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Photos for August 11, 2001
An MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft lands at the Marine Corps New River Air Station near Jacksonville, N.C., in this file photo. Eight Marine officers implicated in the alleged falsification of maintenance records on the troubled Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft have been charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, officials said Friday.
Chicago's Fred McGriff watches his grand slam. McGriff homered in the eighth inning Friday during the Cubs' 9-3 victory over San Francisco. Giants' catcher Benito Santiago is at left.
This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the unveiling of IBM's first personal computer a product Lawrence resident L. Joseph Bauman helped create as a member of the company's PC task force. Today, Bauman is president and chief executive officer of Lawrence-based Cardinal Brands. In his office Friday, Bauman reviewed photos he received to commemorate production of IBM computers. "It was an exciting time," he said.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY SENIOR CORNERBACKS Quincy Roe, left, and Andrew Davison watch football practice on Friday. The two both started for the Jayhawks last season.
KANSAS CITY'S MIKE SWEENEY, TOP, tackles Detroit pitcher Jeff Weaver during the sixth inning on Friday. Sweeney was ejected after a brawl that delayed the game 12 minutes.
At 7:30 Friday morning, Alice Summers looked out her window and saw what she claimed was a mountain lion. Rocky, the dog she holds above outside her home, was tied up on the front porch and began barking at the lion, which was 20 feet away.
The ottawa school board is proceeding with plans to demolish the old Ottawa Middle School building, which is listed on both the Kansas and National Registers of Historic Places. Some community residents oppose the demolition and hope a developer will take on the structure's needed renovations.
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Mark Desetti and others living along Harvard Road want the Lawrence City Commission to slow traffic near their homes. Desetti is pictured in front of his house in the 4600 block of Harvard Road.
JUDY BILLINGS, director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, is working to attract attention to the history of Lawrence and the city's unique place in the abolitionist movement. Billings is hoping Lawrence will one day house a museum focusing on the country's pre-Civil War days.
The Tracabout IRV 2000 can take wheelchair-bound individuals where they haven't gone before. Scott Swedlund of Tracabout takes the IRV for a spin over a stretch of grass and an exposed tree root.
With his wife, Diana, and lawyer Harold Levy, New York City Police Officer Joseph Gray, center, arrives for his arraignment at the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Gray, 40, is charged with multiple counts of manslaugther as well as drunken driving for allegedly striking and killing a 24-year-old pregnant woman, her 4-year-old son, and her 16-year-old sister. Gray was released Friday on $250,000 bond.
University of Chicago professor Leon Kass is President Bush's selection to lead a panel on stem cell research. Kass, a conservative biomedical ethicist, will lead other ethicists, scientists, doctors, lawyers and theologians on the panel that will monitor medical research on embryonic stem cells and recommend guidelines and regulations.
Tom Bracciano, director of Lawrence public schools Facilities and Operations, second from left, points out a concern at South Junior High. Board members toured three elementary schools, three junior high schools and both high schools Friday afternoon. Among their concerns were Schwegler School's leaking roof and dangerous bleachers at South Junior High. Pictured above, from left, are board members Mary Loveland, Jack Davidson, Sue Morgan and Leni Salkind.
Sing Sing Prison Supt. Brian Fischer talks about the original prison cell block that surrounds him in Ossining, N.Y. At left is William Phillips, first deputy superintendent. Ossining officials are hoping to capture the history of the prison by opening a portion of the original cell block to tourists.
Mary Adair is in charge of bringing in new displays for Kansas University's Museum of Anthropology. Adair, an associate curator, has been the museum's interim director since January.
Liz Kowalchuk, acting chair of Kansas University's design department, stands in the gallery in the Art and Design Building on KU's campus.
A couple dances to the intense Latin grooves at Coco Loco.
This airbrush watercolor painting by Alberto Vargas appeared in a May 1947 Esquire magazine. "Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups," an exhibit of 75 original watercolor and airbrush paintings by Vargas, will be displayed Sept. 29 through Dec. 30 at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University.
"Snagging," a drawing of a group of Sioux women by Linda Haukaas, is the design for this year's T-shirts and posters advertising the 13th Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show.
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Kansas University students portray circus entertainers last spring in University Theatre's production of "The Bartered Bride."
Nathan Scholl, left, plays Brick, and Hannah Starks, plays Maggie, in Lawrence Community Theatre's production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" last spring.
Judith McCrea, chair of Kansas University's art department, says about 160 KU students are fine arts/studio majors.
James Higdon, Kansas University organ professor, performs a recital on the organ in the Bales Organ Recital Hall.
Playwrights Michael O'Brien, left, and Alan Newton were recognized in April at the 2001 American College Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. O'Brien's "Bunnies," which was co-produced by English Alternative Theatre and Cardtable Theatre, was performed at the Kennedy Center during the festival. Newton's "Whiteout" won the top prize in the Lorraine Hansbery Playwriting Competition. Both are studying playwriting with Paul Stephen Lim, English professor at Kansas University.
The Kansas University Marching Jayhawks help maintain the traditions of the university. The band performs at the home football games and Band Day and Homecoming parades.
Matthew Simon plays Pa and Alison Preston is Ma in Theatre for Young People's production of "Selkie" last fall.
Louise Taylor is coming to Lawrence Nov. 9 to perform at a West Side Folk concert. Her opening act is Allette Brooks.
Gary Hawke, general manager of KUJH-TV, says the future of journalism lies in the convergence of different media.
Edwin Morales, a DJ at KJHK-FM 90.7, is the voice of "One" on Friday nights. The show features beat-heavy music.
Brian Priestman, who has conducted the Kansas University Symphony Orchestra for 10 years, will retire next spring.
Deanna Doyle performs a ballet by Jerel Hilding during a University Dance Company concert in the Lied Center. The dancers will present a number of concerts this academic year.
Mary Anne Jordan, Kansas University associate professor of design and director of graduate studies for the department of art and design, creates fiber works that are meant to be hung on the wall.
A tray of colorful exaerete frontalis and exaerete smaragdina, bees from the American tropics, are part of the collection at the Natural History Museum.
Charles Michener, curator emeritus of entomology at Kansas University's Natural History Museum, uses a microscope to inspect bees from the tropical regions of the Americas.
From left, Kurt Nikkanen, violin, Navah Perlman, piano, and Zuill Bailey, cello, will perform at 2 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Lied Center.
Despite all attempts at individuality, what's hot and what's not in fashion emerges on the typical college campus. At Kansas University, the standard dress for girls is a skirt and T-shirt, a tiny purse and flip-flops. For guys, the look is baggy shorts and similar footwear, below.
Despite all attempts at individuality, what's hot and what's not in fashion emerges on the typical college campus. At Kansas University, the standard dress for girls is a skirt and T-shirt, a tiny purse and flip-flops. For guys, the look is baggy shorts and similar footwear, below.
Resident assistants like Heather Young, left, of Hashinger Hall, can help new students ease the transition from home to college. Last semester, Young did a final room check for Steve Lam.
The Ekdahl Dining Commons in Lewis Hall on Daisy Hill, also known as Mrs. E's, offers students a full range of eating options. Tarek Sheira, a sophomore from Cairo, Egypt, recently helped himself to the salad bar.
Ann Chapman, coordinator of nutritional services at Watkins Student Health Center, suggests students refer to the "The Healthy College Cookbook" when planning their meals and snacks.
Underage students who want to have fun without drinking don't have to look too far. A few clubs in town consistently allow students under age 21 to take in live music shows. They include The Bottleneck, 737 N.H., and The Granada, 1020 Mass.
Kansas University students especially those under 21 years of age frequent the dozen or so coffeehouses in downtown Lawrence. Several of the coffee bars stay open late for studying or hanging out with friends.
Because mascot etiquette dictates not getting out of costume in public, mascot "players" find all the best places in Allen Fieldhouse for a private breather like behind the concession stand.
Downtown's numerous coffee shops, including Borders, are popular places to study while fueling up with some caffeine.
Backstage in a Lied Center dressing room, Phi Delta Theta members Chris Davenport and Brian Biehl receive some smears of eyeliner and lipstick before a rehearsal for Rock Chalk Revue last March.
Frank DeSalvo Jr., director of Counseling and Psychological Services, says the majority of students who seek services are "going through some sort of difficulty for a brief period of time."
Kansas University senior Julia Gilmore listens to a discussion of congressional redistricting during a May 2001 meeting at the Douglas County Courthouse.
In addition to the University Daily Kansan, Kansas University students will, this fall, have access to a variety of free newspapers on campus, including USA Today, the Lawrence Journal-World and the New York Times. Wichita senior Dana Post read USA Today while having lunch in the Kansas Union recently.
Students who want to study abroad, like these students who last spring were preparing to head off to Greece, can apply regular financial aid to academic expenses for their international studies.
Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, interim director of the study abroad program, said popular destinations for students include Italy, Spain, Costa Rica and Great Britain.
Mary Ann Rasnak, Student Development Center director, can't help students with their homework, but she and other advisers at the center can help students figure out how to get more out of their studies.
Examining rain gauge measurements in the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence's garden are, from left, Sarah Hill, a Kansas University senior from Hutchinson; Carl Washburn, 8; and Taylor Moore, 6. The garden was created through the GROW Program, a community garden project at the club and at New York School.
Kansas University's Center for Community Outreach offers KU students a variety of local volunteer opportunities. Sarah Hill, a Kansas University senior from Hutchinson, left, works in June with Nanette Caddy to pull radishes at the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence's garden.
Kansas university Freshman-Sophomore advising staff members include, from left, JIll Anderson Hieb, Kathryn Tuttle and Lesa Marbut. Advisers at the center make recommendations to students regarding classes and degree programs.
Librarians are a wealth of information. One of the best resources is the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, between Strong Hall and the Campanile, led by Bill Crowe, Spencer librarian.
The Yello Sub sandwich shop, 624 E. 12th St., has been touted as one of the best places for busy students to grab an afternoon meal near campus. There's also a Yello Sub at 1814 W. 23rd St.
Surrounded by majestic shade trees, Potter Lake is often named as one of the prettiest spots on campus. It's a place where students say they can get "away from the hustle and bustle."
The Kansas Union's new harris Computing Lab will be open to students 24 hours a day around the beginning in the fall semester. The lab features 50 computers, printers and scanners.
Pat Beard, director of building services for the Kansas and Burge Unions, oversees the renovation and expansion of the unions, including the Kansas Union's third floor dining services.
An architectural rendering depicts the west side of the Kansas Union after a multimillion-dollar expansion phase is complete. A skywalk will connect the union to the parking garage north of the union.
Dr. Michael Welch of the Kansas University Medical Center will soon be able to use the Med Center's own multimillion-dollar equipment to peer deep inside the gray matter of the brain. Abnormal brain images can show, for example, how a brain is reacting when someone suffers a migraine headache.
Professor Mark Ewing, chairman of the aerospace engineering department, is helping lead the university's efforts to design and launch a satellite that will provide data on global warming.
Trung Van Nguyen, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at Kansas University, holds a single fuel cell, left, and a fuel cell stack. He predicts that the new energy source he is helping develop will replace the fossil fuel industry in 25 years to 100 years.
Mary Faith MarshalL, a professor of medicine and bioethics at the Kansas University Medical Center, is considered one of the leading bioethicists in the country. She heads the federal government's National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee. Her specialty is the ethics of human research.
The Brown family from Overland Park visits the KU Visitors Center at KU to gather information on the school. From left are Trish Brown, her daughter, Hazel, 14, Louise, who will be a junior at Blue Valley North this fall, and their father, William Brown. Louise and her family are gathering information about area colleges.
Professors and students predict that in KU's future, the makeup and number of students that come to the university may change. More students including those from low-income areas will enter college as the "massification" of higher education continues, says one professor.
Forrest Hoglund, chairman of KU First's 18-member steering committee, and his wife, Sally, gave the campaign its unofficial start last October with a $7 million pledge. The gift includes $4 million for the establishment of a new center for brain research at the Kansas University Medical Center. Expected to open next year, the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center will be one of 12 U.S. facilities equipped with sophisticated brain-imaging machines that scientists hope will shed new light on the causes and cures for Alzheimer's disease and other diseases of the brain.
Ann Weick, dean of the School of Social Welfare since 1987, says "innovative work" by the school's faculty has been recognized both nationally and internationally. That recognition has helped attract new faculty members to the school, she said.
School of Pharmacy DEan Jack Fincham, in the school's computer lab, says professors, researchers and students are working on a number of cutting-edge projects drug-delivery mechanisms, cancer research and therapies and drug discovery and development.
Karen Miller, executive dean of the School of Nursing and the School of Allied Health, said one of the biggest events of the year was the school's move to a new facility on the campus of the Kansas University Medical Center.
This year the School of Nursing and Allied Health moved to a new facility on the campus of the Kansas University Medical Center.
Deborah Powell, executive dean and vice chancellor for clinical affairs at the Kansas University School of Medicine, says a major gift from the Hall Family Foundation will continue the school's goal of "world-class scientists devoted to building a strong biomedical research program for the university and the region." Powell stands in front of a portrait of former KU chancellor Franklin Murphy.
Julia Rholes, interim dean of the Kansas University Libraries, says one of the biggest challenges KU faces is keeping pace with rapidly changing technology. Rholes, shown in the stacks of Watson Library, was previously KU's assistant dean for information services.
associate professor Diane Loeb drives home a point during a summer language class in Dole Human Development Center. Foreign languages as well as departments such as English, history, biology and philosophy make up the large College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
To help raise the law school's profile and funds, Stephen McAllister spent his first year as dean crossing the country to drum up alumni support. This year, the school is gearing up for a capital campaign in order to increase student scholarships.
Jimmy Gentry, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communi-cation, and the staff have developed a new model for the school. Students now choose one of two tracks: news information, including newspaper, magazine and broadcast news; or strategic communication, including advertising, business communication, and broadcast sales and management.
Diana Carlin says she is prepared for her second year as dean of the Kansas University graduate school and international programs, and is ready to launch two new programs aimed at broadening opportunities for the school's graduate, doctoral and exchange students.
Since taking her post a year ago, Toni-Marie Montgomery has fostered communication among various departments under the fine arts umbrella as well as increased contact with the community.
Ledell Young, Topeka senior, spent the summer working as an undergraduate research assistant in the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory in the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at Kansas University. The engineering school's Diversity Programs celebrated its 30th year last April.
Kansas University's School of Engineering has a history to be proud of and Dean Carl Locke expects to continue that tradition. One of the school's goals is to continue the hands-on work and national competitions that have become the school's trademark. Students have built formula cars, human-powered vehicles, modified snowmobiles, concrete canoes, model airplanes and internally controlled robots.
Bob Clark, vice chancellor of Kansas University's Edwards Campus, says that while graduate enrollment is declining on the main campus in Lawrence, it's rising at the Edwards Campus. The Overland Park campus recently received a $5 million donation from the Hall Family Foundation.
Dean Angela Lumpkin comes to Kansas University's School of Education from the State University of West Georgia, where she was education dean from 1996 to 2000. Lumpkin said she welcomed the opportunity to lead a highly regarded education school.
William Fuerst, dean of the business school, says school administrators and faculty are discussing the prospect of combining the school's master's of business administration programs in Lawrence and Overland Park.
John Gaunt, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, says the school's goal is to help prepare students for an increasingly competitive and evolving job market, as well as for the work that follows.
Students at the Kansas University Medical Center welcomed new facilities this year on the campus in Kansas City, Kan. A five-story atrium is one of the distinctive features of a new building that houses the School of Nursing, also led by Dean Karen Miller.
Janet Murguia is returning to Kansas University to assume the role of executive vice chancellor for university relations, a new position designed to help KU better present its image to the public. Murguia earned three degrees at KU and her career included 15 years in Washington, D.C., most recently as a high-ranking White House official.
A bible study group called Radical Christians, organized by the Rev. Heather Hensarling of the United Methodist Campus Ministry at Kansas University, meet to pray and talk about their beliefs on a range of issues from evolution vs. creationism to pro-life vs. pro-choice.
Betty Peterson serves as coordinator for Kansas University's Dependent Care Referral Agency, a clearinghouse for information on child-care services in Douglas County. The service has been around since 1990, but Peterson said few people are aware of it. Much of the agency's publicity, she said, is through word of mouth.
Alan Cerveny, director of admissions, says that as the costs rise for college education each year, the need for more scholarship dollars increases, too. Unlike loans, scholarships and grants are the only forms of financial aid that do not have to be paid back.
Rex Buchanan, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey, explains how survey scientists helped save the day in Hutchinson, when a natural gas explosion and fire in January leveled two downtown businesses. Survey workers brought in equipment to locate the seeping gas so others could drill wells to safely vent it away from populated areas.
Deborah Gerner, a political science professor and expert on the Middle East, visits the region at least once a year. Throughout her career, she has worked and taught in Israel, the West Bank, Egypt and other countries in the Middle East.
Kansas University officials hope a trio of National Institutes of Health grants, worth about $6 million over the next four years, will create unprecedented opportunities for American Indian students interested in the sciences. Haskell Indian Nations University student Yana Reid, second from right, works in the ichthyology section of KU's Natural History Museum in mid-April with, from left, ichthyology department associates Kris McNyset, Andy Bentley and Walter Dimmick, curator.
Railroad crossing safety is getting the attention of researchers at Kansas University. Stephen Lohmeier, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is working with officials at Union Pacific Railroad on a $121,000 contract. Lohmeier is pictured with a speeding freight train at the Laptad crossing north of Lawrence.
Margey Frederick, coordinator for Kansas University's Visitor Center, and one of the friendly mascots will greet thousands of visitors, prospective students and their families at the first Open House in early October.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway says that despite all the attention given athletics in the past year cutting men's swimming and tennis, Bob Frederick's resignation, the hiring of Allen Bohl sports are still subordinate to KU's academic mission.
Employees working with Kansas University's Web site "talk" with prospective students via e-mail and instant messages as part of an online recruiting effort. In an increasingly competitive market for students, KU is beefing up its online recruitment.
Although there are more than 5,800 parking spots for students, the parking department regularly sells more than 6,000 permits. The story is the same in residence hall lots, where the 2,900 spots are oversold every year.
Construction crews dig trenches to install new electric cable on the Kansas University campus, replacing some electrical systems that are more than 30 years old. Work at 14th Street and Alumni Place took place in mid-June.
Fred Williams, president of the Kansas University Alumni Association, says the organization's year will include a feasibility study for building a continuing care retirement center and increased lobbying in the Legislature. Williams is pictured outside the Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Ave.
Students take a break between classes near the bronze Jayhawk statue in front of Strong Hall. Kansas University Provost David Shulenburger called the past academic year one of "extraordinary student accomplishment." Students were honored for their achievements with Mellon fellowships and Truman scholarships.
KU football players sit dejected at the end of a losing game at Memorial Stadium
Studious students bask in the reflections from the "burning bush" window at Smith Hall.
This is a lion detail on Strong Hall
From sports to spending, the past year at Kansas University was a mixed bag. Tight state budgets continued to put a pinch on campus budgets, yet KU was able to land a high-scoring freshman class and continue cutting-edge research in a number of fields. This is an aerial view of campus looking northeast.
Jessica Steiniger, 12, of Lenexa, hangs from elastic bands as she partakes in the "Vertical Reality" attraction, Friday at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Mo. Riders are attached to the device and then allowed to bounce freely up to 20 feet in the air.
Isabella Hedges and her daughter, Kris, run in the last day of Red Dog Days at Memorial Stadium Friday. Red Dog Days is a summer training session led by Don Gardner, which is dedicated to helping kids stay in shape as adults are take up a summer exercise program.
Isabella Hedges and her daughter, Kris, run in the last day of Red Dog Days at Memorial Stadium Friday. Red Dog Days is a summer training session led by Don Gardner, which is dedicated to helping kids stay in shape as adults are take up a summer exercise program.
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