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Thursday, June 14, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Eldridge House to Complete Extensive Remodeling
started in August 1972 will probably end in the middle of August this year.
The Eldridge House has had a strange and exciting history connected to its previous renovations. The New York City Home (now the Eldridge House) in 1853. It
Eldridge to Get External and Internal Remodeling
Eldridge House Lobby Soon to Become Private Club
Groups to Study Tenure
Chancellor Raymond Nichols will announce Friday the appointment of four subcommittees to study different aspects of tenure.
He said he would appoint five members to each of the subcommittees and that each group would be given a specific topic to study.
Nichols received a recommendation from the University Senate Executive Committee that he appoint the subcommittees to study and report on matters members at the University of Kansas.
About 70 per cent of the KU faculty now holds tenure.
Until he contacts his appointees, Nichols declined to discuss further details of the case.
The office of Minority Affairs must be concerned with following disadvantaged groups and addressing their needs.
Supportive Educational Services, which provides tutoring and financial aid for minority student, is not doing the full job in providing living help and carrying them through.
Nichols also discussed a suit against KU involving discrimination based on sex. The suit was filed in Douglas County District 10 by the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights.
The suit was dismissed last week after the utility paid the plaintiff, Jan Smith. 905
Ameritrade Inc.
Nichols said Smith was denied a job because an employee in charge of hiring a man for a job 'on the basis that lifting he/she is more appropriate for a man than a woman.'
Glover Plans Second Attempt To Legalize Marijuana Use
Nichols said that the employee now understood that sex couldn't be used as the basis for denying a job that under normal circumstances might go to a man.
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, has a plan for growing marijuana legally in Kansas, he said at a news conference Wednesday in Lawrence.
Glover said that he would introduce a bill in the next legislative session to legalize the use of marijuana.
The bill would authorize county clerks or commissioners to sell licenses to persons
During the last legislative session, Glover proposed a bill to legalize the possession of marijuana in Kansas, but the bill never got out of committee.
Some persons who voted for Glover in the last election have told him vehemently that they never would have done so, he said, had he given his position on marijuana.
His stand on the legalization of marijuana is based on personal conviction and he must
soon became known as the Free State Hotel since the emigrant company was against slavery. In 1856, Sirff William Jones and a group of pro-slavery men set it ablaze.
In other areas, Glover announced that he was appointed to two intern study committees that would investigate land use and special federal and state affairs. The committee will do most of its work before the next legislative session in January.
COLONEL S. W. Eldridge bought the house from the company, renovated it, and called it the American House. Until 1833 everything was going fine for the hotel as it played a valuable part in the early history of New York in the early struck, and burned it to the ground.
do what he thinks is right, he said, even when his constituents oppose him.
The committee on land use will study the land mines of Kansas, especially those in southeast Kansas, and decide what options are feasible for recamiation. Glover said it could provide a viable if the state could provide a framework or mechanism to funnel federal funds.
The committee on special federal and state affairs will study six bills dealing with nine regulations, disaster procedure housing, minorities, civil rights and penal reform.
Colonel Eldridge rebuilt the hotel once again. The Eldridge Hotel, as it was then called, lasted into the early 1920s. In 1924, he and his wife constructed another one in its place.
The new hotel opened on April 8, 1926. With minor changes, it is still the same hotel as when it was founded in location (Seventh and Massachusetts streets) that the Free State Hotel occupied 120 years ago. Since 1700, the Eldridge Investors Partnership
"IN THE 1920s through the 1950s, the "Eldridge Hotel was the place to go in Lawrence," said Hightower. "It had most of the important functions of both Lawrence and the University of Kansas meeting in its early years." The hotel, homecoming started and ended here.
"The large banquet room downstairs, equipped with a restaurant and a bar, was the main center of attraction to the campus. The managers of the hotel were going to change the plaques on the wall to signify the formulation of the Big Six teams. The managers of the hotel were going to change the banners and placques to the Big 6, but were unable to find materials to match the
"in the 1960s, the atmosphere changed as less college students came to the hotel,"
said Hightower. "This happened mainly because of the expense."
Kansan Photos By Rayna Lancaster
$200,000 was spent remodelling hotel rooms from 1962 through 1964.
THE CHANGE from hotel rooms to apartments came in 1970 when the Rockledge Investor's Partnership became a retail company whose change came the name Eldridge House.
- it requires assistance the occurring room to the apartments and to the main floor areas. The big Room will have minor repairs and will still be used as a banquet room.
Marble Counter Top to Be Bar in Private Club
A western decor will change the Crystal Room into a stakehouse-style restaurant including a large Conestoga wagon. The room will become a family-style restaurant.
The main lobby is being converted into a private club. The lobby's fountain will remain as it is, and the marble-topped desk will be changed into a bar.
Big 8 Room, Once the Big 6 Room, Will Be Repaired and Repainted
1973 Present
"Julius Caesar"
June 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23
University Theatre Murphy Hall Curtain: 8:00 p.m.
Refreshments and Entertainment in New Murphy Courtyard at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket Prices: $2.00—Students $1.00
Reservations: Telephone: 864-3982