Volume 1 Issue 1

Thursday, April 23, 2015

KANSAN.COM
K

Jayhawk
Blvd.

150 KU
years of

Celebrating 150 years of campus history as told by The University Daily Kansan

FROM THE EDITORS DESK:

illions
of students have
strolled Jayhawk Boulevard
since the Universitys inception in 1865. Over the past
150 years, countless events
have shaped the University
that we know and cherish
today.

History is an important part

of who we are as the University community. We embrace
the Jayhawk, a storied Kansas
tradition that derives from
the Civil War. The Jayhawk
isnt just our mascot; being a
Jayhawk is a way of life. Upon
graduation, Jayhawk pride

isnt something that leaves us

as we walk through the Campanile. Jayhawk blood runs
through our veins for the rest
of our lives.
Over the past 113 years, the
University Daily Kansan has
been there to cover it all, from
the Universitys first home-

coming in 1912 to President

Barack Obamas visit in 2015.
This section retells some of
the historically significant
events that have happened
on Mount Oread since the
Kansans beginning.
Unfortunately, an entire
novel consisting of Kansan

articles wouldnt even make a

dent in the history of the University. I realize its impossible
to fit 150 years of history in 10
broadsheet pages. Determining what story has more cultural significance over another
story is no simple task because
everything that has happened

here is important.
Looking back on the 150
years of history at the University of Kansas, one thing is for
sure: I cant wait to see what
tomorrow brings.
AMIE JUST
@AMIE_JUST

UNION BURNS!
KANSAN
STAFF
APRIL 21, 1970
The Kansas Union was ravaged Monday night by a fire
that caused extensive damage
to 40,000 square feet in the
south half of the building.
The fire, confined to the upper half of the building, apparently started near the Pine
Room and spread immediately to the roof, which was completely destroyed in the older
section of the building.
Bill Rowlands, information
counter manager and night
manager of the Union, discovered the Union fire.
I heard something pop, he
said. It sounded like a light
bulb exploding, and I ran upstairs. I think that everyone in
the building noticed the smoke
about the same time and evacuated the building.
Firetrucks arrived 15 minutes after the fire was reported.
Frank Burge, Union director,
told firemen when they arrived
the fire was confined to the
center and western sections of
the roof at that time.
After an hour and a half of
fighting the fire, flames of 20
to 30 feet shot off the roof and
scorched the center tower of

the Union.
The intensity of the flames
caved in the roof and leaped to
the south addition of the building, caving in that section.
The fire was finally brought
under control around 2 a.m.
today after flames had gutted the top two floors of the
Unions main section.

Sanders said he reached his

conclusion after talking to
firemen and policemen at the
scene.
University of Kansas Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers,
who is in Washington D.C.
attending a conference of University presidents and administrators, said in a telephone

The man in the Union said there was a definite explosion. It blew plaster off the ceiling
and tore off the elevator door.
FRED SANDERS
Lawrence Fire Chief
Lawrence Fire Chief Fred
Sanders said the fire started
near an elevator on the third
floor near the Pine Room.
The man in the Union said
there was a definite explosion,
Sanders said. It blew plaster
off the ceiling and tore off the
elevator door.
Later this morning Sanders
said it could be possibly three
days before the official cause of
fire was known, but added, In
my opinion, it was set.

statement early this morning,

it now may become an obvious
necessity to appeal to strengthen campus security to prevent
further incidents from occurring at KU.
Chalmers said he was first
informed of the fire in the
Kansas Union at his hotel in
Washington. He said University Executive Secretary
Ray Nichols called him about
1 a.m. (EST) and at that time
little information was available

concerning the fire.

It certainly seems, Chalmers said, that the three attempts at arson on the KU
campus on April 8 and the
three actual fires in the community the last three weeks
seems to suggest that it is a pyromaniac at work. I do think,
however, that it is the work of
one person or perhaps two or
three people.
Chalmers said he does not
plan to return to Lawrence any
earlier than scheduled unless
he gets a report that there is
something he can do.
An estimated 2,000 people
viewed the blazing building
while several more aided firemen in any way they could.
Many attempted to clear the
building of furniture, helped
balance fire hoses, and provided coffee and doughnuts to the
firefighters.
The fire could have been
a lot worse without student
help, Sanders said.
Burge said the building was
adequately insured, but for all
practical purposes the entire
south half of the building is a
total loss.
The Union, Burge said, will
definitely be closed to all students until further notification
from him.

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Male Students
Raid Womens Dorms
KANSAN
STAFF
MAY 20, 1952

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150 Sit-In-Stand-Out
by Wescoes Office
KANSAN
STAFF
MARCH 8, 1965

A group of about 150 Civil

Rights Council members and
sympathizers staged a protest
demonstration in Chancellor
Clarke W. Wescoes office today
at 10:30 a.m.
The group was led by Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika senior;
George Unseld, Louisville, Ky.,
senior; and Nate Sims, residence and standing unknown.
The three men are the newly
elected co-chairmen of the
CRC. The election was held last
night.
The CRC members were
protesting the tacit approval
of discrimination in campus
housing.

The statement, which was

mimeographed and distributed
to CRC members at the meeting, said the demonstrators
would remain in his office until the chancellor has taken immediate action to include our
demands in policies and regulations of the University.
UPON SUCH ACTION, a
pamphlet should be published
by the University and a statement sent to the UDK for immediate release, it read.
After two and a half hours of
discussion and debate in the
corridor outside the chancellors office the only statement
that Chancellor Wescoe has
made is that he will not issue
an executive order as requested
in the first demand of the Civil
Rights Council and Interested

Students Protest.
He also commented that the
University Daily Kansan board
will be meeting with the All
Student Council to discuss the
sixth demand.
He added no complaints
concerning housing have been
lodged in his office during the
last two and a half years.
At a meeting held by the
council last night in the Union,
Sims suggested that perhaps the
whites in the group couldnt understand the situation because
they hadnt been sat upon.
Sims comment brought
disorder among the group as
members began talking to one
another. Some white members
suggested that their coworkers
be a little less emotional and
more rational about the matter.

The current seige of panty

raids hit KU last night when
an estimated 50 boys broke
into Templin, Miller and Watkins halls. Mrs. Lela Whiteford,
Templin housemother, said
a gang ran around the house
stealing things around midnight. Doors were broken and
screens ripped when the raiders
broke into Miller and Watkins
halls.
The girls who were unfortunate enough to have washed
last night lost almost everything they had, a resident of
Miller was quoted as saying.
Last nights raids brought to
26 the number of American
seats of learning that have witnessed raids by male students
bent on carrying off unmentionable trophies this year.
By far the wildest and the
most destructive raids occurred
at Columbia, a city of 32,000
and site of the University of
Missouri and two girls schools,
Stephens and Christian colleges.
More than 2,000 men students
from MU stormed the dormitories at Stephens. They battered
their way into the buildings
through broken screens and
windows.
Squads of coeds, wielding
mops and brooms and dousing

the boys with buckets of water,

failed to halt them. Once inside,
the boys snatched armfuls of
underthings just as police arrived and routed them.
The party was diverted to
school buildings and the boys
smashed glass and broke several
pieces of furniture.
At this point, acting Police
Chief J. Lewis Parks declared
the situation out of hand and
beyond the ability of his 22-man
police force to handle.

chanting Go, Go, Go and led

by a trumpet blowing ringleader
stormed 10 dormitories and sorority houses.
No arrests or injuries were reported at the KU raid.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala., about
1,000 men of the University of
Alabama raced up and down
the campus bent on staging a
panty raid. But University officials and police armed with
nightsticks kept them from entering any girls quarters.

The girls who were unfortunate enough to

have washed last night lost almost everything
they had.
RESIDENT OF MILLER HALL
He called Missouri Gov. Forrest Smith who authorized the
mobilization of the Columbia
unit of the Missouri National
guard.
But by the time the company
of 56 guardsmen was mustered,
the raiders had spent their energy, and most had returned to
their books.
The largest raid in terms of
numbers was at the University of Wisconsin in Madison,
where 5,000 male students

The coeds had to content

themselves by tossing old socks,
scraps of cloth and bottles to the
stymied raiders. All underthings had previously been locked
up in trunks in anticipation of a
raid.
University resident Dr. John
M. Gallalee appeared at New
hall and shouted to the girls.
Dont worry, everything will be
all right.
Dr. Gallalee was met by a barrage of eggs and mud.

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humanities building to
reach 25 stories
TIM JONES
NOV. 20, 1967
Plans for the tallest building in
Kansas a $5.8 million, 25 story humanities building- were
unveiled today by University officials and designing architects.
The building, to be on the site
of Robinson Gymnasium and
Haworth Hall, will house 51
classrooms and 11 undergraduate study rooms in two, five story
wings and provide 487 faculty
offices and 28 graduate seminar
rooms and 71 study rooms in the
25-story tower.
Bids for construction will be let
in mid-spring 1968, said R. Keith
Lawton, vice-chancellor for operations. Actual construction will
begin in the late summer of 1968;
the building is expected to be finished by the fall semester of 1970.
The state will provide
$3.9 million and the federal government the other $1.9 million.
Construction will be in two
phases. The first phase, including the east wing and tower, will
begin next summer. When the
Experimental Biology and Human Development Building, under construction south of Malott
Hall, is completed in early 1969,
Haworth Hall will be razed and
the second phase of construction, the west wing will begin.
The architectural firm, Woodman and Van Doren, Wichita,
and William Hale, state architect,
said they were faced in designing
the building, with the limitations
of making the building compatible with the rest of campus,
giving access from all directions,
and avoiding canyonizing the
campus by bringing buildings
too close together.

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Opening
night for
Lied Center
Secret
Garden is
centers
debut

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The building, part of KUs master plan, is designed to bring the
largest group of students, arts
and sciences majors, back to the
center of campus.
Lawton said because general
classrooms were the easiest to
make temporary, the construction of a permanent general
classroom building was postponed while specialized facilities
science laboratories, for example were built.
The high-rise tower was designed to maintain the openness of the top of Mt. Oread. A
glass-enclosed concourse and
study area connecting the wings
at all five levels will provide a seethrough effect between Jayhawk
Boulevard and the valley to the
south.

The building includes a 150-car

parking area in the basement for
prime faculty and handicapped
students.
There will be six elevators serving the tower but none for the
classroom wings.
Refreshment facilities, now in
the basement of Strong Hall, will
be moved to the building.
Woodman said the building
will be constructed with poured
or pre-cast concrete and will be
an off-white or sand color. Windows and frames will be bronzeglazed to cut down the solar heat
and increase air conditioning
efficiency.
A two-duct heating and cooling
system will be installed to allow
year-round temperature control.
Facilities will include many

multi-media devices such as

closed circuit television, video
tapes and electronic language
labs. Woodman said to avoid
the future obsolescence of the
building, room would be left to
accommodate any electronic facilities the University might want
to install.
The building will rise approximately 280 feet above Jayhawk
Boulevard.
At the risk of being corny, this
building is the high point in the
Universitys master plan, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said.
Editors note: Due to high construction costs, the University
chose not to use this design and instead went with a design for what
is now Wescoe Hall.

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Many fight cold to open

spencer museum of art
MARY ANNE
OLIVAR
JAN. 18, 1978
The $5 million Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art,
which houses 25,000 works of
art, was opened to the public
for the first time last night.
The museums opening coincides with the 100th anniversary of the establishment
of KUs art collection and the
50th anniversary of the dedication of the Thayer collection,
the core of KUs art holdings.
From 7:30-10:30 p.m. people
streamed into the museum,
braving last nights cold weather to browse through the galleries on the buildings third
and fourth floors.
The museums first floor is
being considered for the art
library, which is now in Watson Library. The department
of art history and a museum
shop are on the second floor.
Officers and storage rooms are
on the fifth floor.
Spencer Museum was a gift
from Helen Foresman Spencer, a member of the KU Class
of 1926.
Charles Eldredge, director
of the Spencer museum, said
in an opening announcement,
This is a gift from Mrs. Spencer especially for the students.
Spencer was not able to attend the grand opening. However, she attended an inaugural
preview Sunday night, which
several dignitaries and distinguished people in the arts also

attended, including the director of Harvard Universitys art

museum, Seymour Slive.
Former chancellors Franklin
W. Murphy, W. Clarke Wescoe, Raymond Nichols and
Dean W. Malott also were at
Sundays preview.
Like the opening of an old
20th Century Fox movie,
beams of light from two large
spotlights pierced the sky announcing the festivity.
For the first time since 1971,
visitors were able to see about
2,000 seemingly forgotten art
works that had been in storage.
Lee Bishop, Bonner Springs
senior and an art history major, was excited about the exhibit.
Were seeing things that havent been shown for years,
she said, referring to the stored
art works.
Part of the museums collection previously was displayed
in Spooner Hall. However,
Eldredge said 97 percent of
the collection could not be
displayed in Spooner because
of a lack of space. Many of the
art works were stored in a fireproof, humidity controlled
area in Spencer Research Library.
Admiring the exhibits, Bishop said of the $5 million gift,
The museum was worth every penny of it.
A number of other persons
shared her enthusiasm.
J. Theodore Johnson, professor of French said, It is a re-

markable teaching museum.

I am really extremely pleased
and will bring my students
here so that they can experience some of the works of art
that are here.
Musical groups played in six
of the museums 12 galleries
during the grand opening.
Each group played music that
correspondent to the gallery
they were in.
For instance, a country music group played in the 20th
Century gallery and the Collegium Musicum played in the
18th Century gallery.
After so many months of
planning, Johnson said, the
art works are coming to life in
this atmosphere, among people and music.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes
praised the museum and said
it was one of the finest university museums in the United
States and would attract people to Kansas.
It will enrich and enhance
the cultural lives of students
for years to come, he said.
According to Eldredge, KUs
collection is one of the most
comprehensive collections in
Kansas.
Ralph T. Coe, director of the
Nelson Art Gallery, has said
KUs art collection ranked
among the finest in any comparable institution in the
country.
The collection includes Oriental and Western decorative
art, Japanese prints and American paintings.

SARA
BENNETT
SEPT. 27, 1993
Less than 24 hours before
opening night, The Secret
Garden bore little resemblance to an award-winning
Broadway musical.
Bird-shaped trees perched
amid black crates, only hinted
at the elaborate production in
the works. But the secret to
transforming the Lied Center stage into a childs garden
lay hidden within those very
crates.
The Tony Award-winning
musical The Secret Garden
opens with an invitation-only
performance tonight at the
Lied Center, ushering in the
$14.6 million performing arts
complexs first season.
Eric Insco, stage manager
for the touring company of
The Secret Garden, said he
was excited to be involved
with the centers first production.
I feel kind of lucky in a
way, he said, gazing into the
crimson and blue auditorium.
It really is a treat. The house
is stunning, and I just know
its going to sound wonderful
in here.
Insco and his crew will
spend 14 to 16 hours installing the six truckloads of
equipment required for The
Secret Garden. Although the
Lied Center has new stateof-the-art sound and lighting
systems, the touring company
brought its own equipment,
including an ornately painted
proscenium, backdrops never
before used on tour, lights and
a large turntable that rotates to
change scenes.
Lee Saylor, technical director for the Lied Center, said
the center was providing 30 of

its 44 rigging lines from which

the troupe will hang scenery,
more than 70 crew members
and stage hands, spotlights
and 100 pounds of dry ice.
Preparing for the centers
first performance has been
nerve racking, Saylor said.
The Lied Center staff is tied
up in knots, he said. Weve
spent months getting ready
for this, and now its here.
Insco said opening a show in
a new hall had inherent challenges, but the quality of the
Lied Center was good enough
to bring in other big-name
shows.

It really is a treat.
The house is stunning, and I just know
its going to sound
wonderful in here.

ERIC INSCO
Stage manager

Phantom of the Opera will

be able to play here, he said.
I bet youll see Les Miserables here within the next two
years.
Nevin Steinberg, sound
technician for the touring
group, said the Lied Center
was one of the better halls
The Secret Garden has
played in.
Its smaller than most, and
the seating is intimate, which
is good for this kind of show,
he said. I much prefer it to
some of the caves weve played
in.
As stage hands bustled about
hanging lights and stacking
crates, Insco shielded his eyes
and peered into the Lied Center balcony. Its pretty wonderful, isnt it? he said.

According to Eldredge, KUs

collection is particularly noteworthy in the areas of medieval art, 17th and 18th century
art, American painting and
graphics.
A number of the collections
paintings have been shown
recently in exhibits in Europe,
Canada and the Orient.

REPLANT
MOUNT OREAD

KU students, staff, faculty, and donors helped plant

over 50 trees and shrubs on campus last year.

Find out how you can support this growing tradition at

www.replant.ku.edu

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Hoch Auditorium catches fire,

reduced to limestone walls
JEFF MEESEY
AND
ROCHELLE
OLSON
JUNE 19, 1991
The fire that gutted Hoch Auditorium on Saturday afternoon
caused more than $12.8 million
in damage and drew a crowd of
500 to 600 to Jayhawk Boulevard,
KU police said.
Rich Barr, Lawrence fire marshal, said the department received a call that Hoch was on
fire at about 3:20 p.m. Firefighters arrived within a few minutes.
Five firefighters immediately
entered the burning building and
attempted to extinguish the fire
on the roof from the third floor
balcony, Barr said.
He said the firefighters were ordered to leave the building when
parts of the roof began falling.
At 3:55 p.m., the roof collapsed,
Barr said.
Arlan Maltby, Lawrence graduate student, said the fire was
spectacular. He saw the roof collapse.
The center went first and a ball
of flames shot out of it, Maltby
said.
The fire was declared under
control at about 7 p.m. Saturday.
A fire is considered under control when its progression has
been stopped, it is contained and
it is not a threat to other buildings, Barr said.
Because of the intensity of
the blaze, fire departments
from Overland Park, Shawnee,
Lenexa, Wakarusa Township,
Eudora and Lexington Township
were called to help.
Barr said up to nine fire trucks
were on the scene during the fire.
KU police officer Burdel Welsh
said control of Hoch was turned
over to KU police early Sunday
morning.
Maj. Ralph Oliver, assistant

director of KU police, said lightning had been declared the cause

of the fire.
Mike McClure, Overland Park
senior, said he saw a lightning
bolt strike the building.
He was on break from his Fish
Kansas class and was standing
near the northeast corner of
Robinson Center.
McClure said the lightning hit
the center of Hochs roof.
The flash was so bright that McClure and several classmates had
to look away after it struck.
We were blinded for a couple of seconds, he said. I knew
immediately that Hoch had a 95
percent chance of going down.
McClure said he called 911 to
report the fire after he saw smoke
coming from Hochs roof.
He said the operator did not
seem to believe him at first.
They said, Yeah, well go check
it out, McClure said.
Craig Kokesh, Scottsdale, Ariz.
senior, was standing in the same
area and also saw the strike.
He said he saw white smoke
coming from the roof as if it were
coming from a chimney.
An hour later, the roof was
gone, Kokesh said.
Liz Blass, Lawrence graduate
student, said Hoch was an impressive part of campus.
She said she remembered
standing in the un-air conditioned Hoch for enrollment.
I thought, This is the worst
part about going to school, she
said.
Lori Reasoner, Lawrence sophomore, said she cried when she
found out Hoch was burning.
She said she hoped the shell of
the building could be saved.
I remember coming up
here when I was young, and I
thought it was really cool, she
said. I thought I would always
come here for Vespers and
Rock Chalk.

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Alumni to
celebrate first
Homecoming

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KANSAN
STAFF
OCT. 28, 1921

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Coliseum is
a Memorial
to Fighting
Spirit of
Kansas
KANSAN
STAFF
OCT. 12, 1912
Saturday,
October
29,
marks an epoch in the history of the University of Kansas grander and more sublime than the day 29 years
ago when McCook Field
was first opened. This day
will officially open the Kansas Stadium. The Coliseum
of Kansas, a memorial and
monument to the past and a
challenge to the future will
be dedicated when the bearers of the Crimson and Blue
carry on the fight that tied
the great Nebraska team last

year in the final game on McCook Field.

Kansas possesses a most enviable athletic tradition. McCook Field has witnessed the
development of the Universitys athletic history as scenes
of many noteworthy contests
in which the name of the Jayhawker has been linked with
that of Honored enemies, the
Tiger, Cornhusker and Sooner. The stadium will carry
on the spirit of Kansas, will
make greater and bigger the
ideal traditions of the Crimson and Blue.
The result of the game Saturday will not be decided
until the final whistle blows,

but Forrest C. Allen, director

of athletics, only wishes that
the Jayhawker team may carry on that wonderful fighting
spirit that has made Kansas
so worthy a foe; that same
spirit that tied Nebraska; that
spirit of the student body last
year when they made the stadium a reality instead of a
possibility.
Although only two sections
of the stadium, 9,500 seats
will be available for the game
Saturday. Of this number,
4,780 are stadium seats and
the remaining number consists of temporary bleachers
that have been arranged on
the opposite side of the field.

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since 1970.
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For 45 years, we are where Africa, the Americas,

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From 1970-2015, we are AAAS

a mark of excellence at KU. Rock Chalk!

The first Homecoming

to be celebrated by University alumni will be November 23, the day of the
Missouri game, and the
alumni office is already
getting reports from many
who are planning to come.
Several student organizations have announced that
they will be prepared to
entertain visiting alumni.
Fraternities and sororities
are expecting a large repre-

sentation from their alumni membership.

For
visiting
alumni,
this Homecoming has
one advantage over commencement in that visitors
can see the University in
operation. Special opportunities will be given for
the observation of all departments of University
work.
County clubs should be
organized early this year,
said Prof. L. N. Flint, general secretary of the Alumni Association this morning, because they will

need to make plans for inviting the alumni in their

home counties to attend
the Homecoming and
for entertaining as many
of them as possible. The
alumni records show the
list of graduates by counties and as fast as student
organizations are perfected they will be supplied
with such lists. The Homecoming anniversaries at Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
and other universities have
become as interesting as
their commencements and
attract even larger crowds.

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Jayhawkers Jar St. Johns, 80-63

KANSAN
STAFF
MARCH 27,
1952
Kansas won its first NCAA
championship last night as
the Jayhawks rolled over
St. Johns of Brooklyn 80-63
in the tourney finals in Seattle. The win sends Kansas
into the Olympic playoffs in
Kansas City on Saturday.
Control-playing
and
ball-hawking by the Kansans
proved to be too strong a factor for St. Johns Redmen as
Kansas took an early 1-0 lead
on a free throw by All-Amer-

ican Clyde Lovellette and was

never heeded.
Lovellette turned in his usual impressive game, hitting
12 from the field and nine
from the charity stripe for
33 points. He was important
to the rebounding as he controlled the boards for Kansas.
Lovellette swept the NCAA
record book clean as he garnered the most field goals
(56) the most free throws
(35) and the most points
(141) made by one player
for the four-game round of
NCAA play. The old records
stood at 41, 27 and 53, respectively.

Going into the game, Lovellette only had to make two

free throws to break the existing record. Within one
minute of play, he had tied
the record. It was broken before the first period ended.
Lovellette was given the
outstanding player of the
tournament award.
Bill Lienhard was impressive with his ball hawking
and sharp shooting from the
outside. He sank five field
goals and two free throws for
12 points. St. Johns attempted to stop Lovellette by dropping back to two or three
men to guard him, which left

Lienhard open on the outside

to shoot.
Bob Trigger Kenney was
an important aspect in the
Kansas win as he knifed
through the Redmen defense
to steal the ball.
Dean Kelley was sharp in
his floor play and rebounding.
Bill Hougland, playing with
a bad leg, also was a factor in the win with his long
shot artistry. Charlie Hoag,
hitting for nine points, and
John Keller showed speed
and good defense in the win.

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Manning leads Kansas

to championship title
ELAINE SUNG
APRIL 5, 1988
In 1980, when the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviets at
Lake Placid, N.Y., in the Winter
Olympics, sports commentator
Al Michaels uttered his now-famous question: Do you believe
in miracles?
The Jayhawks did. They defied
all logic, beat the odds and conquered the previously unstoppable Oklahoma Sooners last night
83-79 in Kemper Arena and
took the 1988 NCAA Championship, the first national title for
Kansas and the Big Eight Conference since 1952.
But the situation did not look
good for the Jayhawks when
they fell behind by five points
with more than 13 minutes
left in the game. The Jayhawks
looked grim as they huddled
during their time-out, and the
Sooners did some preliminary
dancing, thinking the championship was all theirs.
The Sooners, though, overlooked two things: substitution
and experience. Oklahoma
coach Billy Tubbs substituted
only 12 times the entire game
compared to Kansas 42. In addition, forward Dave Sieger, who
hit six of eight three-point shots
in the first half, faltered at the
three-point line and eventually
gave up long-range shooting and
passed it inside to Stacey King.
The Sooners also thought that
their full-court press would carry them through. It had intimidated other teams, but not the
Jayhawks, who had seen it twice
before and were no longer afraid
of it.
We know what they do in the
game, said Kansas forward Milt
Newton. With other teams,
theyre in shock with the press.
But were accustomed to that.
We didnt think that we could
get beat a third time. This third
time was for the national championship.
The Sooners tried to speed up
the tempo as they had done in
the first half, but several times
the Jayhawks deliberately held
the ball at the top of the circle to
rest and throw Oklahoma off the
game.

Oklahoma called a time-out

with 1:39 remaining. The score
was 77-73, and Grace just completed two free throws. After the
time-out, guard Terrence Mullins fouled Kansas guard Clint
Normore and Normore missed
the front end of his one and one.
Kansas coach Larry Brown
sent in Scooter Barry, one of
the teams top free-throw shooters. Sieger fouled Newton, who
made the front end of his one
and one. He missed the second
shot.
With less than a minute in the
game, Grace hit a jump shot for
a 78-75 score, and Oklahoma
called a time-out. With :41 left,
guard Mookie Blaylock hit a
jump shot and made the score
78-77. Tubbs called for another
time-out.
Oklahoma applied pressure
as the Jayhawks passed the ball
around the perimeter. Blaylock
fouled Barry, but Barry completed only the first of his free throws
with 16 seconds left in the game.
Oklahoma called its last timeout. On the in-bounds pass, Piper was stuck and and could not
find anyone open. He called a
time-out, and on the second try
he passed it in to Manning.
That was about as nervous as
I was in the game, Piper said.
They switched a couple guys on
us. I didnt have a clear pass, and
I wasnt going to take a chance.
I told Danny out of the huddle
that the ball was coming to him.
The other guys were so quick, we
needed to use Dannys size.
With 5 seconds left, Grant
fouled Manning. And Manning
sealed the victory by once more
completing both his free throws
to make the final score 83-79.
This feeling is great to be able
to close out my career like this
in Kansas City, in front of people that have supported me for
four years, Manning said. Its
something thats well deserved
for them, but it wasnt a gift.
Some people said we got lucky,
but whats luck? Luck presents
opportunity, and we took that
opportunity.
This is for all the people who
said it couldnt be done, that we
wouldnt make it. This is from
the national champions, the

No. 1 team in the country. How

do you like us now?
When the final buzzer sounded, the players rushed onto the
center of the court and became
one tangled mass, surrounded
by cheerleaders, security officers
and cameramen desperately trying to capture the moment.
The crowd was screaming in
the stands, and Kansas students
who were lucky enough to get
tickets for the game were dancing on the press tables that lined
the court. The Kansas basketball
band played Goin to Kansas
City. The CBS cameras were
pushing to get Manning, who
finished with 31 points and 18
rebounds and was voted the
tournaments most outstanding
player.
The players donned national
championship T-shirts. Guard
Kevin Pritchard searched for his
parents and saw that they were
still in the stands waving. He
demanded that the security officers let his parents on the floor,
and together they celebrated the
victory.
Somewhere in the middle was
Brown, who has taken two different schools to three different
Final Four appearances in the
last seven years. Brown, at age
47, had succeeded in leading
the Jayhawks to his first national
championship.
Just two months ago, Kansas
was 12-8, and people wondered
whether the Jayhawks would receive a berth in the NCAA tournament.
Last night, they shook off the
skeptics, played the game of
their lives and sent Manning
and fellow senior forwards Piper
and Archie Marshall off with the
greatest farewell present possible.
The stepladders were set up
under the baskets at each end,
and Marshall, as he did in Pontiac, Mich., was the first to mount
the ladder and cut the net.
The crowd had its eyes fastened
on the Kansas team as each player received his chance to cut
the net. The Sooners linked off
to their dressing room, heads
down. There would be no victorious dancing on the basketball
rims this night.

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james naismith,
father of
basketball, dies
KANSAN
STAFF
NOV. 29, 1939
Doctor Naismith died early yesterday morning at his
home on University Drive,
after having been suddenly
stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage Nov. 19.
Doctor Naismith had been
actively connected with the
Universitys department of
athletics for 40 years, having
begun his duties here in 1898.
He resigned from full-time
teaching duties in June 1937.
The youth of the world
has lost a great benefactor
in Dr. James Naismith, the
father of basketball, Dr. F.
C. Allen, chairman of the
department of physical education and head basketball
coach said yesterday.
Eighteen million young
men all over the world are
playing his game of basketball, which he originated for
18 troublesome young men in
a class in Springfield, Mass.,
Y.M.C.A college in 1891.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott yesterday made the following statement on the work
and influence of Doctor Naismith:
In behalf of the University
of Kansas, I express sorrow
at the death of Dr. James Naismith, professor emeritus of

Basketball
great Phog
Allen dies
at 88
MARK
ZELIGMAN
SEPT. 17, 1974

University Archives

physical education. Not only

the University and the state
of Kansas, but the United
States and many nations of
the world as well, will feel the
loss of this man who set high
standards of personal, clean

living and was able to infuse

these same standards into the
lives of hundreds of young
me. His contribution to the
athletic world of the game of
basketball will leave a mark
even time cannot erase.

Forrest C. Phog Allen, University of Kansas basketball

coach for 39 years, died early
yesterday morning in his sleep
at his home in Lawrence. He was
88.
Allen had been hospitalized
several times in the last year and
taken to a rest home last month,
but he returned to his Lawrence
home at his own request two
weeks ago.
Allen coached at KU from
1908 to 1909 and from 1920 to
1956. During those years the
Jayhawks won 591 games and
lost 219.
Allen also coached seven years
at Central Missouri State, two
at Baker University and one at
Haskell Institute. When he retired from coaching in 1956,
Allens 771 wins made him the
most victorious coach in basketball history.
That record stood until 1968
when one of Allens former players, Adolph Rupp of the University of Kentucky broke it.
Allen led his teams at KU to 24
Missouri Valley, Big Six and Big
Seven conference championships before the league became
the Big Eight.
Allens 1952 team won the
NCAA Championship. His 1940
and 1953 teams lost in the national finals.
Allen helped found the National Basketball Coaches Association and headed the organization from 1927 to 1929. He also
was instrumental in starting the
NCAA tournament in 1939.

University Archives

Allen was born in Jamesport,

Mo., on Nov. 18, 1885. He played
basketball for Independence
High School. It was during an
Independence game that he met
Dr. James Naismith, the inventor
of the game of basketball, who
later coached Allen at KU.
One of Allens most prized
possessions was an autographed
picture from Naismith with the
inscription, From the father of
basketball to the father of basketball coaching.
After two years of coaching
basketball at KU Allen attended

medical school for four years.

In 1913, he accepted the head
coaching position at Central
Missouri State in Warrensburg,
Mo. While at Warrensburg, his
team won the Missouri Valley
championship.
He returned to KU in 1919 to
become the athletic director for
19 years. He coached football
for one year in 1920. He became
head basketball coach in 1920
and stayed in that position until
1956 when he was forced to retire at the mandatory retirement
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CHAMPS!
Kansas overcomes late deficit to clinch championship

KANSAN
STAFF
APRIL 8,
2008
Mario Chalmers could
dance now, now that his
name had been permanently
etched into the Kansas basketball history books.
He moved his hips to Celebrate and slapped hands all
around with his teammates in
the confetti-filled jubilation
of their national championship.
Thats right national
championship. Kansas (37-3)
beat Memphis (38-2) 75-68
in overtime Monday night
at the Alamodome, winning
its first title since 1988 and
third in program history after coming back from a late
nine-point deficit.
God, we competed hard,
Kansas coach Bill Self said.
Its one thing to win. Its another thing to win the way
these guys did.
Chalmers
celebratory
dance moves seemed so natural, just like the shot he made
about 30 minutes earlier that
sent the game to overtime.
The play started with Sherron Collins. He had 10 seconds to make sure Kansas
extended the game and kept
its dream season alive. He
dribbled to the right wing behind the three-point line and
nearly lost the ball.
Then, Chalmers separated

from his man for just long

enough. Collins found him.
Trailing 63-60, Chalmers
shot a three near the top of
the key. Overtime.
The game shouldve been
finished long before that play.
The Jayhawks got a gift from
the Tigers when they missed
five of six free throws that
wouldve iced the game. They
didnt waste the good fortune
in overtime. The extra period
was all Kansas.
Brandon Rush started out
with a layup. Chalmers and
Darrell Arthur combined for
an alley-oop. When Collins
made two free throws to put
Kansas up 75-68, the game
was finished. Chalmers shot
had sparked all of it.
I just knew we had the
game after that, Arthur said.
A happy ending seemed implausible late in the second
half. Memphis Derrick Rose
nearly killed Kansas. He was
ready to put himself at the top
of the list of Jayhawk Final
Four villains right up there
with Carmelo Anthony, Juan
Dixon and Grant Hill. With
Memphis down 45-42 midway in the second half, Rose
scored 12 straight points for
Memphis. He couldnt miss
if he tried. Really. Rose fired
a long off-balance jumper at
the end of the shot clock and
banked it in. The basket gave
Memphis a 56-49 lead with
4:10 left.
The Tigers stretched that
lead to 60-51, and it looked

FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
The 2008 Kansas Jayhawks look at the scoreboard after defeating Memphis 75-68 for the national championship title.

like Memphis would cut

down the nets.
A lot of guys thought the
game was over, Darnell Jackson said, but we just kept
saying believe.
Self said those exact words
to his team. Chalmers used
Self s message and the memories from last seasons comeback victories against Texas
to motivate him.

Arthur took the inspirational words to heart as well.

It was no surprise to see
Chalmers take over in the
clutch. Arthur was more of
an unexpected hero.
Kansas has known all season it plays superior ball
when Arthur is active. Problem was, that didnt happen
too often.
In the tournament, Arthurs

inconsistency got even worse.

The one they call Shady
reverted to his mind-bogglingly inconsistent ways
throughout the postseason,
disappearing in every game.
Monday night he was a
changed man. Arthur scored
two big baskets toward the
end of regulation and got
another one in overtime. He
finished with 20 points. Ar-

thur had played his best game

in the biggest game of his life.
Its something hell never
forget, something all of the
Jayhawks will never forget.
They battled through adversity after two losses in three
games in late February and
didnt lose the rest of the way.
Now, theyre champions.
Theyll go down as one of the
best teams in Kansas history.

Kansas wins Orange

Bowl, seals 12-1 season
KANSAN
STAFF
JAN. 4,
2008
Kansas didnt do anything out
of the ordinary to defeat Virginia Tech and capture the 2008
FedEx Orange Bowl title. Well,
at least nothing more unexpected than the 12-1 team had
done already this season.
The team that turned analysts
predictions and preconceptions
on their heads all season continued to upset college footballs natural order Thursday
night in a way that has become
strangely normal for the winningest team in the history of
Kansas football.
Over the course of the season,
the Jayhawks emerged from a
decade-long stint of mediocrity to win 12 games and a BCS
bowl. On Thursday night in
Dolphin Stadium, the Jayhawks
defeated Virginia Tech, 24-21,
by beating the Hokies at their
own game: special teams. The

Jayhawks (12-1) overcame several exceptional kick and punt

returns by Virginia Tech (11-3)
with a timely blocked field goal
and an expertly executed fake
punt.
We were able to make a
big, big play on that punt and
turn the game around with
the blocked field goal, Kansas
junior wide receiver Dexton
Fields said. When we blocked
the field goal it was really a big
momentum-stopper and it gave
us some extra confidence.
The blocked field goal may
have been the biggest play in
a game full of momentum
swings, big hits and closely contested short-yardage struggles.
With six minutes and 31 seconds to play in the third quarter, Virginia Tech was picking
up steam. An 84-yard punt return touchdown by senior wide
receiver Justin Harper with
11:35 remaining in the third
pulled the Hokies within three
points, 17-14, and the pro-Virginia Tech fans at Dolphin Stadium were at full volume.

The game-clinching touchdown run was one of many excellent plays the Jayhawk field
general made Thursday night.
Kansas sophomore quarterback
Todd Reesing finished 20-of37 with 227 passing yards and
one passing touchdown. Senior
wide receiver Marcus Henry
was the beneficiary of Reesings
touchdown pass, and totaled
20 yards in his final collegiate
contest. The Jayhawks spread
the ball around on offense,
completing passes to eight receivers and rushing the ball
nine or more times with three
different ballcarriers. The Kansas defense made the offenses
job easier by forcing three turnovers, setting the team up with
good field position.
It was really an up-and-down
game, a roller coaster of emotions, Reesing said. Our defense was able to get turnovers
and get us the ball in good position, and that was huge for
the game. The offense came
through when we had to, made
plays when we needed to and

FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
Members of the football team celebrate the win against Virginia Tech at the Orange Bowl.

got the ball in the end zone and

points on the board.
The Jayhawks needed nearly
all of their 24 points to hang on
and defeat a Virginia Tech team

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with zeros. The Hokies scored
on a 15-play, 78-yard drive
with 2:51 remaining to cut the
Jayhawks lead to three, but

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Chancellor Gray-Little brings

new era for Jayhawks, campus
ROSS
STEWART
AUG. 17,
2009
Chapel Hill, N.C. Bernadette Gray-Little shoots a contemplative look at the ceiling for
a moment then points out the
window at something shes going to miss.
I enjoy that sight right out
there, Gray-Little said. More
days than not I stop on the way
in or out or I look out my window and I look out on that sight.
Its a great sight.
She points out a window to a
building, the universitys Wilson
Library, which looks like a regal
whitewashed capitol building.
Its two football fields away from
her office at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
across a vast courtyard filled
with criss-crossing sidewalks,
surrounded by trees and old academic halls.
Gray-Little ended her 38 years
of employment at UNC as provost July 8.
She began her role as the 17th
chancellor of the University of
Kansas on August 15.
Born and raised in Washington, N.C., a small town in the
then-segregated South, her parents placed a great deal of worth
on receiving an education. Her
younger brother, Mark Gray,
said it was presented to them as
a way out of poverty.
Gray-Little still continues to
pursue this early established ideal. She sees the worth in it.
Her time at UNC shows her
dedication to education. Her
accomplishments, such as increasing diversity and creating
an office of undergraduate research and a first-year seminar
program, bettered UNC. She
plans to do the same for the
University.
GROWING UP:
EDUCATION
Gray-Little grew up the
fourth child of eight with three
brothers and four sisters. The
first time she moved from her
hometown was for college. Her
father was illiterate and worked
in construction. Her mother
had a GED and was a homemaker who occasionally did
custodial work.
Though her family did not
have the means to support her
higher education, her parents
always pushed that education
was a way out of poverty, according to her brother, whos
now a lawyer in Greensboro,
N.C.
In some ways, education became such a big thing that it
became the end as opposed to a
means to an end, Gray said. I
just remember education was
the goal; I guess it was also a
means.
Washington was still segregated in the 1950s when Gray-Little
was growing up there. In spite of
this, she said, the only time she
really experienced segregation

was when she left the neighborhood. She said she didnt have
one particular instance to share
showing that segregation during
her childhood really affected
her choices in life. Her take on
growing up and the difficulties
she had in affording an education reveals something about
her personality and how she
approaches problems and challenges. She said certain things
in life would be considered challenges in retrospect, but not at
first.
You could say it was a challenge to leave a small town in
North Carolina and get a college
education at a time when I came
from a small school and my
parents were not able to contribute anything to my education,
Gray-Little said. You might
consider that a challenge, but at
the same time it was just something that you worked on and
got it done. Its hard for me to
pull things out like that because
at the time I didnt experience
them as a challenge.
Gray-Little attended an allgirls Catholic school, where
nuns served as teachers, from
first grade to her senior year of
high school. Her brother remembered her intelligence and
that the nuns took notice when
the subject of college came
about. Without scholarships,
Gray-Little wouldnt have been
able to afford college and would
have been limited to working
a blue-collar job or entering a
convent, Gray said.
They said, Bernadette, youre
bright. If you want to get an
education we could get you a
scholarship at Marywood up in
Scranton, Penn., and you dont
have to become a nun, Gray
said.
Gray-Little received scholarships and moved from Washington to Scranton for her
undergraduate degree in psychology. She said the segregation in Pennsylvania was not

ing up in rank there ever since.

LIFE AT UNC
Her office didnt reveal she was
in the process of moving. Excellently clean, barely anything
covering her desk, with a single
packing box in the middle of it.
She ran a university and she
would run the University of
Kansas with such order and precision that shed have 10 pieces
of paper on her desk, Gray said.
Just 10. Just 10.
Working as provost, Gray-Littles latest job at UNC, meant
she was in charge of personnel
and money. One would expect
her office to be filled with clutter
from all the responsibilities that
fall under that, but it was so well
kept it looked like an office from
a model home.
While at UNC, Gray-Little accomplished much as she worked
her way up the academic totem
pole.
Starting out as a professor, she
later ran departments, served as
the executive associate provost,
a dean and the executive vice
chancellor and provost.
Karen Gil, dean of the college of arts and sciences at
UNC, spoke highly of the work
Gray-Little had done and said
she thought Gray-Little accomplished a lot in every position
she held.
Some of these programs were
her legacy here at North Carolina, Gil said.
Gray-Little spearheaded two
prominent programs in 1999
when she was senior associateddean for undergraduate education.
One was the office of undergraduate research, where undergraduates were encouraged to
use UNC as a research institution. Undergraduates prepared
works focused on pressing issues locally, nationally and internationally. This was a focus of
Gray-Littles at UNC, and may
be at the University as well, as

You could say it was a challenge to leave a

small town in North Carolina and get a college
education at a time when I came from a small
school and my parents were not able to contribute anything to my education.
BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE
the same as it was growing up
in Washington. Segregation in
terms of stores and other public places was not there, but in
terms of neighborhoods, it still
was.
From Marywood University
she went to St. Louis University
in St. Louis for her masters and
doctorate in clinical psychology.
After that, she was offered a
few professorships, including
one at the University and at
UNC. She took the position at
UNC in 1971 as a professor of
psychology and has been mov-

she has made references to increasing research here.

She made it a point to have undergraduates understand what
research is and how it can be
conducted.
The other program she started
was a first-year seminar that all
freshmen were required to take.
A class of about 20 students met
with a professor and studied that
professors expertise.
The idea behind the seminar was not only to encourage
freshmen to learn about things
that interested them but also to

FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
Bernadette Gray-Little began her role as chancellor of the University on Aug. 15, 2009.

build substantial relationships

with professors in a close environment.
HOME LIFE
Gray-Little has two children,
Mark Little and Maura Garcia,
and a husband, Shade Little.
Mark is doing postdoctoral
work at Duke and is a consultant
for the business school at UNC.
Maura just finished her masters
in fine arts at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She is
also a choreographer and runs a
dance company and is planning
to relocate her dance company
to Kansas.
Shade grew up in Washington,
N.C., as well and was called a
math genius by several people
in Chapel Hill. At the moment,
he doesnt plan on teaching at
the University when the couple
arrives, but Gray-Little said he
wouldnt be sitting still for too
long.
From what Mark said, his
mother and father are quite different from each another.
Mark said his mother preferred very nice things, while
Shade enjoyed things purchased
in thrift stores. He said she was
style-conscious, didnt go to
thrift stores and dressed well
her shoes and jewelry go together.
Though she and Shade are different, Mark said he thought it
was complementary rather than
problematic.
Gray-Little, even at home, is
quiet. But Mark said even with
the contemplative side her colleagues describe, shes actually

a bit silly. Gray-Little and Shade

didnt allow TV in their house
on weekdays for the kids. If
Mark ever had on a silly movie
or TV show shed tell him to turn
it off, but would still laugh at it.
People have a list of adjectives to describe her, Mark said.
In our home context the first
thing that comes to mind, shes a
very silly person. None of those
people would use that word; it
wouldnt come to mind.
In comparison, Shade is said to
be someone who likes to speak
his mind.
My father is very loud, Mark
said. I used to run track. You
cant hear anything, but I could
always hear my father yelling
Run! because hes so loud. Its
like night and day.
Gray, her brother, doesnt
remember too much about
growing up with Gray-Little.
She went off to her first year in
college when he was in first or
second grade, though he does
remember meeting Shade for
the first time when Gray was in
his early teens.
I was easily bought off, Gray
said. He bought me off with a
quart of milk.
Gray said he remembered his
family saying his sister had a
high school crush on Shade. She
brought Shade by before she was
about to go overseas to study
and asked Gray what he thought
of Shade.
I remember thinking, Well,
he just bought me some chocolate milk, so I think hes pretty all
right, Gray said.
Gray-Little said Shade would

not be idle for very long because

it was not in his temperament.
At UNC he worked with student
academic services and did some
advising, math, statistics and
tutoring. Gray-Little said Shade
enjoyed working with students
without having to grade math
papers.
Gray went to law school at
UNC in 1978 while Gray-Little
was working there. His reasoning was to get one good meal a
week at her place. One thing that
Gray enjoys is their mothers
recipe for yeast rolls. Gray-Little
is the only one left in the family
who knows how to bake them
since their mother died.

LIFE AS A
JAYHAWK
Gray-Little has made broad
statements about what she wants
to see accomplished during her
time at the University. They include increasing diversity and
research along with attaining
National Cancer Institute designation.
There has been some difficulty
in locking down how Gray-Little plans to accomplish these
goals. She said she wanted to
look at them and see what could
feasibly be done to achieve them
after her arrival.
So you have a goal, which is
general, but the things you have
to do to get there are very specific, Gray-Little said. I think
in both cases its important to
look at what is being done and
what can be done. I know where
Id like to go, but I dont know all
the specific steps to get there.

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Obama speaks about child care and
affordable college to KU crowd
RILEY
MORTENSON
JAN. 26, 2015
From the front of the presidential stage to the very back of the
Anschutz Sports Pavilion, audience members waited patiently
and erupted into applause at the
chance to finally see what many
described as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
President Barack Obama visited the University on Thursday
morning and was greeted by a
crowd of more than 6,000 as he
took to the podium saying, Its
good to be at KU, in his opening remarks.
Introducing the President
was senior Alyssa Cole. Cole, a
History and African-American
studies major and single mother of three, wrote to President
Obama in 2013. Cole wrote
about issues surrounding affordable child care, education
and the struggle between balancing the two.
Education has maintained
such an important role in my
life, and during that point time,
I was almost forced to make the
choice between obtaining an
education, working or taking
care of my children, Cole said.
I wrote the letter because I did
not want to make the choice between the three.
Following Coles introduction,
Obama joked that while he was
here for other business, he did
take a moment to spend some
time with coach Bill Self and the
mens basketball team. He also
thanked Chancellor Bernadette
Gray-Little and Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx and mentioned
Bob Dole and the Dole Center
for Politics, which he said he
would be proud of, too.
Before diving into the themes

of his speech, President Obama

also mentioned his deep roots
in Kansas.
Im a Kansas guy, Obama
said. His mother was born in
Wichita, his grandmother grew
up in Augusta and his grandfather was from El Dorado.
Obama transitioned to the issues at hand when he pointed
out all the high notes for the
year to kick off on, including
our economy creating jobs at the
fastest rate since 1999, shrinking
deficits and our troops coming
home.
Obamas topics for the remainder of the speech focused
largely on elements he touched
on during the State of the Union
on Tuesday night. He elaborated on middle-class economics
and how to make it work in our
country, as well as his ideas on
free community college and the
increasing the competitiveness
of our markets.
He also reiterated equal pay
for men and women, which the
crowd roared over, and made
the idea of assistance with child
care more personal by telling the
story of his grandparents. His
grandfather went off to fight in
WWII while his grandmother
worked on a bomber assembly
line in Wichita.
This country provided universal child care because they
understood that if women are
working, theyre gonna need
some help, right? Obama said.
And research shows that it was
good for the kids, good for the
parents, but we stopped doing
that.
He ended on a note of solidarity as a nation saying we will disagree, but that doesnt mean we
have to be divided. We all share
a common vision for our future,
he said.
So, weve made it through

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President Barack Obama speaks to a crowd of more than 6,000 in Anschutz Sports Pavilion on Jan. 22, 2015.

some hard times, but weve laid

a new foundation, Jayhawks,
Obama said. Weve got a new
future to write. The young people here are gonna write a new
future for America. Lets get
started right now.
Reactions to the speech were
overwhelmingly positive and
most students were just happy
for the opportunity to see a sitting president.
Sabaa Anees, a sophomore
from Wichita, said shed heard
President Obama was a really
great speaker, but it was amazing to see him in person. To
her, one of the most important
issues Obama spoke about was
equal pay for women.
He definitely pointed out that

its 2015, and theres no legal

protection at the federal level for
getting paid the same as a man,
Anees said.
Connor Bowman, a senior
from Lenexa, said as a student
from the school of pharmacy,
healthcare was a big topic for
him.
For me, getting into the
health career field, I thought
his message about child care or
family care was a logical next
step after expending so much
political willpower over the affordable care act to pass over all
the hurdles that it did, Bowman
said. Health care has a lot of
moving parts, so it makes sense
to involve the family as a unit.
For other students, the journey

to the speech was just as memorable as the speech itself. Alex

Cushing, a senior from Chicago
got in line to see the President at
4:30 a.m.
Cushing had trouble sleeping
the night before because she
said she was so excited and realized when she got in line that
sleeping in the cold was not an
option.
Im exhausted, Cushing said.
My legs hurt, everything hurts,

Accidents
Happen.

but it was totally worth it.

Cushing said she got in line
to see the president in the wee
hours of the morning because
youve got to take advantage
of the opportunity to see him in
person.
To be that close and physically there is just a very cool
experience, Cushing said. Im
exhausted, but Im gonna sleep
like a baby.

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