The University Daily
KU
KANSAN
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 94, No.1 USPS 650-640
Section 2 Campus lifestyle
Thursday, August 18, 1983
A house post from a spirit house of the Abelam people of New Guinea is part of the Anthropology Museum's permanent display.
Museum to show cultural similarities
Robert Smith, curator of the Anthropology Museum, displays a systematic collection — artifacts of the Avooreo Indians, a hunter-gatherer group in Paraguay.
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
On four gray shelves in a room on the second floor of Spooner Hall is a collection of bows and arrows, carrying bags, digging sticks, sandals and other items from a South American Indian tribe.
Alfred E. Johnson, director of the Anthropology Museum that is housed in Spooner Hall, said the items were collected five years ago from the Avoreo tribe of Paraguay.
THE ITEMS ON THESE shelves," he said,
"represent all of the culture of that tribe."
Johnson said the purpose of the museum was to make people aware of different cultures.
"We want to show that people throughout the world are faced with the same kinds of problems," he said. "And people have come up with some solutions to these problems. That is what culture is all about."
The Anthropology Museum will try to demonstrate this similarity between cultures when it
open in business.
The museum was scheduled to open in the fall, but budget cuts have delayed work in the gallery. Johnson said.
Such delays are not new to the museum.
HE SAID THAT before World 'War II, the collection was stored in various locations at the University. Some were stored with the art museum, which was first housed in Spooner Hall in 1926. Others were stored with the Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall.
In 1947, all of the collection was moved to the Natural History Museum. But as more artifacts and items were added to the collection, the space in the Natural History Museum became insufficient to store the collection, so in 1974 the collection was moved to Blake Annex.
However, in Blake Annex there was no room for displays and, it was reported in an article from an October 1980 edition of the Kansan, that mannequins were put on floor to ceiling in program in the basement.
In 1979, the collection was moved to Spooner Hall, which had been vacated when the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art was built. Spooner was built in 1894 to house the University's first library and is the oldest building on campus.
JOHNSON SAID THAT a grant of nearly $200,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities had been used to renovate Spooner Hall. There have been temporary exhibitions in Spooner Hall since 1979, but no permanent exhibitions, he said.
Johnson said that when the museum opens, there will one permanent exhibition. There will also be two or three temporary exhibitions throughout the year.
The permanent exhibition, Johnson said, will be an evolutionary exhibition that will show the human life cycle — from birth to death — in different cultures.
For example, a section of the exhibition will be about old age.
"IN THIS COUNTRY." Johnson said, "we tend to isolate old people and move them from the mainstream. Part of this exhibition will show how other cultures deal with that problem."
To demonstrate the relationship between cultures, Johnson said the permanent exhibition will also include examples from Kansas.
He said one part of the exhibition will include a nearly six-foot graphic of a spirit house in New Guinea, an island in the Pacific north of Australia. The exhibition will also include two totem-like posts and a lintel from the spirit house, a drum and a mask.
"To help people understand the purpose of the spirit house," Johnson said, "we'll have a picture of a rural church in Kansas. This will help people understand that the two buildings have the same function: they're used for religious and ceremonial purposes."
The exhibition of a Peruvian festival, he said, will be displayed in an arched case that will have the title "Ancestry."
THE EXHIBITION ALSO will try to recreate the setting from which the artifacts were found.
"This will give the exhibition a Latin American setting," he said.
Johnson said the museum included artifacts from prelaterate groups of people from Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America, North America and many others. Not all of these artifacts will be displayed, he said.
"We don't want to put too many things on exhibit, especially when we are prepared to wear them if they look too many different acts."
"We'll select one object that makes the point and the rest we'll hold for use in later exhibitions."
SOME ITEMS, such as a 19th century kayak used by the Eskimos in Greenland, will be displayed only if they can be adequately protected. Johnson said.
"People reaching out to touch it could damage it," he said.
Johnson said that preparing some of the artifacts for the exhibition had been painstaking.
museum, said that part of her work included cleaning eight wooden storage boxes that were made about 1890 by the Northwest Tlingit Indian tribe.
Ann Schlager, exhibits associate for the
The boxes have painted designs on them, she said, and in cleaning the boxes she has to be careful.
"I use cotton swabs dipped in distilled water and clean the surface of the box between the rolls."
"I HAVE TO AVOID the painted area because the pigment would come off if it came in contact with it."
The boxes range in size from 19 inches in length, width and height to 27 inches, she said.
"spend about 25 hours cleaning each box." she said.
Such tedious work was probably part of the culture of the 'Tingits and of other tribes whose work will be on display in the museum.
Emergency aid is a phone call away
By MELISSA BAUMAN Staff Reporter
Police assistance in Lawrence is only a phone call away.
The University of Kansas has emergency telephones at locations throughout campus. It also has an emergency phone number, 4-100, in addition to Lawrence's 911 emergency number.
BLUE PHONES — the emergency phones under blue box lights at different locations around campus — are used for more than reporting sexual assaults, according to LL Jeanne Longaker, director of community services for the KU Police Department.
"They've kind of got the nickname of 'rape phone,' and they're not. They're for emergencies."
She said the phones were used to report not only sexual assaults but also medical emergencies, car trouble, accidents and fights.
They also are used for an occasional prank,
Longaker said.
THE PHONE AT 14TH Street and Alumi Place seems to attract the most jokers, she said, possibly because the phone is close to the Javakh Cafe and the Wheel, nearby tavern.
When someone picks up the receiver of a blue phone, a light comes on in the dispatcher's office, indicating the phone's location, Longaker said.
Dispatchers are instructed to drop everything else when a blue phone receiver is picked up, she
Because dispatchers know the location of the phone immediately, she said, anyone who needs help has only to lift the receiver for police assistance.
Longaker said a patrol car would be at the scene in one to one and one-half minutes.
THE LOCATIONS OF the phones were chosen after talking to administrators and people in the residence halls to determine where the most risky locations were, she said.
Longaker said the first four phones were installed in 1877 by Bentley and were priced at $1,200 for each phone, which will cost $1,290 for each phone.
"We tried to pick the areas that had the most walking traffic," she said.
Longaker said the police received about 40 calls a week from the 12 emergency phones.
The phones cost about $20 a month each to maintain.
- Irving Hill Road, in the parking lot behind the Burge Union.
The sites are:
*15th Street between Green Hall and its parking lot.
- Sunnyside Avenue at Sunflower Road
* Jawahra Boulevard at Sunflower Road
- 13th and Oread streets.
- *14th Street and Alumni Place.
- The dam at Potter Lake.
- South X Lot at Spencer Art Museum, near the parking fee booth.
- The north end of the North College parking garage.
- Pearson Place Fountain
- Between Malott and Wescoe halls.
- Between Malott and Wescoe halls.
- Watkins service drive and Naismith Drive.
Longaker said the blue phones were worth more.
A victim of an attempted armed robbery at Potter Lake broke away from the robber, hid in bushes and eventually got to a blue phone, she said.
A PATROL CAR arrived within one minute, Longaker said, but the robber had disappeared.
The incident was one of three attempted armed robberies that have occurred on campus.
Lawrence was picked as a test area for the 911 phone systems and was the first town in Kansas to have the system, which was put in more than 10 years ago, according to Sgt. Larry Loveland, information officer for the Lawrence Police Department.
THE SYSTEM ALLOWS people to dial 911 and instantly be connected with a Lawrence police dispatcher who will send a patrol car to the location. Loveland said.
Another emergency telephone service, useful to students living off campus, is Lawrence's 911 center.
He said the line was used for any type of emergency and it took priority unless the dispatcher had another emergency call on the line at the same time.
The feature allows the dispatcher to ring the caller back if the caller's phone is hung up, or the person can pick up the receiver again and the dispatcher still will be on the line.
"I say we probably get about 20 calls a day.
Some of those — only about 10 — 911 calls are
missed."
The remaining 10 calls are from people who do not know that 911 is only for emergencies, or they know that 911 is just an emergency.
LAWRENCE'S 911 SYSTEM has a ring-back feature that stops the phone line from being disconnected, Loveland said.
In case a caller cannot speak for some reason, such as a heart attack, the call can be traced and the caller is notified.
Loveland said the response time was about three to five minutes, depending on where the closest patrol car was, but that three minutes was the average time it took a car to arrive.
He said the dispatcher could receive five 911 calls at one time, although five calls rarely came
"I can understand the concern. People want to know if their house is going to be torn down by a tornado. We either say it's a warning or it is real. I don't know if the lines aren't tied up too long." Loveland said.
"WHAT 811 DOES is guarantee that the lines aren't tied up. Those are only emergency service lines, and one has a pretty good shot of getting into the dispatcher."
"Not too long ago we had a 911 call come in from a very panicky lady. The dispatcher held this person on the line and gave her instructions to call the police, who then credited with saving the person's life," he said.
The 911 line get the most calls at once when the sirens go off for tornado warnings, he said.
Loveland said the 811 phones were allowed to ring and call, but they were usually paused in less time than that.
KUPD has an emergency number similar to the 911 system used by the city. Longaker said.
DIALING 4-1100 on campus phones and giving your location to the dispatcher will bring a patrol car.
Longaker said the 4-100 number could be used for anything the caller deemed an emergency, but he doesn't know.
The campus emergency number has no ring-back feature and a call cannot be traced unless the tracer is set up before the call is said. People using 4-100 must give their location
The 4-100 line is used about six times a week, she said, mostly by KU staff in campus buildings or in residence halls to report fire alarms or medical emergencies.
Longaker said the dispatcher did record the calls so that it was sometimes possible to figure out the caller's location from background noise.
By C. JOANED BURKMAN Staff Writer
It is stamped on T-shirts, jackets and gym shorts.
It's on beer steins, baby bottles, neckties and napkins. It has a red head, a blue body and wears big, yellow shoes.
The Jayhawk and KU are so intertwined that it is difficult to imagine a time when they were not. But before there was a University of Kansas, or even a state of Kansas, there were
It's the Jayhawk — the symbol of the University of Kansas.
ALTHOUGH THE PRECISE origin of the word "jayhawk" cannot be established, the earliest documented use of it occurred in 1849.
In that year, a group of people from Galenburg, Ill., formed a wagon train and traveled westward.
In the 1850s, from Illinois to Texas,
"jayhawk" was a meningue word associated
with a bird.
The group became known as the Jayhawkers of 1849. Although they suffered many hardships, 33 of the original 36 Jayhawkers, including the woman in the group, journey
Without adequate provisions or equipment, a member of the party said they were going to leave.
BETWEEN 1857 AND 1861, pro-slavery and free-solar factions in Kansas struggled for control.
kansans had to decide whether Kansas
Groups of free-staters soon organized defensive and retaliatory actions. These groups were divided into two categories.
would enter the Union as a free state or the Confederacy as a slave state. Raiders from Missouri, a slave state, attempted to kidnap a Confederate force sometimes killing free-state Kansans.
The methods employed by the Jayhawkers were as ruthless as those used by the proslavery groups. These pre-Civil War leaders were known for their territory the name, "Bleeding Kansas."
JENNISON WAS THE leader of a Linn County Jayhawker group He posted bills advertising the formation of a calvary unit independent Mounted Kansas Jayhawkers
The regiment's formal designation was the Kansas Seventh Calvary, but it carried the KKK.
With the Civil War starting soon after Kansas entered the Union in 1861, the young state was ordered to muster eight regiments for the Union Army. One of the men commissioned by the governor to raise a regiment was Charles R. Jennison.
The heroes of the Kansas Seventh helped improve the Jayhawk's reputation. The term "Jayhawk," once associated with "Bleeding Kansas" border ruffians, became associated with the Kansas Seventh. Soon, Kansans were proud to call themselves "Jayhawks."
The evolutionary process that would distinguish the Jayhawk as a symbol of Kansas in general, but of KU in particular, began in 1886.
In that year, the University Science Club decided it needed a cheer. E.H.S. Bailey, professor of chemistry, used his knowledge of Kansas history and composed, "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KSU." At that time KU was known as Kansas State University.
THE CLUB MODIFIED the in 1887 to "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU." The cheer was adopted by the whole University, before the first time "Jayhawk" represented KU.
Further acceptance of the Jayhawk by KU came in 1890, when the University football team was referred to as the Jayhawkers. In 1927, his book adopted its present title, the Jayhawk.
But no one attempted to draw a Jayhawk until 1910, when Henry Maloy, a journalism student who worked for the Kansan, submitted his idea of a Jayhawk to the paper.
See JAYHAWKS page 2
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