OREAD QUIZ

Q: These tubes on the lawn of Spooner Hall above are:

a) Ventilation for new underground faculty offices

b) Pneumatic delivery device for campus mail

c) Work of art (ANSWER BELOW).

OK, none of the above.

The answer: The tubes protruding from the ground in front of Spooner hold fiber-optic cables — for high-speed electronic communications — that were displaced by the work to upgrade the steam tunnels under Jayhawk Boulevard and 14th Street. Once a new fiber-optic cable tunnel is completed down 14th Street to serve the scholarships halls, the Spooner tubes will be removed.