The University of Kansas

Vol. 30, No. 10 � February 6, 2006

A n o f f i c i a l e m p l o y e e p u b l i c a t i o n f r o m t h e O f f i c e o f U n i v e r s i t y R e l a t i o n s

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Provost takes leadership post in D.C.Shulenburger’s selectionshows ‘esteem for Kansashigher education’

State and national higher edu-cation leaders hailed as acoup for Kansas the selection

of KU Provost and Executive ViceChancellor David Shulenburger toa leadership post at one of thenation’s top educational bodies.

The Nat-ional Assoc-iation of StateUniversitiesand Land-Grant Collegeslast weeknamed Shu-lenburger asvice presidentfor academic affairs for the

Washington, D.C.-based nonprofitorganization of 214 public universi-ties and land-grant institutions.

“David Shulenburger’s appoint-ment to this important positionspeaks well of the quality of leader-ship at the University of Kansas,”said Peter McPherson, theNASULGC president. “NASUL-GC has been impressed by the uni-versity’s ability to respond strategi-

cally and successfully to complexand changing times for Americanhigher education.”

Kansas Board of Regents ChairDonna Shank, Liberal, said, “I’vealways been proud of our publichigher education system but thisappointment makes me evenprouder. For a leading nationaleducational association to pick oneof our provosts shows esteem for

Dave Shulenburger and for Kansashigher education.”

Reginald Robinson, RegentsCEO and president, said “DaveShulenburger’s selection, asidefrom the prestige of having aKansan in the job, will give our sys-tem a close connection to an orga-nization that is engaged nationallyin the critical educational issues of

Collection highlightsstruggle for equality

Anew exhibit at KU honoringAfrican-American state leg-islators calls attention to

the role electoral politics hasplayed in the struggle for freedomand equality in Kansas.

The display, “Shaping KansasPolitics: The African-AmericanLegislators,” may be viewed atKU’s Spencer Research Library,located between Strong Hall andthe Campanile on the Lawrencecampus, or online atspencer.lib.ku.edu through mid-March.

The exhibit contains items fromKU’s extensive holdings of African-American history and notesAfrican-American legislative lead-

ership in providing property-taxexemption for low-income seniorcitizens, prohibiting discriminationin mortgage-lending practices andestablishing a sickle-cell anemiaaid program. African-Americanlegislators also played leadingroles in divesting state-fundedinvestments in South Africa duringapartheid and sponsoring bills tohelp the economically disadvan-taged maintain the physical condi-tion of their homes.

The KU Libraries’ African-American outreach program,based in the Kansas Collection atthe Spencer library, maintains oneof the region’s largest archival col-lections documenting the experi-ences of Kansas African-American

African-American legislatorsfocal point of exhibit

On a medicalmission

They may not have medicaltraining, but a pair of KUstaffers recently helped doc-

tors heal burns, perform recon-structive surgeries for cleft lipsand palates and skin grafts. Andthey did it all without being able tospeak the native language.

David McKinney, a graphicdesigner with the Office ofUniversity Relations, and JenHumphrey, senior editor with theKU Endowment Association,recently traveled to Romania andPanama, respectively, to volunteerwith Medical MissionsFoundation. The foundation sendsAmerican doctors, nurses, volun-

teers and supplies to help providemedical care for poor and indigentpeople in countries across theworld.

McKinneyspent 10 daysvolunteeringas a photogra-pher inBotosani andDorohoi,Romania, inSeptember,and Humphrey served as a writerfor a trip to David, Panama, lastmonth. Both were along to helpdocument the work of MedicalMissions Foundation of Leawood

and contribute to the culturalexchange.

McKinney photographed doc-tors performing surgeries andRomanians in their daily lives.Humphrey sat in on surgeries aswell and wrote a daily blog aboutthe volunteers’ experiences. Shewill also help write the founda-tion’s annual report.

Both interacted with the localpopulation as well as the individu-als receiving care.

“You get to see it from all per-spectives,” Humphrey said. “Pre-op, post-op and in the community.It gives you a more realistic picture

Top photo submitted/Jeannie Koranda, left photo ® DFM Photography

KU employees Jen Humphrey and David McKinney recently volunteeredfor Medical Missions Foundation, an organization that provides medicalcare to people living in poverty across the world.Above, Humphreyreads a story to Panamanian children before they see a doctor. Left,McKinney shot this photo of a Romanian father overcome with joy afterhis child had surgery to repair a cleft lip and palate.

David Shulenburger

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KU employees volunteerto help bring care to poor regions of world

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Agrawal served as clerkfor Sandra Day O’Connor

University of NorthCarolina-Chapel Hill lawProfessor and Interim

Dean Gail B. Agrawal has beennamed the 13th dean of the KUSchool of Law, Provost andExecutive Vice Chancellor DavidShulenburger announced recently.

Agrawal, who served as a lawclerk to for-mer SupremeCourt JusticeSandra DayO’Connor, willsucceedInterim DeanMichael Davison July 1.Davis servedas interimsince Stephen McAllister resignedand returned to his teaching post

last August after five years as dean.“Gail Agrawal emerged from a

field of very strong candidates asthe individual best qualified to takethe KU school of Law to newheights. Under her leadership theschool will continue to serve thestate of Kansas while ensuring thatthe work of its exceptional facultymake maximum impact on thenational and international stages,”Shulenburger said. “Her extensiveexperience in corporate law, as afaculty member and dean prepareher well for this position. InterimDean Mike Davis did a great job ofmoving the School forward.”

Agrawal has taught courses inhealth care law and regulation andprofessional ethics at the NorthCarolina law school since 1997.She rose to senior associate deanin 2003 and last summer wasnamed interim dean of the North

North Carolina deanto lead KU Law

Gail Agrawal

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David McKinney

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our time.”KU Chancellor Robert

Hemenway called Shulenburger“an extraordinarily incisive acade-mic administrator who earns therespect and trust of all who comein contact with him. He leaves aremarkable record of success atKansas, and I have no doubt thathe will have a similar, positiveimpact on higher education at thenational level.”

Shulenburger, who will take aleave from KU, will join NASULGCin June.

In September, Shulenburgerannounced that he would stepdown as provost at the end of thisacademic year. A search is underway for his replacement.

With roots going back to 1887,NASULGC is considered the old-est and one of the nation’s top edu-cational associations. The organi-zation develops policies affectinghigher education and the publicinterest and promotes a federallegislation program to strengthenhigher education.

NASULGC informs the public,the media and Congress on abroad range of topics, such as col-lege costs, access to higher educa-tion, the economic impact of high-er education, distance education,federal support for universityresearch, copyright and intellectu-al property, educational standardsand accountability, internationaleducation, information technologyand teacher preparation.

of the surgeries and the culture inwhich you’re working.”

The trip was not a leisurelyvacation. The teams worked 12plus-hour days and performed asmany as 55 surgeries per day. Inboth locations, people would travelfrom across the country to receivecare.

“Pretty much anyone with amedical problem they wantedlooked at by the doctors was givenan interview,” McKinney said.

Not only did the volunteers getto see surgery first hand, many ofthe methods used would never beperformed in the United States.Often innovation was born ofnecessity. Humphrey recalled askin graft surgery in which doc-tors did not have surgical foamthey would normally use to helpthe skin adapt to its new place onthe body. They instead used sani-tized egg crate foam to do the job.

Education was as important apart of the trip as the medical care.The U.S. doctors helped train localdoctors in advanced medical tech-niques and use of modern equip-ment.

In both locations, the teams leftlaparoscopic surgery equipmentworth nearly $100,000 and provid-

ed training for the doctors to useit.

“It’s really an exchange of infor-mation,” Humphrey said. “Ourdoctors can see how other doctorsmight have to do it.”

In Romania, McKinney and histeam visited schools and orphan-ages and provided burn preven-tion education. Burns are a com-mon problem in Romania, becausefamilies often cook with woodstoves in small, enclosed houses.Children tend to fall in cook fires,and bedding regularly catches firewhen it gets to close to a stove.

Children were the primaryrecipients of the care provided byMedical Missions Foundation. Notonly did they receive surgeriesand other care, but volunteers pro-vided them with art supplies andtoys to help ease their anxietybefore seeing a doctor. McKinneyphotographed MMF volunteershanding out toothbrushes andtoys in Romanian orphanages,while Humphrey read the Spanishtranslation of one of her favoritechildhood books, “Guess How

Much I Love You.”And young people were per-

haps the most important contribu-tors. Local students served astranslators. English is taught intheir schools, and they provided avital link between cultures.

The volunteers were able toexperience local culture. Theydined at local restaurants, andHumphrey visited the PanamaCanal and see demonstrations ofPanamanian folklore dance. Thechildren at schools McKinney vis-ited sang for the volunteers.

Medical Missions Foundationsends U.S. volunteers from acrossthe country to Vietnam,Philippines, Panama, Romania andGuatemala. The foundation, whichhas no religious affiliation, worksclosely with the KU MedicalCenter and other area hospitals onoutreach programs.

The volunteers said they weremoved by the spirit of the individu-als they met.

“One of the most importantthings I witnessed was the uncon-ditional love these parents gavetheir kids,” McKinney said. “Whatsome may consider disabilities donot stop them from loving them.These people may have lackedmaterial wealth and modern con-veniences, but in many ways, theywere not poor.”

legislators. These records are available for

use by students, scholars and thepublic. They provide a wealth ofinformation about the political,social and economic issues facingKansas during the last half of the20th century.

The Libraries’ outreach pro-gram continues to seek donationsfrom legislators and others whomay hold related material tobecome part of the permanent his-torical record of Kansas and thenation.

African-Americans have servedin the Kansas legislature since1889. In that year, Alfred Fairfax,who had been enslaved and afterliberating himself became afarmer and Baptist minister, waselected a representative fromChautauqua County.

Seven African-American legisla-tors now serve in the 165-seatKansas legislature, the most since1978, when there were eight mem-bers. Because some legislatorsserve briefly as appointees, it isdifficult to determine with certain-ty the total number of African-Americans who have served.

Most of the early African-American officeholders wereRepublicans, including William

Blount, a physician, and lawyersWilliam H. Towers and Myles C.Stevens. Eldred Browne, a chiro-practor who served from 1955 to1957, was the first African-American Democrat elected to theKansas Legislature.

From 1889 until 1956, whenCurtis R. McClinton Sr. was elect-ed in Sedgwick County, all African-American state legislators hadbeen elected in Wyandotte County.During the 1960s, when the legis-lature was reapportioned based onpopulation, the number of African-American legislators increased.

The 1966 session included twoAfrican-American senators,McClinton of Sedgwick Countyand George Haley of WyandotteCounty. Haley, who was laterappointed by President Clinton tobe U.S. ambassador to theRepublic of Gambia, is the brotherof famed Roots author Alex Haleyand father of current Sen. DavidHaley of Kansas City, Kan.

African-American womenjoined their male counterparts inthe 1990s. The 2006 legislative ses-sion includes Reps. BarbaraBallard of Douglas County;Valdenia Winn of WyandotteCounty; and Oletha Faust-Goudeau and Melody McCrayMiller from Sedgwick County.

Jeff Jacobsen/Athletics Department

Visitors look over the displays at the Booth Family Hall of Athletics.The hall featuresdisplays on KU sports, athletes and traditions. It opened last month with a small rib-bon cutting ceremony.The hall, adjacent to the east side of Allen Fieldhouse, is open tothe public 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.Thehall was made possible through more than $5 million in gifts and pledges from the chil-dren and grandchildren of the late Gilbert and Betty Booth, longtime Jayhawk fans andLawrence residents.

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Medical missions

For more information onMedical Missions Foundation,visit www.mmfworld.org.

®DFM Photography

David McKinney shot this photo of a Romanian boy laughing with Medical Missions Foundation volunteers during his trip to thecountry.

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Carolina law school, which enrolls about 700 stu-dents and has 41 full-time faculty.

U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., a KU law schoolgraduate who served on the dean search committee,called Agrawal's selection "superb."

"The Law School has an important mission withinthe walls of Green Hall as well as the borders ofKansas. The dean search committee was presentedwith the task of narrowing many high-caliber candi-dates, and the provost has chosen the best of the best.I am excited about the future of the school underDean Agrawal's leadership, and I join my fellow alum-ni in welcoming her."

The KU law school, which enrolls more than 540students and has 30 faculty, offers 140 courses, fivecertificate programs, 10 clinics and eight joint degreeoptions.

“When I first visited Mount Oread in December, Iwas struck by KU’s deep and distinctive sense ofplace. Its law school is one of the nation’s great publiclaw schools,” Agrawal said. “In my view, the very bestplace to educate lawyers for leadership, for the prac-tice of a learned art in the public interest, is in a pub-lic law school. Green Hall has its public mission ofaccessibility and affordability in its very bricks andmortar. I am honored to be asked to serve as KU’snext law dean.

“The law school at KU has a remarkable history as

well as a promising future. Generations of leadershave passed through its doors. As its next dean, I willgive my all to be worthy of its noble past, and I lookforward to collaborating with my new colleagues atGreen Hall to lead it to even greater achievements inthe years ahead.”

A native of New Orleans, Agrawal earned a bache-lor of arts in sociology at the University of NewOrleans and a master’s degree in health administra-tion and a law degree from Tulane University.

Following law school, she served as a law clerk toSenior Judge John Minor Wisdom on the U.S. Courtof Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before clerking forJustice O’Connor.

She was a member of the New Orleans law firm ofMonroe and Lemann, where she limited her practiceto health law, and later spent three years in the lawdepartment of Aetna Inc. She has taught as an adjunctprofessor at Tulane Law School and Tulane School ofPublic Health and Tropical Medicine and as the W.M. Keck Visiting Professor of Law at the Universityof Michigan Law School.

She is a member of the American Law Instituteand has served on the boards of the American HealthLawyers Association and the American LiverFoundation.

She is currently a member of the federal AdvisoryCommittee on Organ Transplantation. Her researchinterests are health care delivery and financing andmedical ethics. Agrawal is KU law school’s firstfemale dean.

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LEGISLATORS ONLINE: A new

exhibit at the Spencer Research

Library sheds light on the roles African-American state legislators in Kansas

and electoral politics have played in the state’s struggle for equality.The com-

panion Web site fea-

tures profiles of several

legislators, as well as

reports, letters and

other pieces of the

library’s collection.The

display will be online

through mid-March.

Send URLs of sites you’d

like to see featured in

Web works to

oread@ku.edu.

ACTING JEWISH: Assistant Professor of

Theatre and Film Henry Bial’s new book Acting

Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen documents the

intertwined history of the American

entertainment industry and Jewish peo-

ple in the United States.The book looks

at Jewish writers, directors and actors in

American entertainment and the ways in

which they have modeled behavior for

Jewish American audiences. Beginning in

1947, the book chronicles some of the

United States’ most beloved plays,movies

and television shows and identifies a dou-

ble coding by which performers enact,

and spectators read, Jewishness in enter-

tainment, and how, by extension, they

read into other minority identities.

Book shelf Web works

NEW YEAR, NEW BET: Research

by KU business school professors

shows that reports of the demise of

the “January effect” may have been

exaggerated.

An article in Business Week states

Mark Haug and Mark Hirschey exam-

ined data dating back to 1802 to

determine if the conventional wis-

dom that stocks typically go up in

January is no longer true. Their

paper, which will be published in an

upcoming issue of Financial Analysts

Journal, shows large-cap stocks aver-

aged about a half-percentage point

increased performance in January,

while small-cap stocks averaged a gain

of 6.1 percent in January, as opposed

to 0.9 percent in the other 11

months.

Hirschey was also quoted as say-

ing small-caps went up in January, 82

percent of the time.

In the news

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Chronicle of Higher Educationplaces university at 12th

The Chronicle of Higher Educationreported recently that KU has movedup to 12th among American public

universities for number of freshman

National Merit Scholars enrolled in 2005.KU ranks 29th among all universities andlast year was rated 16th among public uni-versities.

KU enrolled 71 freshman Merit Scholarsin 2005. In 2004, 57 students with the desig-nation enrolled. Of the 71 who enrolled in

2005, the university sponsored 55.Harvard University was at the top of the

list with 287 freshman Merit Scholars. TheUniversity of Texas-Austin followed with262, which was the largest number amongpublic universities.

The National Merit scholarship is regard-

ed as the most prestigious national awardfor high school seniors. Fewer than 10,000students of the 1.2 million who compete forthe award, or fewer than 1 percent, receiveNational Merit scholarships. Recipients arechosen based on their academic abilities andrecords and extracurricular activities.

KU moves up in Merit Scholars rankings

Doug Koch/University Relations

Cheryl Brown Henderson gestures during a viisit to the Spencer Research Library.One of the daughters of the late Rev. Oliver Brown, the namesake plaintiff in the casethat led to desegregation of schools, she was with a group from the Brown v. BoardHistorical Site in Topeka that visited the library last month.

Group learns aboutlibrary’s holdings thatcomplement outreach

Staff from the Brown v. Boardof Education historic site inTopeka visited KU last month

to learn more about SpencerResearch Library’s collection ofmaterials related to the history ofAfrican-Americans in Kansas.

A group from the site, includingDennis Vasquez, superintendentof the National Historic Site, andCheryl Brown Henderson, presi-dent of the National Park Site’snonprofit partner, the BrownFoundation, and one of the daugh-ters of the late Rev. Oliver Brown,the namesake of the five consoli-dated cases of the historic lawsuitthat eventually led to desegrega-tion of public schools, made thetrip. Deborah Dandridge, fieldarchivist for the African-Americancollections in Spencer ResearchLibrary’s Kansas Collection, dis-played numerous items thatchronicle the history of African-Americans in Kansas to illustratenot only what the library possess-es but also how the manuscript

and photographic collections cancomplement the educational out-reach mission of the historic site.

Dandridge showed the groupitems from the Charles ScottCollection. Scott was the lead localattorney for Brown and the 13adult plaintiffs in the historic law-suit. Information about KansasNAACP chapters and individualswho came after the Brown v.Board decision and made contri-butions to civil rights was alsoshared.

“The African-American histori-cal experience is one that’s diverseand rich with stories about amaz-ing achievements against theodds,” Dandridge said.

Chester Lewis, a KU School ofLaw graduate who led the “YoungTurks” is featured prominently inthe library’s collection. Lewis andthe Young Turks pushed the lead-ership of the NAACP to movetoward strategies of nonviolentdirect action and emphasize issuesof economic inequities.

Dandridge said the display ofinformation was well received.

“They were fascinated with thecollection,” she said of the group.

Staff from Brown v.Board site visit Spencer

Among all universities, KU’s fund israted 57th largest; fourth in Big 12

Arecent survey of more than 700 college anduniversity endowments ranked the size of theKU endowment 57th among all universities

and 20th among all public institutions, DaleSeuferling, KU Endowment Association president,announced.

The annual survey by the National Association ofCollege and University Business Officers is based oninformation reported for fiscal year 2005, which putthe market value of KU’s endowment at $954,943,000.

An increasing number of participants in the surveyreport as combined university systems rather thanindividual institutions, as KU Endowment reports. Tomore accurately compare the potential impact ofendowments, the total endowment of university sys-tems or institutions can be divided by the number offull-time equivalent (FTE) students. Using this

method, the survey ranked KU’s endowment fourthamong Big 12 universities in assets per FTE student,at $39,892.

The average for all public institutions in the surveyis $17,195 per FTE student.

“The endowment assets per full-time student is oneof the strongest indications of an institution’sresources and can have a significant impact on acade-mic quality,” Seuferling said. “It also makes compar-ing university endowments more equitable among dif-ferent sized institutions.”

In addition, the survey reported that the invest-ment rate of return at KU was 13.7 percent, while theaverage for endowments of similar size was 11.3 per-cent.

The endowment is managed to provide support inperpetuity for the university. A percentage of the earn-ings from the endowment is transferred to the univer-sity each year to support KU students, faculty, pro-grams and facilities.

Endowment rated 20thamong public institutions

Kemper awards extended byrenewal of $150,000 grant

‘Surprise Patrol’ to handout 20 $5,000 fellowshipsto faculty at all campuses

Agift of $150,000 from theWilliam T. KemperFoundation will extend the

foundation’s faculty award pro-gram at KU – and its annual“Surprise Patrol” – for three years.

The gift, combined with match-ing support from the KUEndowment Association, will fund20 William T. Kemper Fellowshipsfor Teaching Excellence anually.The $5,000 awards honor facultymembers from all KU campuseswho have demonstrated outstand-ing teaching and advising.Representatives from the founda-tion, KU and KU Endowment

annually visit classrooms eachAugust to surprise recipients.

“The Kemper Foundation’s sup-port demonstrates its commitmentto outstanding teaching and advis-ing at KU,” Chancellor RobertHemenway said. “The university isdelighted that the foundationrenewed its support for theKemper Fellowships.”

The foundation established thefellowships with a $250,000 gift toKU Endowment in 1995. The foun-dation’s most recent gift brings itstotal support for the awards to$650,000.

The William T. KemperFoundation was established in1989 after the death of Kemper, aKansas City, Mo., banking execu-tive and civic leader. It supports

Midwest communities and concen-trates on initiatives in education,health and human services, civicimprovements and the arts.

KU Endowment is an indepen-dent, nonprofit organization serv-ing as the official fund-raising andfund-management organization forKU.

Since its founding in 1891, it hasprovided $1.2 billion in private sup-port for the university.

“The Kemper Foundation’s

support demonstrates its com-

mitment to outstanding

teaching and advising at KU.”

Chancellor Robert Hemenway

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10 FridayWorkshop. “For New InternationalFaculty Members.” Lunch & Conversation.Noon. 135 Budig Hall. Free. Sponsored byCenter for Teaching Excellence. Call 864-4199.Public Event. Faculty Q&A for provost

candidate. 1 p.m. Hall Center. Free.Sponsored by Provost’s Office. Call 864-4496.Seminar. Nature & Culture Seminar.Edmund Russell, history, University ofVirginia. 3:30 p.m. Seminar Room, HallCenter. Free. Call 864-4798.Film. “Jarhead.” 7 p.m.WoodruffAuditorium, Kansas Union. $2 or freewith Activity Card. Sponsored by StudentUnion Activities. Call 864-SHOW.Entertainment. Turtle Island StringQuartet. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center. $11.50 -$28. Call 864-2787.Concert. Visiting Artist Series. ChicagoTrombone Quartet. 7:30 p.m. SwarthoutRecital Hall, Murphy Hall. Free. Sponsoredby Department of Music and Dance. Call864-3436.

11 SaturdayBasketball (M). KU vs. Iowa State. 3p.m.Allen Fieldhouse. Sponsored byDepartment of Intercollegiate Athletics.Call 800-34-HAWKS.Concert. Concerts at the Lied.WindEnsemble. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center. $7adults, $5 students and seniors.Sponsored by Department of Music andDance. Call 864-3436.

12 SundayConcert. Student Chamber Ensemble.KU Horn Ensemble. 2:30 p.m. SwarthoutRecital Hall, Murphy Hall. Free. Sponsoredby Department of Music and Dance. Call864-3436.Film. “The Story of the Weeping Camel.”3 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditori-um. Free. Sponsored by Center for East

Art and Design Gallery302 Art and Design Building. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Wed., 8:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.Thu., 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri., 1-4:30 p.m.Sun. Closed Saturday and holidays. Call864-4401.

• Graduate student exhibition. Feb. 5-17.

• BFA art department exhibition. Feb. 19-24.

Booth Family Hall of Athletics1651 Naismith Drive. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.Also open an hourand half before men’s and women’s basket-ball games. Call 864-3445.

Dole Institute of Politics 2350 Petefish Drive. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. Call 864-4900.

Exhibits, a soaring stained-glass Americanflag, a World Trade Center memorial and amemory wall honoring World War II vet-erans from Kansas.

Natural History Museum 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat.,noon-5 p.m. Sun. Call 864-4450.

• Explore Evolution

Spencer Museum of Art 1301 Mississippi St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Tue.-Wed., 10 a.m.-9 p.m.Thu., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Fri.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Mondays.Call 864-4710.

• “Embodiment.” North Balcony Gallery.Through Feb. 19.

• “Flowers, Dragons, & Pine Trees.” KressGallery.Through May 28.

Spencer Research Library 1450 Poplar Lane. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.Noon-4 p.m. Sat. Closed Sun. Call 864-4334.

The North Gallery offers a selection fromKU’s great rare book collections and aview of the Memorial Campanile, lookingnorth from the crest of Mount Oread.

Watson and Anschutz libraries Watson: 1425 Jayhawk Blvd.

Anschutz: 1301 Hoch Auditoria Drive,south of Budig Hall.

8 a.m.-midnight Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-8 p.m.Fri., 10 a.m.-8p.m. Sat. and 10a.m.-midnightSun. For other library hours, call 864-8900.

Wilcox Classical Museum103 Lippincott Hall. 1-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. andby appointment. Call 864-3153.Antiquities such as vases, coins, smallsculptures, lamps and architectural terracottas and of full-size replicas of well-known works of Greek and Roman sculp-ture.

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KU ticket officesLied Center of Kansas(785) 864-ARTS (2787)

Murphy Hall(785) 864-3982

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CONGRESSIONAL KU

R. Steve Dick,Aaron Paden/University Relations

A pair of congressmen recently visited KU. Left, Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., speaks with Chico Herbison, lecturer in African/African-American studies, at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. Moore was the featured speaker at the All Multicultural ScholarsProgram. Right, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., speaks at “Walking the Dream” in the Kansas Union. The event featured a luminariawalk and presentations to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Provost and Executive ViceChancellor David Shu-lenburger testified before the

House Education BudgetCommittee Jan. 30 about HB2593,a bill that would allow the KansasBoard of Regents to let bids forand offer health insurance to allstudents, including graduateteaching assistants and graduateresearch assistants.

Across the Regents system, avariety of organizations offer insur-ance plans for students. Becauseno single organization has exclu-sive authority to obtain insurancefor students, the result is “dividedbuying power” leading to higherpremiums, Shulenburger said.

The Kansas Board of Regents isseeking authority to acquire health

insurance for all students.Because GTAs and GRAs are

state employees, the State HealthCare Commission currently hasexclusive authority to obtainhealth insurance for them.

Shulenburger said campus per-sonnel are in a better position toobtain insurance for students,GTAs and GRAs.

“The HCC is not as attuned tostudent health care needs as cam-pus personnel. The HCC is not asable to negotiate across the sevencampuses for a policy that meetsall the niche student needs, aswould the Regents office,” he said.

If HB2593 passed, Regentswould be able to bid on and obtainhealth insurance for all students,including GTAs and GRAs, and the

universities would pay a portion ofthe cost for GTAs and GRAs whoparticipate, as they do now. Otherstudents who purchased insurancewould be responsible for the cost.

He also noted that among stu-dents there are several niche mar-kets, including international stu-dents, KU Medical Centerstudents, graduate students, adultundergraduate students andundergraduates not covered byparents’ policies. These varyingneeds are not well served by thecurrent system.

“We believe that the health careneeds of the various niche marketswould be met more fully, and pos-sibly at lower cost, than under themultiple-bid situation that prevailscurrently,” he said.

Provost testifies for bill to offer healthinsurance to students, GTAs, GRAs

The tuition assistance pro-gram has granted 158awards to KU staff mem-

bers this spring. The program is available to uni-

versity support staff and unclassi-fied staff with six months of full-time or part-time KU employmentby the time classes begin. The pro-gram normally provides tuition forone class a semester and can coverup to a five-hour course.

To be accepted into the pro-

gram it is necessary to make appli-cation. The tuition assistance appli-cation form is available on theHuman Resources and EqualOpportunity Web page atwww.hreo.ku.edu under profes-sional development. Deadline isApril 14. For more information,contact Lynn George in HumanResources and Equal Opportunityat 864-3686 or lgeorge@ku.edu.

For a full list of recipients, visitwww.oread.ku.edu.

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Asian Studies. Call 864-3832.Film. “Why Wal-Mart Works.” 7 p.m.ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave. Sponsoredby Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call843-4933.Lecture. Presidential Lecture Series2006:“The First Woman President.”Eleanor Clift, contributing editor forNewsweek and political commentator. 7p.m. Dole Institute of Politics. Free. Call864-4900.

13 MondayWorkshop. New Staff Orientation. 8 a.m.204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Free.Sponsored by Human Resources andEqual Opportunity. Call 864-4946.Workshop. “An Overview of PeerReview.” Noon. 135 Budig Hall. Free.Sponsored by Center for TeachingExcellence. Call 864-4199.Seminar. British/Gender Seminar.Christine Anderson, history. 3:30 p.m.Seminar Room, Hall Center. Free. Call864-4798.Public Event. Presentation and recep-tion for provost candidate. 4 p.m. DoleInstitute of Politics. Free. Sponsored byProvost’s Office. Call 864-4496.Lecture. Hallmark Symposium. GailSwanlund, graphic designer. 6 p.m. SpencerMuseum of Art auditorium. Free.Sponsored by Department of Design. Call864-4401.Film. “Face.” 7 p.m.Woodruff

Auditorium, Kansas Union. Free.Sponsored by Center for East AsianStudies. Call 864-3832.

14 TuesdayWorkshop. Supervisory Training forExcellence in Performance (STEP). Day 4of 7. 9 a.m. 204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall.Free. Sponsored by Human Resourcesand Equal Opportunity. Call 864-4946.Lecture. Brown Bag Discussion Series.“Grassroots Russian Media: It’s Working.”Tom Volek, journalism. 12:30 p.m. 318Bailey Hall. Sponsored by Center forRussian, East European and EurasianStudies. Call 864-4236.Public Event. Faculty Q&A for provostcandidate. 1 p.m. Hall Center. Free.Sponsored by Provost’s Office. Call 864-4496.Seminar. Before 1500 Seminar. IsidroRivera, Spanish and Portuguese. 4 p.m.Seminar Room, Hall Center. Free. Call864-4798.Workshop. Job-Winning Resumes. 4 p.m.149 Burge Union. Sponsored byUniversity Career Center. Call 864-3624.Concert. Visiting Artist Series.ApollinaireQuartet. 7:30 p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall,Murphy Hall. Free. Sponsored byDepartment of Music and Dance. Call864-3436.Lecture. Presidential Lecture Series2006: “The First Woman President.”Celinda Lake and Kellyanne Conway,nationally respected pollsters andauthors of “What Women ReallyWant: How American Women AreQuietly Erasing Political, Racial, Classand Religious Lines to Change theWay We Live.” 7:30 p.m. Dole

Institute of Politics. Free. Call 864-4900.

15 WednesdaySeminar. Concepts in InvestmentPlanning. 9 a.m. Jayhawk Room, KansasUnion. Free. Sponsored by HumanResources and Equal Opportunity. Call864-4946.Lecture. University Forum:“Bats inKansas.” Stan Roth, retired Lawrence HighSchool science teacher. Noon. ECMCenter, 1204 Oread Ave. Optional lunch:$3 students, $5.50 others. Sponsored byEcumenical Christian Ministries. Call 843-4933.Panel Discussion. “Art & Science:TwoCultures.”3:30 p.m. Conference Hall, HallCenter. Free. Call 864-4798.Workshop. Dynamic Interviewing Skills.3:30 p.m. 149 Burge Union. Sponsored byUniversity Career Center. Call 864-3624.Lecture. “The Role of Science in theHistory and Future of Investing.” TomLaming, College of Liberal Arts andScience advisory board. 4 p.m.AldersonAuditorium, Kansas Union. Sponsored byCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Call864-3663.Basketball (W). KU vs. Nebraska. 7 p.m.Allen Fieldhouse. Sponsored byDepartment of Intercollegiate Athletics.Call 800-34-HAWKS.Entertainment. Soweto Gospel Choir.7:30 p.m. Lied Center. $11.50 - $28.Sponsored by Lied Center. Call 864-2787.Concert. Graduate Honors Recital. 7:30p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.Free. Sponsored by Department of Musicand Dance. Call 864-3436.

16 ThursdayWorkshop. Stress and TimeManagement. 9 a.m. 204 Joseph R. PearsonHall. Free. Sponsored by HumanResources and Equal Opportunity. Call864-4946.Seminar. Indigenous & AfricanExperiences in the Americas Seminar.Bonnie Lynne Sherow, history, KansasState University. 3:30 p.m. Seminar Room,Hall Center. Free. Call 864-4798.Seminar. African StudiesSeminar.“Transformation of KenyanPolitics: Constitutional Agitation after theReferendum:What’s Next?”JumaaMwushuruti and David Okech, graduatestudents in political science and socialwelfare. 3:30 p.m. 109 Bailey Hall.Sponsored by Kansas African StudiesCenter. Call 864-3745.Workshop. Networking - Your Best Betin a Tough Job Market. 4 p.m. 149 BurgeUnion. Sponsored by University CareerCenter. Call 864-3624.Lecture. Humanities Lecture Series.Scott Turow. 7:30 p.m.WoodruffAuditorium, Kansas Union. Free.Sponsored by Hall Center for theHumanities. Call 864-4798.Concert.Visiting Artist Series. DavidKassler, tuba. 7:30 p.m. Swarthout RecitalHall, Murphy Hall. Free. Sponsored byDepartment of Music and Dance. Call864-3436.

17 FridayLecture. “A Conversation With ScottTurow.” A Humanities Lecture SeriesColloquium. 10 a.m. Conference Hall, HallCenter. Free. Call 864-4798.

Workshop. Everyday Creativity. 11:30a.m. Parlors, Kansas Union. Free.Sponsored by Human Resources andEqual Opportunity. Call 864-4946.Seminar. Performance & CultureSeminar. Gitti Salami, art history. 1:30 p.m.Seminar Room, Hall Center. Free. Call864-4798.Seminar. Peace,War & Global ChangeSeminar. James Quinn, history. 4 p.m.Seminar Room, Hall Center. Free. Call864-4798.Entertainment. Canada’s RoyalWinnipeg Ballet in “The Magic Flute.” 7:30p.m. Lied Center. $19 - $44. Call 864-2787.

18 SaturdayBasketball (M). KU vs. Missouri. 2:45p.m.Allen Fieldhouse. Sponsored byDepartment of Intercollegiate Athletics.Call 800-34-HAWKS.

19 SundayConcert. Student Chamber Ensemble.Hamilton Clarinet Quartet. 2:30 p.m.Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall. Free.Sponsored by Department of Music andDance. Call 864-3436.Concert. Concerts at the Lied.Women’sChorale and Chamber Choir with theWest Junior High and Lawrence FreeState High School choirs. 3:30 p.m. LiedCenter. Free. Sponsored by Departmentof Music and Dance. Call 864-3436.Concert. Visiting Artist Series. MichaelKimber, viola. 7:30 p.m. Swarthout RecitalHall, Murphy Hall. Free. Sponsored byDepartment of Music and Dance. Call864-3436.

Submit Calendar items....two weeks before Oread publicationdate by campus mail or e-mail to Lauren Beatty, University Relations.kucalendar@ku.edu

Volunteers needed forUnclassified Senate

legislative visit

Volunteers are needed for theUnclassified Senate legislative visitFeb. 14. For the past three years,members of KU’s unclassified pro-fessional staff have visited withKansas legislators to talk abouttheir role at the university and toencourage legislators’ support ofhigher education.

There will be a briefing sessionfor anyone interested in learningmore about this event from noonto 1 p.m. Feb. 10 in the KansasRoom of the Kansas Union. In thepast, volunteers’ time at theStatehouse has ranged from two tosix hours.

Volunteers must use vacation ordiscretionary day leave for theirtime. For more information, go towww.unclassifiedsenate.ku.edu orcontact Paul Farran atpfarran@ku.edu.

Jensen, Engel recommendedfor NSF funding

Kirsten Jensen, assistant profes-sor of biological sciences, andMichael Engel, associate professorof biological sciences, submittedNSF proposals that have been rec-ommended for funding. Jensen isthe PI of the KU portion — morethan $210,000 — of an NSF grantshe shares with a colleague at theUniversity of Connecticut, andthey will be investigating the para-sites of elasmobranchs in Borneo.

Engel is a co-PI with a colleague

at the American Museum ofNatural History on their $200,000to study Cretaceous insects andthe origin of modern insect biodi-versity.

Educational OpportunityFund applications available

Applications are now availablefor the 18th year of theEducational Opportunity Fund. Alldepartments, units and organiza-tions on KU’s Lawrence campusare eligible to apply. Applicationsand information may be picked upat the Student Senate Office, 410Kansas Union, or in the Office ofStudent Financial Aid, 50 StrongHall. Application deadline is 5 p.m.Feb. 10 at the Student SenateOffice. All grants are for the 2006-07 academic year. Individuals maynot apply; grants are for adminis-tration to students on theLawrence campus by a depart-ment, unit or organization. Call864-3710 with questions orrequests for applications. Or e-mail drhodes@ku.edu.

Steele gets $626,846 grantto study pediatric obesity

Ric Steele, associate professorof psychology, received a $626,846grant for his investigation“Effectiveness of a family-basedbehavioral intervention for pedi-atric obesity” from the U.S.Department of Health and HumanServices.

The study is an investigation ofthe effectiveness of a multidiscipli-

nary treatment program for chil-dren with obesity and their fami-lies. It will also examine behav-ioral, cognitive and environmentalpredictors of treatment adherence.

Chancellor to testify beforebudget committee

Chancellor Robert Hemenwaywill testify on the behalf of KUbefore the House EducationBudget Committee at 1:30 p.m.Feb. 13 in Room 514-S in theStatehouse in Topeka.

The Education BudgetCommittee reports to the fullAppropriations Committee on Feb.21.

KU Medical Center offeringgenetic counseling program

The KU Medical Center willoffer a new graduate program ingenetic counseling this year. Theprogram is a multi state collabora-tion with Arkansas, Nebraska andOklahoma involving distanceonline learning through theUniversity of Arkansas and onsiteclinical training in Kansas City. Formore information, visitwww.uams.edu/chrp/genetics.

Meetings set to discuss USStitle, salary administration

The Department of HumanResources and Equal Opportunityhas scheduled a series of town hallmeetings to discuss the universitysupport staff title and salary

administration. The plan wasdeveloped following a series ofcampus focus groups, with inputfrom the University Support StaffSenate. The new titles will beimplemented March 26.

No registration is required. Allsessions will be in 150 Joseph R.Pearson Hall. The meeting timesare: 8 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 9 to10:30 a.m. March 6 and 2 to 3:30p.m. March 10.

Kansas City faculty, staff canjoin Lawrence fitness center

Faculty and staff of the KUEdwards Campus and the KUMedical Center are eligible to pur-chase a membership to the KUStudent Recreation Fitness Centeron the Lawrence campus.Membership rates are as follows:

■ Month $ 20.83■ Fall Semester $104.15■ Spring Semester $104.15■ Summer $ 41.70■ Annual $250 (Available in

August).Currently employed faculty/

staff must bring KU photo identifi-cation with them. Verification ofcurrent employment status willoccur prior to activation of mem-bership. Faculty and staff are eligi-ble for a one-time one-week trial atno charge.

To activate or purchase a mem-bership, stop by the AdministrativeOffice at the KU StudentRecreation Fitness Center, 1740Watkins Center Drive, duringadministrative office hours of oper-ation. Spouses of employees arenot eligible for membership. Call

(785) 864-1372 for more informa-tion.

Degree program formedbetween KU, French school

A new joint degree programbetween KU and the Groupe ESC-Clermont Graduate School ofManagement in Clermont-Ferrand, France, has beenannounced. The program willenable students to receive an MBAfrom KU together with a master’sin management from the GroupeESC-Clermont Graduate School ofManagement.

KU and Groupe ESC-Clermonthave the longest continuouslyoperating exchange agreementbetween a U.S. business schooland a foreign educational institu-tion. The agreement began in 1949and has resulted in the exchangeof scores of KU and Clermont stu-dents over the years.

“This model of dual degree pro-grams between U.S. universitiesand international partners isbecoming more common, especial-ly among top universities. We arepleased that the program willserve the purposes of furtherinternationalizing graduate pro-grams and providing additionalvalue to a KU business degree,”said Diana Carlin, dean of theGraduate School and InternationalPrograms.

The KU School of Business isaccepting applications for next fall.Prospective students must meetboth KU’s and ESC-Clermont’srequirements to be admitted.

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Ed Morris, professor and chair of

applied behavioral science, presented

“A Behavioral Science Without

Borders: International Variation and

Selection” Nov. 24 at the Association

for Behavior Analysis International

Meeting in Beijing, China.

Frank Baron, professor of

Germanic languages and literatures,

and David Smith, associate profes-

sor of sociology, worked with

Charles Reitz, professor of philoso-

phy at Kansas City Kansas

Community College, to edit the book

Authority, Culture, and Communication:

The Sociology of Ernest Manheim.

Hugh Catts, professor and chair

of speech-language-hearing, was

elected vice president of the Society

for the Scientific Study of Reading, for

which he will eventually serve as

president.

David Gottlieb, professor of law,

took part in a town hall forum focus-

ing on the issue of President Bush’s

use of domestic phone tapping. Rep.

Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo, hosted the

forum Jan. 26 in Kansas City, Mo..

Allan H. Pasco, Hall Professor of

Nineteenth-Century Literature,

recently published the chapter “The

Tangible and the Intangible in Balzac’s

Le Curé (Cure Has An Accent) De

Tours.” The chapter is included in

Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural

Capital in Nineteenth-Century France,

edited by Sarah Capitano, Oxford

Press. Pasco also published the article

“Process Structure in Balzac’s La

Rabouilleuse. Nineteenth-Century

French Studies Fall-Winter 2005-

2006.”

Submit Credits....two weeks before Oread publicationdate by campus mail or e-mail to MikeKrings, Oread editor, oread@ku.edu.

Tombaugh’s 100th noted;department discussesfuture of KU observatory

On Feb. 18, 1930, a futureKU graduate discoveredthe planet Pluto.

Although three quarters of a cen-tury have passed since ClydeTombaugh’s historic discovery, hiscontributions to astronomy andKU live on. Last week, theDepartment of Physics andAstronomy celebrated the 100thanniversary of Tombaugh’s birth,and young astronomers are stillusing part of the telescope he usedduring his KU days.

The department marked theanniversary with a celebration fea-turing a speaker with a morerecent tie to the planet Pluto and astar party.

Alan Stern, the lead scientist forNew Horizon, a recently launchedspace mission to Pluto, was the fea-tured guest at the event. Followinghis talk, attendees set up tele-scopes on the hill near MemorialStadium and viewed stars andMars and Jupiter. The AstronomyAssociates of Lawrence sponsoredthe event.

The spirit of Tombaugh wasassociated with astronomy at KUlong after he graduated in 1936. Anobservatory bearing his name sit-ting atop Lindley Hall was dedicat-ed in 1980. It featured a 27-inch

telescope he helped perfect.Tombaugh didn’t invent the partic-ular model of the telescope, but hedid test it and help improve uponits design.

For the next 20 years, KU stu-dents and the stargazing publicused the observatory to observethe heavens. It closed in October2001.

“The roof is not considered safefor the general public,” said BruceTwarog, professor of physics andastronomy.

When the observatory closed,the department began looking foranother campus rooftop uponwhich it could house an observato-ry. Eventually it decided the bestlocation was on top of the skybox-es at Memorial Stadium.

Astronomy classes and labs areheld on the stadium’s roof, andabout once a month, public starviewings are held. The events arecoordinated with the athleticdepartment, as the glaring lightsused at night football games ortrack meets would render starviewing impossible.

Since the closing of the obser-vatory atop Lindley Hall, discus-sions have been held about open-ing a new, permanent observatory.The plans have been stalled by alack of funding.

“Like most projects, it will takesome time and money to be able todo that,” said Barbara Anthony

Twarog, professor of physics andastronomy, who helped organizethe anniversary celebration.

Original plans were to move to asite near Clinton Lake. But the pro-ject was never carried out becauseof lack of funding and logistics.

“We had a three-phase plan todo that. There were just no fundsto do it with,” Bruce Twarog said.

Because of the distance fromcampus, students would have hadneeded to be bused to the site.

Discussions have been heldrecently on the possibility of a newobservatory on west campus.Bruce Twarog said it would costbetween $100,000 and $150,000 toconstruct a new observatory.

Though plans for a new obser-vatory have not advanced, the 27-inch telescope in the oldTombaugh Observatory has founda new home.

The mirror of the telescope wassalvaged, and the NortheastKansas Amateur AstronomyLeague received a grant fromNASA to rebuild around it. Thetelescope is now mounted atFarpoint Observatory at MissionValley High School near Eskridge.NEKAAL uses the scope to lookfor asteroids. The group has beencharting orbits of asteroids withthe scope to help identify asteroidsthat could potentially collide withEarth.

Astronomer celebrated with look to stars

Stephen Shawl/Physics and Astronomy

Clyde Tombaugh is shown in 1980 with the 27-inch telescope he helped make opera-tional as part of his master’s thesis.The 100th anniversary of his birth was recently cel-ebrated.An observatory at KU is named for him but is no longer open.

University Relations isupdating its online ExpertsGuide for media and is ask-

ing faculty to submit informationabout their areas of expertise.

All faculty on Wednesdayreceived an e-mail notice givinginstructions on how to submitinformation online atwww.news.ku.edu/~kunews/cgibin/expert/intake.shtml. by Feb.15. A redesigned guide, with addi-tional features and updated infor-mation from faculty, will be postedlater this spring.

The Experts Guide — atwww.experts.ku.edu — is main-tained as a service to media rang-ing from local and regional news-papers and TV stations to suchnational and international outletsas the New York Times, NPR andCNN.

Expertssought for

online guide Honors cover colleges, universitiesin eight Midwestern states

KU brought home more than a dozenawards from the Council ForAdvancement and Support of Education

(CASE) District VI conference held Jan. 22through 24 in St. Louis. Winners are listedbelow.

GOLDWinners of gold awards included “A Great

Place To Be” in the excellence in advertising-television ad category. University Relationsrecipients were Beth Keefe, Frank Barthell,Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker.

KU Alumni Association earned a gold forexcellence in communications-periodicals forthe Kansas Alumni magazine. Recipients wereJennifer Jackson Sanner, Susan Younger,Steven Hill, Chris Lazzarino, Valerie Spikes andEarl Richardson.

KU Endowment Association won a gold forexcellence in graphic design-cover, four ormore colors, for “Above and Beyond — 2004Roll of Honor.” Amanda Warren was the recipi-ent.

SILVERIn the excellence in graphic design-cover,

four or more colors category, Susan Youngerearned silver for the Kansas Alumni magazine’sIssue No. 1, 2005.

Anna Kraxner won silver for “Mommy MyTummy Hurts” in the excellence in writing-brochure copywriting category.

In the excellence in educational fundraising-program mailing for annual fund support cate-gory, “One” (Annual Giving Lawrence Pre-Call)took home silver. Recipients were Doug Barth,Lindsay Byers, Emily Galbreath and EarlRichardson.

Carrie Jordan, Earl Richardson, John Scarffeand Amanda Warren won silver for their workin the excellence in fundraising materials-recognition brochures category. Their entrywas “Above and Beyond — 2004 Roll of Honor.”

BRONZEJulie Wolf and Jan Morris Nitcher of

University Relations earned a bronze for excel-lence in communications-overall publications-publication improvement program. Their entrywas the 2005 commencement program.

In excellence in writing-opinion/column,

Jennifer Jackson Sanner took bronze for “FirstWord” in the Kansas Alumni magazine.

For excellence in graphic design-specialpublications, Susan Younger earned a bronzefor Rock Chalk Ball 2005.

Earl Richardson secured bronze for his work“The Good Life” for Kansas Alumni magazine.It was entered in the excellence in photogra-phy-news editorial or feature category.

In the excellence in fundraising materials-fundraising direct mail category, Doug Barthand Emily Galbreath won bronze for “OrigamiJayhawk” (Annual Giving Young AlumniSolicitation).

Carrie Jordan, Amanda Warren and EarlRichardson captured a bronze for “Remember”(Annual Giving Senior Class Gift Pre-CallPostcard). The entry was in the excellence infundraising materials-fundraisingbrochures/publications category.

University Relations also won an award fromthe 21st Annual Admissions AdvertisingAwards contest.

The honor was an award of merit for a fullpage congratulatory ad sent to the Hays DailyNews.

KU wins numerous marketing, advertising awards

Animals were oftenburied with humans

The old saying that a dog isman’s best friend may beolder than we thought.

Research by Darcy Morey, assis-tant professor of anthropology,recently published in the Journalof Archaeological Science showsthat people have been rituallyburying dogs, often alongsidehumans, for thousands of years.

And unlike the ancientEgyptians who revered cats somuch they mummified them, thepractice has been documentedaround the world.

Morey’s article, “Burying KeyEvidence: The Social BondBetween Dogs and People,” shows

that dog burial sites have beendocumented on every continentexcept Antarctica. The majority ofdog burials in North America tookplace about 3,000 to 9,000 yearsago. The practice was so commonduring certain periods of time thatMorey wrote, “during certain timeperiods, especially the ArchaicPeriod, keeping accurate track ofall the dog burials is an especiallydaunting task.”

In present-day Idaho, dogsburied with humans date to about6,600 years ago. Others werefound in present day Kentucky, aswell as various other sites aroundthe world. In the sites where dogswere buried with humans, as wellas the sites in which they wereburied alone, great care was taken.

At a site in present-day Israel, dogswere found carefully placed ontheir sides, with their tails curledtoward their feet. In Puerto Rico,dogs were buried in prehistorictimes “with their legs pulledtogether, their tails between theirlegs, with their heads twisted andresting on their bodies,” Moreywrote. Another was found in pre-sent day Rhode Island with itsfront paw under its head and sev-eral soft shell clams surroundingthe skull, likely as grave offerings.

The bond between dogs andhumans during life was evidentlyso great that ancient people musthave buried dogs with owners torepresent a continued relationshipin the spirit world, Morey sug-gests. In some cases, evidence

shows dogs were killed at the timeof burial of their owner to ensurethe continued connection.

The phenomenon is not strictlyan ancient occurrence. Today, inthe United States alone, there areat least 500 pet cemeteries, and atleast one in every state.

Morey has been doing researchon dogs and their relationshipswith people throughout history foryears and wrote his doctoral dis-sertation about dogs. He said hewasn’t surprised that dogs havebeen ritually buried, but the factthat it has happened across theworld is worth note.

“I was surprised by the extent ofit. I don’t pretend that I covered allcultures, but I was surprised bythe ubiquitousness of it.”

Professor’s article explores burials of dogs through history

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Administrative AssistantPharmacology and Toxicology,Full Time

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Quiz Question is on page 2.

A: Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk! Pitt

Dental! is the school's variation of

KU's famous Rock Chalk chant.

Former KU students who went on to

Pitt's dental school took the chant

with them sometime around 1912.

The chant was recited regularly at the

student assembly that began each

school year, and even in the dental

student section at football games.The

chant was retired in the 1980s.

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Employment

Charles Richard SnyderCharles Richard “Rick”

Snyder, 61, died Jan. 17. He wasthe M. Erik Wright distinguishedprofessor in clinical psychology.He first came to KU in 1972 as anassistant professor of psycholo-

gy. He served as the director ofthe clinical psychology programfrom 1974 to 2001. Survivorsinclude his wife, Rebecca; twosons; a daughter; and two grand-children. The family suggestsmemorials to the KU EndowmentAssociation C.R. SnyderGraduate Award in PositivePsychology, sent to Rumsey-YostFuneral Home.

Jordan L. HainesJordan L. Haines, 78, died Jan.

20. A graduate of KU and the KUSchool of Law, he later served onthe Kansas Board of Regentsfrom 1977 to 1984 and as alumniassociation president and endow-

ment campaign chairman.Survivors include his wife,Shirley; a son; a son-in-law; andseven grandchildren. The familysuggests memorials to the Boysand Girls Club of South CentralKansas for Jordan HainesGymnasium, 2408 E. 21st St.,Wichita, KS 67214.

Roger Dean WyerRoger Dean Wyer, 49, died

Jan. 21. He worked in Oliver Hall.Survivors include his mother, hisfather, his stepmother and a sis-ter.

Willie Verleetta StaggWillie Verleetta Stagg, 77, died

Jan. 24. She worked in the chem-istry department as a laboratorytechnician. Survivors include twodaughters, a brother, three sis-ters and three grandchildren.The family suggests memorialsto a college fund for her grand-children, sent to Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

Steven A. HaightSteven A. Haight, 36, died

Saturday, Jan. 28. He worked as asystems specialist in theComputer Center at KU.Survivors include his wife,Jennifer, a son, a daughter, hisparents, two brothers and agrandmother.

In Memory

Feature part of serieshonoring university’s125th anniversary

Victorian College ofPharmacy at MonashUniversity in Australia is

celebrating its 125th anniversarywith 125 stories from its history.One of the stories features ValStella, distinguished professor ofpharmaceutical chemistry. Aftergraduating from the pharmacyschool, he earned his doctoratefrom KU. The story states:

“Professor Stella loves teaching,and through mentoring from thelate Professor Takeru Higuchi,became an inventor and entrepre-neur,” the article said. “He is theinventor or co-inventor of twodrugs: fosphenytoin (Cerebyx®)for the treatment of epilepsy,Viread® for the treatment of AIDSand a new solubilising agent,Captisol®, used to dissolveintractable drugs for injectableuse. Professor Stella also has anew anesthetic drug, Aquavan®,in clinical trials. Three companiesin the Lawrence/Kansas City area,CyDex, Crititech and ProQuestPharmaceuticals, were co-foundedby Professor Stella.

“Professor Stella’s success atthe university led to the formationof the Intersearch Program.Professor Takeru Higuchi fromthe University of Kansas and Dr.Nigel Manning, the Dean of theVictorian College of Pharmacy,1963-1978, established the pro-gram which gives the opportunityfor an outstanding graduate fromeither institution to engage inintensive training in researchmethodology within the Doctor ofPhilosophy program at either cam-pus.”

Australianschool honors

Val Stella

Barbara Kerr, WilliamsonFamily distinguished pro-fessor

of counselingpsychology,will presenther inaugurallecture, “TheHappy FamilyProject: APositivePsychology ofDomestic Life,” on Feb. 22.

The lecture will be at 5:30 p.m.in the Alderson Auditorium of theKansas Union.

Barbara Kerr togive inaugural

lecture

Barbara Kerr

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Years at current job: I’ve beendirector since June 2002. I’ve been withthe Parking Department sinceSeptember 1981.

Job duties: I just looked at my jobdescription and it says a bunch of fancystuff … but basically, I’m responsible forthe sale of permits and enforcement ofrules and regulations for the use ofaround 13,000 parking spaces on cam-pus.

What’s the biggest challenge fac-ing your department right now? Ohthere are so many! We’ve got a lot ofcrumbling asphalt, so keeping up withparking lot improvements is challeng-ing. Availability of parking spaces isalways a challenge, too.

What is new with campus parkingthis semester? We’re working on offer-ing parking permits to students throughthe Kyou portal. Hopefully, this will beavailable sometime this spring.

What do you like most about yourprofession? The Parking Departmentwould not win a popularity contestamong our campus community. I like the

challenge of changing people’s mindsabout who we are and what we do.

What is the status of the park-and-ride lot proposed for west cam-pus? The bids for construction of thislot have just closed and we expect it tobe up and running when school starts inAugust.

What is the biggest misconceptionabout parking at KU? Perhaps that theenforcement of rules and regulations isdone to make more money. In a perfectworld, people would park where theybelong and we wouldn’t spend so mucheffort on enforcement.

What aspects of your job mightothers not realize you’re involvedwith? Currently, I’m involved with aTransit Task Force that is working on aplan for a campus circulator and park-and-ride shuttles. We’re also workingwith the city to see if there are ways wecan work together toward a more com-prehensive transit program.

How will new buildings such asthe Sabatini Multicultural ResourceCenter and Structural Biology

Center expansions affect parking?When new buildings come on line with-out new parking, this always taxes theparking system. I know that the newpark-and-ride lot will help to take thepressure off campus parking every-

Donna Hultine — director of parkingCampus Q&A

Robert Foster, professor ofmusic and dance, wasinducted into the National

Band Association Hall of Fameduring the Southeast United StatesClinic at Troy University on Feb. 4.

Foster is assistant chair of thedepartment of music and dance atKU. He also serves as conductorand director of the award-winningLawrence City Band and is the for-mer president of the AmericanBandmasters Association, theNational Band Association, theSouthwest Division of the CollegeBand Directors NationalAssociation and the Big 12

Conference Band DirectorsAssociations.

Tsutsui wins book award for‘Godzilla On My Mind’

The Godzilla guy, also known asWilliam Tsutsui, KU associate pro-fessor of history, was among thosehonored Jan. 26 in Kansas City,Mo., with a 2005 William RockhillNelson Award for Non-Fiction forthe best book by a Kansas orMissouri author published in 2004.

The book was Godzilla on MyMind: Fifty Years of the King of

Monsters pub-lished byPalgraveMacMillan.His bookexamines theculturalimpact themonstermegastar hasin the UnitedStates and Japan. Tsutsui timed itsrelease to coincide with the 50thanniversary of the 1954 release ofthe first Godzilla movie.

The Japanese translation ofTsutsui’s book was published in

October 2005 and has receivedcritical acclaim in nationalJapanese papers.

Lorson named host of‘QUEST’ competition

Laura Lorson, host of KansasPublic Radio’s “All ThingsConsidered,” has been named hostof KTWU’s high school academiccompetition, “QUEST.”

The appointment brings Lorsonfull circle. She was an academicquiz bowl competitor herself whileattending Olathe South High

School and KU. She went on towork as a producer at NationalPublic Radio in Washington, D.C.,for nine years on “All ThingsConsidered” and “Talk of theNation,” covering stories asdiverse as the ATF raid on theBranch Davidian compound atWaco, Texas; the 1994 midtermelections and its “RepublicanRevolution”; the Oklahoma Citybombing; the end of apartheid inSouth Africa; the Rwandan geno-cide; and the Good Friday peaceaccords in Northern Ireland.

Foster named to national band hall of fame

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Donna Hultine laughs during a conversation inher office. Hultine is KU’s director of parking.

Addition to featuresnacks, coffee, soups

Watson Library’s newestaddition will help makethe study and research

that happen inside more enjoyable.A library café will open soon. CaféWatson will offer fresh brewedroasterie coffee, KU DiningServices branded sandwiches,juices, snacks and soda.Eventually, soups will be added.

“We’ve had a lot of interestshown in having these kind of ser-vices available in the library,” saidKent Miller, assistant dean oflibraries.

The café will be the third in a

KU library. The first opened inAnschutz Library about two yearsago. A similar service opened inSpahr Engineering Library shortlyafter.

The popularity of the service inthose two libraries helped promptthe effort to add them to KU’slargest library.

“We’ve seen in Spahr andAnschutz that the demand is out ofcontrol. We think the same will betrue in Watson,” said ShantThomas, marketing coordinatorfor KU Dining Services.

The service in Anschutz wasoriginally contained to a “snackcart,” or small, portable service. Apermanent counter has been

installed in Anschutz and the cartwas moved to Watson. Watson’spermanent café was expected to beopen by Feb. 1. The rapid install-ment was possible because no newwater or drainage lines were need-ed, Thomas said.

The café will be just to the rightof the library’s main entrance. Itwill be open from 8 a.m. to 2:30p.m. Monday through Friday.Evening hours from 5:30 to 9:30p.m. will be added at a later date.

Miller said the library cafésenhance the library environment.

“It’s an inviting kind of environ-ment for study,” he said. “I thinkWatson users will support the ser-vice.”

Café Watson brings dining to library

R. Steve Dick/University Relations

A student studies as Rebecca Sowders ofKU Dining Services prepares Café Watson.

Kansas Senate Majority Leader DerekSchmidt, R- Independence, has beenawarded the inaugural Simons Public

Humanities Fellowship by the Hall Center for

the Humanities at KU.As a Simons Fellow, Schmidt will spend the

fall 2006 semester at the Hall Center pursuing apersonalized course of study at KU. He plans to

explore globalization and its effect on Kansans.The Simons Fellowship program brings

nonacademic fellows to the Hall Center and KUeach year.

Sen. Derek Schmidt awarded inaugural Simons Humanities Fellowship

Aformer senior aide toDemocratic presidentialnominee John Kerry and

the leading advocate for legislationknown as the Taxpayers’ Bill ofRights have been named senior fel-lows at the Robert J. DoleInstitute of Politics at KU.

Nationally recognized Dem-ocratic political operative JohnToohey and Republican grass-roots activist Alan Cobb willspend the spring semester at theinstitute leading public weekly,not-for-credit study groups.

The study groups will begin inMarch.

Former Kerry aide,TABOR advocate

named Dole Fellows

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