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NEWS SECTION EDITORS
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Entertainment editor Christine Stanwood
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Hayley Jozwiak
Paige Lytle
Head copy chief
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Opinion editor
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Monday, March 24
What: In Our Time: Performance Art Event
When: 10:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Where: Art and Design Building
Gallery
About: Eli Gould's work represents the human relationship to time, with each performance lasting the duration of 10,000 heartbeats of the performer. The event is free to the public and will continue throughout the week.
Tuesday, March 25
What: An Evening with Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little When: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Where: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union About: The Chancellor will speak and be interviewed about her career as a woman in leadership. A reception will follow.
What: An Evening with Cindy McCain When: 7:30 p.m.
What: An Evening with Cindy McCain When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Dole Institute of Politics About: Cindy McCain will speak about her experiences in philanthropy and campaigning.
What: The Joy of Singing — The James Ralston Memorial Concert
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
About: Tickets are $6 for students, children and seniors, $8 for adults
Wednesday, March 26
What: Bold Aspirations Visitor and Lecture Series: D. Kimbrough Oller When: 4 p.m.
Where: Bruckmiller Room, Adams Alumni Center About: The topic is "emergence of foundations for language." The event is free.
LAWRENCE
What: Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony.
When: 6:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
About: A film about music's role in the African anti-apartheid movement. A discussion moderated by the Kansas African Studies Center, Elizabeth MacGonagle, will follow.
Thursday, March 27
**What:** Remembering Mandela:
Legacies and Liberation Struggle
**When:** 3 to 4 p.m.
**Where:** Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center
**About:** A panel discussion with South African Scholars Hannah Britton, Surendra Bhana, Lorraine Haricombe and Elene Cloete.
Gardner was able to see his mother every two weeks. He
What: Employment Topic Workshop Job Search Strategies for International Students When: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Where: 149 Burge Union About: Tips and strategies for international students looking for a job in the United States.
"For my mother to keep me, she divorced, which was a real rarity back then, and put me in a home," Gardner said. "One time she lived across the street, one time across the alley and another time she was just about a block away."
As a child, Gardner lived in three different foster homes throughout Lawrence until he was 10 years old.
Local creates city-wide exercise community
"It never really bothered me," he said. "I mean, does anybody like a nickname? It just followed me. I couldn't shake it."
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Don "Red Dog" Gardner has spent his life working with others creating a community to call his own, and at 75. he's not done yet.
Red Dog currently works for the University of Kansas as a senior ambassador, or "class checker" as he calls it. He and 15 other retired citizens stand outside of classrooms to make sure that athletes attend class.
Aside from being a class checker, he and his wife are in charge of Red Dog's Dog Days, a free year-round fitness program open to the Lawrence community.
Red Dog's Dog Days started in June 1984 as a way to prepare high school football players for their fall season. Eventually, it grew to include the rest of the schools' athletes, and even their siblings and parents. Today, nearly 30 years later, Red Dog's Dog Days is a chance for those in Lawrence to participate in a community workout.
Gardner says he enjoys seeing the progress people make through the program.
"So far it's still fun," Gardner said. "It's just like athletes and playing pro ball or singing or whatever. When it's no fun anymore you better get out."
Gardner's nickname, "Red Dog," was given to him by his seventh grade coach and gym teacher, coach Duver. Gardner said coach Duver gave nicknames to everyone and called all of the redheads "red dog."
said it was important to his mom that he live and go to school in Lawrence so they could still see each other. When he saw his mom they would usually see a movie and get ice cream.
"I still love ice cream," he said.
"My line has always been [that] I wasn't abused or mistreated ever, but there wasn't any love either," Gardner said. "I feel that way because it's not like today. I wasn't knocked around or anything."
He said that not living with his mother was just a part of life.
Gardner describes his mom as a "strong-willed, auburn lady." He said she always had the house in order and he knew better than to talk back to her. He was thankful to be living with her again and never wanted to make her mad.
Once his mother remarried, he was able to move in with her and her new husband. "It was great because I don't remember living with her when I was two," he said. "It was great to just to be with her."
From being a class checker to running Dog Days, Gardner creates a community everywhere he goes.
When Gardner was asked to be a class checker 11 years ago, it meant that he would get to be involved in sports again, at least in some way He was a sports trainer at Lawrence High School for many years and even did volunteer traveling with the University football team on and off for about 15 years.
Libby Brown, a sophomore from Wichita, has known Gardner for two years. She met him after waiting on him at Alvamar Country Club where she worked.
"Retired people need a parttime job or their spouses will throw them out of the house,"Gardner said.
"He's genuinely interested in the lives of others and actually cares about you," Brown said. "He asks questions, gets upset if you don't say hi and enjoys making new friends. He's a really outgoing guy."
Edited by Sarah Kramer
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Don "Red Dog" Gardner started Red Dog's Dog Days nearly 30 years ago. Since its founding, Red Dog's Dog Days has exploded into a community fitness program open to anyone in Lawrence.
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