¢ Karl Brooks, a KU history professor, compares environmental activism of today to that of previous generation in a story in The Diamondback, the student newspaper of the University of Maryland._ A decade before the first Earth Day in 1970, students led the movement to halt nuclear testing, which, similar to global warming, could threaten “every living organism on the planet,” said Karl Brooks, a history professor at the University of Kansas.__”Young people by the early 1960s were in the vanguard of citizens pressing governments to limit and then to stop atmospheric nuclear testing,” Brooks said.__”Young people can be the ‘drum majors for change,'” said Brooks, referring to a metaphor of Martin Luther King. “But they make the loudest, brassiest, best music when they play in a band with lots of other people.”_¢ Shannon Martin, the KU student who was killed in Costa Rica in 2001, was mentioned in an Associated Press story about an American cruiseline passenger who killed an assailant in San Jose._Costa Rica has struggled with growing violence and crime in recent years. University of Kansas student Shannon Martin, 23, was stabbed to death in 2001 after she left a nightclub in Golfito, 105 miles south of San Jose._¢ A former executive with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, Gary Toebben, is now president and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. He’s the focus of a profile at LADowntownNews.com._Toebben came to Los Angeles from Fort Mitchell, Ky. For seven years, he was president and chief executive of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, an organization that serves an area with nine Fortune 500 companies and diverse industry. Earlier, he was a Chamber executive in Lawrence, Kan. and North Platte, Neb. Obviously he likes his work.__”You get to work with people who care about the community and are willing to make a commitment of resources and time,” he said. “It’s a wonderful entree to a community.”_