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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Summertime traditions to experience on break
HALLIE HOLTON
entertain@kansan.com
With only a few school days left before finals, everyone has summer breaks on their mind. Our university is home to almost 30,000 students from all over the country.
Over the summer, we might go home to our respective hometowns to spend our summers with our friends and partake in our own summer traditions. We have our Lawrence and University traditions that we participate in during the school year, but what about the traditions you have in your hometowns over the summer?
Cale Johnson, a freshman from Castle Rock, Washington, says he and his friends spend a lot of time at Toutle River over the summer.
"We drive up to Mariner games too," Johnson said. Castle Rock is about a two-hour drive from downtown Seattle, but Johnson says he and his
friends try and make it up to a good amount of games each summer.
Johnson's roommate, Connor Carpani, a freshman, is from the opposite side of the U.S., in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
"I live at my beach house in the summer," Carpani said. His beach house is in Ocean City, N.J.
"We go to the beach a lot and go to concerts in Camden," said Carpani.
Representing the Midwest region, Kelly Davis, a freshman from St. Louis, Missouri, says that the "thing" to do in St. Louis is to go to The Muny.
"It's a huge outdoor theater, and they put on plays and musicals," Davis said.
Davis also said that the Forest Park area is where a lot of people hang out during the summers in St. Louis.
Gracie Larcher, a freshman from Scottsdale, Arizona, shares her unique summer
Larcher described what are called "mountain spots."
traditions from the southwest region.
"A lot of houses are on and around the mountain, so you basically drive through the neighborhood and there'll be a flat spot where you can park and sit," Larcher said.
Larcher said a big social thing to do in Scottsdale is to go to In-N-Out.
Larcher says people will have picnics or just hang out at these mountain spots and depending upon the specific spot, you can see the city lights in the distance.
"It's something that pretty much only the locals know about," Larcher said.
While Larcher and her friends enjoy scenic picnics in the mountains, Caroline
What's unique about these mountain spots is that "everyone has their own," Larcher said.
"I live 20 minutes from the beach, so we go to the beach probably every other day and, we tan constantly," Goble said.
your hometown and your summer traditions.
The best part of summer is being home with your friends,
No matter which way you spend summer, enjoy it while it lasts. We'll back here in Lawrence doing our own traditions before you know it
INTERNATIONAL
Edited by Stella Liang
Reclusive German art collector Gurlitt dies at 81
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Cornelius Gurlitt's long-secret hoard of 1,280 major artworks set off an international uproar last year over the fate of art looted by the Nazis. Now his death has triggered a new round of speculation over who will eventually own his unparalleled collection.
A spokesman for the reclusive German collector, who died Tuesday at age 81 at his apartment in Munich, said Gurlitt had living relatives but he would not say who they are.
It was also not immediately clear whether Gurlitt had written a will or whether a Munich court would appoint a curator of estate, which is often done in Germany if there are open questions surrounding an inheritance.
After much back and forth, Gurlitt eventually agreed last month to a deal with the German government under which hundreds of works he owned would be checked for possible Nazi-era pasts while staying in government hands. A spokeswoman for the Bavarian Justice Ministry told The Associated Press on Tuesday that deal would be binding on all possible heirs.
Gurlitt was thrust into the public spotlight in November when authorities, following a report by German magazine Focus, disclosed that they had seized 1,280 works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall from his Munich apartment more than a year earlier.
Initially, Gurlitt had insisted that all of the art work belonged to him and nobody else.
"Everybody involved — the authorities as well as private people who think some of the art may have once belonged to their families — wants to know more than anything what's going to happen to the collection," said Markus Stoetzel, a German lawyer specializing on the restitution of Nazi-looted art.
They had discovered the works while investigating Gur-
"The only thing we know for sure at this point is that the painful process of recovering art taken under Nazi terror will be further delayed," he added.
Some of the pieces — by Matisse, Chagall and Otto Dix — were previously unknown, not listed in the detailed inventories compiled by art scholars.
Gurlitt had inherited the collection of paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures from his father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art dealer who traded in works confiscated by the Nazis and who died in 1956.
litt for suspected import tax evasion.
German authorities, facing criticism from Jewish groups and art experts for keeping the hoard secret for so long, quickly moved to publicize details of paintings online and put together a task force to speed their identification. They said at least 458 of the works may have been stolen from their owners by the Nazis.
Separately, representatives for Gurlitt later secured a further 238 artworks that were at a dilapidated house he owned in Salzburg, Austria. Gurlitt was never under investigation in Austria and those works weren't seized by authorities. It is not clear where those artworks are now.
CAMPUS
End of Year Student Recap
ANISSA FRITZ entertain@kansan.com
As the school year comes to an end and as the feeling of summer starts to grow, University students take a moment to reminisce on the highlights of this year.
JOSH MUNSCH
Senior
Hays
"I run track and cross country here so scoring at Big 12's was a highlight of the cross country season."
AMANDA SASEK
First-year grad student
Mobery, Mo.
LAINEY HUTCHENS
Freshman
San Antonio, Texas
"My favorite memory was when RJ Mitty came to KU because I am obsessed with Breaking Bad."
"My favorite memory this year was the last day of one of the discussion classes that I taught. We had the students bring in so much food that it was basically like a buffet, and we played Jeopardy"
ALI HILL
Senior
Topeka
"Going to the KU basketball games because it's fun, and the traditions are super cool."
ERIN SOMMER
Senior
Fredonia
"Hiding out in Allen Fieldhouse with one of my close friends for four hours and being third row from the court for the last game of the year"
ANDY MCELROY
Junior
Tulsa, Okla.
"When I was there for the one Big 12 win we had in football this year."
— Edited by Stella Liang
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