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MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 2016 | VOLUME 132 ISSUE 12
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to the Union, as flames consumed the historic building.
"I lived in a house down by where the Wheel is. Myself and a few friends were sitting outside when we saw an orange glow, which could only be a fire, so we ran up the hill and saw it was engulfed in flames," he said.
Awbrey said it was a time of anticipation and tension on campus.
"It was kind of a combination of anticipation and expectation," he said. "There was really this heightened era of tension and everyday you just wondered if something was going to happen. All the time you worried that something was about to happen."
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For Awbrey, the Union burning was an awe-inspiring sight, but not one that necessarily caused any fear.
"It was more or less we weren't surprised. We were thinking,
'Well, they did a good job,' if burning down our Union was what they had in mind. So it wasn't fear or anything," he said. "The imagery was really strong, being such a large building burning at night. The heat from the building, the color of the flames, the contrast of the firemen doing their thing, hoses going in, just a lot of activity. No one was yelling or screaming or anything like that. It was just really amazing."
Awbrey, who had finished his term as student body president only two weeks before the fire, was highly involved in activist protests on campus, and even spent two weeks in jail after being arrested following the fire.
"I had just turned the job over to the next president at the time. I was very much a campus activist at the time, so we just waited to see what would happen next," he
said. "Right after the fire, the city instituted a curfew which got everyone going. There were a lot of demonstrations and around 60 people got arrested,
including myself. We were all hauled down to the Lawrence Police Station and put in jail. I went to court that next morning and was sentenced to six months in jail, which of course I appealed. So I ended up spending two weeks in jail that following August."
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was eventually called off early," he said.
The fire was ruled arson in the following days, and many different individuals and groups were suspected
In those following weeks, several other things happened, including the invasion of Cambodia. So only a couple of weeks after the fire, all hell broke loose again, and school
...we saw an orange glow, which could only be a fire, so we ran up the hill and saw it was engulfed in flames."
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of starting the blaze, according to KU History. Some believed the fire was started by an outside group, but Awbrey said he suspects it was someone within the University community.
there were all sorts of rumors about who did it, like a black student did it or an outside arson group did it, but I'm almost certain it was done by an activist
"Everybody was asking who did it and
in the KU community," he said. "I'm 99 percent sure I know who did it and I know the person who provided accelerant for it, which is what they used. It was a homegrown arson, not some outside conspiracy," he said.
Leffel, on the other hand, would become a key player in student activism following the fire, giving a presentation called "Cause for Concern," which called students to action in the face of major budget cuts to the University and key faculty leaving due to the chaotic environment.
The University created a student activist award in Leffel's name, to commemorate his actions during such an uncertain time.
Leffel said he still refers to that year as a turn for the worst, but also said it was a time that today's students and activists should look to when considering modern issues.
"It was a time that really made you question what our country is. What was our country going to become? What did our constitution mean? Were we going to honor the words in our constitution, or what direction were we headed in? These are all questions students should be asking themselves today, and you need look no further than the words written on the Campanile," he said.
The phrase to which Leffel refers is by Allen Crafton, founder and former chairman of the speech and drama department at the University. It reads, "Free government does not bestow repose upon its citizens, but sets them in the vanguard of battle to defend the liberty of every man."
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There is a network of tunnels under Massachusetts
Street.Many are sealed off, and their exact purpose is unsure.
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Massachusetts, was designed by John G Haskell the architect of the State Capitol building.
The Castle Tea room, located at 1307
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According to KU History an outbreak of influenza closed the University for month in 1918.
Dr. Marshall A. Barber, the inventor of the micropipette, was a University alumnus. According to KU History, his invention paved the way to proving germ theory.
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Potter lake was built in 1910 as a fire safety precaution.
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from Kansas abolitionist groups who would raid pro-slavery settlements in Missouri. The University then adopted the mascot in 1890.
The name "Jayhawk" comes
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The old Jayhawk mascot is on display in the Booth Family Hall of Athletics.
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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 Friday afternoon. Two former astronauts, Steve Hawley (second from right) and Sam Gemar (far left) presented the awards and spoke about their experiences being astronauts.
ter astronaut Sam Gemar presented them with the Astronaut Scholarship.
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.
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
Lynn said her journey into chemical engineering began during her senior year of high school after a visit to the University.
"I came up here as a high school senior for a campus tour, and the
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."
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.
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.
you're actually helping out with is the computational aspect, since the theoretical side is so, so complex," she said.
"I actually started doing physics research with professors Baringer and Bean the summer before my freshman year," she said. "This stuff is pret-
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