University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980
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ploded, placed $350,000 damage and killed two occupants of an apartment upstairs. The second was an arson at 706 Massachusetts St. that cost $201,000 damage.
"We could have adopted every code in the world and it would have done nothing to prevent those fires," he said. "They had absolutely nothing to do with the age or condition of the
THERE HAVE BEEN three other large-loss fires in Lawrence in the last four years. The 1976 fire at Quantrill's Flea Market caused $275,000 damage, a 1977 fire at the Royal College shoe store caused $275,000 damage, a 1978 fire at the Old Carpenter's Smoke House, 719 Massachusetts St. resulted in $110,000 damage.
McSwin said that large-loss fires such as these usually begin after business hours, and are often fueled by fire.
A are仕 that has to build to the point where someone going down the street can see the smoke or fire. Then he has to find a place to turn in the alarm "he said."
Despite the high number of large-loss fires in downtown Lawrence in the last four years, Salina, the Kansas city closer joined to protect the business that perplex Insurance companies are not panicking.
HOWARD HURWITZ, of the Charlton, Holmes, Peek and Brown Insurance Agency in Lawrence, said that rates have not gone up, and out-of-town insurance companies are not
"We don't have too much of a problem here. They'd love to write anything in Lawrence."
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theme is responsibility—reverence for law, for morality, and for religion."
SIMILAR QUALIFICATIONS were required for class officers. One 1914 freshman class of officers, known as *winter*, was referred to as "...big and good-looking* in the two prime职责 of a freshman president."
Six years later, KU students and faculty paraded from University Drive to South Park for the annual Snake Dance celebration, dressed in their night shirts and palamas. At South Park, a group of musicians played apples and watched the cheerleaders burn the Missouri "Tiger" in affinity in a bonfire.
In 1820, George H. "Dumpy" Bowles, president of the Kansas City Adult Association, wrote the words to "I'm A Jayhawk." Bowles, an athlete who was later injured and physically handicapped, gave the royalties from the song to the fund for building Memorial Stadium.
AS WE CRUISE the road we find KU students at the first all-University party, a "rollicoking-mixer-from-beginning-to-end." The party, consisting of stunts, games, and country dances, was over by 11 p.m. the hour that the University took control to report back on weekends to their living quarters.
A ruling by the Women's Student Government Association in September 1929 stated, "After 10 o'clock in the evening on week nights, girls you can't even look at a man. Houses will be seated—lock, bar, and shutter—at 10:30 o'clock. All out after this hour must sleep on the porch." Males
could accompany women home from the library but no loitering was tolerated.
As we roll into 1830, we find the Judicary Committee of the (Panhellenic) Council accusing seven sorites of "splinking" and "hot-boxing." The sorrites held women in their houses against their wills to prevent them from pledging other sorites.
A KU SOCILOGY professor was arrested on Oct. 29 by Kansas City police for being dressed like a hobo or a "questionable character." The professor, known as KU's scientific hobo, walked the streets trying to get a pin of "hobo bootleg" so he could analyze the effects and effects.
In 1930, all suits were $37.50, sweaters were $5.00, and roes were $1.00 a dozen. A student could take a date to dinner and a movie, and stop before the door. He and matted milked after the show for about $5.00.
The Jayhawker yearbook featured a campus queen, selected from 24 candidates from organ and living groups and clubs. The yearbook includes stories asking for entries of the "best looking women."
The KU Student Council voted to abolish the KU-Kansas A&M hostilities that preceded the KU-Wichita all games. The vote resulted after some KU students attempted to clip prize-winning Aggie cattle.
CONTROVERSIES AT KU included the Men's Student Council's abolishing freshmen "Hell Week" and KU women voting to abolish the
Junior Prom Queen because it "cheaped
masters and lowered the tone of the University."
We rock on to 1940 with plested skins, the Ink Spots, and Glenn Miller's "The Rumba Jumps."
The University Daily Kanan ran a popularity poll in 1940 and named two students to escort John Wayne, Gale Antry, and Roy Rose. The world-premiere of the movie "Dark Command,"
Men preferred women with "wasp-like" waists and slender ankles and women climbed stairs and dipped their figures. One sorority even had a special starvation table to refrain from eating starches and desserts at dinner.
Women preferred men with cars, according to Marilyn McBride, Rock Chalk Talk columnist. She said, "A coed gets tired of walking. A man with a car is definitely an asset on wheels," she said.
COLLEGE PRANKS included calling Cliff at the Jayhawk Cafe and ordering sandwiches and shakes to be delivered to 1346 Ohio—the address of the Jayhawk Cafe.
The first woman war correspondent, Miss Fleeson, spoke to KU students in 1950 about the invasion of France in World War II. She was one of the World in Crisis speakers at the University.
In 1966, shipments of Salk's polio vaccine arrived at Watkins hospital for free student vaccinations. The KU-Y sponsored a campus debate entitled, "Must a student conform to survive," and 7-foot KU basketball center, Wilt Chamberlain, towered over the team.
Heather sweaters, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beach Boy typified the 1960's.
STUDENTS WERE required to pass an English Proficiency Exam for graduation in Business, Journalism, Fine Arts, Engineering, Humanities and Health. Students covered subjects from LSD to campus politics.
Also that year women started wearing jeans and got keys to their dorms and houses.
"Students are in at all times of the night," said a manager at the Holiday Inn.
MEN AT the Rock Chalk Cafe sat on the sidewalk and talked about police brutality in the growing social activist climate. At the Jayhawk Cafe men wore short-sleeved buttondown shirts, penny laffers, and fraternity pins and women wore culottes and talked about the new pledge class. At the Wheel men wore le-shirts and blue pants. At the Tower women wore Kappa and Theta pledge class to “be cool,” sit at all on a table and ignored the guys.
A 1968 advertisement in the Kansan read,
"Seniors—Studly individuals that you are. Blast-
off party with Percy Sledge."
They demanded 50 percent student representation on administrative committees and called for the end of women's curfew hours, course requirements, the presence of the military on campus. The Kansas Union was burned in April of 1970.
Campus radicals took a "Mission Impossible" task, petitioning the administration for an "effective voice on all matters affecting our lives."
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