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“Improvements Could Be on the Way for KU’s Wescoe Beach.” LJWorld.Com, 7 Mar. 2012, www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/mar/07/improvements-could-be-way-kus-wescoe-beach.

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“$3.5M Renovation to Begin at Wescoe Hall.” LJWorld.Com, 23 May 2006, www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/may/23/35m_renovation_begin_wescoe_hall.

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“Wescoe Hall Roof Construction to Close Stairs from Malott Hall to The Underground.” The University Daily Kansan, www.kansan.com/news/wescoe-hall-roof-construction-to-close-stairs-from-malott-hall-to-the-underground/article_1611f616-f545-11e9-b258-3f3e45d1434e.html.

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“Rally on Jayhawk Boulevard.” The Indian Leader, Delia Begay, 14 Sept. 2021, www.theindianleader.com/2021/09/14/rally-on-jayhawk-boulevard.

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“KU Graduate Students Stage ‘walk out’ to Protest Impending Tax Bill.” KU Graduate Students Stage “walk out” to Protest Impending Tax Bill, Darby VanHoutan, 27 Nov. 2017, www.kansan.com/news/ku-graduate-students-stage-walk-out-to-protest-impending-tax-bill/article_eb623a6a-d53f-11e7-a706-2f56efc6985b.html.

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In 2006 the University had raised 3.5 million dollars to add 80 new classrooms and help the language department out. The spanish and Portuguese classes had moved into the building and had added new office spaces for the staff. In 2012 students had come together to add new additions to wescoe as shown in the second photo. The had added new shrubs and planted 12 new trees. In the inside of the building they had swapped out the lights with new LED lights.

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Wescoe hall in 2011 had a new plan to strip all of the carpets and chairs out of the two underground auditoriums to create "The underground". The underground was built as a place for students to get food and be able to eat and have a place to sit and chill at. Recently even though its a small change we can see that they added a big KU symbol to the top of the building.

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Wescoe has become a place where students come together to have peaceful protests and has become a place of hope for students. In the first photo you can see students come together to protest the new law that the government had placed that allowed them to tax graduate students tuition waivers and other forms of financial aid. In the second photo we can see many people gather to help support our native American students after someone had vandalized a painting on campus earlier this year. Wescoe hall has a big significance to our campus being it symbolizes hope that the students are being heard and are making a change within our communities.

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Wescoe hall was named in honor of Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe. He served as the dean of the medical school of the University of Kansas. Then served as the chancellor of the university of Kansas from 1960-1969.

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Wescoe had been downsized from the original 25 floor building to measly to 4 story building with a very modern look. It has 2 stories above the ground while having 2 underground. It had taken a total of 7 years to complete the construction of the building and it officially opened in 1974.

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Wescoe hall was planned to become the tallest building at a university campus in the entirety of the United States. The had to unfortunately scrap the idea due to the fact that the infrastructure of the campus couldn't handle it.