NEWS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 2005
this week in KU HISTORY nov.21 - nov.27
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BY KELSEY HAYES
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Nov. 30,1976
James Appleberry, who was the assistant to Chancellor Archie Dykes, announced that the Board of Regents had appointed him as president of Kansas State College at Pittsburg.
Appleberry replaced George Budd, who had resigned the previous spring. Budd went on sabbatical for a semester and returned to Pittsburgh State as a professor. Appleberry was one of five finalists for the position, chosen from among a list of over 160 senior college officials from all over the country. During his time at the University of Kansas, Appleberry worked in a financial capacity, for the University of Kansas Medical Center and at various outreach programs.
Appleberry first came to the University in 1973 as a fellow of the American Council on Education. He held degrees from Central Missouri State and Oklahoma State Universities.
Dec. 1, 1964
Four Jayhawk football players were selected in the professional draft. The Chicago Bears and the Kansas City Chiefs selected Gale Sayers, who at the time held the Big 8 career-rushing record, in the first round draft. Sayers was given his choice of the two teams. He played his entire professional career with the Chicago Bears and, in 1977, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Denver drafted Kansas seniors Brian Schweda and Ron Oelschlager. Oelschlager announced that he would bypass professional football in order to attend medical school. Schweda also received an offer from Chicago. Houston and Green Bay named Kansas player Michael Shinn on a future draft.
Wilt Chamberlain made his regular season Allen Fieldhouse debut in Kansas basketball. Kansas dominated the game, defeating Northwestern. Under the direction of coach Phog Allen, Chamberlain's 52 points set a single game-scoring record that has not yet been broken.
According to kuhistory.com, Dayton and Indiana tried to recruit Chamberlain. The Web site states that Chamberlain had chosen Kansas partly due to Allen's recruitment and also because he wanted to go to school away from home.
Dec. 3, 1956
Despite his spectacular scoring record — according to the Web site he averaged 29.6 points a game — Chamberlain was unable to help Kansas win an NCAA championship. The 'Hawks fell to North Carolina in a triple-overtime defeat, something that haunted Chamberlain throughout his career.
Sources: The University Daily Kansan archives at the Spencer Research Library and www.kuhistory.com
- Edited by Patrick Ross
Anthropology class treats Intelligent Design as myth
LAWRENCE — An anthropology class at the University of Kansas will include discussion of intelligent design, which the instructor calls a "pseudoscience."
CAMPUS
"Archaeological Myths and Realities" will cover such topics as UFOs, crop circles, extrasensory perception and the ancient pyramids. John Hoopes, associate professor of anthropology, said the course which will be taught in the fall, would help students learn to differentiate science and "profound science."
Hoopes said intelligent design belonged in the latter category because it couldn't be tested and proven false. Intelligent design says some features of the natural world are so complex that they are best explained by an intelligent cause.
"I think this is very important for students to be articulate about. They need to be able to define and recognize pseudoscience." Hoones said.
But Brian Sandefur, a mechanical engineer in Lawrence who is proponent of intelligent design, says the theory is rooted in chemistry and molecular biology and should be discussed in science classes.
"The way KU is addressing it I think is completely inadequate," he said.
WEATHER
Snowbound for the weekend
The Associated Press
Peter M. Fredin/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bad weather strands holiday travelers
Travelers face icy road conditions along Interstate 70 near Copper Mountain, Colo., on Sunday as the Thanksgiving-holiday weekend ends. A winter storm continued to deposit snow in the Colorado mountains throughout the day.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLORADO — Blizzard conditions on the Eastern Plains forced the closure of Interstate 70 from outside Denver to the Kansas line on Sunday, leaving many holiday travelers stranded.
As many as 25 cars were involved in an accident 50 miles east of Limon near Vona where whiteout conditions were reported. I-70 was first closed east of Limon; but after all of its hotels quickly filled up, state transportation officials decided to shut down ebound traffic at E-470 on the outskirts of Denver to prevent travelers from being left without a place to stay.
"There are horrible ground conditions out there," Stacy Stegman of the Colorado Department of Transportation
said.
was closed from Lamar to Oklahoma.
Stegman said it was too soon to tell when I-70 would re-open. If conditions worsen, the road could be closed at Tower Road near Aurora.
Stegman said the sheer number of cars headed back from the mountains, combined with as much as two feet of snow in some areas, could create problems. The town of Vail, dealing with more than a foot of snow, declared an accident alert.
After the skiers failed to come home Saturday night, about 20 rescuers headed out to look for them on Sunday morning and found them near their car. Their names were not released.
Denver International Airport which expected 158,000 passengers, seemed likely to avoid the bad weather.
Two cross-country skiers missing overnight near the Mt. Zirkel Wilderness about 25 miles north of Steamboat Springs were found Sunday morning in good condition.
Tim O'Brien, spokesman for Routt County Search and Rescue, said both skiers were experienced and they had overnight packs. Up to 18 inches of snow has fallen in the area, which is at about 7,500 feet in elevation.
Patrons begin Christmas shopping season
HOLIDAYS
Black Friday boosts Kansas sales numbers
BY GARANCE BURKIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Davids Pulliam/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shoppers Cindy Avalos, Renee Falcon and Duane East, from left, line up in the checkout line in the K-Mart store in Merriam on Friday. Kansas schools helped retailers begin the holiday shopping season with high sales.
OVERLANDPARK—Droves of bargain hunters packed Kansas stores Friday, the first shopping day of the holiday season, helping retailers chart early record sales.
"From home furnishings to women's apparel, it's all going. It's flying out the door," said Marlon Handcock, assistant store manager at J.C. Penney in Oak Park Mall.
From 11 a.m. to noon, his store, which ranks No. 1 in sales volume for the company nationwide, sold $106,000 in merchandise, the highest volume of sales the department store has recorded in one hour.
Early bird specials at Target Corp. stores in central Kansas drew similar throngs, said Christine O'Trimble, who manages a Target in Wichita.
"The whole Wichita market is up in sales from last year. We've already run out of a couple of our key items," O'Trimble said. "But everyone is in great spirits. No one's pushing or shoving."
She said several hundred people braved icy weather for what has become known as Black Friday, to line up in front of the store before dawn. By 7 a.m., the store had serviced 800 customers in its first hour of business compared with the 30 transactions the store normally makes in that time.
Retail analysts credited the shopping boom to early promotional efforts and falling gas prices. The National Retail Federation predicted a six percent increase in holiday sales this year, bringing estimated revenues of $439.5 billion for the entire holiday season.
Black Friday has become such an important sales generator that many stores stock shelves, build makeshift display tables and sort warehoused merchandise months
in advance to meet the heightened customer demand. At Oak Park Mall, where thousands of cars were circling the crammed parking lot by midday, a crew of police officers stood directing traffic.
"I would say around 10:30 a.m. this morning, we got mobbed," said Albina Schuster, a stocker at The Jones Store. "I've been folding since I got here this morning."
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