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VIDEO: MU Column lighting ceremony commemorates 175 years

KBIA | By Abby Rice

Published September 20, 2014 at 12:18 PM CDT

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Hundreds of people attended a column lighting ceremony to mark the 175th Anniversary of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. on Sept. 19, 2014

Jonathan Fenton / KBIA

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Hundreds of people attended a column lighting ceremony to mark the 175th Anniversary of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. on Sept. 19, 2014

Jonathan Fenton / KBIA

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Hundreds of people attended a column lighting ceremony to mark the 175th Anniversary of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. on Sept. 19, 2014

Jonathan Fenton

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University of Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin spoke to the crowd at a column lighting ceremony to mark the 175th Anniversary of the University in Columbia, Mo. on Sept. 19, 2014

Jonathan Fenton / KBIA

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Hundreds of people attended a column lighting ceremony to mark the 175th Anniversary of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. on Sept. 19, 2014

Jonathan Fenton / KBIA

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Hundreds of people attended a column lighting ceremony to mark the 175th Anniversary of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. on Sept. 19, 2014

Jonathan Fenton / KBIA

The week-long celebration for the 175^th anniversary of the University of Missouri concluded Friday night with a columns lighting ceremony. KBIA's Jordon Schultz shot this video of the presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g0-yi4oZC0&feature=youtu.be

Kari Wilborn, the Technical Director at the Missouri Theater, says tsays months of planning culminated in the show of elaborate lights, projections and sounds including a narration describing the January 9, 1892 fire that destroyed the Academic Hall. View the sideshow above to see photos from the event.