¢ Athletic Director Lew Perkins tells the Boston Globe that KU “fans love” the revamped points system for basketball season tickets at Allen Fieldhouse, which allows fans to choose their seats. Boston College is considering a similar system._ “Everybody is doing it,” said University of Kansas (and former University of Connecticut) athletic director Lew Perkins. “It’s just the way it is.”__Perkins has a system in place for all of Kansas’s revenue-producing sports where fans accumulate points based on their contributions. “The more points you have, the better your seat,” said Perkins. “And we adjust every year.”__Perkins says he has instituted a plan at Kansas in which fans get to choose the seat they want each year.__”Let’s say if you had a certain seat and had so many points accumulated and someone came in and gave us an additional $10,000 and wanted your seat, they would get it if they had more points,” Perkins said. “The pick-a-seat program has been great for us. The fans love it.”_¢ Global warming could have serious implications for the world’s insect populations, according to an article in Winston-Salem Journal. Orley “Chip” Taylor, a KU evolutionary biologist, says while some species may increase in numbers, others could disappear._”As the planet heats up, the species in higher elevations are likely to be pushed off the mountaintop, so to speak,” he said. “There will be less and less habitat for species in colder environments. If we get a lot of global warming, it’s going to have a significant impact.”_¢ Bobby Johnson, who played football at KU in the early 1980s, talks about his NFL career and cocaine addiction in a story in the New York Daily News._ He was sleeping in his car or sleeping in a mission if he could beat the other homeless people to a bed at night or in the summertime going down to Riverfront Park on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville, a popular spot for outdoor concerts in the Music City, and staking out his turf on a bench and then not closing his eyes for one minute until the sun came up._¢ The Body Farm, a research facility in Tennessee that allows scientists to study real decomposing human bodies, is looking to expand, the Knoxville News-Sentinel reports. The idea for the body farm came from Bill Bass, a former KU professor._ Part of the inspiration came in the early 1960s when Bass was a University of Kansas professor.__Legendary lawman Harold Nye of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation posed an “unusual” question one spring day in 1964.__”Could I examine a skeleton and estimate the time since death?” Bass wrote in “Death’s Acre,” co-authored with Jon Jefferson. “This particular skeleton, it turned out, belonged to a cow; occasionally cattle rustlers or vandals leave dead, mutilated cattle on the prairie.”_¢ Lawrence-based band the Appleseed Cast “stands as seasoned survivors, its tenacity and craft embraced by an ever-growing legion of dedicated fans,” according to a review in the Chicago Daily Herald._ Almost in spite of their brooding ways, The Appleseed Cast rocked with anthemic resolve. A pair of new instrumentals waxed soft and loud, stressing their recent interest in atmospheric post-rock. Meanwhile, a healthy catalog capped by the arena-sized “Fight Song” injected the set with raucous indie pop interludes. Their sound has certainly shifted, but with their increased texture and complexity, The Appleseed Cast gets better with age._