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MONDAY, MAY 4, 2009
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VOLUME 120 ISSUE 149
FAREWELL AFTER 14 YEARS
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
Chancellor Robert Hemenway is retiring in June after 14 years at the University of Kansas. "You reach a point when you feel like you've done a lot and you've been quite successful," he said. "But you also want to leave open the possibility that a new leader will be able to accommodate more."
Leaving a lasting legacy
As Hemenway prepares to retire, he and others look back at how he's made his mark as chancellor
BY JENNIFER TORLINE jtorline@kansan.com
Nearly every morning with his wife, Leah, and dog, Cassie, Chancellor Robert Hemenway leaves his house, walks past the Chi Omega Fountain and down West Campus Road. He passes Joseph R. Pearson Hall and stops at the light pole near the corner of 11th street. Before he continues, he clenches the fingers on his right hand and knocks his knuckles on the pole.
"I like to think it's for good luck," he said during a recent walk.
But it's taken more than luck for Hemenway to accomplish what he has as the University of Kansas' 16th chancellor.
When he retires in June after a 14-year tenure, his record will show he oversaw the doubling of money raised each year for research, an increase in minority students and faculty by more than 40 percent, and a
completion of more than 100 building and renovation projects.
He will leave behind a university that is ranked 40th among 164 public universities in U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings, with 28 of its programs in the top 30 among public schools nationally.
And as expected of any leader with a long tenure, he will leave with his share of criticism for actions such as pushing for tuition increases and trying to staff St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., with medical residents.
Even the University's ascension as a national powerhouse in basketball and football, which has garnered huge support from alumni and others, has made some complain that Hemenway has supported athletics at the expense of other areas. But most people interviewed for this story, including former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, said he struck the right balance.
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"One of the hallmarks of a wellrounded university is that you need to do many things simultaneously;" Sebelius said in a recent e-mail. "KU has proven they can do that. So, the debate about athletics vs. education will go on and KU will continue to show they can be focused on both of those areas."
She pointed to 2008 when the University was nationally ranked in basketball and football at the same time as the pharmacy school and debate team.
As Hemenway, 67, explained his
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Photo courtesy of Spencer Research Library
Hemenway and Baby Jay take a break during an event for the "KU First: Invest in Excellence" capital campaign in October 2001.
REMEMBRANCE
Free State senior's passion was music
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
Friends, teachers and fellow Lawrence Free State High School choir members gathered in the school's music room Sunday afternoon to remember Aezra DuttonHurt, an 18-year-old senior who died at Naismith Hall on Friday morning. The cause of his death has not yet been determined.
"This was his sanctuary," Hilary Morton, director of choirs at Free State, said of the music room.
DuttonHurt was a member of all four of Free State's choirs and friends said was passionate about music.
"If he wasn't singing, he was on the computer, working on making his own music," Kathy Olcott-Marshall, a friend of DuttonHurt, said. "He really wanted to teach music, too."
Morton said DuttonHurt had been accepted to the University and was looking forward to majoring in vocal performance or music education. DuttonHurt had a difficult home life at times, but found solace in his musical talent, she said.
"Music was something he knew he was good at, something he felt good doing. He felt the most free and appreciated when he was singing" she said.
Morton said DuttonHurt had been staying with various friends for about a month, including several KU students who made up a "strong support system."
Many friends are dealing with feelings of guilt as they wonder what more they could have done, Morton said.
DuttonHurt's death was the third on or near campus in two months.
"All we can do is learn from these things or these people die in vain." Morton said.
Both the University and Free State have provided counselors for students.
"We're deeply saddened to learn of this tragedy and extend
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POLITICS
Doles discuss Senate, college careers
Former senators talk about their proudest moments in politics
BY MICOLE ARONOWITZ maronowitz@kansan.com
The stage was set. The spotlight illuminated the three chairs on the stage at the Lied Center that were to be filled by former Sens.
Jonathan Earle, associate director of programming, introduced the political power-couple, who were welcomed to the stage with a standing ovation from the audience.
Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Bill Lacy, director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
On Sunday, the Dole Institute hosted its annual Dole Lecture, which features prominent figures who address aspects of current
politics or policy. This year's lecture was titled, "Unlimited Partners." The lecture was conducted in a question-and-answer format with Lacy asking questions for the first 45 minutes and students on the Dole Institute Student Advisory Board asking questions submitted by members of the committee for the last 30 minutes.
Lacy asked Bob Dole about what his days at the University were like when he was a student
before he enlisted in the Army. Bob Dole immediately answered jokingly, "Well they weren't going to class." The audience erupted with laughter.
Bob Dole said that as an undergraduate he didn't have much discipline and didn't apply himself. He said that after serving in WWII he knew it was time to do something. He graduated from Washburn University Law School and went
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Former U.S. Sens. Elizabeth and Bob Dole deliver the 2009 Dole Lecture Sunday in the Lied Center. The event, held annually on or about April 14, the date Sen. Bob Dole was critically wounded in Italy, 1945, during WWII, featured the couple in conversation with Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics.
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