University Daily Kansan Friday, February 25, 1972 5 KU Folklore Includes a Whale, Ghosts s Nixon The Nixon the u. the U. all jr. Jr. he got the he get in the content, content, tell ttl, tell sd and sd and By JOYCE NEERMAN Kansan Staff Writer One of the unsolved mysteries at the University of Kansas is that of a whale in Potter Lake. During the dedication regatta in August, whineyewitnesses said they saw a whale in Potter. A Kansan story was told by one of the men made his debut shortly after a band concert and a swimming contest, and that the ensuing rash of deaths through the program to a standstill. A boatload of volunteers shoved off to investigate, but then the whale was frightened and the whale was wounded. There was no explanation then, and the question of what it was the spectators saw still remains. KU is 160 years old, and over the years, much folklore has surrounded the University. Many students have passed down from class to class and from generation to generation. Often there are perfect rational explanations for the problems, but still the stories persist. rol Young on Carter Barnhart børgerdres dina Lloyd e Murray del Ganlo SEVERAL BUILDINGS at KU are said by some to be haunted. Among them are Spencer Campus Bulletin Social Welfare Seminar: 9 a.m., Pine Pointe, Kyiv, Ukraine Wolfram Mathematica > v' a. room, 10m. RSPA Writing Context: 9:30 - 10:00 m. Blight, Jayhawk, International, Regionallogin Staff, Staff' m. Council Room English 2 Staff: 9:30 a.m., Council Room. Anthropology: 10:30 a.m., Cottonwood Cafeteria. CARIBEA Luso-Brazilian: 11:30 a.m. Alcove B. Social Welfare Peace Studies: noon Alcove A. NYU Educational Inst. Alcve C. MPA Students; noon. Alcve D. MPA Students; noon. Muslim Students: 12:45 p.m., Room 209. English Department: 1:30 p.m., English Room. Russian Table: 12:30 p.m. Meadowlark Caledera. Muslim Students: 12:45 p.m. Room 209 *Oh Department: 13:00 m.fm. English ROOM: Student Teachers: 2 p.m., Oread Room. KSPA Contest Awards: 3 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium. & 9.30 p.m., Woods Auditorium. IVCET: 7 n.m. International Room. English: 4 p.m., Council Room. K.U. Folk Dance Club-Instruction: 7 p.m. SATURDAY SUA Board Interviews: 9 a.m., Governor' 17 Robinson Gym SUA Popular Film, "Killing of Sister George," 7 & 9:30 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium Research Library, the Delta Chi fraternity house and Corbin Hall. Museum Associates Kindergarten Workshop: 10:30 a.m., Dyche Hall. Skovman A. Musterer A. Huegertersen Workshop: 10:30 a.m., dye.Hall. Co. Freshman Basketball K.U. Johannson Co. Jr. College: 12:45 p.m. Field House The first story stems from the ill-workings of the elevator in Spencer. Employees of the library laughingly talked about the history of the elevator how it stopped between floors or stopped and started by itself at an elevator, and of Kenneth Spencer, returning to be around his papers and other belongings, who lived in the elevator and played tricks with it. It was a very strange place. K.C. Sullivan, K.c. Jr. College (12:45 p.m. Mcln. Field House Basketball, Kansas-Missouri) 3:10 p.m. Alfred Field House Sladder for McCraven Dance. A p.m. Students for McGovena Dance: 8 p.m. Kansas Union Ballroom. SUNDAY Carlton Medical 7pm, Camellia SUNDAY Carillon Recital: 3 p.m., Campanile SUA Bridge: 120 m., Pine Room SUA Bugear; 1:30 p.m., Pine Room. SUA Cheaer; 2:p.m., Proom 305. International Film, "Ivan the Terrorist" (part II); 7:30 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium At different times when people have been alone in the Delta Chi house strange things have happened. One member went into the house with his girlfriend, put his keys down on a table and left for a second. When he turned around again the keys were gone. ANOTHER TIME one of the members checked on the house during the summer. He heard something in the kitchen and went there. Then he went back into another part of the house. He heard laughing in the kitchen and went again to check, and this time the stove was on fire. The gas been turned off for the summer. According to women who have lived in Corbin Hall, it is haunted. Residents have complained of strange sounds and strange happenings all the night. The differen't night reportedly it is the ghost of a former resident who was stabbed by a janitor in the old laundry room. She is supposed to have dragged herself up to her room, where she had been, and died outside because her roommate was afraid to answer. THE TIME of the murder and the details differ from person to person. There was a jianter in the room where he was killed by the murder of a girl in Lawrence, but he was not a jianter from the victim and did not live in Corbia. been heard from behind the bolt door in back of Garcia Hall boiled door in back of Green Hall EVERY UNIVERSITY has its mythic wings. The pioneer staircase of Granary Hill is supposed to throw a window. It is also its right shoulder when a virgin falls. Also, the metal Jayhawk by the Union is supposed to flap his wings and fly away when a virgin climbs the staircase. The shiny nose on the statue outside the geology office in Lindley Hall comes from the long nose of the nose for good luck before exams. There was an organ in Old Fraser Hall that was supposed to have been haunted. The pipes and the music played at strange times. A system of steam tunnels honeycombs the ground under the University. It was begun in 1906 by students and pipes for heating from the central heating plant to the buildings and telephone wires for the campus. These have often been the source of fire itself and strange happenings. Monsters, gnomes and bad students are rumored to be kept behind the mysterious-looking green house in the near where the old greenhouse used to be, Robert J. Smith, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor, teaches a course in folklore, also said that roars have supposedly Harry M. Buchholz, director of the physical plant, said there was a problem about five or six years ago with grade school children getting into the tunnels. He said sometimes one would get in, the other someone would have to go into the tunnel and get the child out. BUCHHOLZ SAID the tunnels were hot and were dangerous because they carried high pressure steam lines and high voltage wires. He said there was no longer much of a problem with people getting in the tunnels or the entrances were padlocked. Some rumors about wrongly constructed buildings at KU seem to have basis only in the experiences that some find in them. The classrooms in Summerfield Hall can be very uncomfortable in hot weather. Some explain this by saying the windows are designed to face north, that the windows are on the wrong side. Anyone who has tried to find his way through Murphy Hall might be willing to believe the story that Murphy was designed by three architects and a architect became angry and sabotaged the plans. The supposed result is that rooms with no windows or doors, rooms with no numbers and rooms that numbered backwards were built. THEY IS some basis for the story that Strong Hall was built backwards. The building was designed to face a grand mall and Memorial Stadium, the Memorial, Campanile and Memorial Stadium. The two side sections were built first. When the center section was started there was some question about which way the campus was growing, so it was built with main doors on both the east and west sides. completed, it was appeared the campus was not growing north and the administration building was undergoing renovations Boulevard. There was no need for a grand portico on the side of the campus to house Research Library was built. 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