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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 21, 1997
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Steam whistle still stands the tests of time
Blowing in the wind
By Daniel E. Thompson
dthompson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Every student feels it, shivers and shakes to it.
During the course of four years students slowly become adjusted to the increase of adrenaline pumped through their body each time it happens. The shrill of the whistle still sends students into a split-second convulsion if they are unlucky enough to be caught walking nearby. For the multitudes of students across campus the sound dismisses them into a book stowing, backpacking, class leaving melee.
The order to pull the cord did not make it from the administration building to the facilities and operations building.
But who pulls the cord that sends the steam that rips open the sky above campus?
Later that day, the whistle began blowing ten times a day, six days a week, to announce the end of classes and the passing of Saturdays. In 1981, the whistle ceased to blow on Saturdays.
The closest man to the whistle is Emil Trybom, physical plant supervisor.
Beneath the whistle perched on the roof of the University of Kansas power plant located behind Watson Library is Trybom's office and the cord to the whistle, attached to a timer.
The whistle on top of the Facilities Operations has been blowing since 1912 to announce the end of each class period. Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
Inside, three immense boilers drone at a deafening level. Out of these boilers stretches a thick, red pipe the size of a man's waist. The steam flowing through the pipe feeds most of campus with warming steam. From that pipe sprouts another pipe that feeds the whistle above.
But 85 years ago, with the whistle
The steam erupts from the whistle at 100 pounds of pressure. And if a student were to get a mouthful of steam, it would scald them with its 377 degree temperature.
The idea to use the whistle began under Chancellor Frank Strong, who wanted to use "Professor Blake's" whistle on top of the old facilities and operations shops. Blake's whistle had been in place since 1899 to shrill the 8 p.m. curfew to the whole city.
wailing repeatedly all day long, some concern was voiced about the noise.
"A few persons have suggested that the whistle makes some noise," the "Kansan" reported. "It is pointed that the general University catalogue says not at word in favor of Mt. Oread as a retreat for neurotics."
The whistle continued to blow until it was replaced in 1944.
A KU student and Marine captain, Robert A. Haggart, salvaged a 200 pound whistle from a sunken German transport ship in Leghorn Harbor, Italy, during World War II.
He brought it back in time to whistle the jubilation on Victory in Europe Day, but it lacked the proper tone and re-enceance.
It was said to have been dishonorably discharged and the old and warping whistle was reinstated. In 1954 the current whistle was installed.
In Trybom's office a beige box the size of a suitcase is suspended half way up his wall. Red digital numbers click off the seconds, and blows the whistle at exactly the right time.
The whistle has been operated by a clock since 1929. Now once a semester, the whistle is aligned in time with the atomic clock in Colorado Springs, Colo.
"The Whistle" over Time
1899: A whistle was installed on top of the old shops and announced the 8 p.m. curfew to the City of Lawrence.
1912: The whistle was used to announce the end of classes.
1923: Moved to the present power plant because of the central location.
1929: Master clock installed to regulate the whistle blowing.
1932: Broke down for the first time.
1944: A replacement whistle from a German ship is brought to Lawrence by a KU alumnus.
1945: The German whistle was taken down and the original was put back.
1954: A new whistle to replace the aging one was installed.
1977: The whistle blowing is put on hiatus to test whether it is still effective.
1978: The 10-week silence is ended after students voted to keep the whistle blowing.
1985: On the first day of the spring semester, the whistle blows it's top again. It was fixed a week later.
'Sniper' takes aim at KU
By Linus Williams
Special to the Kansan
A personal collection of modern art containing more than 200 objects from 100 artists is now on display at Spencer Museum of Art.
"Sniper's Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard" examines a collection of art that modern art critic Lucy R. Lippard has accumulated for more than 30 years. The exhibit contains a variety of modern art types and excerpts from her writings about them. The exhibit runs through Dec. 21.
"The exhibit embodies how
her work as a critic is so closely involved in the development of the art world," said Susan Earle, the museum's curator of European and American art. "It also represents the political trends and aesthetic trends in the last 30 years."
The collection includes a variety of types of modern art such as pop, conceptualism and minimalism. The exhibit also branches into smaller subject types like feminism, earth and nature, and body and politics.
Lippard has been involved in the art world since the 1960's as a modern art critic, a cultural activist, feminist, theorist and
writer. Most of the pieces in the exhibit were gifts from friends, artists and family members.
"This collection is an example of how an individual can surround themselves with various forms of art," said Andrea Norris, the museum's director.
The exhibit includes artists like James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Ryman, Lorna Simpson, Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Faith Ringgold, Ana Mendieta, Sol LeWitt, Alex Katz, Luis Jimenez, Eva Hesse, Judy Chicago and Carl Andre.
Lippard will give a lecture at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
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