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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
April 13, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 131
(UPS 650-640)
Kansas House, Senate recess
by CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
The state Legislature took a two and a half week recess Friday without finishing some of its homework, including several bills concerning money and programs for the University of Kansas.
"This year is exceptional in that so many bills are in conference and that so many issues are unresolved," said State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence. "This is becoming more so every year."
State lawmakers did, however,
approve a state lottery, liquor by the
drink and a bill prohibiting nuclear
waste disposal in Kansas, before
going into recess. Two weeks ago, the
Senate threw out by four votes the
death penalty, despite strong support
from Gov. Mike Hayden.
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Whether sung by loud, coarse voices or old-maid kindergarten teachers, the Rock Chalk chant is engraved in KU's history.
Although some legacies evolve, others simply end.
The 250-foot smokestack ends its 65-year reign over the Lawrence skyline this year.
The University completed the smokestack in 1922 to get rid of residue from burning heating oil or natural gas and to build steam in KU's power plant boilers.
Last year the University decided to upgrade the power plant and replace the old stack with two 15-foot stacks.
The whistle is near the smokestack on the roof of the power plant.
The original whistle was used to awaken students and to signal curfew, but after much student and faculty request, a class whistle blow for the first time on March 25, 1912.
Students often were late for class because of a long-winded professor or a slow watch, and the students could not leave the classroom until they were excused by the professor.
But Chancellor Frank Strong laid down the whistle rule. "If the instructor isn't through, get up and go," he said, in the March 25, 1912 Kansan.
It is the smell of doughnuts, hot doughnuts, that reaches your nose before you can reach the door.
Long after the last whistle of the day blows, another KU legacy is just gearing up for the evening.
The nightly crowds are as constant for Ralph Smith, owner of the bakery, as they were for his father, Joe Smith, its found-
Now, on a weeknight after 10 p.m., about 25 people may be standing in a line winding to the door of Joe's Bakery.
Joe baked for 36 years, 23 at the present location, 616 W. Ninth St. Joe, now 60, and his wife retired from the business about seven years ago. Ralph said his father did "a lot of cutting grass" on his farm outside Lawrence.
Yet Joe still has his influence and his hands in the dough. One day last week he mixed 240 pounds of all-purpose dough for that night's doughnuts.
Joe, even his son calls him that, called the bakery that night, just to check on the dough.
Ralph, in bakers' whites and a Joe's Bakery cap, stood over a slab of yellow dough rapidly cutting doughnuts, flipping them onto his thumbs as they flew in the air, then placing them on a warming rack.
"It's a young man's business, especially at night," he said.
"You have to be young to keep up with it."
The bakery floor suffers by the end of the night. Flour dusts the floor and forgotten doughnuts holes lie underfoot and under the baking equipment that dates from the 1920's.
The hot, glazed doughnuts are the bakery's most popular item, "especially when it's cold outside," Ralph said.
Many KU graduates associate that final walk down the hill with another KU legacy.
Sixty-three classes of graduating seniors have walked down the grassy hill toward the stadium for commencement exercises.
The campanile is a World War II memorial, but it also was hoped that the instrument inside the structure, the carillon, or bells, would replace the whistle for calling and dismissing classes.
The whistle still blows, and the carillon bells still ring.
And since 1951 they have walked past the campanile.
The bells, which were brought from England, ring on the quarter hour, and Lawrence residents often hear bell concerts from the campanile.
The concerts are not run by machine, but are played by the University's carillonneur.
These are just a few of KU's legacies. Students also may remember strolling around Potter Lake, waving the wheat at a basketball game, lying on the beach at Clinton Lake, sitting on the patio of the Wagon Wheel Cafe or trarying down the hill behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
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