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Monday, August 27, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Richard Quinn/KANSAN
Current roads lead to past events
KU history stored in archives
Smooth move
Kansan staff writer
By Debbie Myers
Andy Kula, Leawood sophomore, plays pool in Naismith Hall.
Basketball shoes from 1923 bearing Phog Allen's name, James Naismith's optical set used in the 1920s to play basketball. It may be found at the University Archives.
Workers at the archives, situated on the fourth floor of Spencer University, can go to 600 cubic feet of records or a book John Nugent, University archivist.
The records include University and student publications, a newspaper clipping, faculty correspondence and a file of clippings about each faculty and staff member, he said. Some records date to 1865.
The archives also house thousands of photographs, audio cassettes and sports films dating to the 1930s, Nugent said. The 1929 Kansas vs. Nebraska football game is available for viewing in the archives' audio-visual room.
Shannon McCrary, a Kansas City Kan., graduate student, has worked
'It's real interesting working up here. They have everything about KU you'd ever want to know.'
Shannon McCrary
Kansas City, Kan., graduate student
at the Archives intermittently for four years.
“It’s real interesting working up here,” she said. “They have every thing about KU you’d ever want to know.”
McCryar, who is studying nutrition and health, she said she enjoys finding information about her professors, her family and famous people. She said she once found a picture of actor Don Johnson when he was 18 years old.
Archive records show that Johnson
attended KU during the summer and fall semesters in 1967.
Nugent said that students had used the archives to research University traditions and history for news articles, research papers, theses and dissertations. Architecture students have come in to look at blueprints and building plans of campus buildings.
He said most students did not visit the archives solely because of curiosity.
"In order to get the students interested, you're going to have to get their attention and their time, and I don't know whether they have the ability to spend you here." Nugent said. "Usually you have to have an assignment."
He said about 150 students, faculty and visitors used the resources each month.
Ann Gottberg, Salina second-year law student, said the archives staff was helpful.
"They seem to welcome students," she said. "They're glad you're interested in what you're doing. I've
always had positive experiences over there.
"It's kind of amazing because they really do know where everything is."
Gottingb said she liked to use the archives because it provided current sources of information about the past.
"It's always good to have a sense of where you come from, I think," she said. "People like to have a sense of where they've been 20 years down the road."
"I don't think many students get over there. It's a nice facility, so it's too bad people never see it."
Thomas Rither, retired associate professor of journalism, has worked at the archives as a volunteer for 20 years. He said it was important to maintain files of deceased faculty and staff.
"The greatest experience you have in this world is helping people," she said, like I'm doing something for these people, bringing their records to life."
History book recounts stories of Great Plains life
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The KU Division of Continuing Education this month published a history book that describes the people, culture and history of Kansas institutions housed by Kanans through the years.
The book, part of the division's "Kansas Studies" series, was compiled to meet Gov. Mike Hayden's newly issued mandate that requires all Kansas students in secondary school to take nine weeks of Kansas history before graduating.
"Kansas Revisited" is a collection of short articles covering aspects of Great Plains life.
including Kansas politics in 1922 and the Brown
& Topka Board of Education case of 1954,
where she was elected as mayor in 1960.
"Kansas Revisited" also describes the hardships of women and children, differences of religion and gender, and "Myth and History; Turkey Red Wheat."
"I wanted to put in classic pieces and better
companion historyians," said Paul Kusew,
edition editor.
Stueve, a history and government teacher at Lawrence High School, said he edited pieces by
"It was a tough process." Stueve said. "The difficult thing was to decide what to leave out.
There is so much you want to put in. I wanted to put in things that don't usually get into the
One such article, written by Katie Armitage of Lawrence traces the journey of a Lawrence family who left town in 1980 for California on the Oregon Trail.
Armitage said she wrote the article after studying two of the settlers' diaries that are now in University Archives in Spencer Research Library.
"Lawrence pioneers traveled on the Oregon Trail, which ran through Lawrence." Armitage said. "The trail ran through the campus rather than downward because the ground is higher."
Barbara Watkins, manager of curriculum and projects in the division of continuing education, said the idea for "Kansas Revista de Educación" is a 15-year interest in developing Kansas studies.
"We knew we wanted a book that would parallel the chronological government task force on immigration."
"Kansas Revised" is available to students in the Spencer Research Library, she said.
Watkins said possibilities for the "Kansas Series" in the future included a piece describing the Spanish influence on Kansas and a piece explaining how this came to be and the effect it had on the Kansas home front.
Textbooks becoming outdated because of political changes
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
produce a new textbook, Piekalkowicz said.
After a manuscript is written, a publisher
issues it to the public.
Jarosław Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, said current textbooks written about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were useless because of political changes in the
Because of rapid political change in Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union, finding textbooks for classes about the countries is difficult, a KU professor said.
"It takes one to two years or longer to
Piekalkiewicz taught a class about Eastern Europe in Spring 1990. He said he used textbooks that were outdated by that time only for background information. He used contemporary statistics and public opinion polls from the magazine "The Magazine of Statistical Abstract," and the professional journal "Eastern Central Europe," and publications by international Finance Research Incorporate.
Prikaliewicz, who will teach the class again this semester, reads newspapers to compile information about political changes in Eastern Europe. However, he said the stories were not in-depth enough to use directly in class. But he did use the stories to help develop his lectures.
Saul Norman, professor of history, will teach a Soviet Union history class this semester. He said he had not decided which book to use to cover the Gorbachev period.
Norman may put together readings from publications by research centers that study the Soviet Union, such as the Kenenn Institute for Advanced Russian Study in Washington, D.C. He said other good sources were "Literary Gazette," a biweekly newspaper about the Soviet Union, and "Current Digest of Soviet Press."
Graduate money awarded for business students
"I have a blank space on my syllabus waiting to be filled in." Norman said.
Publishers know their textbooks are outdated, Norman said. But they are reluctant to revise them because the Soviet Union keeps changing.
Kansan staff report
Loomis, Saylor & Company Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., and the O'Connor Group, a New York real estate investment firm with offices in Overland Park, pledged financial support for scholarships for students enrolled in the master of business administration, master of science and accounting and doctoral programs.
Two new scholarships in graduate-level business courses have been awarded to encourage minor- or postgraduate pursue graduate business studies.
The O'Connor Group pledged
$2,000, and Loomis & Sayers
donated $1,000. The funds will be
used to fund university
versatility Endowment Association.
Both companies are investment advisers for corporate and public pension funds.
Seventy-five graduate school minority scholarships have been awarded since the 1978-79 school year.
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