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Wednesday June 10,1987
Vol. 97, No.146 (USPS650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Old smokey will be a missed KU landmark
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
For more than a half-century the tall, slim sexagenarian has worked for the University of Kansas department of facilities and operations.
But University officials didn't need him anymore, so they hired a team of hit men to rub him out.
His job was to remove waste from the number 7 and 8 boilers at the KU power plant. He also helped many out-of-towns find the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
He had one vice, however: he smoked quite a bit. . like a chimney, in fact.
The work of this gang of tanned assassins can be seen or heard from almost anywhere on campus. Chunk by chunk, the KU smokestack is dying a slow death.
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Until then, the two boilers now on line should have no problems handling the work load this summer and fall, he said.
Perkins said that the two boilers receiving new smokestacks should be operable by Oct. 15, depending on the weather.
She will replace Shankel, who has been the acting executive vice chancellor for the KU campus since January, when the resignation of
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"One of the boilers can handle most of the summer heat. In winter, however, we'll have both them up and down in a third, and sometimes a third," he said.
Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-foot-square sections of the smokestack, cutting reinforcing steel bars imbedded in the concrete, then letting the sections fall into the smokestack, Perkins said. The rubble is being dumped at the KU landfill west of Iowa Street.
As of yesterday, about 40 feet of the smokestack had been torn down, Perkins said, but as the stack gets
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
COVER STORY
By CARLA PATINO Staff writing
Staff writer
Jerry Palmer, former Hillipper, stands in front of a ball and the Hall next to the statue that was the brunt of many pranks through the years. He dressed up the statue and painted it on St. Patrick's Day, red on Malibu yellow and orange other occaions.
Statues have witnessed years of student antics
As graduation nears and those leaving the University of Kansas turn their thoughts to the ceremonial walk down the hill, all the pomp may make them aware of many traditions. Yet some traditions, for various reasons, are only faded memories.
Some of the long-ago traditions remain a part of a more innocent past, while others died because they were dreamed up by rambunctious spirits. These latter traditions were examples of sheer orneriness at its finest, and good or bad, they survive only in the minds of those who were creative before their time.
At one time, Lippincott was called Green Hall. It was the law school, and it was also the hub of activity. Unfortunately, the activity was not always welcomed, at least not by pretty young ladies passing by the building.
Whenever a couple that was holding hands walked by the hecklers, a chorus whistled "Here Comes the Bride," which made the couple quicken its pace to just short of a full-breath run.
At that time, the president of the school's senior class attributed his cohorts' behavior to the fact that lawyers were forced to study so hard that they had to do something to relieve the extreme pressure on their cerebrums. He admitted that it also was largely a biological matter.
The law men countered the attack by planting poison ivy on the path behind the school and by strategically positioning several members across Jayhawk Boulevard to combat the flankers.
An even worse fate occurred if two girls escorted by one man passed by the school, a dangerous act in itself. The men would descend on the trio with a rous-
Tradition has it that as early as 1904, the male law students would sit outside Green Hall and make catcalls at the women who were on their way to class.
of English.
To thwart the men's unwelcomed attention, several women tried to travel on the path behind the building or sneak across the street to escape the stares of their bold counterparts.
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ing chorus of "The Third Man Theme." The song was from a 1950s movie about love and intrigue in post-war Vienna.
The group even went so far as to count, in unison, the number of steps that a girl took as she walked into Green Hall. This usually caused her to speed up until she tripped on the last step.
Several women law students joined the men on the steps, directing their wisecracks at the hapless males walking by. But alas, the women's efforts did not match those of the men.
Through the years, the statue of the mentor and his student has worn green paint on St. Patrick's Day, red paint on May Day and yellow-orange tints on other occasions.
Not only did the women match wits with the men, but they also vented some frustration on the statue outside Green Hall. Late that night, the women dressed "Ucle Jimmy Green" in women's clothing for everyone to see the next day.
Finally, one day in 1960, a group of perturbed women from GSP-Corbin Hall staked their claim to the Green Hall steps and succeeded in quashing some of the future lawyers' fun.
The statue was even included in the law school-engineering school rivalry. The students awoke one morning to find "Uncle Jimmy Green" holding a T-square and his student clutching a wooden, 45-degree angle.
All of this attention obviously affected the apprentice, because his next accessory was an ice pack for his head. This possibly was not as bad as "Uncle Jimmy Green's" Halloween attire, a single pumpkin smashed over his head.
This incident may have been the most outlandish plank played on "Uncle Jimmy Green," but it certainly was not the only one.
But the sculptured men were not the only ones made to wear headgear. As soon as the chancellor gave the signal at the first football game of the season, every freshman male had to cover his locks with a light green skull cap adorned with a bright
red button not less than one and a half inches in diameter.
The men had to wear the caps every day, except Sundays, until the last football game of the season. They tipped their hats to faculty members and touched them to the seniors.
The penalty was stiff if a "freshie" was caught without his cap. The Men's Student Council sanctioned and enforced paddling as the primary means of dealing with the rebels.
The council said that the purpose of the caps was to link together the new men of the University, but the freshmen were reported to have had a different opinion.
Such class rivalries were quite common when the campus was much smaller. Sometimes quips between different class members turned into brawls, until one night.
The chancellor referred to the bedtime garb as "robes of peace." Then and there, a new tradition was born.
Later, women joined the traditional nightshirt parade that wound its way through the streets of Lawrence each year. The parade took place the night before the first home conference football game.
In 1905, an enthusiastic group of night-shirted freshmen and sophomores decided to replace annual class fights with a peaceful midnight parade.
With the parade winding through campus and down Jayhawk Boulevard, it's a wonder that "Uncle Jimmy Green" and his young student escaped getting a change of wardrobe from the carousing students. It makes one wonder what the two are really discussing.
The pajama parade made its way to the chancellor's front doorstep and roused him from bed so that he, too, could join in their fun.
The tradition ended in 1957, however, because of the amount of vandalism that occurred during the parade.
University Archives supplied some information for this story.
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