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Yellow Journalism Ran Wild in Early Daily Kansan
Yellow journalism, a gaudy, sensational, devil-may-care kind of reporting which ran rampant at the turn of the century once lured University Daily Kansan readers.
The flagrant disregard for all journalistic ethics and responsibility was led by William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, Joseph Pulitzer's World, and The Chicago Daily Tribune.
When the University Kansan was supported solely by sales, it published a "Yellow Kansan" once a year. Readers were baited at any cost with all the sensational and slanted stories which could be conceived.
Students Riot
The editors in 1914 planned some news-making stunts so big that they had these results: six wounded students, an egged carnival manager, a street trollly pulled off its wires, two arrests, a clash between 1,000 students and the Lawrence police force, and Chancellor Frank Strong's request for a cessation of hostilities.
The banner headline across the front page of the April 22, 1914 "Yellow Kansan" read: "One-thousand In Riot."
The Kansan continued; "six students felled by clubbed pistols of angry showmen; struck down when crowd gathered before entrance to carnival-KU men unarmed."
The students unable to get tickets
Engineering School Next Building Project
The new School of Engineering building is the latest project to be added to the University's present 8 million dollar building program.
The state architect announced last week that an Emporia firm of architects had been hired to draw plans and specifications for the building which will be located west of Lindley Hall.
Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said that no completion date on this building has been set, as appropriations from the Legislature have not been made.
"The unusually fine weather this fall has aided the present building projects to move along on schedule," said Mr. Lawton.
The present building boom is in anticipation of an expected 15,000 enrollment in the middle 1960s. The big squeeze in enrollment will come at that time as students now crowding the elementary schools will then be ready for college.
Most of the 8 million dollars provided for new construction will go for dormitories, classrooms and laboratories.
However, Frank R. Burge, director of the Kansas Union, announced last week that the plans for the one million dollar addition to the Kansas Union were in the final state of completion. He expects the project will be advertised for bids this month.
The addition to the Kansas Union will be to the north of the present building. The new area will be used to enlarge the Hawk's Nest, the Jay Bowl, the cafeterias and will provide additional meeting rooms and lounge area.
Work on the $220,000 mammalian genetics addition to Snow Hall was begun last month. This project, financed largely by an anonymous donor, is for mammalian genetic study and cancer research.
A Topeka architectural firm has been assigned the job of drawing plans for a major addition to Snow Hall. This addition will be at the northeast corner of the building and the Legislature has appropriated $175,000. The University will ask for funds at the next session of the Legislature to complete this addition.
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Officials hope this building will be let for bids, by early summer.
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Summerfield Hall which will house the School of Business, the department of economics, the University Computation Center and the Bureau of Business Research is 50 per cent completed and will be ready by September 1959.
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In an effort to keep up with the demand for student housing the University has three large dormitories under construction.
The 7-story J. R. Pearson dormitory on West Campus Drive will be ready by spring semester said J. J. Wilson, director of student housing It will accommodate 416 students.
The other two dormitories are under construction on the Daisy Field. They will house 432 students each. Templin dormitory will be completed by September 1959 and Lewis is scheduled for occupancy in February 1960.
"When the students were seated in the 15 cent section, they decided that they were entitled to better seats, and started down in front, in spite of the protests of the ushers," the paper reports.
for the carnival because of the crowd, pressed past the ticket taker as they sang and shouted college yells the story said.
Several smaller projects either under construction or scheduled to start in the near future include a building to house the nuclear reactor, and the University's share in the paving of W. 15th St. The City of Lawrence will pave the street from the campus to Iowa St., the University's share in the cost is $30,000.
Mr. Wilson said the 120 additional Stouffe Place apartments now under construction will be ready February 1959.
Finally the chancellor pleaded for an end to hostilities and the police asked for aid from school authorities in quelling trouble.
The program was a jiu-ijsiu wrestling contest. Young Togo, the Jap Demon, offered $25 to any person who could stay with him fifteen minutes. A man named Weston who said he was an athletic instructor at Washburn University came to take the money the Kansan said. Students cheered wildly for Washburn and delegated Bob Hemphill, varsity wrestler, as the referee.
"In a short time five hundred University men occupied the reserved section and the curtain went up."
pool; 50 couples defy week night date ruling in public.
Weston stayed the full 15 minutes with the Demon and demanded the money. The manager tried to put Weston off with $20 the Kansan continued.
Aided by the moral suasion of five hundred students, Weston collected the disputed five dollars.
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Although students once stomped their feet in movie theaters just to make a story, the hayday of yellow journalism is over.
"Kansas fire laws flouted in Robinson Auditorium; students lives menaced by lack of escapes, barred windows, and too many seats between aisles—gym not fireproof.
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"TNE, fraternity of alcohol, active once more at KU; billions of bacteria menace swimmers in waters of gym
From wrestling fans, the students became carnival "hayrubes." When they were refused admission to an animal show they marched down Massachusetts St. to a horse-show. The management staged an extra act for the 500 students the story said.
Other headlines in the "Yellow Kansas" announce:
Boarding houses in the 1880s pro- vided students with their meals for $1.50 to $2 a week.
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