Monday, September 21, 2009
Professor Emeritus Ted Johnson wants to give students the opportunity to see campus in a different light — or lack thereof.
Starting at 5 a.m. tomorrow, Johnson will guide The Autumnal Equinox Starlight Walking Tour of Mount Oread before dawn on campus. He will discuss the importance of several campus buildings and how they were constructed with cardinal directions and star alignment in mind.
“It’s fun to walk about and see how these buildings are set down and how they do relate to the North Star and so forth,” Johnson said. “It will get people to think about the rationality of how our buildings are constructed on Mount Oread and they’re done with great sense of geography and how to put them down.”
Johnson said he liked to guide the tour on the autumn equinox but that anyone could conduct a tour any night throughout the year.
The tour will begin at the intersection of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard. From 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. the tour will make scheduled stops at a few campus buildings to learn how they relate with astronomy. At 7 a.m. the tour will return to 14th Street to watch the sun come up directly above the street.
— — Edited by Alicia Banister
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