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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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50 THINGS
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The University's first student newspaper was called the "Kansas
University Weekly." The second, the "Semi-Weekly Kansan," debuted in September 1904 and was later renamed "The University Daily Kansan."
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The seal of Lawrence depicts a Phoenix rising
from the ashes,and the city of Lawrence motto is "from ashes to immortality."
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Confederate leader William
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William Howard Wells donated the land that would become Wells Overlook to Douglas County. The original wood structure of its signature lookout tower
Quantrill and a band of pro-slavery forces raided Lawrence in August of 1863. After Quantrill's Raid, only one building on Massachusetts Street was left standing.
14. The University of Kansas was once known as Kansas State University.
was constructed in the 1970s.
Lawrence is not actually modeled after Boston
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University students may have heard the story of how Lawrence was initially modeled after the city of Boston when it was established in 1854. In truth, the city was not modeled after Boston at all, but it still holds many ties to the New England region and the state of Massachusetts in particular.
Many migrant parties traveled from around New England to secure and fight for the establishment of a free state in Kansas, according to Monica Davis, a research volunteer at the Watkins Museum of History.
"The ties to Massachusetts are really this idea of education and community that still exist in Lawrence," Brittany Keegan, curator of the Watkins Museum of History, said.
The May 1943 edition of the "Kansas Historical Quarterly," published by the Kansas State Historical Society, explains that Kansas settlers originated primarily from Boston. Other settlers came from parts of Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. A majority of the settlers' trips were funded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company. Amos A. Lawrence, the company's treasurer, was a primary donor of these trips.
The focus of the New England Emigrant Aid Company was making Kansas
a free state is not the same as taking an abolitionist stance.
"There is a difference between Abolitionists and Free Staters," Davis said. "If you were from the north, you were assumed to be an abolitionist. Those who came to Lawrence were Free Staters. [They] just wanted land."
A "Boston Journal" editorial held at the Watkins Museum stated that $25.00 would cover a trip to Lawrence for one person plus 100 pounds of his or her belongings. Meals would cost extra.
According to "Wonderful Old Lawrence" by Elfriede Fischer Rowe, "The first contingent arrived by train at St. Louis August 1, 1854
and Dr. Robinson met them. They took a steamer up the Missouri River to Kansas City, and then the final 40 miles to Lawrence on foot. Ox teams were used to carry their baggage."
Franklin Haskell, a Kansas settler from North Brookfield, MA, was the father of Dudley Haskell, who was a U.S. Representative. In 1887, The United States Indian Industrial Training School changed its name to "Haskell Institute" in honor of Dudley. Today, the school is known as Haskell Indian Nations University.
As settlers mapped the town, they chose Massachusetts Street to be the heart of the community, and made it 20 feet wider than any other street.
There was no debate about the main street of the town. The settlers were far more concerned
about establishing Kansas as a free state.
On May 30, 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, which allowed states entering the union to decide, based on popular sovereignty, if they were to be a slave state or a free state.
Missouri was a pro-slavery state at
the time that Kansas became a free state. Because of this, numerous Missouri-Kansas conflicts took place in Lawrence, according to Davis.
was a constant state of uncertainty, people were forced from their homes while they were just trying to make a living...It was not an easy life for four years."
"I don't think a lot of people were aware of what it was like to live in this area at that time," Davis said. "There
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Andrew Rosenthal/KANSAN The Old Sacramento cannon, which was captured by Missourians and then captured again by Free-staters from the Missourians.
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Andrew Rosenthal/KANSAN 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 Genar (far left) presented the awards and spoke about their experiences being astronauts.
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cany 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 are 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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