Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/30/436125678/obama-renaming-continents-highest-peak-from-mt-mckinley-to-denali
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Could DU's Womley Observatory's Mountain Host, Mt. Evans, Meet Same Fate As Mount McKinley?
Obama to rename Continent's highest peak from Mount McKinley to Denali
Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/30/436125678/obama-renaming-continents-highest-peak-from-mt-mckinley-to-denali
Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/30/436125678/obama-renaming-continents-highest-peak-from-mt-mckinley-to-denali
Will Coombe Knock Down DU's Evans Chapel?
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| (above) Evans Chapel was named after DU's founder John Evans |
On Friday, University of Denver Chancellor, Dr. Robert Coombe fired off an email to students, faculty and staff promising to "understand how our actions affect others, and how cartoonish depictions not only push us apart, but also reflect our limited understanding of one another."
Coombe went on, "As our community becomes more diverse, we still have work to do with regard to mutual understanding and inclusion."
Which brings us to Evans Chapel located in in the heart of DU's campus. Can DU have a Chapel named after a man who, while Governor of Colorado in 1865, was fired ... er ... asked to resign by President Andrew Johnson for ordering and then allegedly covering-up the Sand Creek Massacre of 163 unarmed Native Americans?
Northwestern & DU Share Common Founder
(above) John Evans founded Northwestern University in Chicago before starting DU in 1864From: The Daily Northwestern.com
by Lark Turner
In 1851, John Evans helped found a Methodist university just north of Chicago. In 1862, he headed west to do it again.
Both Northwestern and the University of Denver, founded in 1864, can trace their origins to Illinois-bred and Colorado-bound Evans, from whom Evanston gets its name.
Evans got on the right side of Abraham Lincoln early in his career, said Prof. Steven Fisher, curator of special collections in DU’s Penrose Library.
“The way I always put it is that John Evans was a person who was in the right place at the right time,” Fisher said.
Evans fell in line with Methodists and converted to the religion early in his political career, said Kevin Leonard, NU’s archivist. Leonard said Evans was probably the most prominent member of the group who founded NU.
“Without John Evans, of course, there would be no Northwestern,” he said. “He helped to float this place when it was just a nickel-and-dime affair.”
After Evans founded NU, Lincoln offered Evans governorship of the Colorado Territory, Fisher said.
“One of his first goals when he got here was to found an institution of higher learning so that the citizens of the territory would not have to go back east for their college education,” Fisher said.
Today the schools have less in common than their humble beginnings suggest. At DU, the weekend is more likely to be spent in the mountains than anywhere near campus, DU junior Mindy Stone said.
Still, commonalities exist: Both schools have a Division-I athletic program, operate on the quarter system and are located in suburbs, Fisher said.
Furthermore, the two schools share similar social atmospheres. DU students like to head out on Thursdays, too, and hit venues that sound suspiciously similar to The Keg of Evanston. Stone said the three bars most students frequent—The Border Restaurant, Stadium Inn and Stick-E-Star—are popular for dancing, pool and beer pong, respectively.
The schools both have a flagship athletic team. For NU, of course, it’s football. In Denver, the biggest sport is played on the ice.
“We are a hockey school,” Fisher said. “We dropped football in 1961 because hockey was really becoming more prominent. We also had a chancellor then who thought that football made us less scholarly.”
References to Evans can be found on both campuses: at NU’s John Evans Alumni Center and DU’s Evans Avenue. Mount Evans, a towering mountain on the Rocky Mountain’s Front Range, is visible from DU’s campus.
Just as Lake Michigan acts as a navigation point for NU students, these mountains serve a landmark for the DU community.
“If they’re going west, I’d just say, ‘Head towards the mountains,’” Stone said.
by Lark Turner
In 1851, John Evans helped found a Methodist university just north of Chicago. In 1862, he headed west to do it again.
Both Northwestern and the University of Denver, founded in 1864, can trace their origins to Illinois-bred and Colorado-bound Evans, from whom Evanston gets its name.
Evans got on the right side of Abraham Lincoln early in his career, said Prof. Steven Fisher, curator of special collections in DU’s Penrose Library.
“The way I always put it is that John Evans was a person who was in the right place at the right time,” Fisher said.
Evans fell in line with Methodists and converted to the religion early in his political career, said Kevin Leonard, NU’s archivist. Leonard said Evans was probably the most prominent member of the group who founded NU.
“Without John Evans, of course, there would be no Northwestern,” he said. “He helped to float this place when it was just a nickel-and-dime affair.”
After Evans founded NU, Lincoln offered Evans governorship of the Colorado Territory, Fisher said.
“One of his first goals when he got here was to found an institution of higher learning so that the citizens of the territory would not have to go back east for their college education,” Fisher said.
Today the schools have less in common than their humble beginnings suggest. At DU, the weekend is more likely to be spent in the mountains than anywhere near campus, DU junior Mindy Stone said.
Still, commonalities exist: Both schools have a Division-I athletic program, operate on the quarter system and are located in suburbs, Fisher said.
Furthermore, the two schools share similar social atmospheres. DU students like to head out on Thursdays, too, and hit venues that sound suspiciously similar to The Keg of Evanston. Stone said the three bars most students frequent—The Border Restaurant, Stadium Inn and Stick-E-Star—are popular for dancing, pool and beer pong, respectively.
The schools both have a flagship athletic team. For NU, of course, it’s football. In Denver, the biggest sport is played on the ice.
“We are a hockey school,” Fisher said. “We dropped football in 1961 because hockey was really becoming more prominent. We also had a chancellor then who thought that football made us less scholarly.”
References to Evans can be found on both campuses: at NU’s John Evans Alumni Center and DU’s Evans Avenue. Mount Evans, a towering mountain on the Rocky Mountain’s Front Range, is visible from DU’s campus.
Just as Lake Michigan acts as a navigation point for NU students, these mountains serve a landmark for the DU community.
“If they’re going west, I’d just say, ‘Head towards the mountains,’” Stone said.
New Mascot To Be Unveiled In Washington D.C.
(above) President Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 and re-elected in 1864 the year that John Evans founded the University of Denver
(left) The deposit has been paid and we've negotiated for the mascot to be delivered to Washington D.C. for the NCAA hockey championship Frozen Four on April 9-11LetsGoDU and our alumni donors will introduce our new mascot in a ceremony at 10 am on Friday, April 10th at the Lincoln Memorial. Many DU alums will be in D.C. for the Frozen Four hockey national championships and if our hockey team cooperates, the turnout may be larger than expected.
Colorado applied for statehood in 1865 or 1867, but "thanks" to President Andrew Johnson, it didn't. Eleven years later, on July 1, 1876, Colorado voted 15,443 to 4,062 to adopt a state constitution proposed by a constitutional convention and to become a state. On August 1, 1876, President Ulysses Grant proclaimed Colorado the 38th state.
In 1864, Territorial Governor and University of Denver founder John Evans persuaded Congress to adopt an enabling act for Colorado statehood. It would have likely meant two more Republican U.S. Senators and three more electoral votes for President Lincoln's re-election. However, a majority of the 6,192 Coloradoans who voted, (out of a population of roughly 35,000), voted against statehood.
President Lincoln won re-election without Colorado's help. His Vice President, Democrat Andrew Johnson, supported the Union. When Lincoln was assassinated, Johnson became president on April 15, 1865. Then began the fight between Democrat Johnson and the Republican Congress, which delayed Colorado's statehood.
DU was founded in 1864 the year that Lincoln was re-elected for his 2nd term as president.
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