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ARTS & CULTURE Work by ceramist Morgan Barton is on display in Chalmers Hall
MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 2016 | VOLUME 132 ISSUE 12
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
CONNER MITCHELL
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OMAR SANCHEZ
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50 THINGS
Lawrence settlers considered New Boston. Yankeetown, Excelsior and Wakarusa as names for their new town.
Since its settlement in the fall of 1854 by the New England Emigrant Aid Company, Lawrence has been a stage for fervent political activism especially with its involvement in Bleeding Kansas.
For a brief period of time, settlers and future governor of
But the name of Lawrence, chosen as a tribute to wealthy anti-slavery reformist Amos Lawrence, wasn't always a sure bet.
Kansas Charles Robinson con-
Robinson conti templated names such as New Boston, Yanketown and Wakarusa.
However, Dean said the name was rejected due to an unfavorable translation.
Virgil Dean, consulting editor of the "Kansas History: A Journal of Central Plains," said that while New Boston and Yankeetown were potential choices for the town name, Wakarusa was actually the official name of the community for a brief period.
The name Wakarusa was derived from the Wakarusa River that crosses through the city.
Steve
Nowak, executive director of the Watkins Museum of History, seconded this. He said that the name "Wakarusa" translated to "rump hide" on a horse, which, in the end, "wasn't the kind of phrase to name a town after."
New Boston and Yankeeetown fell into their own category, as Lawrence's connection with the state of Massachusetts brought those names into consideration.
Dating back to the opening of settlement for the state of Kansas, anti-slavery
groups such as the New England Emigrant Aid Company were "really politically motivated to populate the territory with free state votes." Nowak said.
That group, which was in part funded by Amos Lawrence, came from the Boston area.
In the end, however, Nowak said Governer Robinson decided to keep a thriving relationship with Amos Lawrence for future funding.
So, Lawrence was chosen as the official city name.
"Then, he gave [another] monetary contribution to the community," Nowak said. "Some of that became the seed money that the residents of Lawrence used for the University of Kansas."
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The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, is a University alumnus.
Allen Fieldhouse was the setting for a hospital in ABC's 1983 postapocalyptic film "The Day After." According to KU History, an alumni magazine described it as "the largest portrayal of human suffering in Allen Fieldhouse since last season's K-State game."
In the CW's "Supernatural," Sam and Dean Winchester grew up in Lawrence, at 53 Barker Avenue. Though Barker Avenue exists, the address does not.
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What is now the Wagon Wheel Cafe opened in
1906 as Rowlands College Bookstore. It became a bar in 1955.
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According to "The Nation Guide to the Nation." Free
State Brewery, located in an old trolley station, was Kansas' first legal brewery in over 100 years.
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Both the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails ran through Lawrence.
Despite inventing the game of basketball, Dr. James Naismith is the only coach in Kansas' history with a losing record (55-60).
Some notable people from Lawrence include actor Rob Riggle and environmental activist Erin vich.
Missy Minear/KANSAN A statue of James Naismith sits outside the DeBruce Center on the KU campus.
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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.
cary drag about both after 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.
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
"I came up here as a high school senior for a campus tour, and the
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.
"I actually started doing physics research with professors Baringer and Bean the summer before my freshman year," she said. "This stuff is pret-
you're usually 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.
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