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2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2006
this week in KU HISTORY
jan. 30 - feb. 3
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BY LISA TILSON editor@kansan.com CORRESPONDENT
January 30,1884
Evolution became a popular topic in the 1880s and the 1890s. KU's fifth chancellor, Francis Huntington Snow, announced he would give a lecture series about evolution. Originally trained to be a congressionalist minister, Snow became a strong believer in evolution while still retaining his Christian beliefs.
"The god of the Bible and the god of nature are one," he said in June 1867.
During his first years as a science and mathematics teacher, Snow seemed to reject many of Darwin's ideas, but some of his sermons reflected otherwise.
The lectures Snow gave through the KU extension program were extremely popular. But with popularity also came scrutiny. He stood by his beliefs in both evolution and Christianity, denying attacks that he was an atheist.
"Evolution is fully in accordance with the scriptures and with Christianity," he said.
February 2.1916
A crowd of over 4,000
people gathered in 10-degree weather to welcome President Woodrow Wilson to Lawrence with the "Rock Chalk" chant.
KU students and faculty were excused from classes until 10:30 to hear the president speak. The crowd greeted him at the train station, where he spoke for about three minutes.
The short speech left a disappointed crowd of Lawrence residents. The headline in the Kansan the following morning read, "Wilson Only Smiled," and continued, "No Attempt Made to Tell of Preparedness Plan."
Wilson's preparedness plan was the topic of many of the speeches he gave across the western part of the nation. The plan promoted involvement in the U.S. Navy and Army because of what was happening in World War I. Wilson gave two speeches in Kansas that year, one in Topeka and one in Kansas City.
February 3.1899
James Naismith coached his first game as Kansas' basketball coach. Kansas defeated the Kansas City YMCA team 16-5.
Bush addresses energy anxieties in speech
WASHINGTON — Trying to calm anxieties about soaring energy costs, President Bush is using his State of the Union address this week to focus on a package of energy of proposals aimed at bringing fuel-saving technologies out of the lab and into use.
Americans were hit with the biggest jump in energy prices in 15 years in 2005, and worries about the cost of gas and heating oil have damped spirits about the economy despite other recent encouraging signs.
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MUSEUM
The journey back home
Professor hired to help return parts of history
BY CATHERINE ODSON
codson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The University of Kansas has hired an expert to oversee the return of Native American artifacts to their tribes.
The artifacts were formerly part of a Museum of Anthropology, now known as the Anthropological Research and Cultural Collections and have been stored in Spooner Hall since the museum closed in 2002 because of budget cuts.
Johnna Van Noy, New Braunfels, Texas, graduate student, was one student who raised concerns last spring about the well-being of the collection.
"We wanted the University to realize the resources they had in the collection," she said, citing poor storage and lack of funding as detrimental to the artifacts. "Students taking an interest in taking care of these collections really turned heads at the administrative level." Van Noy said.
Foor will assess the University's holdings of ethnographic goods, cultural and sacred goods not associated with burial rights.
The University hired Thomas Foor, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Montana, earlier this month to sort the artifacts.
The national Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, commonly referred to as NAGPRA, passed in 1990 requires full inventories of all Native American human remains and burial goods
Thomas Foor, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Montane, displays a pair of cotton thread moccasins with Cree glass beadwork. Foor said they were a great example of what is in the collection that was being cataloged for the Anthropological Research and Cultural Collections.
Von Noy said with this step, the University was on the way to doing what is right.
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Students taking an interest in taking care of these collections really turned heads at the administrative level."
Johna Van Noy
New Braunfels, Texas, graduate student
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The University met statutory deadlines in 1993 and 1995, Mary Adair, interim director of the Anthropological Research and Cultural Collections said that under NAGPRA, over 750,000 Native American artifacts have been surveyed in efforts to reunite federally recognized tribes with remnants of their histories that had been held by museums.
Bobbi Rahder, lecturer in Indigenous Nation Studies, said hiring a NAGPRA coordinator would help the University better understand what artifacts the collection holds.
"It's a really positive step to providing better care of the collections." she said.
Rahder's students will meet with Foor and then possibly have the opportunity to work
The University's collection is pretty typical of all museums — lots of donations with little documentation, Rahder said.
Foor is working to overturn false, stereotyped classifications by looking for distinct design differences.
"The information available to us is always changing, so it's important to re-examine materials in light of what we know today," he said.
Foor's strategy for cataloging the items involves reviewing any paperwork accompanying the artifacts, including the original paperwork from the former owner.
with him to identify various artifacts and match them with their specific tribes.
After completing the inventory, the University will provide tribal governments with a summary of items that could be culturally significant.
Individual tribes will send representatives to determine which items should be returned to them.
require, said Michael Yellow Bird, director of the Indigenous Nations Studies program.
Getting a maximum number of tribes involved would help give the artifacts the constant care and attention they
The immense sacred value of some items requires them to receive attention and ceremonies that were ignored while they sat in the museum, he said.
There is "no way to ever store those collections that could ever be respectful," he said.
- Edited by Lindsey Gold
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