2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 2005
this week in KU HISTORY
sept. 26 - sept. 30
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By Shanxi Updell ♦ editor@kansan.com
KANSAI CORRESPONDENT
Sept. 26, 1949 - The Hill Co-op
Few graduate and undergraduate students today have time to attend classes, study and renovate their own residence. On a similar day 56 years ago, however a dozen students did exactly that
in any 50 years ago, however, a dozen students did exactly that. An abandoned horse barn turned automobile garage at 1539 Tennessee St. became a cooperative men's residence hall — later called the Hill Co-op — after the 12 student renovated it and moved in. The students repaired the roof, installed plumbing, filled holes with bricks and mortar and even added windows and doors, according to the KU History Project's Web site.
The idea of transforming the barn into a residence co-op started with Hilden Gibson, professor of political science and chairman of the University Housing Board. An upsurge in the number of students had made residences hard to find during the post-World War I housing shortage. Since the 1960s, however, an apartment complex has replaced the Hill Co-op, Albert Roland, one of the first co-op residents, wrote in the 1949-1950 "jayhawker" yearbook that students encountered some difficulties during renovation. One student wanted to paint his desk green in a room with blue walls. Roland also mentioned a graduate student in economics asked for payment to work the draw draperies in his room. Roland also wrote others desired "this manifestation of speculative greed."
Despite these complications, cooperation and teamwork helped the process considerably. In the end, The University Daily Kansan reported in 1949, the students-turned-renovators followed a slogan by one of their residents: "When in doubt, paint it maroon."
The football team first chose to wear crimson and blue uniforms. Before this, the University of Kansas athletic board had chosen crimson as the athletic color. At the time, several people protested these changes. One individual even wrote a letter of protest to The Kansan University Weekly in October 1896: "The Kansas University color is crimson, and we will not suffer the other combination to be thrust down our throat."
Sept. 27, 1896 - "The Yellow and the Blue"?
The Kansan University Weekly on Oct. 17, 1896, wrote as a response to the letter that the official school colors were "sky blue and corn yellow, as displayed on the authorized University pin." Robert Taft, however, in his book "The Years on Mount Oread" wrote that sky blue and corn yellow soiled easily when used in football and baseball games. Crimson lost its popularity when insinuations arose that the University was trying to imitate Harvard, which also used that color. After consideration, the athletic board decided to change from just crimson to blue and
Eventually, crimson and blue seeped into popular opinion and even the University's Alma Mater, which changed its chorus from "Yellow and the Blue" to the version sung today.
Sept. 29,1944-Freshmen Caps
The University Daily Kansan reported in 1932 that failure to wear the cap could result in "a paddling and a dirobing in Potter lake."
First-year students faced an extra requirement beyond mapping campus and attending classes. They had to wear freshman caps. University Daily Kansan reported in 1932 that failure to wear
The Men's Student Council, senior honor society Sachems and the varsity sports' K-Club often enforced these punishments, according to the KU History Project's Web site. George Dick, the president of the K-Club, announced discharged veterans from World War II would be required to wear freshman caps. The All Student Council would abolish these caps on April 7. 1948.
Tradition required freshmen to wear these caps the day before each football game and on the day of the game, the Kansan reported. This would continue until the last football game of the year. The caps had to display red and blue ribbons 12 inches long, although the newspaper wrote that fresher干脏了 such a "sissy" touch to their badge of unsophisticated."
Once World War II veterans entered the University as nontraditional freshmen, however, paddling and dipping became unenforceable, according to the KU History Project's Web site. Although other University traditions before that era have survived, such as the Rock Chalk Chant, the Kansan did not report any freshman objections when this custom ended.
Another storm roars ashore
Students worry about families
HURRICANE RITA
BY FRANK TANKKAND
fankand@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
They had seen Hurricane Katrina on TV, in newspapers and on the Internet and, like the rest of the nation, their hearts went out to the devastated communities.
Many were relieved when the center of the hurricane missed Houston and made landfall closer to the Texas/Louisiana border as a Category 3 hurricane early Saturday morning,
"That's where I grew up," said Cornelius Brown, a senior originally from League City, Texas, southeast of Houston. "You see it on the news, but it doesn't really hit you until it hits where you live."
But when the 47 students from southeastern Texas saw that Hurricane Rita was heading for Houston and the Texas/Louisiana border, the KU students from those areas — 46 from the Houston area and one from Galveston, Texas — felt a little different.
One death related to the hurricane was reported as of yesterday afternoon.
causing far less damage than Katrina.
Paul Rutherford/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Far from the hurricane's eye, in Belzoni, Miss., a tornado formed, killing a man.
Students from the Texas coast said that the worst part was knowing that if something happened — if their homes were destroyed and their families were hurt — they wouldn't be there to help.
"That was the thing that bothered me the most," said Leah Lindelow, Houston sophomore, "That I wasn't there and didn't know what was going on."
The hurricane caused more flooding in New Orleans and other areas hit by Katrina, which was more bad news for DeMarco Smith.
Jacob Lyons, left, and Leah Domangue travel through Chauvin, La., on the way to Lyons' house after touring the area yesterday. Hurricane Rita left much of southern Terrebonne Parish underwater.
says is still flooded.
He thinks his grandparents are in Atlanta — he hasn't talked with them — and his brother is with his girlfriend and their baby in Houston, "living in and out of hotels," he said. He said he was trying to get his brother to move to Lawrence.
After the hurricane hit and she learned her family was safe, she became concerned for her good friend in Beaumont,
Kate Elvig, Houston freshman, said she watched the The Weather Channel "24/7" when she first heard of the hurricane.
Texas, a 115,000-person city near where the center of the storm struck.
Elvig said her friend was safe with her family in Tyler, Texas.
Eric Lefkowitz, Houston sophomore, was relieved that his family and relatives — who stayed in Houston — weren't hurt.
"At first when I heard about it, I thought it was going to do the same thing as Katrina," he said. "We got lucky."
— The Associated Press contributed to this story. Edited by Jonathan Kealing
Edited by Nate Karlin
Houston back in business after storm
HURRICANE RITA
BY KRISTEN HAYS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Airlines resumed service and cars flowed easily over freeways as Houston flickered back to life yesterday, avoiding at least for now a repeat of the gridlock that plagues the evacuation before Hurricane Rita.
There were signs the eerie emptiness was lifting in the nation's fourth-largest city. More gas stations offered fuel, and supermarkets, drug stores and restaurants opened their doors.
At Pappa Seafood, a sign read,
"Come on in, open at 11. Incredible!"
The marquee at Kennely's
Irish Pub read: "Rita who?"
"I was without power yesterday for about five hours, but now that it's back on, I'm hungry and need some beef," said Yvette Gatling, a 34-year-old lawyer.
"Our people are tired of the state's plan. They have a plan too, and it's real simple: They plan to come home when they want."
A supermarket near downtown was open, even though no produce was expected to arrive until tomorrow, and the packaged meat and dairy aisles were depleted. Still, the store was bustling within 15 minutes.
John Willy
Brazoria County official
It was the first day of a staggered re-entry plan drawn up by authorities in hopes of avoiding a recurrence of the massive gridlock that stalled freeways and temporarily stranded some Houstonians as they fled days before Rita.
Only the northwest quadrant of the city was encouraged to return yesterday, but cars were streaming back to other parts of the metropolis as well.
good people to come home," said John Willy, the top elected official in Brazoria County, along the Gulf Coast. "That is ridiculous."
"Our people are tired of the state's plan," he added. "They have a plan too, and it's real simple: They plan to come home when they want."
"I am not going to wait for our neighbors to the north to get home and take a nap before I ask our
Traffic appeared to be moving smoothly.
Meanwhile, the city's two main airports, Bush Intercontinental and the smaller Hobby, resumed service yesterday morning. They were shut down Friday as Rita bore down on the Gulf Coast.
Continental Airlines, based in Houston, was operating 249 flights out of the city, with plans to restore its smaller Continental Express and Continental Connection branches today.
"We've got the gas. People just need to be patient," Mendoza said. "I'm thinking of filling up myself, but all I need to do is top off, because I planned ahead." Four 5-gallon gas cans sat in the back of his pickup truck.
More gas stations opened, with lines of motorists eager to tank up snaking around blocks.
Groundskeeper Frank Mendoza, 64, was mowing grass in front of a building next to a Ciggo station where lines were getting longer as a tanker truck resupplied the pumps with fuel.
Fuel shortages posed perhaps the biggest challenge to the massive exodus ahead of the storm. Cars were marooned on the main freeways out of town, and buses had to deliver evacuees to shelters.
Houston Mayor Bill White urged essential employees to return to work in the city yesterday, including people who work at grocery stores and gas stations.
At a supermarket in east Houston, Al Davis shopped for food with his wife and two children.
Employees had already removed plywood used to cover the market's windows and pushed it on a cart to the back of the store as people shopping.
Davis was scheduled to return Monday to his job as a letter carrier. Yesterday he planned to stay home.
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