark Gray, said it was presented to them as a way out of poverty.
Gray-Little still continues to pursue this early established ide-al. She sees the worth in it.
Her time at UNC shows her dedication to education. Her accomplishments, such as in-creasing diversity and creating an office of undergraduate re-search and a first-year seminar program, bettered UNC. She plans to do the same for the University.
GROWING UP:EDUCATION
Gray-Little grew up the fourth child of eight with three brothers and four sisters. The first time she moved from her hometown was for college. Her father was illiterate and worked in construction. Her mother had a GED and was a home-maker who occasionally did custodial work.
Though her family did not have the means to support her higher education, her parents always pushed that education was a way out of poverty, ac-cording to her brother, who’s now a lawyer in Greensboro, N.C.
“In some ways, education be-came such a big thing that it became the end as opposed to a means to an end,” Gray said. “I just remember education was the goal; I guess it was also a means.”
Washington was still segregat-ed in the 1950s when Gray-Little was growing up there. In spite of this, she said, the only time she really experienced segregation
was when she left the neighbor-hood. She said she didn’t have one particular instance to share showing that segregation during her childhood really affected her choices in life. Her take on growing up and the difficulties she had in affording an educa-tion reveals something about her personality and how she approaches problems and chal-lenges. She said certain things in life would be considered chal-lenges in retrospect, but not at first.
“You could say it was a chal-lenge to leave a small town in North Carolina and get a college education at a time when I came from a small school and my parents were not able to contrib-ute anything to my education,” Gray-Little said. “You might consider that a challenge, but at the same time it was just some-thing that you worked on and got it done. It’s hard for me to pull things out like that because at the time I didn’t experience them as a challenge.”
Gray-Little attended an all-girls Catholic school, where nuns served as teachers, from first grade to her senior year of high school. Her brother re-membered her intelligence and that the nuns took notice when the subject of college came about. Without scholarships, Gray-Little wouldn’t have been able to afford college and would have been limited to working a blue-collar job or entering a convent, Gray said.
“They said, ‘Bernadette, you’re bright. If you want to get an education we could get you a scholarship at Marywood up in Scranton, Penn., and you don’t have to become a nun,” Gray said.
Gray-Little received scholar-ships and moved from Wash-ington to Scranton for her undergraduate degree in psy-chology. She said the segrega-tion in Pennsylvania was not
the same as it was growing up in Washington. Segregation in terms of stores and other pub-lic places was not there, but in terms of neighborhoods, it still was.
From Marywood University she went to St. Louis University in St. Louis for her master’s and doctorate in clinical psychology.
After that, she was offered a few professorships, including one at the University and at UNC. She took the position at UNC in 1971 as a professor of psychology and has been mov-
ing up in rank there ever since.
LIFE AT UNCHer office didn’t reveal she was
in the process of moving. Ex-cellently clean, barely anything covering her desk, with a single packing box in the middle of it.
“She ran a university and she would run the University of Kansas with such order and pre-cision that she’d have 10 pieces of paper on her desk,” Gray said. “Just 10. Just 10.”
Working as provost, Gray-Lit-tle’s latest job at UNC, meant she was in charge of personnel and money. One would expect her office to be filled with clutter from all the responsibilities that fall under that, but it was so well kept it looked like an office from a model home.
While at UNC, Gray-Little ac-complished much as she worked her way up the academic totem pole.
Starting out as a professor, she later ran departments, served as the executive associate provost, a dean and the executive vice chancellor and provost.
Karen Gil, dean of the col-lege of arts and sciences at UNC, spoke highly of the work Gray-Little had done and said she thought Gray-Little accom-plished a lot in every position she held.
“Some of these programs were her legacy here at North Caroli-na,” Gil said.
Gray-Little spearheaded two prominent programs in 1999 when she was senior associated-dean for undergraduate educa-tion.
One was the office of under-graduate research, where under-graduates were encouraged to use UNC as a research institu-tion. Undergraduates prepared works focused on pressing is-sues locally, nationally and in-ternationally. This was a focus of Gray-Little’s at UNC, and may be at the University as well, as
she has made references to in-creasing research here.
She made it a point to have un-dergraduates understand what research is and how it can be conducted.
The other program she started was a first-year seminar that all freshmen were required to take. A class of about 20 students met with a professor and studied that professor’s expertise.
The idea behind the semi-nar was not only to encourage freshmen to learn about things that interested them but also to
build substantial relationships with professors in a close envi-ronment.
HOME LIFEGray-Little has two children,
Mark Little and Maura Garcia, and a husband, Shade Little.
Mark is doing postdoctoral work at Duke and is a consultant for the business school at UNC. Maura just finished her master’s in fine arts at Howard Univer-sity in Washington, D.C. She is also a choreographer and runs a dance company and is planning to relocate her dance company to Kansas.
Shade grew up in Washington, N.C., as well and was called a math genius by several people in Chapel Hill. At the moment, he doesn’t plan on teaching at the University when the couple arrives, but Gray-Little said he wouldn’t be sitting still for too long.
From what Mark said, his mother and father are quite dif-ferent from each another.
Mark said his mother pre-ferred very nice things, while Shade enjoyed things purchased in thrift stores. He said she was style-conscious, didn’t go to thrift stores and dressed well — her shoes and jewelry go to-gether.
Though she and Shade are dif-ferent, Mark said he thought it was complementary rather than problematic.
Gray-Little, even at home, is quiet. But Mark said even with the contemplative side her col-leagues describe, she’s actually
a bit silly. Gray-Little and Shade didn’t allow TV in their house on weekdays for the kids. If Mark ever had on a silly movie or TV show she’d tell him to turn it off, but would still laugh at it.
“People have a list of adjec-tives to describe her,” Mark said. “In our home context the first thing that comes to mind, she’s a very silly person. None of those people would use that word; it wouldn’t come to mind.
In comparison, Shade is said to be someone who likes to speak his mind.
“My father is very loud,” Mark said. “I used to run track. You can’t hear anything, but I could always hear my father yelling ‘Run!’ because he’s so loud. It’s like night and day.”
Gray, her brother, doesn’t remember too much about growing up with Gray-Little. She went off to her first year in college when he was in first or second grade, though he does remember meeting Shade for the first time when Gray was in his early teens.
“I was easily bought off,” Gray said. “He bought me off with a quart of milk.”
Gray said he remembered his family saying his sister had a high school crush on Shade. She brought Shade by before she was about to go overseas to study and asked Gray what he thought of Shade.
“I remember thinking, ‘Well, he just bought me some choco-late milk, so I think he’s pretty all right,’ ” Gray said.
Gray-Little said Shade would
not be idle for very long because it was not in his temperament. At UNC he worked with student academic services and did some advising, math, statistics and tutoring. Gray-Little said Shade enjoyed working with students without having to grade math papers.
Gray went to law school at UNC in 1978 while Gray-Little was working there. His reason-ing was to get one good meal a week at her place. One thing that Gray enjoys is their mother’s recipe for yeast rolls. Gray-Little is the only one left in the family who knows how to bake them since their mother died.
LIFE AS A JAYHAWK
Gray-Little has made broad statements about what she wants to see accomplished during her time at the University. They in-clude increasing diversity and research along with attaining National Cancer Institute des-ignation.
There has been some difficulty in locking down how Gray-Lit-tle plans to accomplish these goals. She said she wanted to look at them and see what could feasibly be done to achieve them after her arrival.
“So you have a goal, which is general, but the things you have to do to get there are very spe-cific,” Gray-Little said. “I think in both cases it’s important to look at what is being done and what can be done. I know where I’d like to go, but I don’t know all the specific steps to get there.”
FILE PHOTO/KANSANBernadette Gray-Little began her role as chancellor of the University on Aug. 15, 2009.
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From the front of the presiden-tial stage to the very back of the Anschutz Sports Pavilion, audi-ence members waited patiently and erupted into applause at the chance to finally see what many described as a “once-in-a-life-time” opportunity.
President Barack Obama vis-ited the University on Thursday morning and was greeted by a crowd of more than 6,000 as he took to the podium saying, “It’s good to be at KU,” in his open-ing remarks.
Introducing the President was senior Alyssa Cole. Cole, a History and African-American studies major and single moth-er of three, wrote to President Obama in 2013. Cole wrote about issues surrounding af-fordable child care, education and the struggle between bal-ancing the two.
“Education has maintained such an important role in my life, and during that point time, I was almost forced to make the choice between obtaining an education, working or taking care of my children,” Cole said. “I wrote the letter because I did not want to make the choice be-tween the three.”
Following Cole’s introduction, Obama joked that while he was here for other business, he did take a moment to spend some time with coach Bill Self and the men’s basketball team. He also thanked Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Lawrence May-or Mike Amyx and mentioned Bob Dole and the Dole Center for Politics, which he said he would be proud of, too.
Before diving into the themes
of his speech, President Obama also mentioned his deep roots in Kansas.
“I’m a Kansas guy,” Obama said. His mother was born in Wichita, his grandmother grew up in Augusta and his grandfa-ther was from El Dorado.
Obama transitioned to the is-sues at hand when he pointed out all the high notes for the year to kick off on, including our economy creating jobs at the fastest rate since 1999, shrinking deficits and our troops coming home.
Obama’s topics for the re-mainder of the speech focused largely on elements he touched on during the State of the Union on Tuesday night. He elaborat-ed on middle-class economics and how to make it work in our country, as well as his ideas on free community college and the increasing the competitiveness of our markets.
He also reiterated equal pay for men and women, which the crowd roared over, and made the idea of assistance with child care more personal by telling the story of his grandparents. His grandfather went off to fight in WWII while his grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line in Wichita.
“This country provided uni-versal child care because they understood that if women are working, they’re gonna need some help, right?” Obama said. “And research shows that it was good for the kids, good for the parents, but we stopped doing that.”
He ended on a note of solidari-ty as a nation saying we will dis-agree, but that doesn’t mean we have to be divided. We all share a common vision for our future, he said.
“So, we’ve made it through
some hard times, but we’ve laid a new foundation, Jayhawks,” Obama said. “We’ve got a new future to write. The young peo-ple here are gonna write a new future for America. Let’s get started right now.”
Reactions to the speech were overwhelmingly positive and most students were just happy for the opportunity to see a sit-ting president.
Sabaa Anees, a sophomore from Wichita, said she’d heard President Obama was a really great speaker, but it was amaz-ing to see him in person. To her, one of the most important issues Obama spoke about was equal pay for women.
“He definitely pointed out that
it’s 2015, and there’s no legal protection at the federal level for getting paid the same as a man,” Anees said.
Connor Bowman, a senior from Lenexa, said as a student from the school of pharmacy, healthcare was a big topic for him.
“For me, getting into the health career field, I thought his message about child care or family care was a logical next step after expending so much political willpower over the af-fordable care act to pass over all the hurdles that it did,” Bowman said. “Health care has a lot of moving parts, so it makes sense to involve the family as a unit.”
For other students, the journey
to the speech was just as mem-orable as the speech itself. Alex Cushing, a senior from Chicago got in line to see the President at 4:30 a.m.
Cushing had trouble sleeping the night before because she said she was so excited and re-alized when she got in line that sleeping in the cold was not an option.
“I’m exhausted,” Cushing said. “My legs hurt, everything hurts,
but it was totally worth it.” Cushing said she got in line
to see the president in the wee hours of the morning because “you’ve got to take advantage of the opportunity to see him in person.
“To be that close and phys-ically there is just a very cool experience,” Cushing said. “I’m exhausted, but I’m gonna sleep like a baby.”
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Live at 9 Del Lofts.Modern Design. Artistic Styling.
Brand new lofts in the heart of the Warehouse Arts District!
Polished Concrete FloorsGranite CountertopsStainless Steel AppliancesPet Friendly
1, 2 & 3 bedroom units. Prices vary, call for more info!
901 Delaware |
Lawrence, KS 66044
[email protected] | P: 785-856-5657 | F: 785-856-5658
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