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TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 139
CRIME
Police still on lookout for SUV
BY ELLIOT METZ emetz@kansan.com
Police say there is no new information in the investigation into the incident at Louise's West this weekend.
Sometime between 2:30 and 2:45 Sunday morning a large silver SUV crashed into the front of Louise's West, 1307 W. 7th St.
Sgt. Bill Cory of the Lawrence Police Department said that they are looking for a silver SUV with substantial front end damage. The car was last seen driving eastbound on 7th St.
General manager PJ. Mather said she is still working on getting an estimate on the cost of the damages. She said the Lawrence police told her they are making progress on the case, but could not divulge anymore information at this time. Mather is offering a $1,000 reward for information about the identity of the driver. Anyone with information should call the Lawrence Police Department at 785-832-7650.
— Edited by Kristen Liszewski
Even though it has larger stops such as Austin, Texas, Tempe, Ariz., and Columbus, Ohio., Justin Raines, a junior from Wichita, said he wasn't surprised that the carnival would make a stop in Lawrence.
Adult Swim is in the middle of its three-week, 10-city tour, traveling to college towns across the U.S. It had to cordon off the Eighth Street block between New Hampshire Street and Massachusetts Street to make room for its over-the-top brand of humor.
"Lawrence is kind of known to be a fun and hip town," Raines said. "A lot of people love Adult Swim around here."
LAWRENCE
BY ZACH GETZ
zgetz@kansan.com
Carnival brings cartoons to town
Ignore the 30-foot squatting, half-bald man on Eight St. - he was just part of the carnival.
SEE CARNIVAL ON PAGE 2A
That is what around 2,000 people had to walk under to get into The Adult Swim Block Party and Ragbag of Jollification, a touring carnival put on by Cartoon Network.
David Awbrey recalls sitting inside his house on Tennessee Street on a dark Monday night when someone outside yelled that the Kansas Union was on fire. He peered up the steep hill and saw an orange glow — it had to be the Union. He ran up the hill to get closer, and saw a fire of Hollywood proportions flames were shooting into the sky. It was spectacular, both in size and what it said about the turmoil on the KU campus that April of 1970 exactly 40 years ago today.
Awbrey had just finished his term as student body president on a campus that had more than 17,000 students. He was one of thousands to watch the Union burn that night, as fire damaged rooms on the fifth and sixth floors and collapsed part of the roof. Awbrey and his classmates had witnessed a semester dominated by anti-Vietnam War protests, bombings, racial confrontations and fires, all while in fear of being called up for the draft.
For some, it was a relatively normal semester: they attended class, studied and graduated. But the activism that exploded on and around campus touched everyone. For more than three weeks that spring, the University and Lawrence saw one
of the most chaotic periods in campus and city history. Spring 1970 had all the ingredients of a political action flicks suspected arson of the KU Union; homemade bombs flung through shop windows and toward campus buildings; deep-seated hatred of the Vietnam War; racial conflicts at Lawrence High School that brought out tear gas and tire irons; a nightly curfew ordered by the governor that landed many in jail; a march by an angry crowd who smashed windows in the ROTC building in retaliation for deaths of Kent State students at the hands of the Ohio National Guard; and, ultimately, a controversial decision by the chancellor to end the school year and cool the conflict.
SEE SPRING 1970 ON PAGE 4A
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