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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
First issue of the University Kansan, 1889
"As a result of a feeling on the part of those interested in both the Times and Courier, that two weekly papers were more than could be published profitably in the University, the partisans of both papers have agreed to suspend the publication of their respective papers and to unite in the publication of a new weekly on which both sides would have equal representation."
— Following disputes between two fraternity-run publications, the administration pushed for one official campus newspaper which eventually became The University Daily Kansan.
PERSONALS
The Phi Delta Theta club will be at Mrs. Johnson's on Kentucky Street.
Camp Jayhawk was the name of the camp occupied by the boys in Colorado.
It has been a general remark by all the old students that Lawrence has not changed much.
Cap. Franklin is taken for a Business College student every time he goes down town.
Phi Gamma Delta entertain their lady friends to-night.
This is the beginning of a series of dances this winter.
Wednesday October 17,1917
Horribly Godless!
"Bidding their religion farewell, they come to K.U.!
"The University of Kansas is a godless institution. It's faculty members are called evolutionists and non-Christians. High school graduates are told that when they go to KU, they are bidding their religion farewell," Hugo Wedell, general secretary
of the University Y.M.C.A."
The Kansan editor at the time allowed a free forum for comment on the religious status of the University. 82 years later, the pages of the Kansan again have been filled with controversy about the teaching of evolution.
May 8,1945
NAZIS QUIT V-E DAY
Fight Ends 4 p.m.
"The most savage, destructive war in European history will come to an official end today at 4 p.m. C.W.T. when the Germans accepting Allied terms for unconditional surrender will lay down their arms. Reichsführer Karl Doenitz, successor to Hitler, broadcast the announcement that all guns would be silenced at 11 p.m. British double summertime."
— The Allied victory was splashed across the front page of the Kansan accompanied by an article on Abilene's favorite son, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
April 23,1970
Guardsmen activated to quell snipers, fires
"Repeated sniper fire and several attempted fire bombings marked a tense curfew period Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in which state police and National Guardmen were required to assist local law enforcement officers.
Trouble started almost immediately after the 7 p.m. curfew began. At about 7:05 p.m., curfew violators were reported in front of the Rock Chalk Cafe at 12th and Oread. Policemen arriving at the scene were pelted with bricks and rocks."
— April 21, 1970, the day after the union burned down, a citywide curfew was imposed. The original 7 p.m. - 6 a.m. curfew was changed to 10 p.m. - 6 a.m. two days later. By the end of the week, the curfew was history.
Abbie Hoffman addresses the crowd at Allen Fieldhouse. April 9,1970
Hoffman says degree useless
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
"The role of the University is to serve as the training ground for revolutionaries, and the college degree is a meaningless document, Abbie Hoffman told nearly 8,000 students Wednesday night.
In his Allen Fieldhouse speech and earlier in a Kansan interview, Hoffman, a defendant in the Chicago seven trial, said 'People have really got to make up their minds that they are going to destroy the University. If they accept the student's role, they accept the role as a slave. The student is a nigger,' he said."
— Abbie Hoffman was a leader of the anti-Vietnam movement and flower power generation and helped fight for civil rights in the South. In his speech, he said that student apathy was a myth perpetuated by the ruling class.
Kansan
110 YEARS OF NEWS
Story by Emily Hughey
No one ever questions its presence.
It's just always there.
Unfolding on a graffiti-ridden desk, blowing along Jayhawk Boulevard, littering empty classrooms, rustling in the student section at Allen Fieldhouse.
The University Daily Kansan is a fixture at the University and has been for 110 years.
Although the paper as we know it today was not
For 110 years, students have rolled with the punches time has thrown and student publications have covered them. Here's a look at some of the history The University Daily Kansan has seen.
In 1910, after the administration eliminated all the other student publications,the paper was officially named The University Daily Kansan.
the very first student newspaper on campus, The University Daily Kansan is, thus far, the most recent link in the evolution of University of Kansas student publications. The current Kansan is linked to the 1874-1876 Observer of Nature, the Kansas Collegiate of 1875, the University Courier of 1878, the Kansas Review of 1879, the Times of 1888, the University Kansan of 1889 and the Weekly University
April 21,1970
Tragedy Recounted
"The fire burned low, gasping for air through the constant torrents of water, and then suddenly burst into full blaze again and spread rapidly across the roof of the Kansas Union."
— Officials later determined the cause of the fire, which damaged 40,000 square feet of the Kansas Union Monday night. April 21, 1970, to be arson.
The same night, firebombs were thrown through two administration windows of Lawrence High School. The bombing followed a referendum in which the student body rejected demands of African-American students to allow two African-American cheerleaders on the squad.
Students join the effort to extinguish the arson fire that burned the Kansas Union April 21, 1970.
Kansas players swarm around the NCAA basketball trophy. Kansas beat Oklahoma at Kemper Arena.
Champs!
April 5,1988
Manning leads Kansas to title "They defied all logic, beat the odds and conquered the previously unstoppable Oklahoma Sooners last night 83-79 in Kemper Arena and took
the 1988 NCAA national championship, the first national title for Kansas and the Big Eight Conference since 1952"
Alison Young, spring 1988 Kansan editor and current writer for the Detroit Free Press, said: "When it looked like we were going to win, I remember rushing back to the newsroom. Campus was already getting crowded. It was incredible," Young said, "We were going to get to play a role in memorializing it for the students, the faculty and the community"
December 9,1947
K.U. Grads Fight Japs In Pacific
"Three K.U. men, now officers representing all three branches of service, are stationed in the Hawaiian Islands. An unknown number of University enlisted men are also there. University students are stationed at every important base and army camp along the west coast and the University is represented by men in the armed forces from the far-flung island of Toboga, near Balboa, to Alaska."
Cultural sensitivity was not a priority in earlier editions of the Kansan, as is demonstrated by this World War II-era headline.
E. Gaston Thayer took KU students on a magic car pet ride and was lauded for his tripped-out research. June 21, 1968
June 21,1968
Prof studies LSD
"Researchers have found music to be one of the few stimuli that LSD does not distort except to increase loudness. For this reason, it keeps the patient in touch with reality by helping him keep one foot on the ground during a supervised psychological trip."
E. Thayer Gaston, former professor of music education and director of music therapy, was honored by the University for his studies on the function of music in LSD therapy at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka. Today, he'd probably be arrested.
September 20,1967
Docking may draft KU to help Vietnamese
"Gov. Robert B. Docking thinks KU can help in the Vietnam pacification program.
The governor made a 10-day tour of Vietnam in August. One purpose of the trip was to learn if there are ways in which our Kansas colleges and universities might aid the people of South Vietnam in much the same way they have served several other foreign countries through social and technical training programs."
— The editor of the Kansan in 1968, Ron Yates, current head of the journalism department at the University of Illinois, recalled the University's climate at the time.
"The whole period of the late '60s on campus was a very energetic time," Yates said. "The Vietnam War was still raging. There was a lot of pulling back and forth, and the Kansan was in between. What I tried to do was create some kind of forum for both sides."
September 10, 1998
Three naked students pass out candy in Perkins
"Two KU students and a Free State High School student were arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior Wednesday morning after they entered Perkins Restaurant paked and handed out candy.
"They were dancing around the restaurant naked and handing out candy corn," said Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler."
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