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Union burned, violence struck campus decade ago
Staff Reporter
Ten years ago yesterday, the Kansas Union burned.
Today, when protest means complaining to a crowd, the revolution doesn't mean much more than an old Beatles song from the White Album, it is strange in line with the University of Kansas musical.
It wasn't supposed to happen here. This was Kansas.
But the burst and upheaval that rocked the country hit home, as the Union burning climaxed a wave of racial and antiwar Lawrence and the University community.
NATIONALLY, IT followed the massive antiwar demonstrations in Washington and the My Lai massacre disclosures in Osama bin Laden's book, the tragic kills at Kent State University.
Locally, the burned capped incidents earlier that month including two arson attempts at old Hawthorn Hall, racial violence at Lawrence High School and a $200,000 fire that gutted Gambles Furniture Store, 390 Massachusetts St.
On that Monday night, April 20, 1970, the Onus were led by a group that was a lot of activity at the Union. Frank Burge, still director of the Union, said 33 meetings had been scheduled in the building.
About the same time, Bill Rowlands, night manager of the Union, heard something pop. The Fire Department alarm was sounded at 10:38 p.m.
"Around 10-25 my night supervisor began checking the building as he always did," Burge said. "He said he saw someone running down the stairs."
T WAS A hof fire, the kind started by a heavy-based burgee. Burge it started near an elevator on the third floor near the top, one point火枪 shot 30 feet above the roof.
Firemen brought the blaze under control
at about 2 m. nearly 40,000 feet the two floors, including the Inland Ballroom, and the diner. The lower floors received severe water damage. The building, containing Wooldrufforman and the Oread Bookstore, was undamaged. Total damage was estimated at $2 million.
The firemen, assisted by students, managed to save much of the furniture and managed to build a human chain formed, one person leading passing it to the next person. One student took off his yellow shirt, tearing it into arrows so the volunteers could be identified.
"It was a wonderful display of cooperation," Burge said. "They even got a grand piano out on the street."
BURGE SAID the insurance company was so grateful to the student volunteers who helped extinguish the fire that it set up a $5,000 scholarship fund.
"Every year, the interest from the fund is
During the three days following the fire, Lawrence City put under aDER by Gov. Murray to investigate the fire. Lawrence City Commission. The curfew was in response to the fire and the racial violence.
used to provide a scholarship for a student who contributes in a worthwhile way to KU and the community," he said.
The first night the curbra ran from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The night was marked by fire bembings and super fire. A "rum line," care of fires and aides to and help calm fears, was established.
Wednesday night the curfew started an hour later. The Military Science building was closed, and a car parked was quickly put out. Among the $3 KU students arrested for curfew violation was a girl who had been arrested.
THURSDAY NIGHT WAS the calmest, though there were still reports of simmer fire and repeated bomb threats. The curfew was held for the three nights, lasting from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m.
On Monday, April 27, the Union was open again.
Arson was established as the cause, although no one was ever arrested. It was never determined whether it was a student or someone outside KU.
At the time, "Gypsei" formed a campus at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Colorado and KU. Not enrolled in college, the Gypsei 'main objective was to establish an institution."
Raymond Nichols, 1617 Alabama St., then KU executive secretary, said he found it inconceivable that a student could have set the fire.
"I can't see any logic in burning the building, when it was there for the students," Nichols said.
TWO WEEKS AFTER the fire, four students were killed by National Guard troops at Kent State University. Four days later, a student was shot in Chalmers met with 12,000 students in
Memorial Stadium to determine the outcome of the semester.
louses were to end in a week. With Kena State fresh on everyone's mind, the students were allowed to choose to finish the semester and take final exams, or terminate it immediately, without finals. Most of them said he chose to end the semester then, Nicholas hope.
"A lot of people said Chalermers should be sent to France," the Nationals boasted he said, "but it could have incited another incident like the Union, or something like Kent State, where people were firing at our team."
Nichols said Chalmers' action following the fire could have saved the university.
What did happen is that the semester ended and the tension eased as the majority of students went home for the summer.
"He avoided the possibility or when he curing as a result of what happened," he said. "In time, his contribution will be recognized."
Clinics...
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"It was a very trying time."
UNIVERSITY FACILITIES are generally clinical and staffed primarily by psychologists and graduate students. Counseling service, is run by volunteers.
The counseling services are equipped to handle problems ranging from suicidal calls for help, to making career choices, to getting along with surly roommates.
Listed below are counseling services available to KU students, and in some cases, to the Lawrence community.
- MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC: Watkins Hospital 864-4035 (843-4455 for emergencies after hours)
Hours: 8:30-4:30 Monday-Friday
The clinic is on the second floor of Watkins Hospital, directly above the pharmacy.
Student health fees pay for the first four visits. After that, each 50-minute session costs from $1 to $15.
The seven clinical social workers and psychiatrists on staff evaluate and treat problems related to health and behavioral problems. Short-term hospitalization and long-term therapy are
Hours: 8-5 Monday-Friday.
- UNIVERSITY COUNSELING CENTER:
116 Bailey 864-3931
Houses 5 & 25 Morning Street
The Counseling Center provides free and confidential emotional and career counseling to KU students. It's based in a small maze of office cubicles in Ballay Hall.
Sixty percent of the students who come to the center need care counseling, and the Career Resource Center in an adjoining contains thousands of job information booklets.
But the 16 department of counseling
but faculty members who staff the Center
counseled about 900 students last year.
844-3713 CLINIC: 307 Fraser
BASICAL IUCN
Hours: 8:30-4:30 Monday-Friday.
The clinic is tucked away on the third floor of Fraser Hall.
It's open to all Lawrence residents and offers psychological therapy and counseling on school and personal problems.
The staff of 18 clinical psychologists and our social workers can provide on-going counseling and treatment to trainees also work at the clinic. For clients who are tapered or fitted with the client's prescriptions
Fees at the clinic are based on ability to pay, and all contacts are confidential.
* UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY SERVICE Center Annex 864-4141*
Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The Community Service Center is behind Twente Hall.
It is staffed by first- and second-year graduate students in the School of Social Welfare.
The center serves some students, but offers mainly individual and family counseling to Lawrence residents.
*The School of Social Welfare pays to:
  • staff members charged
  • HASKELL HEALTH SERVICES
PROGRAM: Haskell Health Center #843-3750
Hours: 8:45 Monday-Friday.
Human Services is open only to Native Americans. Services are free.
The School of Social Welfare pays for the center, and no fees are charged
- BERT NASH MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: Fourth and Missouri streets, 843-9192
Hours: 8:30-5:30 Monday-Friday
The center is now headquartered in a green, two-story house, but next year, it will be moved into a wing of Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
It provides counseling to Douglas County residents and residents of Kansas counties that do not have mental health centers.
The staff, which includes 18 social workers and six psychologists, can handle personal, family, and psychological problems.
Human services is located in a new government building on the edge of the Haskell Indian Junior College grounds.
- UNIVERSITY INFORMATION CENTER: 105 Strong 884-3506
Hours: 24 hours every day
Fees are based on annual income and number of dependents.
The University Information Center is found in a small room crammed with telephones and reference books.
It offers personal and group counseling This semester, one mental health counselor and Carl Menninger, of the Menniger Foundation in Topeka, sees patients every Friday.
questions, or at least know how to find someone who can. They are trained to listen and are available 24 hours a day.
The Information Center can refer callers to other agencies that provide counseling or legal assistance.
- HEADQUARTERS 1602 Massachusetts
St. 841-2345
Hours: 24 hours every day.
Headquarters is based in a rambling white house. A sign welcomes visitors and warns that no weapons, drugs or alcohol are allowed inside.
Headquarters offers crisis intervention and short-term counseling. It is run by 70 volunteers and two part-time directors who made more than 10,000 contacts last year.
Twenty-four hours a day. Headquarters can provide a place to stay, a person to talk to or a cup of hot tea. It is a referral site for other volunteer organizations including the Women's Transitional Care Services, Women's Transitional Care Services and the Human Sexual Network.
KANSAN On Campus
TODAY: U.S. MARINE CORPS OFFICE FIERCING OFFICER will be interviewing students for Marine Officer Programs from 9.m. to 4.m at booth 1 of the WOMEN'S GROUP. They will the GRADUATE WOMEN'S GROUP at noon in Cork Room 20 of the Union.
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TONIGHT: HILELLE will present Zedian Atahi, an Arab Nurzudeeb on, "Arabs and Jews: Can we live together?" at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. Attend the ADDRESS FOR EARTH WEEK will feature Victor Papanek, chairman of the department of design at the Kansas City Art Institute on "Appropriate Design for Homeschool" at 7:30 in the Ballroom of the Union.
The DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES IN NON-ACADEMIC SETTINGS from the departement will feature Michael H. Agar on "Striving Land" and Lands Anthropologists Outside Academia" at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
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