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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2006
this week in KU HISTORY jan.23-jan.27
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BY SAUML LAMB
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KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
January 28,1910
Kansas regents J. W. Gleed and William Allen White voted for ending the KU football program entirely. A state-wide debate ensued.
The University's football team made it through in the end, but it was a close call.
Kansas regents J. W. Gleed and William Allen White proposed to the board the ending the KU football program entirely and replacing it with rugby. They weren't without cause, considering the scandals around KU football at the time.
When the football team failed to live up to its initial success (14-1-1 from 1891 to 1892), it allowed players who were not passing their classes or not enrolled to play.
The players' safety was also at question, as they wore little protective gear. One player named Bert Serf from Doane College in Nebraska died during a game against Kansas in 1896.
Complaints and concerns mounted in the years to come along with scandals involving ineligible players and narcotics.
In reaction to Gleed and White's proposal, Chancellor Frank Strong, although in favor of the retention of football, wrote a letter to the American Football Rules Committee asking for changes in the rules to better promote safety.
Information provided by Mark Hersey, graduate student in history
January 25,1921
The University was raising money to build Memorial Stadium. After three hours, when all was tallied, the city of Lawrence had brought in $30,000.
Information provided by Mark Hersey, graduate student in history
January 24,1942
The KU Endowment Association bought Jollife Hall, also known as the Jolly Green Giant, thanks to a donation from banker and rancher Orlando Jollife.
The hall served faithfully for 51 years, but served most of them painted a sickly green. The building was infested with roaches and a fire hazard.
It was a scholarship hall, a fraternity, an overflow residence hall and finally an office building before 1993, when the hall was removed to make a parking lot.
The headline in the Kansan the day the University decided to tear down Jolliffe was "Good Riddance."
Information provided by John McCool, former graduate student in history
David Noffsinger/KANSAN
NATION
Huge Katrina bill paid, no questions
Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, autographs his book, "Longing for the Harmonies" Friday evening after his speech in the Spencer Museum of Art. The speech was titled "The Universe is a Strange Place" and compared the universe to a lava lamp.
WASHINGTON - A bill for busing evacuees from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was $32 million more than it should have been, and the government paid it without question, the Transportation Department inspector general said.
busloads of people after the hurricane struck.
The inspector general's office reviewed six of the tasks that have been paid for by the Federal Aviation Administration. The example of the bus service to New Orleans "underscores the need to ensure that all pending invoices are accompanied by some type of documentation that substantiates that the goods and services were provided as billed," according to the report signed by Assistant Inspector General David Dobbs.
The Associated Press
Landstar Express America was given 570 specific tasks to supply enough vehicles to haul thousands of truckloads of goods and thousands of
Physicist gives colorful talk
SPEAKER
Nobel winner explains the universe
BY CATHERINE ODSON
codson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Physics fans packed the Spencer Museum of Art for an explanation of the universe Friday night. Frank Wilczek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, offered his award-winning theories on the universe, including multicolored illustrations and a comparison to a lava lamp.
Museum officials encouraged overflow audience members to sit in the front of the auditorium and stand along the back wall, but some students found that even getting inside was not an option. Maggie VanSpeybroeck, Arcata, Calif., freshman, said she hoped to get pieces from the lecture from her hallway seat but couldn't hear most of it.
Without the visual components, the lecture was more difficult to understand than she had initially predicted.
"I expected it'd be one of those humorous, fun lectures, but I don't think I would have understood it." she said.
Wilczek was challenged by the idea of creating ordinary, concrete matter from the small building blocks of physics that weigh nearly nothing.
"You can't put little scales in there to see what they weigh," Wilczek said.
Wilczek turned to an algebraic mutation of Einstein's e = mc2 to explain this. By arranging the equation as m = e/c, it reveals mass comes from the energy created by minute particles and
enlimines "the ugly concept of mass" and puts it "in terms of the more beautiful energy," he said. Mass is derived from the energy and speeds of the particles, giving weight to the particles.
Wilczek also talked about unordinary matter, the dark matter and energy that appears to fill the empty regions of space. Ordinary matter dominates the world we are familiar with. Dark matter clumps around galaxies, but is usually invisible outside of its gravitational influence; dark energy is energy we can't see spread evenly throughout space. Wilczek said that the two regions account
for 95 percent of all matter.
"In quantum field theory, we discovered that what appears to us as empty space is in reality a wildly, dynamic fluctuating medium," Wilczek said.
When this medium is disturbed, the energy changes. The result, Wilczek said, looks like a lava lamp, with clumps of energy and particles moving about.
ered shapes most experimental studies in modern particle physics.
Michael Murray, assistant professor of physics, said Wilczek's work allowed physicists to identify and classify different particles. "He brought order to the chaos
"He brought order to the chaos of high-energy physics," he said.
Wilczek summarized his speech by saying the world we understand is both strange and beautiful. Humankind still has a lot to learn, he said, but working for understanding will lead us to that.
Edited by Vanessa Pearson
WORLD
New bin Laden tape confirms he lives
recently.
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden's warning last week about an upcoming attack on the United States answered at least one question about the Al Qaeda leader: He is still alive, or at least was until very
But it opened a new inquiry by counterterror officials who are analyzing the bin Laden audiotape for clues about when and where it was made and, most importantly, whether it sends a signal to carry out his threat.
Intelligence analysts were scrutinizing the recording for
any clues including certain words and phrases that might be a signal for the terror network's members or followers. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The Homeland Security Department said it had no plans to raise the nation's
terror threat-alert level and no reason to believe an attack was imminent.
"We, of course, have been very concerned about the threat of terrorism, generally, since the attacks of 9/11," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said.
The Associated Press
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"When the tiger kills, the jackal profits." — Afghan proverb
In a study of 200,000 ostrichs over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
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