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THESE ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS show what KU’s new School of Business will look like. The building, to be called Capitol Federal Hall, will stand across Naismith Drive from Allen Fieldhouse and will open in 2016. The top two images show exterior views, including the main entrance, at left, and the south side, which will include a terrace and an underground auditorium that seats 350 students. The bottom two images show interior views, including the ground floor of the main atrium, at left, and the third floor from the perspective of the north wing, which will primarily house faculty, advising and administrative offices.

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f Kansas University could find a way to convert the personal energy of business school dean Neeli Bendapudi into electricity, it could probably power the entire campus the year round without paying another energy bill. That energy follows Bendapudi wherever she goes and tends to spread among the people around her and the projects she’s passionate about. And no other project has Bendapudi quite as excited as the new KU School of Business building currently under construction on Naismith Drive across from Allen Fieldhouse. Once built, the long-awaited facility will replace Summerfield Hall, with all its leaky pipes and undependable HVAC systems, as home of the school. “I think it’s going to be a very significant space on campus,” Bendapudi said. “It will really position us for the next 50 years.” If all goes according to plan, KU business students will enter “CapiRichard Gwin/Journal-World Photo tol Federal Hall” for the first time KANSAS UNIVERSITY BUSINESS DEAN NEELI BENDAPUDI sits in her Summerfield Hall office among architectural Please see BUSINESS, page 2A renderings of the future School of Business. She says the building will “position us for the next 50 years.”

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Renovations to make art museum ‘more inviting’ By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

When the dust clears, the Spencer Museum of Art will be a lighter, brighter, bigger place to view art, as well as the natural beauty of Marvin Grove located just outside the building. In the meantime, construction on the expansion project — scheduled to begin in late fall — will mean fewer-thanusual rotating exhibitions for the 2014-15 school year and some parts of the museum being blocked off in the spring. The museum unveiled designs in May for the multiphase project, for which brainstorming and fundraising began four years ago. “The design of this Phase I renovation centers around our mission to advance teaching, learning and research at the university, and expands the Spencer as an inspiring platform for dialogue between KU and the community,” museum director Saralyn Reece Hardy said. “Our state-of-theart facilities will affirm the Spencer Museum’s position as a premier university art museum, and elevate our capacity to expand imaginations and foster creative work.” The $5 million first phase of the renovation will nearly triple the lobby and visitor area, adding a glass vestibule and expanding the museum’s entryway and visitor’s area, according to plans previously reported in the JournalWorld.

Other changes would expand and renovate the museum’s storage and study space, add a new teaching gallery and connect the central areas of the third and fourth floor with a staircase and elevator. Creating floor-to-ceiling windows on the museum’s western wall would add a view of Marvin Grove. KU Endowment raised $3.8 million for the project in just over a year, KU Endowment president Dale Seuferling said. He said the sum came from two to three major donors plus a number of participants at other gift levels, and fund-

raising continues. The Spencer fundraising effort is part of KU Endowment’s Far Above campaign. “It’s one of the projects that enhances the role that the museum plays in the academic community but also will be a great community resource, with the new gallery space and renovations that will make it a more inviting museum,” Seuferling said. Project architect is New York-based Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

Images courtesy of the Spencer Museum of Art and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

— Enterprise reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at sshepherd@ljworld.com or 832-7187.

TOP: The expanded lobby and glass-encased entry in the first phase of the Spencer Museum of Art renovations. BOTTOM: The floor-toceiling windows that will face west toward Marvin Grove.

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in fall 2016. Naming courtesies went to the leaders of the Capitol Federal Foundation, which provided a $20 million lead gift for the project in 2012. Altogether, the school raised more than $50 million dollars in private funds for the $65.7 million project, making it the largest privately funded project in the university’s history. (KU will also kick in $10 million to fund infrastructure costs.) According to the school, the four-story, 155,000-square-foot building will house 19 classrooms, 202 offices and 350- and 125-seat auditoriums, plus space for research, computer labs, industry collaboration, professional development, a business incubator and break-out areas for student group work. The exterior of the building will be dotted with windows to make it “open” and “transparent,” as Bendapudi describes it, while also incorporating some of the limestone and red roof look of KU’s iconic buildings on the hill. Bendapudi and the school envision the building as a southern gateway to campus that will wel-

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KU BUSINESS SCHOOL DEAN NEELI BENDAPUDI joins Capitol Federal Chairman and CEO John Dicus, left, and Capitol Federal Chairman Emeritus Jack Dicus after the Capitol Federal Foundation announced a $20 million dollar donation to KU’s School of Business toward a new building. come students, businesses and visitors. On the inside, they hope the building will transform the way students learn and people interact. The building will be split into two wings, with a central atrium between them. The north wing will hold faculty, advising and administrative offices, and the south wing will house student classrooms and labs. The open atrium between them will function as a commons

area where designers and school officials hope people will stay, study, bump into one another and collaborate. Classrooms will include infrastructure for new technologies and the latest models of education, such as flipped courses, which focus class time on small group applications while delivering lectures digitally so students can listen to them on their own time. Building designs sprang from countless hours of research, surveys and focus groups to glean from students, faculty, alumni and community members what they wanted and needed from the building. Bendapudi said one of their main goals was making the building as student-friendly as possible. Capitol Federal Hall could get even bigger. Before bulldozers even broke ground, the school was working to raise funds to construct an addition that would add 17,000 square feet to the original plans. School officials reason that building on to the facility now would be far cheaper than in the future. And the school might need the space. Enrollment has grown far faster — by about 45 percent in the business undergraduate programs — than projected just a few years ago. It’s yet one more thing for Bendapudi to get excited about.

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What’s on the mind of KU’s deans this year? College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean: Danny Anderson Appointed: 2010 Upcoming issues: The college is working to make the KU master plan a reality, Anderson said. The plan outlines an ambitious (and expensive) project for building new science and technical facilities that can replace the aging Mallott Hall. Anderson The so-called Earth, Energy and Environment Center will be the first piece. The college hopes to host a launch ceremony for the facility this fall and have bulldozers breaking ground in fall 2015. The college is also working on the continued roll-out of the KU Core curriculum and developing strategies for recruiting top faculty.

School of Engineering Dean: Michael Branicky Appointed: 2013 Upcoming issues: Branicky said the school has three main priorities for the year: expanding the school, advancing its programs and raising its profile. On the first front, the school is undergoing a major physical growth with its expansion of Learned Hall and addition of a new West Campus facility. New technology and Branicky student work spaces coming online this year are meant to beef up the school’s programs. And the school is also trying to market its student and faculty successes, including to other engineering schools, whose opinion of KU determine many college rankings.

School of Education Dean: Rick Ginsberg Appointed: 2005 Upcoming issues: Ginsberg said the education school wants to advance in three broad areas: technology, diversity and research. On the technology front, the school will be launching new online graduate programs as well as training faculty in new technologies. To adapt Ginsberg to changes in student demographics, the school is looking to train faculty and administrators in diversity issues in addition to diversifying its faculty and students. In research, the school has landed about $40 million in external research expenditures for the year, but Ginsberg said that has only raised expectations to push scholarship further.

School of Music Dean: Robert Walzel Appointed: 2010 Upcoming issues: Walzel said the KU music school’s big project this year is the renovation of Swarthout Recital Hall. The $2.5 million renovations will include new seating, lighting, acoustics, pianos, audio-video equipment and accessible entryway. The Walzel grand opening of the redone hall is set for March 2015. Walzel also noted that, along with other big performances, KU’s jazz ensemble will be performing Duke Ellington’s rendition of the Nutcracker at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in December.

School of Pharmacy Dean: Ken Audus School of Business School of Architecture, School of Medicine Appointed: 2004 Dean: Neeli Bendapudi Design and Planning Dean: Robert Simari Upcoming issues: The Dean: John Gaunt Appointed: 2011 Appointed: 2014 School of Pharmacy is setting Appointed: 1994 Upcoming issues: The busiUpcoming issues: Simari said up a center that Upcoming issues: In curness school has been focusing the medical school is looking to will develop riculum and internal strategy, on preparing its students for inbuild simulation more deeply into vaccines under Gaunt said the ternships, study health educathe direction of school will be abroad and tion at KU. That William Pickfocusing on other “co-curricincludes beefing. Audus said key strategic ular” activities, ing up faculty the center will areas for the Bendapudi said. expertise and build on Picking’s work in the coming year. At the graduate creating a physistudy of ShiThose include level, the school cal home on Audus gella, a diseasetechnology, recently created the KU Medical causing bacteria the high cost new profesCenter campus that is a common cause of death of college, the Simari sional certififor simulation, Gaunt for many children in undeveloped environment, cate programs which involves Bendapudi changing social that can add on everything from countries. “Overall, we are going to try to develop a global health conditions and the changing to its MBA. This fall the school actors to robots as tools for program, help (developing) will also launch a new master’s in nature of cities, all which of will training students. The school countries,” Audus said. In addiaffect the architecture and de- will also delve into the renewal accounting directed at working sign professions and education process for federal grants suption, the school will be working professionals on the Edwards at the school. The school is also porting its cancer, Alzheimer’s on establishing a Translational Campus in Overland Park. Not adapting to the interdisciplinleast among their priorities, and translational science centers Chemical Biology Institute to ary nature of modern research bring together researchers adthe school is also raising funds set to come up in coming years. and education and working to dressing a wide range of health for and closely watching the Additionally, the school will be increase its interaction with issues. The school also is making construction of its new facility, planning and raising private the regional community, Gaunt funds for a proposed new $75 improvements to its Wichita Capitol Federal Hall, set to open said. campus. in fall 2016. million health education facility.

School of Law Dean: Stephen Mazza Appointed: 2011 Upcoming issues: The school recently finalized an upper level curriculum reform that will be rolled out in 2015, but will continue to be worked on this year to get it ready for implementation. Mazza said the new curriculum will include Mazza more writing classes and more professional skills classes. The goal, Mazza said, is for the student to learn the skills he or she will need immediately when getting a job, such as taking a deposition, choosing a jury or drafting a contract. “We can’t produce a lawyer with five years’ experience right out of law school, but we can expose them more to the assignments and skills that they will need when they get out of class,” he said. School of Health Professions, School of Nursing Dean: Karen Miller Appointed: 1998 Upcoming issues: Miller says the School of Nursing will spend much of the year leveraging grants related to its recent designation as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education by the Washington, D.C.-based National League for Nursing. In Miller addition, starting this year is a new system designed to more easily transition students from community colleges to KU to provide a seamless four-year plan in nursing. The School of Please see DEANS, page 5A

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Nursing has about 700 students, two-thirds of whom are working on advanced degrees. Miller said the Affordable Care Act will also produce an additional need for more nurses by providing greater access to health care. She said the School of Health Professions, which has about 600 students, will continue to maintain its quality. Six of its nine programs are in the top 25 in the nation, and three are in the top 10.

School of Social Work Interim Dean: Thomas McDonald Appointed: 2013 Upcoming issues: McDonald said a major goal for the coming year will be the hiring of a permanent dean. McDonald was named interim dean in March following the retirement of Mary Ellen Kondrat, who had led the school for eight years. In the past year, the school implemented a new Master of Social Work program serving western Kansas, with classes offered in Hays and Garden City. In addition, several faculty members made major accomplishments. Rosemary Chapin, direcMcDonald tor of the school’s Center for Research on Aging and Disability Options, has been asked to serve on the National Policy Council of AARP; Becci Akin received an award to work with agencies in the state to redesign adoption and post-adoption services; and Willie Elliott sponsored a national symposium on poverty in the United States. School of Journalism Dean: Ann Brill Appointed: 2004 Upcoming issues: The School of Journalism is continuing efforts to help students develop job skills through its strategic communication agency. The agency includes a number of advertising and public relations companies that help prepare students for the workplace. Brill said that while the field of journalism is rapidly changing, job skills such as critical thinking and good writing are transferable to many aspects of journalism or other endeavors. “Everybody in the world needs information to survive,” Brill said. Brill In addition, the school will continue to provide broadcast training opportunities through the Media Crossroads Center at the Kansas Union. —By Ben Unglesbee and Scott Rothschild

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Going mobile a mammoth job All told, KU has more than 2,200 wireless access points active on campus, making it one of the largest WiFi networks in the region.

By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

Like a lot of organizations, Kansas University is betting on mobile technology’s dominance over the future. Ask Jeff Perry, deputy technology at KU’s Information Technology office, about the university’s mobile strategy and he’ll answer with a question of his own: How do you define “mobile”? To Perry, mobile consists of a lot more than just handheld devices. “I think it’s more of a technology lifestyle people have always wanted,” he said. “You couldn’t carry around your Apple IIe or your big Intel PC with your phone line and the modem that goes ‘squeak squawk’… There was this very strong physical line between having connectivity to technology and being able to just take it with you when you go.” Most KU undergraduates were born after those days had come to an end. They’ve come of age in the world of the sleek, thin laptop and smart phone. Many expect to be able to connect to the digital world from wherever they happen to be in the physical world. To make that desire a reality on the KU campus takes planning, money and a lot of complicated infrastructure. It’s something not a lot of people notice. Indeed the goal is to make connectivity seem seamless, automatic and, as much as possible, invisible. Bob Lim, KU’s Chief Technology Officer, said the shift to mobile began about three years ago, when he arrived. He and colleagues began asking students how they worked. In those conversations he posited a world where they could access or print a file from wherever they happened to be, at any time of day. “We wanted KU to be more than just the walls and the buildings around our campus,” Lim said. “It’s about giving people the freedom to access and transact anywhere you want without limits by devices.” Wireless access is a critical component to KU’s mobile strategy. Perry said the university wants a beefy WiFi network for its students so they don’t have to tap into their cellular data plans to connect to the Internet at school.

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JEFF PERRY, deputy technology officer for KU Information Technology, talks about the cellular devices throughout Allen Fieldhouse that provide cellular coverage to fans. Dozens of these cellular devices are located throughout the KU campus. One device can be seen in the lighter blue, mounted beneath the Fieldhouse catwalk above Perry.

In the last couple years KU IT has expanded WiFi in more than 40 buildings on campus to allow more laptops, phones and tablets to connect to the university network, according to the IT office. KU IT has even expanded the wireless network outdoors, letting users to connect on Jayhawk Boulevard between the Chi Omega Fountain and the Kansas Union as well as in areas around Potter Lake. All told, KU has more than 2,200 wireless access points active on campus, making it one of the largest WiFi networks in the region. There’s a reason for all that deployed technology. From July 2013 to May 2014, 2.8 million people visited the KU homepage — the main entry point for several academic ap-

plications — on mobile devices. While KU WiFi covers 3.5 million square feet of campus, it can’t be everywhere, and it doesn’t support all things done with a mobile device. That’s one reason KU has been working with AT&T to build a cellular network across campus. AT&T has finished installing the first phase of its distributed antenna system, or DAS, network on campus. The system is made up of many smaller antennas meant to be unobtrusive. The largest antennae are 24 in. by 12 in., and they only get smaller from there. The antennae are placed throughout campus and work together to deliver the same power as large, and often unsightly, cell towers. “It’s a nice-looking campus, and you don’t want to trash it up,” Perry said. The first phase included Allen Fieldhouse — a hotbed of mobile traffic. The IT office hopes to have Memorial Stadium online by midSeptember. Along with the stadiums, the DAS system is covers academic buildings across the Lawrence campus. All told, the system will cover 95 percent of campus. By agreement, the multimillion dollar system is carrier neutral and IT officials are encouraging other carriers to work with AT&T to join. Perry also said the system will likely absorb traffic from cell towers around the city, making coverage better for Lawrence overall. With AT&T footing the bill, KU will get the DAS system essentially for free. The WiFi coverage isn’t free, however. Perry said money for the WiFi expansion comes from a student fee for technology upgrades controlled by the Student Senate as well as funds from the provost’s office and other sources. “It’s pretty economical to do when you think about how many people connect over time,” Perry said.

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5-year-old art school busy building reputation By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

At first glance, painting and chemistry might not seem to have much to do with each other. For decades at Kansas University, painting and other fine arts were taught in their own school, under the assumption that the arts were indeed very different from other university subjects. That changed five years ago. After the search for a new fine arts dean in 2008 failed to yield a new candidate, the university dissolved the School of Fine Arts altogether. After doing away with the school, KU created the School of the Arts as a sort of school within a school under the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Now in its fifth year, the school has a new leader and is still feeling out its way in the world and at KU. In July, Henry Bial, a KU associate professor of theater, became the new associate dean of the School of the Arts, which had 530 undergraduates enrolled during the previ-

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY SENIOR Ramone Addington, of Polacca, Ariz., works on a wood sculpture during a class in July in the Fine Arts Building. ous school year. He succeeded Elizabeth Kowalchuk, who served in the position for the school’s first five years. Under the umbrella of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the faculty and administrators in and around the School of the Arts have had to think about the arts’ role in higher education. “It challenges us to think about what it means to do art in the context of a research university,” Bial said. “Art making re-

ally is a form of research, a form of generating new knowledge. That, I don’t think, was as well understood around the college as it is now.”

Shaking up the arts The reorganization brought about several major changes, at least on paper, which were felt differently among the various arts and departments. When the School of Fine Arts disbanded, it left only music as a stand-

alone school. Dance, which had been joined with music as a fine arts department, became its own department in the School of the Arts. Theater and film, which had shared a single department in the college, also became independent departments in the newly formed school. Some design faculty joined the visual arts division of the new arts school while others went to the architecture school, now renamed as the School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Dance found new independence as its own department, with control over its resources and future and a larger voice in the university. “Organizational structures have big impact,” said Michelle Hayes, a professor and chair of the dance department. “When you’re not at the table, you’re not part of the conversation,” she said, referring to the days when a single department chair spoke to the university on behalf of both dance and music. Music, which was the much larger depart-

the big selling points of the school, one of its reasons for existing. Hayes said she has collaborated with faculty both outside the school in the new School of Music as well with a psychology professor. Bial said he hopes to see ever more collaboration among the arts and the many disciplines in the college going forward. He also wants to see the arts in the school work together to champion their importance more broadly, including at the state level, where arts funding has seen cuts in recent years. “The first five years of the School of the Arts were largely about developing an identity for the arts within the college, on campus and within the community around us,” Bial said. “The next step is to figure out how to build that reputation and sense of mission on an even broader scale so that people say around the region and the country, ‘Oh, you’re interested in Building a reputation the arts? KU is a great Collaboration is one of school for that.”

ment, tended to produce department heads. Since becoming its own department, dance’s administrative workload has grown, but so has its annual budget, which has tripled. Even its endowment funds have grown, which Hayes attributes to the stronger position and national visibility of the department. Other departments saw far less in the way of dayto-day changes. Jeanne Klein, an associate professor of theater and undergraduate coordinator for the department, said that for theater, the changes from splitting with film and joining the new school were “in name only.” “We had already been in our separate spheres all along,” she said. The creation of the school didn’t make it any easier, harder or more likely for faculty to collaborate on projects or classes, Klein said. Students also saw few surface changes, with degree requirements and tuition untouched through the transition.

School of Law rebounding dramatically after temporary slump By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild

After several years of falling in national rankings, Kansas University Law School has been on the rebound. In March, the law school jumped 18 spots to No. 68 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” “We had the highest jump of any law school,” said Dean Stephen Mazza. That followed several years of fall-

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ing in the rankings. In 2012, the law school had dropped for the third straight year, hitting 89th. Several years ago, KU reduced the size of its incoming class from 165 to 120 to better align itself with the legal job market that had been hit hard in Kansas and across the nation by the Great Recession. The ability for graduating students to get jobs is a key component to national rankings. Mazza says it looks like the 2014 employment rate “might

be spectacular.” “The job market is coming back,” Mazza said. Recently, KU ranked among the top 25 percent of law schools sending graduates to the largest law firms. Among public schools, KU ranked 17th. That is an important selling point to potential law school students, Mazza said “A KU law degree travels much better than a typical state law degree,” he said. The school has strong alumni ties

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KU pushes deeper into market for master’s students By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

The master’s has become the fastest-growing college degree in the country. More than half a million master’s degrees were awarded in 2012, far more than any other kind of graduate credential, according to the Council of Graduate Schools. For students, the master’s represents a leg up — and sometimes even a necessary degree — in a competitive job market for college grads. For schools, it can be a source of new revenue as well as a new theater of competition with other institutions. Joining the pack vying for students is Kansas University, which has faced declining enrollment in its master’s programs. Between fall 2011 and fall 2013, enrollment of master’s students dropped by nearly 550 students at KU’s Lawrence and Edwards campuses. Overall, master’s enrollment has dropped nearly 20 percent since 2008. According to KU spokesman Joseph Monaco, the university attributes the loss to growing competition for master’s students. The university is responding through targeted recruitment efforts and by adding to its master’s offerings, with an emphasis on flexibility and meeting industry and student demand. Many of KU’s newest master’s degrees are based out of the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, where the competition with other schools is stiff. David Cook, vice chancellor of the Edwards Campus, said, “Our general approach to new pro-

grams is to get out in the community and build relationships with business, industry and government to see what their needs are.” Since last summer, KU has added to its Edwards programs a professional science master’s in environmental science, a master’s in educational technology and a master’s in accounting, specifically tailored for working professionals. Cook said the university makes the decision to start a program based on projections of enrollment growth, with the hope that a program will begin to pay for itself after five years. “You can’t throw out a hundred new programs, of course,” he said. Edwards faces a tough market. Cook estimates KU competes with 40 to 50 other schools vying for students in the Kansas City area. The online world is another area of growth for KU. The KU School of Education recently established two online master’s programs and has more in the pipeline that will debut during the next year. KU also has online master’s programs in nursing, pharmaceutical chemistry and dietetics and nutrition, among others. The university is trying to innovate master’s offerings in other ways, too. In February, KU announced the creation of an accelerated program that allows students to get both a bachelor’s and master’s in philosophy in five years. This summer, KU announced another five-year accelerated program in classics. As students try to increase their options with

KU STUDENTS walk along Jayhawk Boulevard last summer while others wait for the bus in front of Snow Hall. The university is trying to attract more graduate students to its master’s programs. Nick Krug/ Journal-World File Photo

master’s degrees, some can end up paying a steep cost. Across the country, median debt for students completing a master’s degree was $57,600 in 2012, a 31 percent increase from four years ago, according to a report from the nonpartisan New America institute. Pantaleon Florez III, who this summer graduated from KU with a master’s in curriculum and instruction through the education school, said he worked part-time jobs while in the program. Without a graduate assistantship, he had to finance the program with federal student loans and lived dangerously close to the poverty level. “I was completely insecure the entire time,” he said. By the time Florez was finished, he estimates the program cost him around $25,000. By July, he was still looking for a job after thinking the degree would lead to public school teacher certification, which it didn’t, he said.

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Honors program an important recruiting resource By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild

When Natasha Kothari was in high school, her college dreams were set in an Ivy League school. “KU was my last choice,” said Kothari who went to Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park. “Too close to home.” But financial considerations brought her to KU. She was dragging her feet at student orientation when her Honors Program advisor brought up something Kothari had written in her college application essay. That personal touch, combined with high-quality classes and consistent advising in the KU Honors Program, made Kothari’s college experience

everything she had hoped it would be. “I firmly believe that I could not have gotten the experience I got here anywhere else,” said Kothari, who graduated in May with a degree in psychology. Emma Halling, a senior, had a similar experience. From Elkhart, Ind., Halling thought she was headed to an East Coast school, but after taking a tour of KU with a representative from the Honors Program office, she changed her mind. “You have this university with 25,000 people with a lot of opportunities, but you also have the personal attention of a small program,” said Halling, who is planning to get a law degree and then a master’s in public policy. Expansion of KU’s Honors

Program has become a major goal of the school’s administration. There are currently about 1,400 students in the program, with about 380 freshmen expected this year. The goal is to enroll 400 freshmen each year into the program. Just two years ago, there were about 250 freshmen entering the program each year. The growth is “really exciting,” said C. Bryan Young, the director of the program who just took over June 1. And the program’s growth has occurred without a decrease in student quality, Young said. The incoming honors program class in 2013 had an average ACT score of 31.4. “We are trying to go toe-totoe with universities across

the country to recruit the best students,” said Young, an associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering. Young “The ultimate goal is to provide a tight-knit, small community of like-minded students, top-notch faculty and dedicated staff to try to provide the feel and look of a small liberal arts college within the larger university setting,” he said. The Honors Program offers about 125 courses, most of them at the freshmen and sophomore level, grants to students and strong advising.

Young said having a vibrant Honors Program is important to both the university and state of Kansas. “It helps us recruit topnotch students from across the country, and especially across the Midwest, to Kansas. These are students who will develop strong ties to Kansas and hopefully decide to put down roots here and help grow the economy of the state,” he said. In her honors classes, Kothari said she received the kind of attention from her professors that small colleges provide while she was able to take advantage of what a large research university has to offer. “Here, you get the best of both worlds,” she said.

Western Civilization class reinvents itself with curriculum change By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

The original reasons for Western Civilization courses at Kansas University and other schools were as lofty as their reading lists. With soldiers returning from the grisly fronts of World War II, and many taking advantage of the G.I. Bill to go to college, there was a desire to understand the roots of democratic and Western thought as a sort of hedge against future world conflict and fascist uprisings. A class in Western Civilization was established at KU in 1945. “It served that time very well,” said Antha CottenSpreckelmeyer, who joined KU’s humanities and Western Civilization faculty in 1990 and has served as assistant director of the program. Now, with the rollout of the KU Core curriculum last fall, the class based on teaching some of the oldest ideas in human history has had to reinvent itself to stay relevant and

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remain accessible to KU’s undergraduates. Until the KU Core came along, Western Civilization was a requirement for the majority of undergraduates. Spreckelmeyer called the classes a “common learning experience” which future classes could build on. For KU students, reading Plato’s “The Republic” or René Descartes “Discourse on Method” in Western Civilization was like watching “I Love Lucy” in the days before cable, when people had few choices in what to watch on TV. In that respect, the KU Core gave the same kind of jolt to university departments that cable gave to television programming. One of the main purposes behind the new curriculum was to give students options, flexibility and choice over their path through the university. The universitywide KU Core outlines six key learning goals for students on their way to their degree, and to graduate, students have to take a certain number of

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When students opt in instead of being required to take it, it changes the dynamic.” — Sandra Zimdars-Swartz classes that teach to each learning goal. Freshmen and sophomores can now choose Western Civilization courses from a list of others that aim to impart the same skills. Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, director of KU’s Humanities and Western Civilization Program, said the change has led to “some decline” in enrollment. At the same time the department has also added a new humanities course to the KU Core that she said is “really taking off,” though not enough yet to offset all the attrition from

Western Civilization. One positive development to come from the change is a larger share of freshmen and sophomores taking the courses in the past two semesters, Zimdars-Swartz said. In previous years, with so many students needing to take the classes and limited resources in the department to teach them, many students didn’t take Western Civilization until their junior or senior year. “It really is a sequence students should take early in their careers,” Zimdars-Swartz said. Maybe more importantly, those freshman and sophomores taking the course to fulfill the KU Core are now taking the class by choice, as one class among many possibilities, instead of being forced to take it through a general education requirement. As a result, Zimdars-Swartz said cases of plagiarism in Western Civilization classes have “dropped dramatically” in recent semesters. “I think students are slowly

going to start opting to take (Western Civilization), and I think that’s a good thing,” she said. “When students opt in instead of being required to take it, it changes the dynamic.” As for the class itself, the reading lists have been shortened and instructors have more flexibility. The first Western Civilization course in the sequence, which includes works from early Greeks and Romans, Judeo-Christian religious writings and Medieval literature, has been tweaked to include fewer readings and more emphasis on writing instruction to meet a specific KU Core goal. For its work on updating Western Civilization for the KU Core, the department received the university’s “Christopher H. Haufler Award for KU Core Innovation.” Even with fewer students taking Western Civilization, Zimdars-Swartz is still optimistic about its place in the university. “We’re in a dynamic transition period, and that’s an exciting thing for us.”

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LAURA MORIARTY is an assistant professor of English at Kansas University, a successful novelist and the author of this year’s KU Common Book, “The Center of Everything.” She will participate in a variety of classes and events this year that will focus on the novel, which is set in Kansas.

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oward the end of Laura Moriarty’s first novel, the narrator and main character, Evelyn Bucknow, stands on Jayhawk Boulevard, taking in the world around her. After growing up in the fictional Kansas town of Kerrville, she lands in Lawrence amid the bustle of Kansas University. “When the bells chime, students come out of the buildings all at once, and there are more people walking on the sidewalk than there are in all of Kerrville, maybe more than I have seen in one place in my entire life,” Evelyn observes. Kerrville and Evelyn might not be real, but the moment would likely be familiar to KU students who grew up in rural Kansas, some of whom graduated from high schools smaller than some KU freshman lecture courses.

Acclaimed novelist’s work set in Reagan-era Kansas chosen as KU’s Common Book

onto the KU campus. When she was 17, Moriarty’s father took a job in Kansas so she could get in-state tuition at KU. “I came down to KU, and I didn’t know anything about it,” Moriarty said. She fell almost instantly in love with Lawrence. As an undergraduate at KU, Moriarty avoided creative writing classes ‘A pinch me situation’ because she worried they Moriarty, now an assistant were “indulgent.” Instead professor of English at KU, she wanted to do something didn’t grow up in Kansas. “helpful” and “pragmatic” As the daughter of a Mawith her undergraduate rine, she moved frequently work. After considering the throughout childhood and pre-med route, she opted to has lived in places that, as study social work. she describes it, people tend She would go on to work to “have romantic ideas as a social worker in Lawabout,” including Hawaii, rence and Kansas for several Montana and Utah. years. While working at the Moriarty landed in LawDuchesne Clinic, a provider rence at the same point in Please see BOOK, page 2B her life as when Evelyn steps This fall KU students across campus will encounter the university and the state of Kansas through Evelyn’s eyes. “The Center of Everything” was picked as the 2014-15 school year’s KU Common Book, an initiative meant to add a social and literary vibe to the first-year experience of KU students.

Related university events Common Book Discussion Groups Aug. 24, 1-2 p.m. Residence halls and other campus locations “Is This Real Life?” Sept. 11 (time to be announced) Spencer Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum “An Evening with Author Laura Moriarty” Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Lied Center of Kansas “Coffee and Conversation with Laura Moriarty” Oct. 24 at 9 a.m. Natural History Museum For more information, go to commonbook. ku.edu

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Questions and answers with the chancellor By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

he previous school year saw the rollout out of major initiatives at Kansas University. It also saw controversies that put KU in the national spotlight, such as the antiNRA tweet of journalism professor David Guth and the Kansas Board of Regents social media policy for faculty and staff. The Journal-World talked with KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little for her perspective on the past year and the year ahead. Q: What defined the previous school year for you? A: “A big event last year was the beginning of a new undergraduate curriculum. That was something that was three years in the making. All of the programs that had been designed in the 2009-10 year — new curriculum, the undergraduate research office, first year seminars — all those things were coming into being. “We had some very important discussions in the university and faculty senates about post-tenure review and social media and the social media policy. “I think the legislative session seemed very important because of the issues around funding higher education that we’re dealing with and a lot of places are dealing with. How is that going to be in the future, how is it going to change? “Over the past several months, we’ve had so many capital projects that have begun or are being planned, everything from the groundbreaking for the business school to the engineering campus, which is very far along, to new student housing. The university physically is changing here in Lawrence, and it will happen also at the Medical Center. “In the unmitigated good news category, we’ve had a great year in the graduate program ratings in U.S. News and World Report.” Q: On the subject of the social media policy, when regent Fred Logan spoke to KU faculty, he said he felt the policy didn’t create any new authority for university CEOs. Do you see it the same way? A: “Technically, yes. I recognized that and saw that independent of his statement. When I first

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... Building, building, building, raising money — those will be big. “I think all the discussion and controversy about the role of athletics in the university, and all the various suits that are going on, some of those will be coming to conclusion in the next several months, and I don’t know what the outcome will be. It could be that things will stay pretty much as they are, or there could be some radical changes. “Do you feel that university athletes are entitled to more professional levels of compensation for what they do? “I think the fundamenQ: Looking ahead, tal question is whether what do you hope defines the 2014-15 year? the athletes are here as athletes or as students. If A: “We have started you decide that they’re and I hope to continue the same kind of focus on here as students, then it’s going to be hard to pay graduate education that them as athletes and still we’ve had on underhave that work. And who graduate. do you pay? Do you pay “A continued part of some basketball players our discussion is going to be the ways in more than others because which we offer courses they’re more valuable? ... and degrees. How much I think it just opens a host more do we want to ofof questions that we’re fer courses and degrees not really ready to answer online? Will they only be yet. But if student athletes specialized degrees, mas- are here as employees and ter’s level, or do we want can be paid as employto offer undergraduate ees, then there’s a whole degrees online? additional set of issues to “There will be continaddress, and we’ll be in ued focus on expanding completely new territory.” the research productivity and profile so that our staQ: Have you given any tus as a national research thought to when you university is strengthened. might retire? saw the (policy), which I thought would cause the kind of reaction it did, when I looked through it, I thought, ‘Well, that’s not new.’ But I believe putting that down as a separate policy emphasizes an aspect of the university’s, or a president’s or chancellor’s, authority. It puts up a ‘This is forbidden’ sign when you walk in. Faculty were saying it had a chilling effect on the sense of openness of expression. I’m not surprised they would say that, and I think that’s technically right.”

the Office of First-Year Experience, which manages the Common Book program and sought out CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B recommendations from faculty and students, said of medical services to Howard Graham, associlow-income uninsured ate director of academic residents of Wyandotte programs with the office. County, Moriarty started Throughout the year, to write at night about Moriarty will tour classes the people she met there. reading the novel and “You see a lot of really KU will host events sad stuff,” she said. related to the book. All Those sketches of life incoming KU freshmen would ultimately develop can receive a free copy of into the characters of the book at orientation. old, lives with her single But Moriarty likely won’t “The Center of Everything.” Soon she returned mother in Kerrville, a see any boost to income town that Moriarty based from Common Book to KU, this time in the creative writing master’s on small towns she knew sales because her initial such as Eudora, Ottawa program to flesh out the advance on the novel and Emporia, as well as book. was so large, she said. Bozeman, Mont., where This was all more than By contrast, her most a decade ago. For the book Moriarty went to high recent novel, “The Chapto now be the center of at- school. The book follows erone,” sold six or seven tention at the university is Evelyn from girlhood times more than Moriarthrough high school as surreal for Moriarty, and ty’s first novel, has been she narrates a life in Ker- purchased for movie flattering, she said. rville that is slow but can rights, and has taken Mo“It’s really your also be chaotic. dream,” she said. “It’s a riarty around the country KU Chancellor Berna- to publicize it. pinch me sort of situadette Gray-Little ultition. It’s so fun.” The hubbub around mately picked the book the Common Book repreGetting new love for based on the recomsents more attention than a decade-old novel mendation of a selection “The Center of EveryThe novel opens in the committee. This was thing” has gotten since early 1980s with Ronald only after the selection its publication, maybe in Reagan campaigning for committee and another its life. “It’s going to be the presidency on televi- committee whittled interesting to talk about sion. down a list of 90 posthis book that didn’t get Evelyn, then 10 years sibilities provided by as much love,” she said.

A: “(Laughs) Are you asking me when I’m leaving? I’m not leaving. I gave it thought it when I came here. I would not have come here if I were ready to leave.” Q: What’s the best part about being chancellor that nobody knows about? A: “Being able to participate in the achievements of faculty and students in some way, either to support it or help them celebrate it — that’s great, and you would expect that. One thing that is really very wonderful that you might not know about

is getting to meet alumni during the various trips that we have and hearing their stories about the university and the difference the university made in their lives. Almost everyone has a particular story that stands in their minds. I get to not only meet our current faculty and students but also students who were here 50 years ago or 40 years ago. And so I have some perspective on what the experience of being here was like. “The other thing: I got to select pictures from the museum (the Spencer Museum of Art) for my office.

Q: And what’s the hardest part? A: “The hardest part is communicating or making the case for the value of a research university to people who don’t think about that or see the benefit. That it’s worthwhile for a state to have a university that not only provides degrees, but where there are faculty who are outstanding historians or internationally known chemists — that has some benefit to the state. It’s hard not so much to say it; it’s hard having to have that conversation and be making the case, always, that it’s important.”

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Faculty Senate president saw a challenging year Controversial tweet, social media policy were front and center

involved in somebody’s career,” he said. The resolution the Faculty Senate ultimately passed supporting free speech rights didn’t even mention Guth’s name. Behind the scenes, Steadham joined the committee appointed by KU administration to examine the conditions around Guth’s leave and issue a recommendation. He said his experience on the committee reassured him that administration was “doing everything it could to do the right thing in a bad situation.”

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Legendary wrestling coach Dan Gable once said, “After you’ve wrestled, everything else is easy.” It’s an aphorism Chris Steadham, a one-time high school wrestler, has taken to heart (he even named his son after Gable). Over the last year, he’s put the sentiment to the test. Steadham, currently the associate director of the Kansas University School of Law’s Wheat Library, was president of the KU Faculty Senate for 2013-14, a year that saw the university at the center of national controversies and some of the fiercest grappling between faculty and higher education officials in years. Steadham grew up in Rosehill, Kan., and went to KU, where he met his wife, Shanna. It might be hard to picture the calm, undersized and mildmannered Steadham as a wrestler. He admits the sport is about the closest thing you can have to a sanctioned fight. Wrestling in high school gave Steadham gumption and a strong work ethic, he said. As an undergraduate at KU, where he studied political science before returning for law school, he gained an appreciation for a higher education and its unique function.

‘A steady influence’ Those who have worked with Steadham in governance can attest to his work ethic and even keel. “I thought Chris was a very calm, measuring, steady influence on the Senate,” said James Carothers, a KU professor of English and current Senate president. “He was a valuable leader to all of us last year, and he did that in some extremely difficult circumstances.” “He’s extremely conscientious and hardworking,” said Kathleen Levy, administrator for university governance at KU. “He’s very careful in his decision-making process.” When he started as

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CHRIS STEADMAN, associate director of the law library and last year’s Faculty Senate President. president, Steadham saw his job primarily as a facilitator, there to make sure everyone’s voice could be heard. Early in his first semester on the job, as Steadham was preparing for what he thought would be the year’s biggest debate, over post-tenure review, journalism professor David Guth posted what has become an infamous tweet following the Navy Yard Shootings in Washington D.C. Guth tweeted: “The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters.” The post inflamed guns rights supporters, including several lawmakers in Topeka who threatened to cut KU’s funding unless the university fired Guth. Administration placed Guth on administrative leave that week and reinstated him (though not in the classroom) the next month. Chancellor GrayLittle has since said she didn’t have the legal authority to fire Guth over the tweet. “I thought at first, ‘Well, this is not a well-thoughtout tweet,’ but I naively hoped that it would blow over,” Steadham said. But once Guth went on leave and lawmakers started threatening the university over his job, Steadham realized the tweet and the issues around it weren’t going away. As faculty watched the drama play out, Steadham said he felt pressure from faculty to both speak out strongly on behalf of Guth and to stay out of the debate. Still, he didn’t want the Senate to jump to action hastily. “You want to think carefully and tread lightly before you get

From facilitating to leading Not long after, in December, the Kansas Board of Regents passed a social media policy allowing university leaders to fire employees for “improper” social media posts, partly as a response to the Guth imbroglio. In that case, the way forward was clearer to Steadham, and he didn’t hesitate to take a more active stance, in part because the issue of free speech at the university struck a deep chord in him and colleagues, but also because he had become more confident in his role. “I about fell out of my chair when I read it,” Steadham said, referring to the policy. From the day the regents voted on the policy, Steadham was active in trying to formulate response to the policy from faculty and staff. “I had a feeling the whole (semester) we were on the right side of history on that issue, and that we were going to prevail.” That didn’t quite happen. While governance bodies from Kansas universities, along with higher education and free speech groups around the country, called for the repeal of the policy, the regents held on to most of its punitive language while adding in language endorsing free speech and academic freedom. Steadham, who went from facilitator of discussion to helping to lead strong responses to the social media policy, said the experience might have made governance stronger at the university. Even so, university politics can be a delicate balance, even when the stakes are high. “When you have very little power, and your power is in persuasion and articulating a voice to be heard, you have to be able to identify battles worth taking a stand on,” Steadham said.

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Derek Kwan, the executive director of the Lied Center who has been on the job since January, says the success of the center depends on how good of a job he can do in partnering with the community. “The key for performing arts venues is to weave itself into the fabric of the community,” Kwan said. That also means becoming more relevant to KU students, he said. “This coming season is the first time the Lied Center has programmed world class artists with student ensembles,” he said. For example, on Sept. 30, the KU Symphony Orchestra will perform with cellist Joshua Roman. “We are really making an effort to build bridges with the student population,” Kwan said. The Lied Center will also begin webcasting live student performances. This will make the Lied Center accessible to the entire state and world. Kwan replaced Tim Van Leer, who retired after the leading the Lied Center for 12 years. Prior to arriving at KU, Kwan was vice president at Jazz at Lincoln Center since 2012. Prior to that, Kwan had been executive director of programming at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlo-

chen, Mich., from 2007 to 2012. From 2000 to 2005, Kwan had been an associate director at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Kwan grew up in Los Angeles and played the saxophone and flute. His musical tastes ranged from Mozart to Earth, Wind and Fire. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, where he majored in music and political science. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin. He was a freelance record producer, producing more than 60 albums. While an MBA student, he won a Grammy Award as associate producer of “Bebo de Cuba” by Bebo Valdes. His wife, Clare, plays flute and piano, and was an acoustician working with architects to design concert venues and museums. She is now pursuing a second career as a math teacher. He said the job offer in Lawrence represented an opportunity that “was too good to pass up.” Lawrence is one of the best college towns in the nation and the Lied Center was internationally known, he said. He said he and his wife love Lawrence. “I’m looking forward to learning more about Lawrence and all the cultural sensibilities. I am always open to suggested genres,” he said, encouraging people to email him at kwan@ku.edu.

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Longtime Kansan returns to lead KU medical school By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

Robert Simari first walked down the hill between the campanile and Memorial Stadium in 1986. At the time, he was a graduating medical student at Kansas University who sat in the back of the class and gained a reputation as a bright doctorto-be with a promising future. In May 2014, nearly 30 years later, he walked down the hill again. This time, as the new dean of the medical school, Simari walked down in the company of Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, and he was the one to hood KU’s newly graduated medical students. For Simari, it was a surreal and deeply gratifying homecoming.

Return to Kansas Simari started this spring as executive dean of the KU School of Medicine. KU picked him after a national search for a permanent replacement for Barbara Atkinson, who retired from the dean position in the summer 2012. KU hired a longtime Kansan in Simari, who moved with his family to Overland Park when he was 10 and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in 1978. He would go on to Notre

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ROBERT SIMARI started this spring as executive dean of the KU School of Medicine. Simari oversees the Kansas City, Wichita and Salina campuses and more than 40 departments and centers representing different types of science, medicine and specialities. Dame for his bachelor’s degree before returning to Kansas for medical school. After graduating from KU, where he met his wife, Kelly, Simari left for Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital in Boston for residency, followed by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. At the Mayo Clinic, he trained as a fellow in cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology and would, after a postdoctoral fellowship, go on to join the faculty. Prior to taking the dean job at KU, Simari was a

professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic as well as vice chairman of the clinic’s Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and co-director of the Mayo Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, the clinic’s largest research center.

Big celebrations at the med school So far, the KU dean job has consisted largely of a marathon of introductions, as well as some major celebrations for the school. As top leader of the KU medical school, Simari

oversees the Kansas City, Wichita and Salina campuses and more than 40 departments and centers representing different types of science, medicine and specialities. “It takes some time to get to all the departments on all three campuses. If I meet with two hours with a department chair, that’s two weeks of work,” Simari said. “The good news is there’s no burning platforms. The institution has been under strong leadership and has very strong support. I’ve had the luxury of taking some time.”

Along with meeting with school insiders, Simari and the KU Medical Center have hosted some big-name guests to announce some big news. In Simari’s first semester on the job, Gov. Sam Brownback visited to announce $25 million in state bond support for a long-sought expansion to the KU Medical Center. That was followed by another major announcement and celebration in May, this one for the Hall Family Foundation’s $25 million gift toward the planned facility. Both were big gets for the school and could change the face of campus and health education at KU during Simari’s time there. The medical center expects the new facility would allow it to train an additional 50 students each year and will come equipped with new technology and classroom formats to update health education at KU for modern models of teaching. Much of the groundwork for both the state support and Hall gift were in place well before Simari arrived, but he has already been out working to raise more money to meet the project’s full budget of $75 million. And the effort to woo donors probably won’t end anytime soon, especially with possible future expansions at the Wichita and Salina campuses on the horizon. Fundraising is

a big part of any dean job, and it’s one which the affable Simari says he enjoys.

Challenging times While the school has seen some big financial victories in recent months, the overall funding climate is still uncertain, with decreased support of higher education at the state level and cuts to research at the federal level in recent years. Amid what Simari describes as “challenging financial times,” he’s looking to streamline the medical center by creating more integrated and coordinated teams out of the many medical center and KU hospital units. “You can’t manage a large organization by breaking it down into constituent parts and having them try to do the best they can locally,” he said. “It will be chaos.” Another priority for him is improving the state’s public health outcomes, which haven’t always followed the successes of the medical center. In fact, as Simari himself points out, Wyandotte County, home to the KU Medical Center’s main campus, has the highest infant death rate in the state. “It’s not right that those two things should coexist,” he said. Reversing that trend is yet one more item on a long and far-reaching todo list for Simari and the school.

KU researcher studying things that go boom in the night By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

Outer space can be a dangerous place. Under the blue skies of earth, it can be easy to forget that we live in space. When we do think of the dangers from above, we typically focus on comets and asteroids — things that can smack us on the head or destroy entire cities on impact. But also hurdling through space is energy from exploding stars that can, when close enough, have ruinous effects on earthlings. A researcher at Kansas University wants to better understand those effects. After studying the large-scale structure of the universe for much of his career, Adrian Melott, a KU physics and astronomy professor, turned his attention to studying the relationship between catastrophic cosmic events and the evolution of terrestrial life. This year Melott and colleagues from MidAmerica Nazarene University and Washburn University won a $500,000 grant from NASA for a three-year project to study the effects of a nearby supernova on the planet.

Cosmic explosions The term “nearby” is relative here. An extremely close ex-

plosion would be in the neighborhood of 30 light years, or roughly 176 trillion miles, away from the Earth. The chances of one going off that close anytime in the near future are slim, Melott said. A supernova can outshine an entire galaxy. They are most often caused by energy released by the collapse of a massive star, one many times the mass of the sun. If close enough, energy from a supernova would pelt the Earth with radiation, scrambling its atmosphere and ripping away much of the ozone, leaving Earth more vulnerable to UV rays. The resulting surge of radiation on the planet could trigger cancers in many animals and kill plants and plankton, setting off a wave of death through the food chain. It would be “a disaster,” Melott said. Melott’s past work has linked an even larger cosmic phenomenon, a gamma ray burst, to a mass extinction event 440 million years ago. These events, caused by the collapse of a spinning massive star into a black hole, are the brightest events in the universe and can be seen in far away galaxies. Gamma ray bursts are even more destructive and unpredictable than supernovas.

KU PROFESSOR ADRIAN MELOTT and colleagues from MidAmerica Nazarene University and Washburn University won a $500,000 grant from NASA for a three-year project to study the effects of a nearby supernova on the planet. Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

“A gamma ray burst could nail us by surprise,” Melott said. But they are also far more rare than supernovas. Melott said the probability of either happening close enough to trigger disaster on earth in the foreseeable future is low, on the order of one in a million in the course of a decade. His advice is to not lose sleep over the idea.

Creating and destroying Although they might not be a threat in the near future, supernovas and gamma ray bursts could have had an important role in humanity’s past, if they did indeed cause extinctions and leave other imprints on evolution.

To study the possibility, Melott and colleagues have blended several fields together in their research, including astrophysics, geology, climate science, planet science, biology and paleontology. “It’s this crazy mixture,” he said. It’s also exhausting. Melott said he reads between 1,000 and 2,000 journal abstracts from a numerous fields every week. When they’re done, the team hopes to have a better idea of the probability of life existing in the galaxy, given the frequency of astronomical events such as supernovas. The NASA-funded study will look at a supernova that occurred 2.5 million years ago. That event was near enough to

Earth, possibly 150 light years away, to send a radioactive isotope of iron to Earth that could not have come from any other source. It was not so close as to spark widespread disaster, but it might have had some impact on life, and Melott and colleagues are studying that impact in detail. One intriguing possibility — and Melott hastens to that it hasn’t been proven one way or the other — is that the radiation could have affected the course of human evolution either through changing the climate or by directly altering human DNA through radiation. “Humans underwent a burst of change at that time,” Melott said. If their study shows the radiation was high enough to change the climate or even the human genome, Melott said, “It might mean we owe our existence partially to that event.” Supernovas destroy and create. Regardless of the outcome of Melott’s study, scientists are fairly certain that life on Earth would not be possible at all without supernovas. That is because most of the heavy elements in the universe were generated by supernovas. Without them, Melott said, “the universe would basically just be hydrogen and helium.”

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It’s all about the bugs ———

KU professor studies vital role of insects in keeping planet alive By Stephen Montemayor news@ljworld.com

Were an alien life form to look down on this planet from outer space, it wouldn’t see us as a planet of mammals scurrying about on two legs or four. No, said Michael Engel, a Kansas University professor and senior curator with the department of ecology and evolutionary biology. Ours would be considered a planet of six-legged critters. “It’s the most successful and persistent body plan,” he said, pointing out that insects have weathered multiple mass extinctions over more than 400 million years. “They all sail through untouched.” Engel begins his 15th year with KU, immersed in studying the past, present and future of the life forms that encompass more than 50 percent of life on Earth. Engel, who holds a doctorate from Cornell University and is a full-time research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, also presides over one of the world’s foremost collections of bee specimens. The plight of the honeybee’s seven species has lately drawn national attention in media and government alike. But Engel is as enamored with the other 19,993 (and counting) species of pollinators — including the brilliantly metallic-colored orchid bee and a species he helped discover in Asia that drinks human tears. “I look at the general evolution-

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MICHAEL ENGEL is beginning his 15th year at KU as a professor and curator with the department of ecology and evolutionary biology. He presides over one of the world’s foremost collections of bee specimens. ary history of bees,” he said. “I look at the past as an example of what to know about the future.” Entire ecosystems depend on their pollinators, Engel said, and with many pollinators under threat, he said it is imperative to understand what’s afflicting them. “They really keep this planet alive,” Engel said. That’s a little more difficult in a field like entomology, Engel said, where fewer experts are tasked with studying wide swaths of insects — up to 180,000 species apiece. That’s opposed to ornithologists or mammalogists studying a little more than a dozen species apiece. “It’s why many times people are shocked by what we still don’t know,” Engel said. Engel said biologists are still discovering species at a rate with which they cannot keep up, even

finding new species at locales thought to have been fastidiously researched. “You just have to be at the right spot,” he said. A flexible teaching schedule affords Engel just that opportunity, with up to a dozen trips each year to places such as Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Argentina and numerous stateside stops. But the university’s top-flight bee collection, Engel said, attracts far-flung visitors of its own, with researchers from Kenya and Chile among those who travel here to take a look. That poses a problem for Engel, whose offices are housed within the university’s public safety building at 1501 Crestline Drive, west of campus. The department, and its specimens, moved there about eight years ago from its old home in Snow Hall. But passersby would be

hard pressed to notice what is also inside the current building, what with public safety vehicles and the public safety’s office sign prominent. An 8-by-11 printout and a label on a door constitute the spare confirmation that Engel’s department is indeed inside the building. “You’re not able to put your best foot forward,” he said. Engel, whose research has been published in numerous academic journals, did point out one benefit of the move: the department was able to design its own storage facility, a climate-controlled, isolated warehouse that keeps its 5 million specimens undisturbed. The cool, 64-degree room with low humidity is ideal for the preserved insects and staves off any unwanted pests. “We study insects, but we prefer they be dead,” Engel said.

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Prof’s study of Korean art helps solidify KU program By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

A Kansas University professor’s travels to North Korea are helping solidify KU as one of the country’s few destinations for a doctoral degree in Korean art history. Specifically, Marsha Haufler has devoted much of her time there to researching a unique and prolific art form found within the communist dynasty: government-created mosaic murals found in public places throughout the capital city and countryside. Haufler, a professor of art history and associate dean for international and interdisciplinary studies for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has traveled to North Korea fives times since 2007. Her last trip was in fall 2013. She has published an article on the mosaics and plans to publish a book featuring her research on them in 2015.

MARSHA HAUFLER, left, a professor of art history and associate dean for international and interdisciplinary studies for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is pictured with an interpreter in North Korea, where Haufler studies mosaics like the one at top right on the People’s Palace of Culture.

Colorful art form Haufler didn’t initially set out for Korea to study the mosaics — she’s also researched Buddhist monasteries and other art forms — but they captivated her. The colorful, largescale, political-themed artworks were installed mostly post-1960, during North Korea’s Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il eras. Haufler said they are government funded

and created by government-funded art studios. They’re part of a network of socialist realist art created throughout Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century, and find counterparts, for instance, in the Moscow Metro. In North Korea, mosaics are found on buildings of importance and at many major intersec-

ing devotion in order to face external military threats.” Even more so than painted murals, Haufler said, mosaics are durable and expensive. “They impart an aura of preciousness, of value, to the subject,” she said. Special to the Journal-World

tions, as well as along highways or serving as way-markers at tourist destinations. Haufler said a mosaic on a theater might depict scenes from political operas or plays, while a mosaic on a school would show a children’s political group. Haufler found that early North Korean mosaics helped “promote the regime’s utopian promises with visions

of a socialist paradise on earth and images of happy, well-fed people with eyes lifted to a bright future,” according to a KU news release on her work. “After Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994, the mosaics began to represent the ‘Great Leader’ as the ‘eternal president’ and his son Kim Jong Il as his rightful heir and military leader who required unswerv-

Student media manager brings real-world vibe to newsroom By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

pers, and he’s won dozens of accolades along the way. Prior to joining KU, he served as director of photography for KARE-TV in Minneapolis, senior video producer with the Minneapolis Star Tribune and assistant news director for KSHBTV in Kansas City.

Although it might be in dry-erase marker for now, Brett Akagi has already made his mark on student media at Kansas University. On a white board in the combined newsroom of the University Daily Kansan and KUJH-TV, Akagi Multimedia push Akagi’s position at KU has posted mottoes for everyone, including him- didn’t exist before his self, to remember and do hire. His job combines management of KUJHtheir work by. “Try and fail,” reads TV with the faculty adone. But Akagi has made viser role at the Kansan, sure everyone knows that which journalism profesit’s not OK to simply fail sor Malcom Gibson had and let that be the end. filled until his retirement Underneath the previous in 2013. With experience motto is a follow-up: “Fail in both television and newspapers, and learn.” Akagi looked In descendHe says it so like the perfect ing one-word fit. lines, another you can make Scott Reinarreads: “Adapt. it better next dy, a KU assoO v e r c o m e . time. He’s not ciate professor Persevere.” A n o t h e r : just trying to be of journalism and chairman “Small victo- mean.” of the school’s ries.” news and inThe mottoes — KU student Riley formation are there to reMortensen track, said of mind everyone

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in the newsroom that their work is hard, expectations are high and perfection elusive. “It’s important for these kids to understand,” Akagi said. “I push them really, really hard.” Akagi joined the KU School of Journalism in summer 2013 as director and digital content strategist for KU’s student media operations. When he joined, he was tasked in large part with pushing KU’s student paper and television station ever further into a digitized, multi-platform and often chaotic media landscape. Akagi brings to the job decades of multimedia experience from the field. Over the course of his career he’s worked in radio, television and newspa-

Akagi when he was first hired: “He clearly understands the needs of TV news and newspapers, the specialization of each and the intersection of the two.” Like media organizations everywhere, KU’s student media are still trying to find their footing in a world that is more online than ever. To help build up the Kansan’s online audience, Akagi has been pushing students to shoot more video, take more photographs, post on social media more often and respond quickly to breaking news. Trevor Graff, editor-inchief of the Kansan in fall 2013, Akagi’s first semester, said many student reporters were uncomfortable working with both words and video at the time.

Korean art specialty At least among Western researchers, formal research on Korean art — especially North Korean art — is not common, Haufler said. But it is important. “We teach China, we teach Japan, but without Korea our picture of East Asia is incomplete,” Haufler said. Haufler, whose specialty is Chinese art, first went to North Korea to visit ancient sites and museums to collect material for a KU course called the Art and Culture of Korea. The university has since hired a

Korean art specialist in Maya Stiller, assistant professor of Korean Art and Visual Culture. With Stiller’s hire, KU offers one of only two Korean art history doctoral programs in the country, along with UCLA. Stiller said Haufler is making a “tremendous” contribution to the field, especially because of her pioneering research on the murals. “Korean Art History is an emerging field with substantial growth potential,” Stiller said. “Presently, there are few teachers in Europe and in the United States, yet there are many people who want to study Korean Art. I believe that KU’s exemplary East Asian Art History faculty, Arts and Architecture library and collections in the Spencer Museum will attract a wider variety of students who will diversify the field.”

KU’s federally funded research still thriving despite challenges earned her Ph.D. from KU in 1987, has worked in the office before as an associate The world of vice provost. She said federally financed the office had always research was a lot been brighter when Steve strong, Warren took the job and its of vice chancellor for perforresearch at Kansas mance University than when in he left it. recent During Warren’s years is time, the KU Office espeof Research saw the cially Hummert worst financial crisis impressince the Great Desive. pression, “What’s really federal remarkable is the way funding faculty have been able cuts, se- to accelerate their questra- research, even when tion and it’s been more difficult a federal to get funding.” governOne of the ways ment universities measure shuttheir scholarly prowWarren down. ess is in how much And external funding they yet, even in that can bring in. With climate, research at so many institutions KU thrived under competing over many Warren. This spring, of the same dollars, he announced he the office is always would step down from looking at how it can his post to return to improve university full-time research and labs, personnel and reteaching, leaving some sources to win grants. big shoes to fill for his Hummert said she successor. will be working to Federally funded push initiatives that research at KU has began under Warren, grown for the past five including efforts to years. For the 2013 fis- recruit new Foundacal year, KU logged a tion Professors and record $174 million in cluster hires, both of federal grants. which are meant to “I feel like we’re build KU research in really good shape strengths in targeted considering the world areas. She will also we live in,” Warren focus on diversifytold the Journal-World ing the sources of earlier this year. research funding to This summer, include more money Warren turned the from private compapost over to Mary nies and foundations. “What we’re workLee Hummert, vice ing for is not so much provost for faculty money, but to ensure development at KU, that we have the who will serve as resources we need to interim vice chancelproduce research that lor of research until is going to make a the position is filled difference in people’s permanently. lives,” she said. Hummert, who

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KU SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM media director and digital content strategist Brett Akagi leads a group of students through a tutorial on a video camera during a workshop July 9 in the newsroom of the University Daily Kansan. Akagi, who has worked as both a photojournalist and news director, is teaching his students how to be innovative and engaging journalists on a variety of platforms. “Brett and I sat down, and it was very clear to both of us at the time, with the media climate shifting more and more digital, the Kansan especially needed help in the multimedia facets of our coverage,” Graff said.

Challenging students Chatting with students in the newsroom, Akagi, with his energy and a laugh Graff says can be heard down the hall, could be mistaken for a college student himself. That doesn’t mean students mistake him for a buddy. Those who have taken classes with Akagi say he can be a tough critic of their work, but it’s made them better. “He was always challenging us with how we can make (stories) better,” said Amelia Arvesen, a KU undergraduate who took a reporting class with Akagi. “Instead of just telling us what to do he would ask us, ‘Well, what do you think?’” Riley Mortensen, also a KU journalism undergraduate who took Akagi’s reporting class, said of Akagi, “If you’ve done something really bad, he will say, ‘It sucks, and you know it, and I know it, and everybody knows it.’” “He says it so you can make it better next time. He’s not just trying to be mean,” Mortensen added.

Akagi said he understands the difficulty for students in multitasking and the frenetic pressure of the newsroom. But he also understands the pressure of professional newsrooms from his work in the field. Even before going into journalism, Akagi said, he developed a work ethic and high expectations from his parents, who both grew up as children of Japanese immigrants in eastern Colorado. Watching his parents devote themselves to their business and family, and working on the family farm himself while growing up, gave Akagi an appreciation of sacrifice and work. He would leave the farm for college, thinking at first he wanted to be a radio DJ but eventually drifting into the news business, where he stayed until coming to KU. As a reporter and producer, Akagi was on the front lines covering breaking news, murders and other tragedies. He’s met vice presidents and professional athletes. Now he’s left that life to train the next generation of journalists. It’s something Akagi said he feels responsible to do with his experience at this point in his life. “I want to make sure I can do everything I can for this school and these kids,” he said.

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Meet KU’s Foundation Professors David Roediger: a top scholar on race and class By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

ansas University’s Foundation Professor program is meant in part to encourage intermingling of academic disciplines as a way to hatch innovative ideas and research. So it makes sense that the first Foundation Professor hired at KU was through the American Studies department, which blends history, literary studies, sociology, philosophy and a host of other subjects to explore the American identity. David Roediger has spent his career looking through different perspectives at two of the most fundamental aspects of the American experience: race and class. In the fall Roediger will leave his position as a distinguished professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Illinois to join KU as a Foundation Professor. Roediger said he entered his field after being influenced by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Much of his scholarship deals with the issue of what it means to be white, and how the idea of whiteness developed. He was among the first white writers to tackle the subject.

His books include “How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon”; “Working Toward W h i t e ness: How America’s Immigrants B e c a m e White”; and “The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.” Roediger has spent much of his life in the Midwest. He grew up in southern Illinois and earned his bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University and his doctorate from Northwestern University. He has taught at Northwestern, the University of Missouri and University of Minnesota. “I very much consider myself

a Midwesterner,” Roediger said. He said he’s also proud, as the son of a public school teacher, to have made a career out of teaching at public universities. Danny Anderson, dean of the KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said Roediger has a track record of driving collaborative projects and attracting diverse graduate students to work with him. With the Foundation Professors, who will also be distinguished professors, KU hopes to attract leading scholars who can help establish multidisciplinary networks of researchers and teachers. The initiative is also

meant to work in tandem with KU “cluster hires,” a plan to bring in dozens of faculty from various disciplines to study big issues such as energy and child development. In Roediger’s case, he will likely help develop the Joint Center on Inequality and Social Justice, a proposed KU project that would direct resources to thinking about social issues such as educational equality, healthcare, human migration and law. “We’re playing to our strengths,” KU Provost Jeff Vitter said. “In each case there’s a strong justification for KU to hire the very best and show it could have tremendous impact.” The Foundation Professors initiative is funded through the state and has a budget of $3 million a year to pay professors’ salaries. Three out of a planned 12 professors have been hired: Roediger; Chris Beard, who will serve in the ecology and evolutionary biology department and Biodiversity Center; and William Picking, who will serve in pharmaceutical chemistry. Roediger, Beard and Picking will make $200,000, $180,000 and $150,000, respectively, according to KU Public Affairs.

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Chris Beard: a renowned paleontologist By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

ome of Chris Beard’s earliest memories are of a childhood fascination with animals — farm animals, wild animals, it almost didn’t matter. From his father, a “kind of perpetual student” as Beard describes him, Beard started receiving some “really strange bedtime stories” about animals long gone, preserved only as fossils. “That’s when I found out that there were some extinct animals even more interesting than those alive today,” Beard said. As he got older his interests were briefly subsumed by sports, girls and the obligatory pre-med courses. But in college he rediscovered his early fascination with animals and fossils and went into paleontology, a field that has taken him to Libya, Myanmar, China and, now, Lawrence. In April Beard joined the Kansas University department of ecology and evolution as one of the university’s first distinguished Foundation Professors. The goal of KU’s Foundation Professor initiative is to lure to the university scholars recognized as being at the top of their fields. Beard, with a MacArthur “genius” award and more than 100 peerreviewed articles under his belt, fit the description.

KU recruited Beard from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was the chairman of vertebrate paleontology. Beard’s wife, Sandra Olsen, will also join KU in August as a professor of museum studies and a senior curator at the Biodiversity Institute. Chris Haufler, chair of KU’s ecology and evolutionary biology department, said the search for an established paleontologist began after longtime and well-loved paleontology professor Larry Martin died in 2013. “ W h e n Larry Martin died, we realized that we lost a significant figure in paleontology at KU,” Haufler said. “We all basically came to the conclusion that the best way to do that (rebuild the program) is to bring in a senior individual that has the credibility and name recognition

to bring visibility to KU.” Beard is known throughout the world of paleontology for his work on the development of early primates. He was part of a team that discovered one of the oldest higher primates found to date. He also wrote the book “The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes and Humans,” which chronicles the emergence and discovery of the first the first anthropoids. Beard said one of the remaining questions “my team and I are kind of obsessed with” is the point at which early monkeys emerged in Africa from Asia — an event that took place millions of years ago. “They got there surprisingly early, and had to get across open water to get there,” Beard said. “It’s a shocking discovery we’ve made in just the last couple of years.” The mystery of how it happened Beard will now be trying to unravel at KU.

Meet KU’s Foundation Professors William Picking: a distinguished microbiologist By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

ack when William Picking started college, his initial plan was to go on to medical school. “When you grow up in small-town Kansas and you like science, you start seeing yourself as a physician,” said Picking, who’s originally from Abilene. But in college Picking found other branches of science that interested him and other ways of helping people besides through practicing medicine. One day when he went to pick up his test from the instructor of his microbiology class, the professor asked Picking about his plans and nudged him toward graduate school in microbiology. And Picking did just that. He earned his Ph.D. from Kansas University in 1989 and would come back come back within a decade to teach at KU, before leaving to chair the microbiology department at Oklahoma State University. Now Picking is returning to KU yet again, this time as a Foundation Professor, a new type of distinguished faculty meant to spur multidisciplinary research at KU.

As a Foundation Professor, Picking will help spearhead a new center to develop vaccines that will pull together existing resources and expertise, and be the focus of four new hires in the pharmacy and engineering schools. Much of Picking’s research looks at the molecular mechanisms pathogens use to take over healthy cells and cause disease. When he started his own research program as a professor, Picking hit the books to find a pathogen to investigate. He began studying Shigella, a bacterium that attacks the digestive system. He looked at Shigella partly because it is a scourge in developing countries, killing many thousands of people every year, and partly because “everyone and his dog was working on salmonella,” another deadly disease-causing agent. Picking and collaborators honed in on the protein Shigella uses to trick human cells into letting the pathogen in. He hopes to make that protein the base of a new vaccine to inoculate

people against the bacteria. That will be one of Picking’s priorities for the new vaccine center, dubbed the Kansas Vaccine Development Center. The center will make use of the existing Macromolecular and Vaccine Stabilization Center, headed by distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry David Volkin, and involve partnerships across KU’s campuses and with Kansas State University. Christian Schöneich, a distinguished professor and department chair of pharmaceutical chemistry at KU, said creating the center was one of the main reasons for pursuing Picking as a Foundation Professor. “We knew him, he’s an excellent scientist, he has a nice personality,” Schöneich said. “We thought he would be a great fit.” Also re-joining KU will be Picking’s wife, Wendy, who will come on board as a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry. Like Picking, Wendy earned her Ph.D. from KU, where they met. Also like Picking, she’s spent much of her career studying the Shigella bacteria. At Oklahoma State the two worked in adjacent laboratories and frequently collaborated, authoring several papers together. For Picking, the move to Kansas is a kind of homecoming, but one that will allow him to keep pushing forward the research he launched while in Oklahoma. That opportunity made for an easy choice to come to KU, Picking said. “There wasn’t much decision making to be done.”

The Foundation Professors initiative is funded through the state and has a budget of $3 million a year to pay professors’ salaries. Three out of a planned 12 professors have been hired.

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THE MAX KADE CENTER IS HOME TO KANSAS UNIVERSITY’S Germanic-American Studies and KU’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. The limestone house, which was built in 1927, is at 1134 W. 11th St.

A CAMPUS OF HIDDEN GEMS By Sara Shepherd

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he Campanile towers over Marvin Grove and permeates campus with music. Stately Strong Hall is the centerpiece of Jayhawk Boulevard. And Fraser Hall’s sky-high flagpoles can be seen from miles outside Lawrence. But Kansas University has many view-worthy buildings that aren’t on the beaten path. Here are 10 hidden gems worth scoping out:

The Boathouse 220 Indiana St., in Burcham Park Opened in 2009, the sleek and modern KU Boathouse next to the Kansas River is home to the men’s and women’s rowing teams’ boats and locker rooms. Chamney House and Center for Design Research 2544 Westbrooke Circle Old joins new at this spot, where a stone house and matching barn used by a dairy farm in the early 1900s complement the adjacent Center for Design Research, a modern facility for collaborative research in sustainable energy, dedicated in 2011 and

Daisy Hill, the University Honors Program’s home looks like a concrete shoebox. Inside, the Chancellor’s residence modern building opens into a (The Outlook) livingroom-like walk-out base1532 Lilac Lane ment with a spiral staircase and Built in 1912, this elegant, three- lots of glass overlooking the story, 26-room house was willed slope behind. The 1971 building to KU in 1939 and has been home was designed by Kivett & Myto every chancellor since. ers, a Kansas City, Mo., architecture firm that also designed Hall Center for the Humanities the Kansas City International 900 Sunnyside Ave. Airport and the Royals and Stone arches from KU’s oldest Chiefs stadiums. surviving structure — the 1887 Spencer Research Library powerhouse — were incorporat1450 Poplar Lane ed into this new building dediFrom Jayhawk Boulevard, cated in 2005. Strong Hall eclipses this neoMax Kade Center classical building from view. 1134 W. 11th St. Built of white Indiana limeConcealed by trees on a cul stone, it features a large terrace de sac just off 11th Street, this adjoining it to the back side of mansion is home to the Max Kade Strong and, on the other side, Center for German-American windows overlooking Marvin Studies and KU’s Department of Grove. Germanic Languages and LiteraTwente Hall tures. The limestone house was 1545 Lilac Lane originally built in 1927 for Mervin Originally Watkins Memorial T. Sudler, Lawrence physician, professor of anatomy and dean of Hospital, it opened in January 1932. The unusual splayed-V the Medical School. design of the stone building, by Nunemaker Center State Architect Joseph E. Rado1506 Engel Road tinsky, accommodates its site From its main entrance atop on the edge of the hill. There’s a

designed and built by KU architecture students.

limestone bas-relief of St. George and the Dragon and animals, birds and reptiles carved around the front door.

Wesley Building 1314 Jayhawk Blvd. This mid-century building was first built as the Wesley Foundation Student Center, funded by the United Methodist Church and home to an auditorium, chapel, meeting rooms, lounges and a kitchen. Wilna ‘Willie’ Crawford Community Center 1346 Louisiana St. Juanita Strait, a longtime piano teacher and widow of a physical education professor, befriended many students in the nearby scholarship halls while living in this 1892 house. At her death in 2002, the house was bequeathed to KU Endowment and refurbished into a community center for scholarship hall residents and an office and apartment for their director. Source: KU Places Directory (places. ku.edu/buildings) — Enterprise reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at sshepherd@ljworld.com or 832-7187.

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the construction of two new residence halls on Daisy Hill that they have a webcam trained on the site so people can get online to see how the project is going. “It’s a real exciting project for us,” said Diana Robertson, director of student affairs for KU. “There is a lot of interest in the project from current students and alumni,” she said. To watch the construction, go to http://dept. ku.edu/~dshweb/cam. php The new residence halls are scheduled to be completed and open in August 2015. The five-story halls, which will house about

350 students each, will be located on the western edge of Daisy Hill at 15th and Iowa streets. Once the buildings are completed, McCollum Hall will be demolished and become a parking lot. The total cost of two new buildings and the knock-down of McCollum will be about $48 million. The new halls will house mostly freshmen and will include two- and four-person suites, and some single-occupancy suites. The dorms will also feature a digital production room and study spaces. There will also be a mini-mart.

The last time a new residence hall was built at KU was when Lyndon Johnson was president in 1967. The new halls represent a recognition that the needs and wants of today’s student has changed since the 1960s. The students will have a little more space, more privacy and the two halls will be connected by a commons area that will include areas where students will be able to get academic advice, library services and computer help. “Today’s market is looking for a smaller community for the most part,” Robertson said.

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WORK HAS STARTED ON TWO NEW RESIDENCE HALLS on the western edge of Daisy Hill, at 15th and Iowa, south of Templin Residence Hall and north of Irving Hill Road. The halls will house about 350 students each. These halls will replace McCollum Residence Hall, which will be razed. The last new residence hall built on campus was Oliver Hall in 1967.

Earth, Environment and Energy Center to replace Malott Hall By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild

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A DRAWING OF SLAWSON HALL, part of the Earth, Energy and Environment Center, shows a 95,000 square-foot facility near the corner of Naismith Drive and Jayhawk Boulevard.

Malott Hall hasn’t been around since the earth began to cool, but Kansas University’s main science building at 60 years old is outdated and needs to be replaced, according to KU officials. “This is absolutely a monolith that we have to move people out of to remain competitive,” Provost Jeff Vitter said recently. The university has embarked on an approximately $82 million plan to replace Malott with two buildings that will make up what is being called the Earth, Energy and Environment Center, or EEEC. For this effort, KU has collected about $50 million in private donations and received

approval from the Legislature for $25 million in bonds. KU officials say they hope to break ground on the project in 2015. The school received a big boost in fund-raising for the EEEC in July when the family of the late KU alumnus Donald Slawson made a $16 million lead gift. Slawson Hall will be one of two buildings composing the EEEC. The 95,000 square-foot Slawson Hall, near the corner of Naismith Drive and Jayhawk Boulevard, will include classrooms, auditoriums, laboratories and other multipurpose facilities to foster a wide variety of research. A portion of Slawson Hall will be dedicated to the transfer of discoveries and developments to real-world applications.

The second building, to be named Ritchie Hall in honor of KU alumni and donors Scott and Carol Ritchie, will be about 50,000 square feet. The EEEC will represent the first phase in an $800 million science and technology corridor that is part of KU’s master plan. Vitter also is hoping the construction of the EEEC will help prompt the Legislature to commit to assisting in funding the construction of two other science buildings. Vitter says the creation of new teaching and research space will “attract the best and brightest” to KU. So what will happen to Malott? One wing may be torn down, Vitter says, while the rest of the building is repurposed for offices.

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The Kansas University School of Architecture, Design and Planning might never have had a lecture hall of its own if the school’s students had not built it themselves. John Gaunt, dean of the school and a professor of architecture, said the finances for an addition to Marvin Hall might never have worked out without the school’s Studio 804 program, a yearlong design-and-build course. Costs for the $2 million building would have been nearly double if the school had sought an outside contractor, Gaunt said. At the same time, it took several years for the studio to build up its reputation and credibility across the university and the state, both of which had to approve the project. “It required a kind of planetary alignment,” Gaunt said. The addition, dubbed “The Forum,” will house a 120-seat auditorium and a commons area that will overlay the school’s previous jury room for viewing projects. With the main construction wrapping up in the late summer, The Forum could start holding some classes later in the fall semester. Once open for business, the building will end the long-standing annual hike around campus by students in the school’s lecture classes. “We’re right next to Budig, but that doesn’t mean anything, because Budig is in high demand,” Gaunt said, referring to Budig Hall, home to many a freshman lecture class. The 106-year-old Mar-

vin, once the engineering building at KU, was never built with a large lecture room in mind. Gaunt began pitching and sketching early ideas of a possible Marvin addition a decade ago. The previous summer he finally went to Dan Rockhill, a distinguished professor of architecture and Rockhill director of Studio 804, and asked him, “Can you build this forum?” “It’s not a yes or no proposition,” Rockhill says of the question now. “From the standpoint of could you do it, that was more a matter of the logistics of it.” And the logistics have been complex, to say the least, for the Studio 804 team. The Forum had to be built out of the back of Marvin from the second story. It also had to go through university and Kansas Board of Regents approval as well as building code approval through various phases of the project, which caused regular delays for the team throughout the past year. Studio 804 began the project in the fall. Rockhill’s students have been working with him 12 hours a day, six days a week throughout most of the project. They gave him much of their school breaks and many have stayed on past graduation, even delaying jobs, to see the project through. “I tell them I don’t think I could have done what they’re doing when

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The dirt has been flying to construct two new engineering buildings that will provide an additional 135,000 square feet of space. “This whole expansion is part of the plan to increase the number of bachelor degrees in engineering by more than 50 percent by 2021,” said Engineering Dean Michael Branicky. The $80 million project includes the Engineering Structural Testing and Student Design Center on West Campus, and what is being called the main campus building, which will fit in between Learned Hall, Spahr Library, and the Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center. The four-story Structural Testing building is nearing completion. Stu-

dents will be able to test all kinds of construction materials there, w h i c h Branicky will help in the construction of bridges, roads and buildings. Fronting it is the portion of the building devoted to student design projects where students will be able to experiment. “It is important for students to have a space where they can build whatever they can think up,” Branicky said. The main campus building is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2015 and will include classrooms, teaching labs and what is being called a student success space that will focus on undergraduate recruitment and retention.

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Business is booming at the business incubator on Kansas University’s West Campus. The 21,000-square-foot Bioscience and Technology Business Center, 2029 Becker Drive, that was completed in 2010, filled up with tenants within 18 months. That prompted construction of a $10 million, 30,000 square foot expansion that was completed this summer. “It has been successful so far and I think we are going to do OK,” said Mike Smithyman, director of operations at BTBC. The expansion will accommodate at least

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ast year, the heart of Kansas University was added to the National Register of Historic Places. This year, the register added a second adjacent district featuring residential and religious buildings that were essential to student life. “It complements the academic district by recognizing the resources that complete the university experience — one that’s not just about academics, but about social and spiritual growth as well,” said Rachel Nugent, an associate with Rosin Preservation. Nugent worked on the team that prepared the nomination for the KU East Historic District. The district encompasses about 13 acres at the east edge of campus and includes eight scholarship halls, the chancellor’s residence, Danforth Chapel and the Wesley Building, originally built as a student center with an auditorium, chapel, lounges and meeting rooms for religious, educational and cultural support. Watkins House — now The Outlook, where the chancellor lives — is a personal favorite building of nearby resident and Historic Mount Oread Friends president Dale Slusser. “It’s a beautiful building on

KU East Historic District resources Contributing resources in the KU East Historic District: l Alumni Place and Fountain, 1953 l Battenfeld Scholarship Hall, 1940 l Danforth Chapel, 1946 l Douthart Scholarship Hall, 1954 l Miller Scholarship Hall, 1937 l Pearson Scholarship Hall, 1945 l Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall, 1955 l Sellards Scholarship Hall, 1952 l Sprague Apartments, 1960 l Stephenson Scholarship Hall, 1951 l University Guest House, 1930 l Watkins Scholarship Hall, 1925 l Watkins House, 1912 (The Outlook, now the chancellor’s residence) l Wesley Building, 1954 Noncontributing resources in the district:

l Docking Family Gateway, 2000 l Moses Statue, 1982 l Smith Hall, 1967

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its own, but also the connection with it having been the home of Elizabeth Watkins herself,” he said. Slusser said his organization supported the district’s inclusion on the register. “It’s always nice to have that endorsement recognizing how wonderful our campus is,” he said. “We’re always in favor of historic districts because of the level of protection and the requirement of really careful consideration before making changes on campus.” The National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is the official list of places throughout the United States deemed worthy of historic preservation. The designation doesn’t mean changes can’t be made to them, but certain criteria must be met first. One of the most prominent religious buildings in the district, Smith Hall, home to

KU’s Department of Religious Studies, is a noncontributing resource, but that’s mainly because it’s not old enough, Nugent said. Application could be made for it to be added after it turns 50 years old. The district’s contributing buildings — constructed from 1912 to 1960 — show the evolution of architecture, Nugent said. The Outlook as well as Watkins and Miller scholarship halls are in the neoclassical style, she said. At the north end of the district lie the modern-styled Sprague Apartments, built in 1960, and Wesley Building, built in 1954. “It just marches along the architectural trends,” Nugent said. “Each area is clearly identifiable for its period of construction.” — Enterprise reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at sshepherd@ljworld.com or 832-7187.

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Endowment expects to exceed $1.2 billion goal By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

If the Kansas University Endowment Association had picked as its eight-year fundraising goal a nice round number, say a billion dollars, KU would have hit it already. And two years early. The fundraising campaign, dubbed “Far Above,” began on July 1, 2008, with its first donation of $75. By July 2014, KU Endowment had raised $1.1 billion. That leaves a mere decimal point — albeit a decimal point representing $100 million — left to go before reaching the $1.2 billion target for the campaign, which will wrap up in June 2016. Dale Seuferling, president of KU Endowment, said he anticipates the endowment will beat the $1.2 billion goal before the 2016 deadline and keep going. “We have been very encouraged by the response

DALE SEUFERLING, president of KU Endowment, says, “The university’s goals are resonating with donors.” from donors,” Seuferling said. “The university’s goals are resonating with donors. People are very loyal and willing to be financially supportive of the university.” In recent years, the endowment has seen increasing donations for scholarships, faculty support and professorships, and construction projects. More alumni and other donors are giving, and the average

size of gifts has become larger as well, Seuferling said. Adding to that overall fundraising total are multimillion dollar gifts for major development projects, including the new business school building, the engineering school expansion, the KU Medical Center expansion and the Earth, Energy and Environment Center, a proposed physical sciences facility that could break ground in fall 2015. Even if the KU Endowment hits the $1.2 billion mark early, Seuferling said, his development team will keep pushing on, trying to meet funding needs for faculty, student and graduate education programs as well as other building projects, such as a proposed corridor of science and technology buildings on the Lawrence campus. KU and the endowment’s fundraising prowess have won them a third straight award from

the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE. KU and the University of California-Berkley are the only public universities to have won three CASE awards in the past five years. Seuferling credits his staff, along with university leaders and programs, with fueling fundraising. For donors, he said, “I think they see in the university programs and academic units the opportunity to improve society and advance the human condition.”

Turning alumni into donors Behind the KU Endowment’s effort is a staff of dozens who often travel around the country meeting with KU alumni and potential donors. Nancy Jackson, vice president for strategic development at KU Endowment and head of the College of Liberal Arts and Science’s fundrais-

ing team, said relationships with donors often begin with a phone call to an alumnus — not about money, but about if or how that person feels connected to KU. “It has to feel something like a bizarre cold call,” Jackson admits. But when endowment reps ask alumni if they want to meet to talk more about their posteducation relationship with the university, three out of five say, “Sure, come on over, I’d love to talk to you,” Jackson said. Every so often, someone will agree just to have an ear for airing a grievance about the university. That’s rare, though. More often than not people are friendly and loyal to the university, Jackson said. It’s only after talking about ways that alumni might want to reconnect with the university that questions about giving enter the conversation. “For us, we’re all about discovering what they want to do,” Jackson said.

“If what they want to do is not give to KU, we totally respect that.” For those who do give, many do so out of loyalty — they loved their time at KU, it shaped their life, and they want to give back. Jackson has also noticed a growing trend in what she calls “investment philanthropy.” “They feel like they want to invest in the future of their field, or the state, or KU,” she said. “They want to make a gift that makes a transformative difference.” That includes many, if not all, of the donors who have given to the EEEC project, many of whom were connected to the KU geology department, which has an active advisory board and many alumni in the oil and gas industry. Other donors, Jackson said, benefited from endowed scholarships and programs in the past and feel the need to pay it forward, Jackson said.

KU Med Center looks to future as rankings go up By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild

Despite challenging fiscal times, Kansas University Medical Center’ rankings are improving. As both state and federal revenues tighten, the KU School of Medicine earlier this year jumped 15 spots in both primary care and research in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. Among 153 public and private universities in the survey, KU’s medical school ranks 22nd in primary care (17th out of 86 public schools); and 60th in research (32nd out of 86 public schools). The KU School of Health Professionals had four programs in the top 20 and the School of Nursing had three programs in the top 50. “We’re making good progress on all fronts,” Dr. Doug Girod, executive vice chancellor of KU Medical Center. Girod credits “the quality of our people and our

work,” for the progress. “We do have a lot going on and we are dealing with financial pressures on all fronts,” he said. “This is a unique time in medicine.” In the coming year, officials hope to continue on the long running priority to produce more doctors. Kansas ranks 39th out of the 50 states in the number of doctors per capita. Eighty-nine of Kansas’ 105 counties have a shortage of primary care providers. A new building in Kansas City, Kan., and increasing capacity at the medical school’s Wichita campus will be key to increasing the number of doctors in Kansas, Girod says. Earlier this year, the Legislature approved $25 million in state-backed bonds to help construct a new $75 million health education building. Then in May, the Hall Family Foundation provided a $25 million gift. Groundbreaking for the facility

DOUG GIROD, executive vice chancellor of KU Medical Center, said one of the biggest jobs in the near future is streamlining health care between the medical school, KU Hospital, the University of Kansas Physicians, which is the physicians’ practices group, and 18 clinical departments. could come as early as this spring. KU officials say a new building is needed to train more health care professionals and accommodate a modern curriculum. The currently

used Orr-Major building, which opened in 1976, has $5.3 million in deferred maintenance and its rooms are designed for large lectures instead of the now preferred smallgroup classes, according to KU. Officials also are requesting $2.4 million in additional funding in the next fiscal year and $4.9 million the year after that for the Wichita campus. And Girod said one of the biggest jobs in the near future at KU Med

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KU’s core curriculum entering its second year By Ben Unglesbee news@ljworld.com

This fall, Kansas University’s ambitious undergraduate curriculum overhaul will head into its sophomore year. Called the “KU Core,” the new requirements are the biggest change to hit KU undergraduate education in decades and among the biggest in the university’s history. The new universitywide core curriculum first rolled out in fall 2013. Preceding it was a mad dash by departments to submit courses, and also by the faculty, administrators and students who worked on a committee to approve more than a thousand courses for the new curriculum ahead of the school year.

“I’ve been at KU for 23 years, and I was surprised the university could move this quickly and this effectively on such a big project,” said KU journalism professor C h u c k Marsh, who sat on the C o r e committee at Marsh the time. “The pace was just frenetic.” The committee overseeing the new curriculum approved 1,300 courses for the KU Core’s first semester. They approved another 55 courses in the spring and 79 new courses for the fall 2014 semester,

according to KU Public Affairs. Meant to give students flexibility and boost learning outcomes, the Core comprises 36 hours that are required for all students and revolve around six key learning goals. Those goals are: critical thinking and quantitative literacy; communication; breadth of knowledge; culture and diversity; social responsibility and ethics; and integration and creativity. Students have a wide menu to choose from to meet the goals, which are spread throughout a student’s college career. And the lower number of requirements overall can make double majoring easier. Departments across

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the university submitted courses they thought met a certain goal, often making tweaks to courses to demonstrate they met the goal and ensure passage into the KU Core. As time goes on, courses will be regularly assessed to make sure they continue to meet a goal’s criteria. For some goals, students can fill a requirement with out-of-class experiences such as study abroad or volunteer service. The new curriculum has applied to all new freshman since last fall. Sophomores last year had the chance to opt in, and by summer 2014 nearly 1,400 had done so, according to the public affairs office. Ann Cudd, vice provost for undergraduate stud-

ies and administrative head of the Core committee, said in the spring Cudd that student reaction to the new curriculum and its flexibility had been positive. Cudd’s office has been gathering feedback from new students, but gauging the opinions of freshman can be difficult since they don’t know any different, Cudd said. “For the students, they’re just taking this in stride, I think,” she said. Will Admussen, a KU sophomore in political science and economics who sat on the Student

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University’s World War I commemoration underway 4-year event to be part of global dialogue By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

Kansas University this spring kicked off its commemoration of World War I. And just as the war did a century ago, this commemoration will last four years. The university already has played host to speakers, a Twitter project reenacting the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and a screening of the film “The White Ribbon.” The upcoming year’s events include special classes, speakers, musical performances, visual art displays and more. The commemoration is coordinated by the European Studies Program. The goal, said Lorie Vanchena, chairwoman of the planning group, is to have a range of programming that will be of interest to the university, city, state and national and international communities. Many historians believe that World War I “is the reason for just about everything in our world today,” said Vanchena, who also is academic director of KU’s European Studies Program and associate professor in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. She said KU’s commemoration will be part of a worldwide dialogue. “It’s an opportunity certainly to pay tribute to scholarship and research that is going on around the world about this important conflict, to help our students learn about the importance of a conflict that perhaps doesn’t get as much attention traditionally as World War II, and to highlight the resources we have on campus,” she said. Since the commemoration will last four years, organizers especially want to attract incoming freshmen to special classes and research opportunities. A new freshman seminar offered through the Humanities and Western Civilization and European Studies programs, “How World War I Changed the World,” has already filled up, Vanchena said. Other things planned so far:

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THESE ARTWORKS ARE PART of a World War I exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art. Above: 1917 untitled painting by Maximilien Luce of wounded soldiers arriving in Paris. Top right: Fernand A. Laval’s 1919 painting of the Arc de Triomphe. Bottom right: JosephFelix Bouchor’s 1915 untitled portrait of an aviator.

Many historians believe that World War I “is the reason for just about everything in our world today.”

& The End of Empires,” a display within the “Empire of Things” permanent exhibit, features a series of French paintings depicting scenes and people from the war. It will be on view throughout the academic year. The paintings come from a gift of more than 3,000 pieces of WWI era art that the Spencer received earlier this year. The process of formally taking the new pieces into the museum’s collection will take years, associate director and senior curator Stephen Goddard said, but he hopes to display more of the artworks on a smaller scale throughout the commemoration, and possibly showcase some of them online. Goddard said the museum also can draw from works already in its permanent collection, Art some of which were disAt the Spencer Muse- played in a 2010 exhibium of Art, “World War I tion titled, “Machine in a

“Things will develop Void: World War I & the over time, but we plan Graphic Arts.” to work hard to keep Music the momentum going,” At 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 at Vanchena said. the Lied Center, cellist Joshua Roman will join the KU Symphony Orlas chestra in a performance es Ga Parti that includes a concerto ay isers d i l ies Ho ndra mon by Edward Elgar. Written re Fu e C in the aftermath of WWI, ard Aw the concerto expresses the composer’s sadness at s ay s what had transpired, acthd nion Bir u e cording to the Lied Cents ly r n i m me s Fa ter. A preperformance tire sarie ies Re on er v m i talk at 6:30 p.m. will fea- Cere ings n n A dd inners ture orchestra conductor We lD rs rsa e a rs w e David Neely and WWI ina ts Reh al Sho em trea d i S r commemoration organize B g R n i s g in g ers. To purchase tickets, Tra uildin etin ots B Me Sho m s s a go online to lied.ku.edu o e t Te sin ho Bu dP or call 864-2787. an Film The Lied also hopes to commission a work by an eastern European musician, and is working with KU’s Center for Russian, Rustic Modernism • Vaulted Ceilings • Patio & Gardens • Private Parking East European and EurSpecialty Lighting • State of the Art Audio Visual • Locally Sourced Menus asian Studies to do so, said Anthea Scouffas, enFull On-site Commercial Kitchen • Conveniently Located gagement/education diCompetitively Priced • Full Event Planningw rector for the Lied.

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Osher institute hopes 10-year anniversary coincides with new grant Courses cater to people 50 and older By Stephen Montemayor

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Kansas University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will celebrate its 10th anniversary this fall. But director Jim Peters hopes the Nov. 14 party at the Lied Center will have a double cause: welcoming the institute’s second $1 million grant. One of 120 Osher institutes offering university level courses to people older than 50, Kansas University’s is the only one in the Sunflower State. Osher’s KU institute had 500 members when it received its first $1 million grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation, in 2007. Today, Peters said, Osher will soon eclipse the 3,000-member mark. “We’ve tripled membership the last three years,” Peters said. Its reach has also expanded: Osher will offer 72 classes this fall at 32 sites in 18 cities. KU’s Osher Institute has an imprint beyond the northeast Kansas and Kansas City area, provid-

FERN NETTLETON, a student in the “Joyful Singing” course, performs with her classmates last October at the Osher Institute. program for seniors, Peters said the average age of Osher students in Kansas is north of 77. “The way we look at this,” Peters said, “is a lot of members try to enrich their lives in taking courses perhaps they couldn’t take when they were younger. ... You’re seeing them taking topics they never had the chance to learn because they were working all the time.” Courses are typically three two-hour sessions — long enough, Peters said, to drill down without a long-term commitment. ‘Kansas history The most popular subis the favorite’ ject matter? Calling it the univer“It’s very clear: history sity’s premier outreach courses,” he said. “Kansas ing classes at sites as far as Hutchinson and Washington. In 2010, Peters said, Osher even began offering courses in Manhattan, a rare partnership between KU and Kansas State University. Membership is among the foundation’s criteria for being considered for a $1 million grant, paid to the university’s endowment. The ability to successfully fundraise is also a requirement. Peters said KU’s Osher Institute raised $25,000 as part of a campaign last fall and plans another this coming fall.

history is the favorite.” Both current and former professors — about 120 in all — from KU, Washburn, UMKC and other universities volunteer their time to teach, Peters said. “We are very blessed,” Peters said. Peters said professors often clamor to teach Osher courses because of the students who “bring with them 60 to 70 years of life experience and really contribute a lot.” Peters said instructors often allow students to direct the course of the classes. “It’s very interactive,” he said. “Most folks are not shy. They ask questions but also challenge assertions.”

‘10 and Then’ Peters said much of the institute’s growth in recent years can be attributed to a two-yearold partnership with the

KU Alumni Association, whereby the association distributes Osher’s annual course catalogs to its members, who can receive discounts on classes in return. One out of every eight new members, Peters added, are also alumni association members. He relayed a story, one that often repeats itself, in which he visits a class and asks new faces how they heard about Osher. A catalog in the mail is the most common answer. Many, Peters said, hadn’t heard of Osher before. Catalogs are now also being sent to members of Washburn University and Kansas State’s alumni associations. Marketing has also played a key role in boosting Osher’s numbers in Kansas. Two years ago, the foundation awarded KU’s institute a grant to recruit and market its programs — with much

of that money going into its catalogs, Peters said. “People have responded to it,” he said. “You’re bound to come across some topics that are of interest to you.” If Osher’s 10-year anniversary party’s theme is to celebrate a new $1 million grant, Peters said, the use of those funds will go toward more expansion efforts. “There are plenty of places in Kansas we are not,” Peters said. Peters is eyeing partnerships with Fort Hays State, Pittsburg State and Emporia State. He said he has also met with every community college president in Kansas, each of them expressing interest in Osher. That’s why he’s calling the November celebration “10 and Then.” “We’re going to celebrate the last 10 years, but we’re also going to plan the next 10 years,” Peters said.

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Get the lowdown on KU campus folklore By Joanna Hlavacek Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

o, you want to be a Jayhawk? If you’re going to spend the next four (or more) years atop Mount Oread, there are a few things you should know. Yes, Wescoe Hall is ugly, but it wasn’t always meant to be that way. Unless you don’t plan on graduating, avoid walking through the Campanile at all costs. Potter Lake may be pretty to look at, but there’s a whole lot going on under the surface. And finally, what’s up with those rumors about Strong Hall being built backward? You’re about to find out. Here are just a few of the legends, myths and little-known facts that make up Kansas University’s long and fascinating history. With nearly 150 years under its belt, this university has more than a few secrets to share.

Wescoe: the ‘stain’ on campus Passing by Wescoe Hall, situated between the Gothic-style Budig Hall and the Romanesque Stauffer-Flint Hall, you may get the distinct feeling that one of these things is not like the other. The boxy building has long been the butt of jokes for its “bunker-like appearance,” as one University Daily Kansan article described it in 2002. Wescoe’s reputation as the cam-

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DESPITE PERSISTENT MYTHS, WESCOE HALL — seen from Strong Hall and across Jayhawk Boulevard, which is being renovated this summer — was never intended to be a parking garage or a bunker, but was originally planned as a 25-story skyscraper. pus eyesore may have contributed to “I get asked that a lot,” Reid said. According to the KU History article, a popular rumor that it was originally Instead, university officials first “From Sky-soar to Eyesore,” the strucplanned as a parking garage, said Mike conceived of Wescoe Hall as a 25-story ture was meant to serve as a centralized Reid, director of the KU History proj- skyscraper when plans for the building ect. were unveiled in 1967. Please see MYTHS, page 4

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building for KU’s humanities departments. With its proposed 149 rooms, 487 faculty offices, a 300-seat auditorium and 150 parking spaces, Wescoe would have been, at 280 feet, the tallest building in Kansas and the third-tallest educational building in the country. Alas, by late 1969, officials scrapped the 25-story plan after running into funding issues. And, in the midst of mounting pressure to expand classroom space, new architects were hired to draft a more economical design.

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The result — a 400-foot-long, four- bell tower on commencement day, story concrete building — was com- an annual ritual that has endured for pleted in 1974. more than 60 years. The tradition soon spawned an A Campanile curse equally revered superstition that reThe World War II Memorial Caril- mains prevalent among students and lon and Campanile were built to hon- alumni today. or the 277 men and women from the It’s been said that any student who university who had given their lives in walks through the Campanile before World War II. commencement day is doomed not to The 120-foot-tall tower, with its graduate. Kansas limestone walls and 53-bell Obviously, there’s no data to support carillon, was called “the finest musi- this claim. Still, the legend has done an cal instrument of its kind west of Chi- effective job of inspiring — or terrifycago” by the Kansas City Star upon its ing — countless KU students over the completion in 1950. years. KU’s Class of 1950 was the first “I do think it was passed on to engroup of students to pass through the courage students to do everything they

needed to do to graduate,” Reid said.

Backward building Another popular myth: Strong Hall — the stately administrative building along Jayhawk Boulevard — was built backward. “People say they made a mistake and built it the wrong way,” Reid said. “That’s not true, either.” The 1904 Kessler campus development plan included a site for a building to house administrative offices and arts and sciences classrooms. Architect H.P. McArdle envisioned a Renaissance-style structure with east Please see MYTHS, page 6

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and west wings as well as a central rotunda with a colonnade, according to the Historic Mount Oread Friends. The design shows the building facing Jayhawk Boulevard, just as the finished Strong Hall does today. Part of the confusion surrounding Strong Hall, Reid said, stems from the 13 years it took to complete the building. “Before the Spencer Research Library was built, it (Strong Hall) looked similar on both sides,” Reid said. “It was many years before they built the central and western portions.” Its east wing was completed first, in 1911, followed by the west wing in 1918 and the center section in 1923.

Potter Lake’s murky past During the warm spring months, it’s not uncommon to see a student or two sunbathing on the shores of KU’s Potter Lake. The chances of seeing anyone in the lake, however, are slim. This wasn’t always the case.

Originally devised for fire safety, Potter Lake provided piped-in water supplemented with channeled drainage and natural springs and a never-used, motor-driven pump, according to the Historic Mount Oread Friends. The lake quickly became a popular swimming spot after opening in 1911, and “people came from all over” to enjoy. In those early years, James Naismith organized several “regatta-style races” on the lake and even built a seven-hole golf course around it, Reid said. A diving tour, springboard and pier were among its amenities. A KU basketball player was hired as the lake’s lifeguard at one point. After a few short years, however, the fun came to an end. Seven drownings, as well as health problems caused by polluted water, caused officials to ban swimming in 1924, according to a KU History article titled “A Lake’s Progress.” Potter Lake has remained closed to swimmers ever since, and should stay that way, in Reid’s opinion. “It’s overloaded with aquatic plants and runoff from the campus, so you don’t want to swim in it,” he said.

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You and your car on campus By Joanna Hlavacek Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

single Kansas University parking ticket costs $25. That money could buy three six-packs of semi-decent beer, four medium Domino’s pizzas or an almostbut-not-quite lifetime supply of Top Ramen, just to throw out a few college cliches. These tickets may be easy to accumulate, but they can be just as easy to avoid, said KU Parking director Donna Hultine. Hultine’s first piece of advice for students bringing cars to campus: Buy a permit. All campus lots require a permit, and one size does not fit all. Consult the downloadable map at parking.ku.edu to find the lot that fits your needs. Permits can be purchased online at parking. ku.edu and mailed to recipients. Once you’ve bought your permit, study up. “I think a lot of students don’t completely understand where they can park with their permit,” Hultine said. “When they get their permit, there’s a little ‘Parking 101’ brochure in the envelope. If they get that, they really should be able to avoid a ticket.”

Even with a permit, you still have to pay all parking meters. There is no free parking on campus during the week, so don’t even try. Most lots open to vehicles without permits after 5 p.m., but not all. To know for sure, check out the sign at the entrance of every parking lot that indicates the hours and required permit. Planning a visit with family or friends? You’re in luck. Hultine said the lots near residence halls open up during the weekends, regardless of permit status. In case you’re issued a ticket after all this, ignoring it won’t make it go away. The ticket becomes due immediately, and it automatically puts a hold on your enrollment and transcript. Even worse, three unpaid tickets that are more than 10 business days old will result in the vehicle being towed from campus. Tickets can be paid online at parking.ku.edu. Still, there are options if you feel your ticket is unjustified. First-time offenders can redeem themselves with a firsttime ticket forgiveness quiz at parking.ku.edu. After that, appeals can be

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Getting around Lawrence Here are a few things to remember about getting around town: Streets named after U.S. states run north/south, and numbered streets run east/west. Iowa, 23rd and Massachusetts streets are generally the busiest in Lawrence, so if it’s rush hour and you’re running late, consider avoiding those. If you think you’ll be able to dodge construction zones, think again. The City of Lawrence provides weekly construction updates at lawrenceks.org/construction, as does the JournalWorld every Sunday. Here are a few ongoing projects to have on your radar: l Crews have moved into the next phase of a project that will add a turn lane to the intersection of Sixth and Iowa. Sixth Street will be widened for the installation of a dedicated westbound left turn lane. The outside westbound lane of Sixth Street will be closed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, for

construction work north of the intersection. There will be two lanes available for east- and westbound traffic before 9 a.m. and after 4 p.m. on weekdays and all times on weekends. Traffic speeds are reduced at this time. l Construction continues on intersection improvements at 23rd and Iowa. Traffic will be shifted to the south side of the intersection to construct the next phase of the intersection. Each approach to the intersection will have a dedicated left turn lane and one through lane. There will not be two lanes for westbound traffic. The entire 23rd and Iowa project is due for completion in November. l Eastbound and westbound 31st Street from Louisiana Street to Ousdahl Road and Louisiana Street, just south of 31st Street, will be closed to all traffic. Motorists will be able to turn north on Louisiana from 31st Street or east on 31st Street from Louisiana.

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Some helpful KU Twitter accounts to follow The social media site can be a noisy, crowded place. So, with help from our news@ljworld.com own Twitter followers, we’ve como, you’ve done the campus tour, piled a list of some of the must-follow read through the bombardment accounts for navigating life as a Jayof Kansas University brochures hawk. and sat through orientation. You’ve had no shortage of sources telling you @KUNews Followers (as of July): 37,600 what your KU experience will be like. What it’s about: With scores of folNow you’re here, you’re enrolled, you’ve found a place to live — your lowers, the official Twitter account of campus experience has started. It’s KU has a far reach. It tweets on everytime to figure out what’s going on at thing from basketball to research on KU day to day so you can get the most DNA fingerprinting. The staff members who manage the account love from the experience. To get the KU skinny, Twitter can be their hash tags, photos and audience a useful resource, provided you know interaction. But it’s certainly not the last official word from the university. where to look. By Ben Unglesbee

KU has hundreds of social media accounts for its many departments. To find more, go to connect.ku.edu. Sample tweet: “Want to lead a company? KU alumni include CEOs of @Ford & @ kroeger. #KUfacts” — June 23

You can call, email, text or tweet your questions to the service. Sample tweet: “August 21 is the first day you can move in to the res. halls. But it is not the ONLY day you can move in. You have all weekend. #KUDSH” — June 24

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Followers: 3,939 What it’s about: This is the tweeting arm of KU’s university-based information service. The meaning of life, according to KU Info, has two central features: Information is king, and KU is the best place on Earth. So, KU Info is out to make life better by providing information about the university.

Followers: 2,893 What it’s about: The Student Union Activities board has planned programming at KU for 75 years. The studentrun board brings hundreds of cultural, fine arts, music and other sorts of activities to KU every year. Their Please see TWITTER, page 9

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feed will give you a heads up on what they’re doing next on campus. Sample tweet: “Head to the SMRC now to listen to Sikh Captain America and his talk on the Sikh community and social identity! Starts at 5!” — April 17

@KansanNews Followers: 9,206 What it’s about: For student-oriented news at KU, check out the Twitter feed of the University Daily Kansan, KU’s student paper. Follow it for breaking campus news, multimedia, sports and reporting on KU and Lawrence. Sample tweet: “Memorial Stadium is saying goodbye to its track, which is

being demolished today.” — June 25.”

@KUSenate/@KUPresident Followers: 1,407/1,563 What it’s about: These are the official accounts of KU’s Student Senate and student body president. Both are sources for news from KU’s student government and a venue to engage with student governance at the university. Sample tweet: “Join us in a discussion on student safety at KU tomorrow at 1pm in Alcove F of the Kansas Union, we’d love your input! #RockChalkSafeHawk” — June 11

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university-related history fodder for KU History Today. A project of KU Memorial Unions, the online history service pools together facts from across the university’s archives. Every day, KU History Today posts happenings at KU on that day in years past. Sample tweet: “1913-A construction worker on Strong Hall loses his hand & receives numerous injuries when dynamite explodes. Dr. Naismith helps save him.” — May 26.

Followers: 6,745 What it’s about: KU Jayhawk Probz is a basketball-heavy compendium of tweeted and retweeted problems, observations and general complaints about and from KU. Warning: Sometimes tweets adult language. Sample tweet: “First middle tables @LJW_KU Followers: 3,907 2nd floor Schutz (i.e., Anschutz) need What it’s about: This is your home to quiet down! Like seriously I can @FreeFoodAtKU hear your conversation though my for the Journal-World’s KU coverage Followers: 5,127 headphones” — May 13, retweeted on Twitter. Call it shameless self-proWhat it’s about: The name is a pret- message from @LDreesen motion if you like, but we are talking ty good clue. Free Food At KU tweets about Twitter after all. out any and all free food stuffs that can @kuhistorytoday Sample tweet: “Here’s just about Followers: 2,680 be found by KU students in Lawrence. everything you need to know about What it’s about: KU has been around #KU’s Commencement this weekend” The feed is dedicated to providing the best intelligence for getting pizza, for almost 150 years. That’s quite a bit of — May 15

Thank you, Jayhawk donors! Your generosity earned the University of Kansas a national fundraising award for the third year in a row. 2014 Circle of Excellence Educational Fundraising Award winner from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education • Other recipients among 65 public universities were the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. • Among public universities, only KU and the University of California-Berkeley have received this honor three times in the last ﬁve years, which also qualiﬁed KU for the CASE Sustained Excellence in Educational Fundraising Award.

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Get acquainted with navigating campus by foot A KU STUDENT walks past a row of sculptures near the Art and Design Building. Several resources are available for helping you find your way on foot across campus.

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rocrastination is not your friend in college. While that may apply to schoolwork, it’s also true for knowing your way around campus. That being said, here’s a piece of advice to incoming Jayhawks: Don’t wait until the last minute to find your classes. If you live in a residence hall, grab your class schedule and ask a housing staffer to go through a practice route with you before the semester starts. The folks at KU Info are a great resource, too, and can be reached at 8643506 or at multiple locations across the Kansas University campus, including their main booth on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. Still confused? KU’s Office of De-

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sign and Construction Management provides a helpful map that estimates how long it may take you to walk from one point on campus to another. Each red circle indicates a five-minute walk from a spot you might consider the center of campus: the middle of Jayhawk Boulevard, near Strong and Wescoe halls. Factoring in KU’s fa-

mous hills may change your estimated time of arrival slightly, but this map will help calculate a rough estimate. Assuming that most people can walk roughly a quarter-mile every five minutes, the map gives an idea of how long it may take an average student to travel from a geography lecture in Lindley Hall to a religion class in

Smith Hall. Answer: about 15 minutes, if you hustle. If you’re looking for a more scenic walk around campus, KU Recreation Services offers maps of walking routes ranging from 1 to 2 miles. Find the maps online at recreation.ku.edu/ campus-walking-maps. And, when all else fails, there’s Google. Here are a few estimated on-campus walk times, courtesy of Google Maps: l Lewis Residence Hall to Watson Library: 17 minutes (0.8 miles). l Kansas Union to Allen Fieldhouse: 14 minutes (0.7 miles). l Corbin Residence Hall to Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center: 23 minutes (1.1 miles) l Wescoe Hall to Watkins Memorial Health Center: 6 minutes (0.3 miles)

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Students can think global, eat local on KU campus By Joanna Hlavacek Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

ollege diets have long been associated with fast, uninspired fare — think greasy pizzas, watery beer and flavorless fries — but the folks at Kansas University are working to change that, one sushi roll at a time. Spurred by results from a student survey, last year KU Dining Services launched several new concepts and rebranded some old favorites, many of them influenced by world cuisine. These days, the KU campus boasts a variety of ethnic food options, from Italian to Indian to Thai. At The Market, on the third floor of the Kansas Union, there’s Sushi With Gusto, Serrano’s Latin Cuisine and World Kitchen International Comfort Food. Whether you’re an international student hungry for a taste of home or a corn-fed Kansan looking to expand your taste buds, these spots are worth a visit.

bestsellers, but that doesn’t mean Sushi With Gusto chefs won’t cater to more adventurous eaters. Most dishes start with a base of cucumber, avocado and cooked rice, said Lake, and then veer off with different ingredients. The assorted nigiri, served with a sliver of raw fish on top, could feature anything from tuna or salmon to barbecued eel. Sushi with Gusto’s signature dish? The Jayhawk roll, of course — made with cooked white rice, spicy tuna salad, hot sauce, sesame oil, green onion, imitation crab meat and cream cheese.

Serrano’s Latin Cuisine Lake describes Serrano’s Latin Cuisine as “our version of a Chipotle or a Baja Fresh,” a fast yet fresh spin on Latin cooking. Formerly known as Quesarito, the counter serves up familiar favorites like burritos, tacos and carnitas while also exploring more gourmet fare. Lake said he’s especially proud of the rotating roster of daily specials. For $6.95 a plate, students can sample arroz con pollo, shrimp paella or, for those looking to go off the beaten path, there’s a Peruvian street food called anticuchos — adobo-glazed chicken on a skewer, served with potatoes and daikon radish slaw. “It’s stuff you can’t find at a lot of restaurants around, it’s authentic, and it’s for a good price,” he said.

Sushi With Gusto Like its twin location at Wescoe Hall’s The Underground, Sushi With Gusto offers up more than a dozen varieties of the Japanese seafood staple. “It’s made fresh every day,” says Keith Lake, manager of The Market. “The chef comes in at about 4 in the morning, gets everything prepared and then makes the sushi.” As one might expect from a sushi place, vegetarians have plenty of World Kitchen International options here. Lake said the “main- Comfort Food At World Kitchen International stream” items, like the California roll and vegetable roll, tend to be Comfort Food, you’ll find exactly

what its name implies: a sampling of tasty foods from around the globe. “It’s different from your everyday hamburgers and sandwiches,” Lake said. “All these items are prepared from scratch from our kitchen.” Offering a different menu each day of the week, the counter rotates between mostly Italian, M e d i t e r ra nean, American and Indian cuisines, using local ingredients as often as possible. Meat, vegetarian and vegan options are available daily. The “homestyle” dishes, though popular with locals, are a nod to KU’s growing international population, Lake said. “Those are the items the international students want to try, for the intrigue of ‘What is that?’” Lake said of American favorites like fried chicken. “Italian food is so common here that it’s almost American to us, but for somebody that comes from China or South America, they don’t know what eggplant parmesan is.” For those who want to eat well on a budget, Lake recommends the “Student Saver meal.” A Mediterranean-spiced roasted chicken breast with a side item and a dinner roll will set you back five bucks.

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actual pronunciations are different from what a non-KU cultured student may expect. So how do you figure out the correct way to pronounce a name? KU’s building directory is online, at www.buildings.ku.edu, and it includes a guide to how the university administration wants the buildings’ names to be pronounced. But there still is controversy and confusion. There are alternative pronunciations based on what students and community members call the buildings. The names of three places on campus that are questioned most often: Haworth Hall (HAH-worth), the Campanile (camp-uh-NEE-lee) and Fraser Hall (FRAY-zer).

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he Best of Lawrence contest, sponsored by Lawrence.com and the JournalWorld, has almost 120 categories, including almost any service or community fixture you can think of: pizza, hair stylist, restaurant, bookstore, coffee, local band, food delivery, hiking and biking trails, local events and more. Thousands of people vote for their favorite Lawrence things every year. On the following pages, you’ll find categories of special interest to the KU community. For the entire Best of Lawrence list, go online to lawrence.com.

n a town packed with game day gear, Kansas Sampler store manager Kathy Mattan said it’s imperative to offer anything and everything to her customers. From Jayhawk water jugs to Wildcat wind chimes, Kansas Sampler has almost anything regional sports fans could imagine. Mattan attributes the store’s success to its buying department, which allows customers to send notes requesting memorabilia of all sorts. “We try to have everything for everybody,” Mattan said. “Not only do we cater to KU fans, but we carry Sporting KC, Royals, Chiefs, KState and Kansas souvenirs.” To keep up with the demand for sports gear in a college town, Kansas Sampler also makes its own exclusively designed shirts. Currently, Mattan said it’s the Kansas Sampler-made “10 Straight” T-shirt that is flying off the racks. “We always want the hottest, newest stuff,” Mattan said. “Some-

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The best bookstore The Dusty Bookshelf 708 Massachusetts St.

hannon Jones says it’s common for businesses to thank their customers for their success. But in the case of The Dusty Bookshelf, there’s more to it than that. “Most of our stock comes from the community,” she said of the used book store. “The store is based on who our customers are and who our neighbors are. That’s what makes us stand out a little bit more.” Since 1996, those customers have been the ones bringing in books they want to sell or trade, and buying the books that others have enjoyed once and passed along. The result is a bookstore in the heart of downtown Lawrence that typically has upwards of 60,000 titles on the shelf, spanning nearly every genre. Sadly, though, one thing customers will no longer find in the store, but which had been a fixture, is the famous cat Alice, who passed away earlier this year.

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GISELLE GHADYANI sorts piles of books at the Dusty Bookshelf in downtown Lawrence. “That definitely was something that showed how much of a community-based store we are,” Jones said. As the news spread, the store was overcome with sympathy cards and comments from what she calls the “Fans of Alice.” “I guess I wasn’t shocked, but really heartened by all the comments and everyone coming in. I really saw how much our

customers loved Alice.” That kind of loyalty and sense of community may help explain why the Dusty Bookshelf has been voted the best bookstore two years in a row.

Runners up: l The Raven l Lawrence Public Library

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The best coffee La Prima Tazza 638 Massachusetts St.

ome drink their coffee leisurely in the morning with a French pastry and a newspaper. Others need it mainlined into their bloodstream. But regardless of where you land on the scale of coffee enjoyment, La Prima Tazza is Lawrence’s choice for fulfilling its caffeinated desires. It’s the first and oldest coffee shop in town, Manager Nicole Reiz said. “We’ve kept a very strong local following and been very consistent.” And that consistency pays off. It’s a charming place, with a wellworn tile floor that complements the dark wood counter carrying loads of coffee beans and displays of delicious treats. The gleaming espresso machine (the best in town, Reiz said) churns out the quality espresso they’re known

for, while the chalkboard menu displays other classic beverages that Lawrencians love to choose from (like the popular, minty-fresh Iced Grasshopper). In addition to the coffee, the atmosphere keeps customers coming back. “We let our baristas deejay in there,” Reiz said. “It gives every shift its own flavor.” The shop staffs one barista at a time behind the counter, so regulars get a special kind of service, Reiz said. “Our customers get to know us very well and it fosters the atmosphere. We know your drink order and we know you by name.” By staying true to its roots and making some great coffee, La Prima Tazza has made itself the place for coffee lovers of all kinds.

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The best delivery Pizza Shuttle 1601 W. 23rd St., No. 119

Everything at Pizza Shuttle (842-1212) is made from scratch and freshly prepared, explains Gretchen, who routinely makes the drive down Kansas Highway 10 to owhere in Kansas is it tougher to be 23rd Street to chop her own toppings by hand. in the delivery business than But how does Pizza Shuttle pull off its Lawrence. Take 89,000 outlaw flawless, lightning-fast delivery? artists, discriminating retirees and “We try to pay our people well,” townies, throw in 25,000 landlocked Gretchen says. “We give our drivundergrads, and see whether you ers bonuses, and we have enough so can keep everyone happy. no one has to wait very long. That Owners Gretchen and Bill Longmakes it special. mire and their intrepid crew at Piz“I get so emotional because we za Shuttle not only do that, but also are so fortunate,” she adds. “We churn out some truly killer pizza in work our butts off, everybody that the process. No wonder our readers votworks with us works their butts off. ed them Best of Lawrence 2014 for delivery. “It’s just our giant Pizza Shuttle family. The Longmires, who live in Overland Park, We’re so grateful for our customers. It’s just such jumped into the pizza biz in 2002 and never looked a nice business to have.” back. Runners up: “It was something totally different for us,” Gretchl Jimmy John’s en says. “We’ve just been very, very blessed. You l Minsky’s Pizza know how it is: Lawrence is awesome.”

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kick it up a little more. Burns said a fan favorite is the Elvis Burger, topped with banana foam, peanut butter and, if you’d like, bacon (making it the Fat Elvis). And a ground pork patty topped with blue cheese, spicy deep-fried pork belly, pancetta, peach jam, chicharrones and smoked bacon bits makes the infamous Porknado. The creativity doesn’t stop at burgers. There are plenty of fries, drinks and other main meals that get the same treatment, but it’s the burgers that stand out. And it’s that wild variety that helped The Burger Stand at the Casbah take the best burger title four years in a row. “I’ve been all over the country and they’re my favorite burgers,” Burns said. “It’s why I work here.”

Runners up: l Dempsey’s Burger Pub l Burgers by Bigg’s

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The best bakery WheatFields Bakery Cafe 904 Vermont St.

ne could argue that the hallmark of an amazing bakery is not just wonderful breads and pastries, but how soon the day’s supply is gone. And if you’ve ever been to WheatFields Bakery Cafe, you know they run out pretty quickly. WheatFields opened in 1995, and its wood-fired oven is the base of all the food that comes out of the kitchen. “We focus on being an artisan

bakery café, making everything in-house with skilled hands,” manager Amy Savoie said. “We have an excellent group of employees who work very hard to make each product the best.” Everything the bakery makes, from breakfast to baguettes, is worth waiting for in the winding line that leads out the front door. But it’s the bread the bakers make every day that keeps earning WheatFields the best bakery title, going strong since 2011. Depending on the day of the

week you come in, the bakers are hard at work, kneading dough and popping it in the oven to make that day’s special variety of bread. And they make most any kind you can think of: baguettes, ciabatta, multi-grain, sourdough, olive loaves and many more. It’s hard to decide which item is the best, Savoie said, but WheatFields’ cinnamon rolls and croissants are near the top of the list. With additional, delicious options like biscuits and gravy and turkey with cranberry relish, WheatFields has made its way to Lawrence’s heart through its stomach.

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s we live a life of ease, every one of us has all we need... except maybe an amazing sub. All Beatles jokes aside, Yello Sub has been a Lawrence institution since 1979, general manager Nic Beck said. Their staying power comes from the care the sandwich makers put into their work. “The people that work here have a passion for it,” he said. “We’re doing good work here.” With all different types of meats, veggies and vegetarian options like tofu, Yello Sub sandwiches range from deli classics like a cheese steak to meatless delights like the Veggie Grinder. “We have a lot of ingredients people don’t have,” Beck said, calling out the tempeh varieties in particular.

The Tempeh Parmesan sandwich includes tempeh (a tofulike substance made with whole, cooked soybeans with a lot of protein), provolone cheese, marinara sauce and Parmesan. But the namesake sandwich, the Yello Sub, made of ham, roast beef, turkey, Swiss cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, Dijon mustard and mayonnaise, is the hallmark of the sandwich shop. Put it all on bread made daily from scratch in the Yello Sub bakery and “that definitely sets us apart,” Beck said. The decor makes diners feel like they’re living beneath the waves in a yellow submarine. Sandwich lovers certainly go to Yello Sub for the best sandwich in Lawrence.

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n a warm spring day in Lawrence, it’s a common sight to see Cielito Lindo’s courtyard packed with customers sipping margaritas and munching on tortilla chips under the shade of umbrellas. The Mexican restaurant’s reasonable drink prices combined with its laid-back atmosphere make it one of the most popular outdoor dining options in Lawrence, assistant manager Rene Garcia said. Well, that and the size of its patio. The area can hold dozens of patrons, a contrast to most downtown establishments that may have “four or five tables” for those who wish to dine al fresco. “First of all, there’s a lot of space. It’s one of the biggest patios in Lawrence,” Garcia says. “I see people drinking on the patio a lot. There are some that come just to chill out and socialize with friends.”

And of course, people come for the food, too. The menu boasts a variety of Mexican staples such as enchiladas, fajitas and quesadillas and includes plenty of kid-friendly and vegetarian options. Garcia said the burrito aranda — a massive 10-inch bundle of rice, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and a choice of chicken, steak or shrimp, all topped with a generous helping of cheese sauce — has remained a consistent bestseller over the years. Ultimately, the “focus on good service and good food” is what sets Cielito Lindo apart from its competitors, Garcia says. “We actually know about 70 percent of our customers. We know them by name and they know us,” he says. “We try to make customers feel welcome and like they’re at home.”

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