University Daily Kansan, August 18, 1983
Page 16
A trip to West Campus would be well worth it
By ANN REGAN Staff Reporter
The only contact most KU students will have with West Campus is when they are scoring goals with a soccer team in an intramural football game.
Unless they would like to look at an astronaut's space suit, a Civil War era printing press or the final resting place of the late Abraham Lincoln. Quantrill's raid on Lawrence in 1863
The University of Kansas has been developing West Campus as a research and support area since the 1960's, and there are several places of interest or location for the average student, as well as laboratories and research centers.
WEST CAMPUS is located west of
slope Street between 15th and
23rd streets.
Football, soccer, cricket, rugby and softball fields stretch out beside 23rd street and may be reserved for use by students when intramural competitions are not using them, Hector Munoz, the director of recreational services, said.
Those who prefer indoor recreation
can browse through either the Larry
Warner Park library or the Chelsea
School Library.
or the Thomas C. Ryther Printing Museum.
The Winn exhibit primarily covers the Apollo space program and contains items such as an astronaut's wristwatch and a KU flag that Ron Evans, a KU graduate, took with him on Apollo 17. Bob Wat尔斯, manager of research facilities at the Space Technology Center located in Nichols Hall, said.
THE SPACE EXHIBIT includes items donated by Winn, The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Boeing Company, Walters said.
Winn is a KU alumna and a congressman from the 3rd District.
His memberships on the House committee on Science and Technology and the subcommittee on Space Science Applications have aided him in memorabilia from the Apollo, Skylab and space shuttle programs.
Evans and Joe Engle, also a KU graduate and commander of the second flight of the space shuttle Columbia, also have donated items to the exhibit.
Another exhibit, containing items from journalism's past, is located in the KU Printing Service building on 15th Street.
Kansas Alumni Association publications, University stationery and the enrollment timetables, Bob Jaeger, director of printing services, said.
THE KU PRINTING SERVICE prints the Kansas, the University of
The printing museum is named for Thomas C. Ryther, a former director of the printing service and professor of journalism.
It contains a collection of old printing presses, including a rare Simplex typewriter, a portable army press used during the Civil War and an antique Pearl Press, along with other items, Rythe said.
Another reminder of the past is the Pioneer Cemetery.
The cemetery is the final resting place for many of the Lawrence citizens who were victims of William S. Warren's attack on them they raided Lawrence on Aug. 21, 1863.
About 160 to 200 Lawrence residents were killed and most were buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Steven Jansen, the Watkins Community Museum, said.
ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY of the victims were moved and reinterred in the Oak Hill Cemetery in the past few years, many remain buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, he said.
The cemetery is available for use by any KU alumnus or faculty member.
Another attraction is the KU Herbarium in the Botanical Research building on West Campus.
The herbarium contains more than 300,000 dried plant specimens from Kansas and the Great Plains, Ralph Berkman, plant director of the herbarium, said.
It is the largest collection of its kind in the Midwest, he said.
The herbarium is open to the public, but the specimens are filed in drawers under their scientific names so it would be useful if you were looking for before you come. he said.
NOT ALL OF THE buildings on West Campus museum houses and exhibits
Most, such as Moore Hall, which contains the Kansas Geological Survey, are devoted to research and development.
The Kansas Geological Survey is a division of KU. The survey studies geological resources and related environmental problems, Lila W. Watkins, personnel manager for the survey, said.
They also develop new tools for use in geological research, she said.
An addition to Moore Hall is unite, construction and should be completed this fall, Watkins said.
The U.S. Geological Survey is housed in Parker Hall, which is joined to Moor Hill.
Its purpose is to investigate the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution and movement of surface and ground waters across the state, Lanna Combs, technical publications editor, said.
THEY ALSO HANDLE research and development for new methods of scientific data collection, she said.
The Foley Geohydrology Center, located in Foley Hall, is a division of the Kansas Geological Survey and also groundwater research.
Parker Hall is owned by the Kansas University Endowment Association and is leased to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Endowment Association owns 320 acres of the 490 acres that make up West Campus, Steve Menaugh, coordinator for the Endowment Association, said.
The state of Kansas owns the remainder of the land, he said.
The Endowment Association is located on West Campus in Youngberg Hall, which the association also owns, he said.
OTHER BUILDINGS ON West Camp owned by the Endowment Association include McCollim Laboratories, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Labs and Simisman Laboratory, which are all located in New York. By the center for Biomedical Research
The Center was established by the University to help further Kansas' contribution to biomedical research, biomedical director, director of the Center, said
West Campus will continue to be developed in the coming years, according to Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning.
Facilities Operations probably will move to West Campus to provide room for more academic buildings on the main campus, Wiechert said.
There are even plans for a jogging path some day, that would allow even more students to enjoy West Campus
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