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ARTS & CULTURE
ARTS & CULTURE Work by ceramist Morgan Barton is on display in Chalmers Hall
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MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 2016 | VOLUME 132 ISSUE 12
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Chancellor search likely to be closed to public
► CONNER MITCHELL
@connermitchellO
details regarding the
there is a potential for a different [type] of candidate pool if the search is
45.
One issue of The Sour Owl, a humor publication
that ran from 1914 to 1956, "was deemed 'obscene literature' by the office of the US Postmaster General and declared 'non- mailable,' according to KU history.
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50 THINGS
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Although it is commonly cited as a weird Lawrence law, "No one may wear a bee in their hat" is not listed in the current code.
CHANDLER BOESE
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Yes, the Lawrence transit system wasn't always made up of big blue buses and nice, paved roads. Since 1871, Lawrence residents have gotten around town on streetcars, first pulled by horses, then operated by an electrical line from
Same for "All cars entering the city limits must first sound their horn to warn the horses
Through a thin fog, the ring of a streetcar announces its descent down a tall hill and down onto the city's main street. As it stops, chatting people with bundles and packages pile on and off the streetcar.
An image like this tends to make one think of San Francisco, the California city famous for its hills, streetcars and fog. But it could just as easily have applied to Lawrence in the early twentieth century.
of their arrival.'
Before buses, Lawrence was all about the streetcars.
1909 on, according to a 1997 report by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Office.
"If advantage is taken of the franchise, it woul d be profit able for the Co m- pany to
In its early years, the city's one streetcar was named "Progress" and it went down the dirt road of Massachusetts Street, across the river and north to the train depot. Over the remaining part of the 1800s, the lines expanded farther over Lawrence, but not to campus.
When the discussion of electric streetcar lines began in 1893, it excited the University's students, according to a 1893 edition of the student newspaper, The Student Journal. Reporters covered the city's proposed shift from a horse car line to an electric line and made a subtle plea for an extension to campus.
extend its line up Adams Street to the University," the paper said, with Adams Street being the modern 14th Street.
But those hopes were dashed when a 1903 flood destroyed the main lines of the still horse-drawn streetcar system, according to the city's report. The railway line that had begun Lawrence's public transportation system closed for good.
A new electric railway opened in 1909 and spanned areas that the previous one had never gone. It was this expansion that really fueled the city's growth, said Melissa Isaacs, a librarian at the Lawrence Public Library who specializes in local history and genealogy.
For example, she mentioned the Breezedale neighborhood just south
of 23rd Street around Massachusetts Street. Isaacs said 23rd Street used to be the south side of Lawrence.
"When the electric streetcars started operating in 1909 with these longer lines, that's also when we see the first houses being built in the Breezedale neighborhood," Isaacs said. "The streetcars really pushed Lawrence to grow and expand."
The new line went west from Massachusetts by 8th Street, then went south on Indiana and up the hill via Mississippi Street, the city's report says.
The southern line wasn't the only new addition that came with the move to electric streetcars in 1999. The streetcar company also decided to expand to the west with a line up Mount Oread to the University's campus.
The Kansan documented the first streetcar to ever ascend Mount Oread on April 9, 1910 at 2:30 p.m.The streetcar was filled with local newspaper reporters and the Kansas describes their wonder, not at riding the streetcar, but seeing the University campus they were unfamiliar with.
"Several of them saw for the first time some of the University improvements which they have been enthusiastically working for and writing about," the paper said, adding that many of the reporters didn't even know what some of the buildings were.
48. Lawrence has three sister cities: Eutin, Germany; Hiratsuka, Japan; and Iniades, Greece.
49.
The default center of Google Earth on PC is Meadowbrook
Apartments.
In the next couple years, the University's line extended to form a loop around the campus. The company that had operated the streetcars, the Kansas Electric Power Company, began to switch out the streetcars for motorized buses in 1927 due a demand for a more flexible travel option. The University's line was the last to undergo the change in 1933.
Over the next several decades, the operation of the Lawrence public transportation expanded and changed
hands multiple times, but always kept serving the University's campus based on the line that had been established during the streetcar era, the report said.
The modern collaboration between Lawrence public transit and the University began in 1971, when the bus company announced they would cease service, barring a miracle. As a result, the University's Student Senate set up KU on Wheels, a partnership to provide bus services for students.
University Archives
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Two KU students, Anne Lynn (second from left) and Emily Smith (third from left) were recognized for being awarded the Astronaut Scholarship afternoon. Two former astronauts, Steve Hawley (second from right) and Sam Gemar (far left) presented the awards and spoke about their experiences as astronauts.
The scholarship is awarded to a limited number of students each year who have shown great promise in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics, according to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation website. The scholarship was created with the intention to keep the U.S. on the cutting edge of technology.
ter astronaut Sam Gemar presented then with the Astronaut Scholarship.
Overland Park received the scholarship for her research and work in the field of chemical engineering, while senior Emily Smith of Olathe received the scholarship for her research in physics.
Senior Annie Lynn of
ambassador that was giving the tour worked in Dr. Tang's lab, which is how I got involved there," she said. "They do X-ray crystallography on viral proteins. What we're looking at are what viral proteins look like
to do is take a protein from another more stable virus and fuse it with Hep C, which will hopefully allow us to work with it more efficiently."
"I came up here as a high school senior for a campus tour, and the
Lynn said her journey into chemical engineering began during her senior year of high school after a visit to the University.
"I actually started doing physics research with professors Baringer and Bean the summer before my freshman year," she said. "This stuff is pret-
Smith's research, on the other hand, took her from Kansas all the way to Geneva, Switzerland, where she help conduct physics research at CERN, a nuclear research center there.
you're actually helping out with is the computational aspect, since the theoretical side is so, so complex," she said.
Gemar, who was a crew member on three different NASA missions, presented Smith and Lynn with their certificates on behalf of the ASF. Former astronaut Steven Hawley, who is also a University alumnus and professor of physics and astronomy, also attended the presentation.
—Edited by Chandler Boese
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