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• Here’s a fun event scheduled for this weekend.

Student Union Activities is sponsoring a “Legends of the Hidden Temple” style competition, with trivia, physical challenges and searches for lost treasures in the style of the old Nickelodeon television show.

Prizes will go to the top three teams.

Signups, sadly, are closed (I’ll get the info out earlier next year, I promise). But you can still stop by and watch the festivities. It’ll be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Visitor’s Center, 1502 Iowa.

I’m still young enough to remember the show when it aired (it was good, but not as good as “Hey, Dude”). I remember the teams of two had a variety of jaunty nicknames featuring colors and animals, and a big fake talking rock gave them instructions.

I’m sure the names will be around (go Silver Snakes!), but I hope they find a way to re-create Olmec, the big talking rock.

• In all that frenzy over university rankings, I was remiss in not mentioning that Baker University nabbed a pretty good spot in their rankings.

Baker earned a No. 26 ranking among Midwest regional schools, an area that includes Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Baker was the highest-ranked Kansas school in its category.

• It’s crazy to think about after all this time, but KU will submit its application for National Cancer Institute designation next week.

A big hoopla scheduled for next Tuesday will involve the governor, KU’s chancellor and a variety of other KU and state digniataries.

After the submission comes the extensive review, and — as a reminder — we probably won’t hear back on whether KU has earned designation until sometime next summer.

• Barbara Atkinson, KU’s executive vice chancellor at KU Medical Center and the executive dean for the KU School of Medicine, serves on a presidential bioethics panel.

She told me recently about an interesting report the panel released on research the U.S. Public Health Service supported in Guatemala that involved intentionally giving sexually transmitted diseases to Guatemalans. It was particularly reprehensible and unethical behavior, she said.

Here’s a link to their report. The panel, which has also examined today’s standards for human research subjects, said the researchers’ actions involved “especially egregious moral wrongs.”

• You don’t need a big talking rock to tell you — keep submitting those great tips for Heard on the Hill to ahyland@ljworld.com.