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Week In KU History
July 7, 1975: KU takes possession of its first
Johnson County facility, which will eventually evolve
into the Regents Center, now known as the Edwards Campus.
 July
8, 1932: KU football and wrestling star Pete Mehringer
qualifies for the Olympics.
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July 12, 1990: Groundbreaking takes place for
the Ernst F. Lied Center for the performing arts.
July 15, 1874: KU Board of Regents elects Professor
S.H. Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin as chancellor,
but after Carpenter endures Lawrence's 100-degree heat
and swarms of invading grasshoppers, he departs for
Madison and declines the job.
July 16, 1951: In an article about the departure
of KU Chancellor Deane W. Malott and his replacement
by KU Med Center Dean Franklin D. Murphy, Time magazine
asserts "In the last twelve years, KU has begun
to climb from its place as a solid but unspectacular
state university…Under Chancellor Murphy, it hopes
to climb even faster."
 July
16, 1970: Former KU student Rick "Tiger"
Dowdell, 19, is shot and killed by police in downtown
Lawrence, sparking a series of protests, vandalism,
and confrontations that culminates in the death of 18-year-old
KU freshman Harry Nicholas "Nick" Rice on
Oread Boulevard five days later.
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July 17, 1966: At a track and field meet in
Berkeley, Cal., KU freshman Jim Ryun runs the mile in
3:51.3, 18 yards faster than any man had ever run.
 July
19, 1866: KU Board of Regents elects first three
members of the school's faculty, Elial J. Rice to the
"chair of Belles Lettres and Mental and Moral Philosophy,"
David H. Robinson to the "chair of Languages,"
and Francis H. Snow to the "chair of Mathematics
and General Sciences."
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July 21, 1866: The Kansas Tribune notes the
election of KU's first faculty and contends this development
means, "The people of Kansas may be reminded that
it is quite unnecessary to send their children abroad
to obtain superior culture.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
Department of History
University of Kansas
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