¢ An update on the South Korean art curator who faked degrees from KU: The Washington Post, among other outlets, are running an extensive profile on Shin Jeong-ah, who claimed bachelor’s and master’s degrees from KU that she didn’t earn._The scandal is also prompting a renewed look at South Korea’s obsession with titles rather than merit, and the difficulties faced by a society rapidly modernizing while still steeped in Confucian values of scholarship and hierarchy._¢ Former KU marching band director Jim Hudson, now at Arizona State University, is getting high praise at his new university, according to DevilsDigest.com. Steve Hank, ASU’s associate athletic director for marketing, says Hudson is “truly a visionary.”_”This year they’re over 285 members and that’s massive growth from where they’ve been two years ago, where they were sub-200,” Hank noted. “Jim as put a massive recruitment effort out there. We also had an anonymous donor that donated new instruments, brand new uniforms … so they have gone from being a marching band that was equipped at the standard to being probably the best equipped marching band in the land and a lot of kids are now interested in that.”_¢ Tim Miller, a professor of religious studies at KU, is quoted in a USA Today story about the popularity of communes in the United States._”They are still very much thriving, typically very quietly,” says Miller, a University of Kansas religious historian. “A lot of them are afraid they’re going to get inundated with deadbeats, and a lot are in violation of zoning laws.”_