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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 2016 | VOLUME 130 ISSUE 11
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
50 THINGS
you didn't know about Lawrence, Kan. Check the @KansanNews Twitter and Snapchat to answer questions about the content of this special edition for the chance to win
This phrase,
Lawrence's city motto,
sums up what the
Kansan staff learned
while researching this
section: Lawrence
is resilient. (It was
burned down twice,
after all.)
We had fun researching this section. I hope that, whether you've lived near Lawrence your whole life or this is your first semester at the University, you learn something interesting about the city and campus we all call home.
I would like to thank KU History;
Lawrence's numbered streets were originally named for New England public figures.
the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas and Douglas County Historical Societies for the wealth of information they provide to those curious about Lawrence's history. Unless otherwise noted, all of the facts listed here came from them.
Read on to discover how the city barely escaped being called Yankeetown, the Wheel's scholarly origins, and the location of "Hogback Ridge." (It's closer than you might think.)
ELLE CLOUSE
S sixth Street may sound familiar to a local's ear but it
The street sign for Massachusetts street
wasn't always that simple. Pinckney Street and many others in Lawrence have transformed over the years.
"The streets were named by Dr. Thomas Webb, secretary of the
Lawrence was first surveyed in October 1854 by A. D. Searl. Upon receiving the information in Boston, a map was drawn up, and the unique-to-Lawrence street names were established.
Katie Armitage, a Lawrence historian, explained that the Lawrence street names can be traced back to one person.
New England Aid Society," Armitage said.
Lawrence currently features streets that are labeled by numbers. However, this was not always the case, according to Steve Nowak, the director of Watkins Museum of History.
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"The numbered streets were originally named for important public figures, mostly from New England. For example, 6th Street was Pinckney Street," Nowak said. "The names were changed to numbers in the early 1900s to make navigating downtown a little easier."
As for Lawrence's main street, Massachusetts Street, Armitage thinks that having a historical name is unique to Lawrence.
"The people who
printed this map in Boston, they named our main street Massachusetts," Armitage said. "It's quite unusual really. You go across the country, and the traditional business street is often called main street, just a generic name, but we have a state name, because of our founding."
Geographically, Massachusetts Street is larger than the others due to the founders' decision.
"Massachusetts Street is Lawrence's main street and is wider than the rest of the streets," Nowak said.
The remaining streets
are named after colonies and states, according to Nowak.
"East of Mass. Street, the streets are named after the other 12 original colonies, starting with New England, then the mid-Atlantic colonies, and finally the southern colonies." Nowak said. "West of Mass. Street, the streets are named for the states of the Union, in the order in which they achieved statehood."
- Edited by Matt
Clough
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 Gemar (far left) awarded the awards and spoke about their experiences as astronauts.
easy brag 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.
"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.
"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 normally 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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