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MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2005
KU HISTORY aug.29-sept.2
By Shanxi Upadell ♥ editor@kansan.com
Kansan correspondent
Editor's note: "This Week in KU History" feature documents key events and milestones in the University's history. It will appear every Monday.
Aug. 29, 1883 - KU chancellor resigns
Chancellor James Marvin left the University of Kansas after a "series of controversies." The Kansas Board of Regents accepted his resignation and soon the University chose Joshua Lippincott to replace Marvin as chancellor.
University chose Joshua Lippincott to replace Marvin as. According to the KU History Project's Web site, one of the controversies arose when Marvin, a former Methodist minister, "engineered" the removal of a professor who had supported the campus visit of an outspoken agnostic Robert Ingersoll.
man and a line chancellor during his nine years of service. During his time at the University, Marvin managed to extract state funding for what would become Old Fraser Hall, despite a strained budget. The university also established more electives for students, although specific majors and minors would not appear until 1887.
The Hiawatha Messenger reported in 1883 that the chancellor had resigned "on account of some difficulty he had with certain members of the Board of Regents." The newspaper did not provide further elaboration.
Aug. 31, 1959 - No faculty salaries too high.
J. E. Challinor, then the accountant of the state of Kansas, accused the University of overpaying its faculty. He said the University was hoping to compete nationally with Harvard and Yale by raising salaries, which at that time were less than $1,500 a year.
The Kansas University Weekly, at the time, responded with a blistering commentary about Challino's "airy assertions" on Sept. 6, 1895: "He chooses to sneer at the regents and chancellor for 'competing against Harvard and Yale,' but he has not taken the trouble to learn that those institutions expend four or five times as much money for each student as does our own University."
Aug. 31, 1895 - KU faculty salaries too high?
The newspaper articles during that time overwhelmingly supported the chancellor over the board. One article, written July 5, condemned, "these snarling criticisms, this mean opposition and these political contentions," that apparently cost the University's fourth chancellor his position. Other articles praised him as a good man and a fine chancellor during his nine years of service.
Lippincott replaced Marvin as chancellor from 1883 to 1889. Marvin remained in Lawrence and was later appointed the first superintendent of the Haskell Industrial Indian School in 1901.
money for each student as does our own University.
To give some context, Kansas had suffered from a financial panic in 1893. In his book "The University of Kansas: A History," Clifford Griffin wrote that a long recession followed, and in 1897, the University did reduced all of its employees' salaries.
Sept. 1, 1914 - Ralph H. Major comes to the University
If you suffer from diabetes or know someone who does, you could owe more to Ralph H. Major than you realize.
Major joined the University's 9-year-old School of Medicine as chairman and professor of the department of pathology.
As professor and chairman of the department of internal medicine nine years later, Major initiated the first clinical trials of injecting insulin into diabetic patients who lived in the Kansas City area. The first diabetic treated had been in a terminal coma on Jan. 13, 1923. He revived and enjoyed a return to normal blood-sugar levels less than four days later.
Cheered by the results, Major wrote a paper called "The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus with Insulin." It became part of the Journal of the American Medical Association's first report concerning insulin.
All this might never have happened if Major had not left San Francisco for Kansas City, a move that some of his contemporaries considered "crazy." While he was a pathology instructor at Stanford University, he received a letter from Mervin Sudler, then associate dean of the KU School of Medicine. Sudler offered him a position not only as a full professor, but also as the chairman of the pathology department.
Major accepted the position, although he would later describe his new headquarters at the University as "really depressing." In his words, a profusion of "broken test tubes, dried-up specimens [and] waste paper" littered the building along with "rubbish which had accumulated on the floor in heaps." For a time, Major and his student assisted act as interim custodians for the pathology department.
Major's other accomplishments were by no means minor. During his more than 50 years at the University, Major wrote 10 books and contributed to the school's growing reputation. Before he arrived at the University, he graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., at age 17 with a liberal arts degree. He also played the violin and piano, studied linguistics and mastered five foreign languages: German, Greek, Latin, Spanish and French.
Information compiled from www.kuhistory.com, "The University of Kansas: A History" by Clifford Griffin, the American Association of University Professors and the Spencer Research Library Archives
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Lot 90, located off Naismith Drive between Robinson Center and Naismith Hall, was the scene of two burglaries and a hit-and-run accident last week. There are no security cameras to survey the lot.
2 burglaries hit lot 90
Students want cameras after week of crime
BY STEVE LYNN
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The KU Public Safety Office and Student Senate have been working to increase safety on campus.
The office and one of the students whose car was burglared said security cameras would help curb theft and
cameras.
The burglaries involved more than $1,000 in damage and valuables stolen from two KU students' vehicles. Both occurred Aug. 23 between 2 p.m. and 5:25 p.m.
Students reported two auto bunglaries and one hit-and-run accident last week in lot 90, south of Robinson Center. Officials said there were no immediate plans to install cameras.
criminal damage.
Emily Putbrese, Grand Forks, N.D., senior, said either police should patrol the area more often or more cameras would be needed in parking lots. Putbrese reported $253 in valuables stolen and $300 in window damage.
"It was all of my stuff. I had no form of money for like three days." Putrese said.
The accident where an unidentified vehicle struck the front bumper of a Mazda MX-6 occurred Aug. 24 sometime between 7:45 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.
Chief Ralph Oliver of the KU Public Safety Office said there were no plans to install cameras in lot 90 because of a limited budget. But he said he thought there should be a camera in every lot.
camera is always. "We can't afford to put all cameras in at one time," he said. "If cameras were positioned in every parking lot, it would have cost well over $1 million," Oliver said.
The office placed emphasis to install cameras in residence hall parking lots because crimes against people take priority over property theft and damage. Oliver said.
Most of the cameras cover parking lots, Oliver said.
and a few additional projects, he said. The public safety office worked to generate the funding for the cameras, he said
The installation of additional cameras also would not be on the agenda when the Student Senate's Campus Safety Advisory Board meets for the first time next week, said Jason Boots, board member and Plano, Texas, senior.
Networking and Telecommunications Systems began equipping Daisy Hill, Jayhawker Towers, GSP-Corbin Hall and the Lied Center with cameras in the beginning of July, in phase one of the two-phase project. Cameras already located at Allen Fieldhouse and Memorial Stadium were upgraded, Oliver said.
Instead of allocating funding for additional cameras, Student Senate plans to increase funding for the Jaywalk program with some of its $90,000 budget, Boots said. Jaywalk is a service for students on campus who prefer to walk home or to their car with another student at night for safety reasons.
The University of Kansas will match funds for Jaywalk
Phase-two cameras will be installed as funding becomes available.
Cameras outside the Kansas Union, Watson Library and the Student Recreation Fitness Center will be installed in phase two of the project.
The University provided $280,000 for the project, and the Department of Homeland Security provided $150,000.
- Edited by Nate Karlin
PEOPLF
Music awards avoids disaster
MIAMI — MTV dodged two major disasters — one from nature, the other man-made — as the Video Music Awards kicked off yesterday with flashy performances and over-the-top entrances.
The annual bash was briefly overshadowed by
Hurricane Katrina, which hit southern Florida on Thursday and killed several people. As the storm passed, a celebratory mood took over the city
until early yesterday morning, when rap mogul Suge Knight was targeted by gunfire at a Kanye West party.
But MTV vowed that neither event would affect the ceremonies, and judging from the glitzy pre-
show festivities, the party was in full swing.
The prison-bound Lt Kim arrived on the white carpet in a Rolls Royce Phantom, though she looked somewhat demure in her low-cut mauve dress — no pasties or dangling appendages this year from the diminutive rapper.
"I might show some leg," teased the star, who is due to start serving a
year-and-a-day sentence in September on a perjury charge. When MTV personality Sway delicately asked if she had anything to say to fans who "might not see you for a while." Lil Kim said: "You can write me letters."
The show was hosted by Diddy (the artist formerly known as Puff, P. Diddy and Puff Daddy)
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