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DAN WOOD, LEFT, AND JOHN LACOMB, both with Exhibits Etc. out of Scott, La., work on installations at Watkins Community Museum on Friday. At left is Ernst Ulmer’s painting “Blood-Stained Dawn” depicting William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence in 1863. The museum is mounting an exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of the raid, which will become a permanent exhibit exploring the raid and its effects on the Lawrence community.
Watkins Museum eager to unveil Quantrill exhibit in time for 150th anniversary of raid By Matt Erickson
When the Watkins Community Museum of History began planning for its new central permanent exhibit about three years ago, it had a clear deadline: next weekend. It is, after all, just a few days before the 150th anniversary of Lawrence’s signature historical event. “We had basically no choice,” said Steve Nowak, who came aboard as the
executive director of the Douglas County Historical Society in January 2011 and has planned for this moment since. For the first time in about 10 years, the museum’s core permanent exhibit is brand new. And appropriate for the anniversary of Quantrill’s Raid, it will connect the infamous event with the rest of Lawrence’s and Douglas County’s history — especially the tradition of steadfast activism that continues today.
“We have a long tradition of people taking their civic responsibility really seriously here,” Nowak said. “We’re hoping that we can inspire people today to follow in their footsteps.” At the center of the new exhibit on the museum’s second floor is a structure devoted to telling the story of the raid. Inside is an interactive touchscreen map of the route Quantrill’s raiders took through town. Text and photos will tell the story of the raid,
how Lawrence responded and what happened to the raiders afterward. Display cases will contain artifacts from the attack, including a once-broken store window that fused into one sheet from the heat of the fire. The front page of The New York Times from a few days later, when the news of the raid reached the East Coast, shows the raid leading the newspaper’s Civil War coverage. Please see QUANTRILL, page 6A
If the rest of the world were as crime-ridden as the digital world, nobody would leave his house. Not that staying inside would make you safe. Hundreds or even thousands of times per day, every day, some stranger would be turning your door handle, just to see whether it might be unlocked. And somewhere out there, far more sophisticated intruders are trained to wait in the hidden corners of your own home until they’re able make off with your most valuable possessions. An institution the size of Kansas University has thousands and thousands of entry points into its computing systems. Behind some of them is extremely valuable loot: the personal identifiers of students, faculty and staff, as well as sensitive information garnered from research and potentially lucrative intellectual property. Rob Arnold, the information security officer for KU’s Information Technology services, is the man charged with keeping the world’s cyber criminals at bay. Supported Please see SECURITY, page 6A
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ROB ARNOLD, INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER AT KU, and his office are responsible for protecting the campus from digital hazards.
LHS teacher recovers from accident to take students abroad By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
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DAVID PLATT will be taking a group of students to Beijing next spring break.
Three broken ribs, a collapsed lung, cracked sternum, third-degree burns, a shoulder that needed reconstruction — yet all David Platt could think about was how he was going to make his scheduled trip to Europe a few days later. Forget that he couldn’t walk or breathe on his own. Platt’s focus was on the rolling hills and majestic coastlines of
on the planet. He’s taken them to Africa, China, Egypt — you name it. But the only thing that prevented him from missing a trip was when a car hopped a median on the interstate near St. Louis and hit his vehicle head on, nearly taking his life. He was on his way to Pennsylvania, to hike the Appalachian Trail with a former student, Corey Roelofs, who, like many of his fellow LHS grads, was introduced by Platt to a life-
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Scotland and Northern Ireland. International travel plays a big part in the Lawrence High School teacher’s life. For the past 15-plus years, the gregarious guy with the dark goatee and mop of brown hair has been introducing his students to countries and cultures the world over. The walls of his classroom are covered with pictures of smiling students posing in front of some of the most famous historical sites
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LHS senior Mark Stevens started walking in his family’s footsteps by participating in the National Young Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. and becoming the Speaker of the House. Page 3A
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