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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 4, 1998
Annual sightseeing tour planned for Stop Day
Campus structures admired, studied on 8-hour field trip
By Aaron Knopf
aknopf@kansan.com
Knopf staff writer
Tomorrow, Ted Johnson will lead his annual walking tour of the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
This is the sixth consecutive year that Johnson, professor of French, has conducted an all-day tour on Stop Day. Students, faculty, staff and anyone else interested in examining architecture, sculpture gardens and other elements of natural and man-made beauty at the University are welcome.
The tour begins at 9 a.m. at the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and 14th Street and ends at 5 p.m. in the Arthur D. Weaver Court, adjacent to Spooner Hall.
Stops along the way include Lippincott Hall, the Chi Omega Fountain, the Tai Chi Figure outside the Law School and the Vietnam Memorial.
In case of bad weather, the tour will begin at 9 a.m. in the portico at Lippincott Hall. People can participate in the entire tour or just drop in at one of the many stops throughout the day. Johnson said that as many as 30 people had walked the tour in past years.
Johnson said that the success he experienced in using different elements of the campus in teaching humanities classes had inspired him to lead the tour.
The purpose of the tour is not for people to listen to him profess his ideas about the campus, Johnson said.
"The idea is to elicit ideas from other people," Johnson said. "The conversations are wonderful. We never know which way they are going to go, but they're inspired by the sites."
The conversations are not about the factual histories of the tour sites, Johnson said. The conversations are
"The idea is to elicit ideas from other people. The conversations are wonderful."
Ted Johnson
Professor of French
about the intellectual concepts that inspired the sites and the concepts that the sites inspire in the tour participants, he said.
Johnson said that students and faculty from many academic disciplines and cultural backgrounds had participated in past years, enhancing the tour for everyone.
"If there are 10 or 12 people there, that's hundreds of years of experience," Johnson said.
David Cateforis, assistant professor of art history, attended the entire tour last year and said it was time well spent.
"Doing the whole thing is worthwhile because then you get to make connections from point to point," he said.
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Stop Day walking tour
Professor Ted Johnson will lead "Perspectives on the Monuments of Mount Oread," a walking tour of the main campus tomorrow.
Walking tour itinerary:
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9 a.m.: Natural History Museum
10 a.m.: Lippincott Hall
11 a.m.: Twente Hall
noon: Watson Library
1 p.m.: Murphy Hall courtyard
2 p.m.: Green Hall, east side
3 p.m.: Chi Omega Fountain
4 p.m.: Memorial Campanile
5 p.m.: Weaver Court at Spencer Hall
Cateforis said the experience had reminded him that the library was not the only place on campus where people could go to gain
Inclement weather itinerary:
$\textcircled{1}$ 9 a.m.: Lippincott Hall
$\textcircled{2}$ Kansas Union
$\textcircled{3}$ 1 p.m.: Spencer Art Museum
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embellishment for educational purposes," Catefera said. To learn more about the tour, contact Johnson at 884-4066.
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