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Week In KU History
March 8, 1965: The KU Civil Rights Council holds
a student sit-in in the office of Chancellor W. Clarke
Wescoe.
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the full story.
 March
11, 1886: Ferdinand Fuller, designer of the first
building at KU and a member of the original party sent
to Kansas by the Emigrant Aid Society of Massachusetts,
dies at his home in Lawrence.
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the full story.
March 18, 1960: Nearly 4,000 KU students pack
Hoch Auditorium to protest the resignation of Chancellor
Franklin D. Murphy following a long-simmering conflict
with Kansas Governor George Docking.
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the full story.
 March
19, 1886: Lewis Lindsay Dyche accepts a KU chair
in anatomy, physiology, and taxidermy.
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the full story.
March 20, 1935: The worst "Dust Bowl"
dust storm hits Lawrence, shrouding the town and the
KU campus in darkness by 2 p.m.
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the full story.
 March
25, 1912: The campus power plant steam whistle begins
marking the end of each hour's classes.
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the full story.
 March
26, 1952: The University of Kansas men's basketball
team wins its first NCAA national title.
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the full story.
 March
29, 1972: KU celebrates Carrie Watson Day, honoring
the University's longest-serving professional librarian.
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the full story.
 March
30, 1925: First issue of an unofficial, purportedly
"radical" student newspaper called The Dove,
which would generally be printed on pink paper.
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the full story.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas
This Week In KU History is a project of the KU Memorial
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Copyright 2004 University of Kansas Memorial Corporation
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