KU’s best educators to be honored at game

Five Kansas University faculty members will be honored as Outstanding Educators at the end of the first quarter of Saturday’s home football game against Kansas State University.

Mortar Board, a national senior honor society, selects the annual winners based on devotion to academia, teaching style, accessibility and knowledge of their subject matter.

KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway will join Mortar Board members in honoring the faculty members on the field. The winners will be honored during a reception at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union.

Vigil scheduled to oppose military action against Iraq

Women in Black will hold a vigil this weekend to oppose war against Iraq.

The women will gather at 1 p.m. Saturday at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.

The worldwide network of women against war, violence and militarism includes representatives from Lawrence, and this will be the fifth time the Lawrence-area women have gathered for demonstrations.

Women participating in the demonstration are asking government leaders to find other strategies for peace with Iraq. They also oppose the Oct. 10 vote in Congress that gave President Bush authority to use force in Iraq.

Author, in KU visit, talks about right-to-die case

The author of a book about the landmark right-to-die case of Nancy Cruzan was at Kansas University on Thursday.

Bill Colby, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney and author of “Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan” read from his book and signed copies at Green Hall.

Colby is a fellow at the Midwest Bioethics Center in Kansas City and a former visiting professor of law at KU.

The Cruzan case is the only right-to-die case ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. She was injured in a car accident in 1983 and was in a coma for five years in a Missouri state hospital before her family asked that her feeding tube be disconnected.

The state refused, leading to a legal battle that ended in a Supreme Court decision in the state’s favor. Missouri courts, however, later ruled in favor of the family, and Cruzan died in 1990.

Face-paintings to raise funds for LINK dinner

Representatives from KJHK, the Kansas University student-run radio station, will paint faces Monday to raise money for a Thanksgiving meal for the homeless and housebound.

They’ll be painting faces from noon to 3 p.m. Monday on the third floor of the Kansas Union. The fund-raiser is part of events surrounding the KU men’s basketball team’s opening game Monday night.

Minimum $1 donations will go to the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen Thanksgiving feast, which serves about 400 people yearly.