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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3. 2014
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Get estimates or bids before signing on. It's not a good time for travel or romance. Things may not go as planned. Share the load today and tomorrow, but hold onto the responsibility.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
There's plenty of work over the next two days. Finish a task you and your partner have been putting off. Avoid arguments about money. Don't gamble now. Sexual magnetism could set off soaks.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 6
Today is a troll. You'll soon have time to relax. Today and tomorrow favor fun and games over seriousness. Beware hassles. Friends feed you energy. Enjoy loving creature comforts with family.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 7
Listen to objections before
just plowing ahead. Hold your
temper and proceed with
caution. It's time to clean up
a mess. Open a new account
or procedure. Home's the best
place for you tonight.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 9
Someone has valid considerations and suggestions.
Listening can be more powerful than speaking. Get all the facts.
Study new developments. The action is behind the scenes. Expensive gifts are unnecessary.
Share something you made.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 9
Finances take top priority. You can bring more into your coffers for the next two days. A brilliant idea pays off. Consider all options. Make your own choices, after hearing from the team.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 6
Today is a 6 Conditions seem unsettled, so be careful. Today and tomorrow you're more assertive. Haste makes waste. Discuss domestic issues in private. Take it slow, and mull it over. Avoid distractions. Watch when you step.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Make more time for contemplation today and tomorrow.
Slow down and think about where you're going. Postpone an outing. Watch expenses, and budget to save. It pays to advertise ... strategize to minimize cost.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
Circumstances dictate your actions for the next two days.
Choose from your heart. Let an expert speak for you in a controversy or confrontation.
Higher-ups are talking about you. Associates applaud.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Career matters demand your attention today and tomorrow.
Hold off on a new idea for now.
Talk it over first. There are hurdles ahead. You can make a shrewd deal.
Choose your timing well.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Writing is possible now.
Today and tomorrow are good for exploration, research and discovery. Listen to someone who's been where you're going.
You can find ways around roadblocks and traffic jams.
Check references.
louay is an o
It's a good time for a significant conversation about money Focus on financial strategies. New rules apply. Don't take risks. Keep track of earnings. Discuss changes. You can work it out.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 8
Student, 65, returns to finish degree
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
LAUREN METZLER
@MetzlerLauren
Cyd Alloway will graduate from the University in December 2015 at age 65. After falling ill and withdrawing from classes in 1969, she has returned to finish her journalism degree.
Cyd Alloway, a senior from Leavenworth, first came to the University in 1967. She will graduate from the William Allen White School of Journalism in December 2015. She is 65 years old, but her bright eyes and bubbly turn of phrase show she has the energy to keep up with her fellow classmates.
"I think being around students keeps me in denial about my age because it's energizing," Alloway said.
In January, because she no longer felt mentally stimulated after retiring from her 43-year career in insurance risk management. Alloway decided she wanted to finish her degree.
Alloway did not spend 49 years total at the University. In November 1969, her junior year, she became ill. After missing two weeks of classes, her doctors suggested she withdraw. Now she is back to finish the degree she started.
"There are days that I think, 'Why am I doing this?' and I'm sure that there are faculty members that think, 'Why is she wasting time and wasting space in my class? She's not going to do anything with this,' Alloway said. "I just want to finish what I started."
She only needed 40 credit hours to graduate. With the support of her three children and husband, Gordon Alloway, who is a project manager at the University of Kansas Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth, she returned to the campus she left years ago.
"It's something she's always talked about doing and fortunately, she has the time," Gordon Alloway said. "I told
her that I think she should be teaching the courses she's taking, but she's going to see it through."
"I think being around students keeps me in denial about my age because it's energizing."
CYD ALLOWAY
Senior from Leavenworth
The reason she did not continue her coursework after she recovered from her sickness was a product of the times, Cyd Alloway said. She married her husband, whom she had dated since her freshman year, and found a career instead. It was customary in the '60s to pair off and get married within a couple of years of graduating, she said.
The '60s were a time of change. The sexual revolution was taking place and birth control was made available
by Planned Parenthood, all while the Vietnam War and anti-war sentiments were happening. The Student Democratic Society was also growing and would hold demonstrations outside of Strong Hall.
"This was the first time in my life that I had seen revolution become evolution," Cyd Alloway said. "That revolution changed history."
By the time her brother came to the University in 1972, everything had returned to normal and the radicalism had subsided.
Entertainment-wise, the place to go for dancing and drinking was called, "Red Dog Inn," which is now Liberty Hall, she said. She saw Tina Turner there before she was big.
"It was a more playful environment," Cyd Alloway said. "Kids are much more serious in classes [now]. There used to be a lot of that kind of horsing around, even horsing around in class.
Buildings:
Watkins was Twente Hall, Stauffer-Flint was the UDK printing presses and Budig didn't exist until a lightning bolt started a fire in Hoch Auditoria.
Then and Now: 8 things that have changed at KU
Tuition:
When Alloway was at the University, tuition was $120 per credit hour. In 2014, for a first-time freshman resident, tuition is $318 per credit hour.
Enrollment
Students used to "pull cards" on multiple floors in the Union, but now they use Enroll and Pay online.
Dorms:
The dorms used to be segregated by gender. Men were in Ellsworth and Templin, women were in Oliver, Lewis, Hashinger, GSP and Corbin, and McColum was co-ed. Now all dorms except Corbin are co-ed.
Dating used to occur in stages: "lavaliering," then "pinning" and finally, engagement. Now, dating occurs in many formats including friends with benefits, casual dating and serious relationships.
Dating
Hinnie movement:
Hillary movement:
Liberalism was just budding in the '60s with anti-war sentiment and protests. Now Lawrence has a reputation for being liberal.
Restrictions for women:
Smoking:
Women had to wear skirts, were required to live in University housing freshman year, had curfews and there was a Dean of Women. Now women can wear whatever they want and live wherever they want.
Everyone smoked, even in class. Now students are only allowed to smoke in designated areas/outside. "We didn't think twice about this. Instructors always had an ashtray on their desk." Cyd Alloway said. "I can remember being in Lindley Hall and I think there were ashtrays built into the armrests."
Things that never change (according to Alloway):
The Freshman 15
Staying up until 4 a.m. to get food — she would get Joe's donuts, which isn't in Lawrence anymore
Now everybody's so serious in class. You had to have a smartart sense of humor to make it and I had to learn to curb those kind of remarks [when I came back]."
Huge lecture halls
The college environment is different from the work atmosphere that she had been immersed in for decades.
"When you're working, anything less than an A performance is not acceptable. So I came into this expecting to make straight As and I did, but I'm not going to this, semester," she said. "It's really hard, I'm
sweating bullets over two classes right now."
Although returning to the University has not always been easy, Cyd Alloway's family is looking forward to watching her walk down the hill, her husband said. After graduation, Cyd Alloway said she hopes to pursue her writing talents.
"I miss casual interactions with people my own age," she said. "That's probably the thing I miss the most in coming back to school."
Edited by Kelsie Jennings
Engineering school hosts art contest
RYAN MILLER
Rvanmiller_UDK
The School of Engineering and A. Zahner Company recently announced a sculptural art competition for the new engineering building at the University. The winning entry will end up serving as an inspiration for the final piece that will be designed by A. Zahner Company and installed in the atrium of the building.
Jill Hummels, the public relations director for the School of Engineering, said she's not on the judging committee, which is still being developed, but is on the committee that is helping to facilitate the competition. Hummels said various committees from the School of Engineering were working together to ensure the furnishing of the new building looks good and had interesting displays.
"They [School of Engineering committees] met to try and identify what kind of displays they might have in the atrium of the building and hit a brick wall," Hummels said.
She said Michael S. Branicky, the dean of the school, met with A. Zahner Company and talked about the new building and what was to go inside it. It was also mentioned that Zahner hosts a competition at the University of Texas, and the two worked together to establish the framework for a competition at Kansas as well.
Hummels said there is no estimate of what the design will cost at this point, but it will become more clear after the final design is chosen.
"Since the winning design will serve as an inspiration, we're not sure what it will
CraigLong, a 2001 University alumni from Cheyenne, Wyo., and a representative from A. Zahner Company, is helping with the student design phase of the competition. He said he will help the top five finalists figure out the technicalities of their design. He will help turn their designs into a physical structure before the final design is chosen in Januarv
"It will be a collaborative process where we go back and forth to get their design into a fabricatable state, and we will problem solve to get the nuts and bolts figured out," Long said.
end up being, but it will sure be amazing at the same time," Hummels said.
Long said after the five finalists present their designs, a winner will be chosen based off what the University wants in terms of aesthetic nature the ability of A. Zahner Company to make the vision a reality.
The five finalists will be selected before finals week and will be tasked with creating a small version of their design over winter break for the judges. The winner will be announced Jan. 26.
According to the School of Engineering's website, the deadline to submit a conceptual design is Dec. 5 and official entry forms are available online.
"We're very excited about the potential that this [competition] has," Hummels said. "Some amazing things will come out of our students who are very creative and can provide some truly inspirational work."
Edited by Ashley Peralta
Alessandra Ambrosio, left, and Adriana Lima display creations with other models at the end of the Victoria's Secret fashion show in London on Tuesday.
INFL RYAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Taylor Swift performs at Victoria's Secret fashion show
ISYLVIA HUI
Associated Press
LONDON —
Supermodels, million-
dollar bras, rhinestones
and glitter galore — it can
only be a Victoria's Secret
catwalk show.
The U.S. lingerie label brought its annual spectacle to London for the first time Tuesday, dazzling guests with a high-octane mix of fashion and entertainment that featured 47 extravagantly dressed models and performances by pop princess Taylor Swift.
Models sashayed down the catwalk wearing lingerie paired with sparkly, over-the-top costumes: think giant butterfly wings, full feather skirts, gold kneehigh stiletto boots. Top models Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio donned the brand's "fantasy bras" — encrusted with
thousands of jewels and worth $2 million each — and Karlie Kloss wore gilded angel wings made of 18K gold.
LILY ALDRIDGE Victoria's Secret model
them.
"Yeah, I'm going to dance tonight. I'm going to probably eat pizza. I'm very excited about it."
Ariana Grande and Ed Sheeran also were featured as models strutted around
Unlike most mainstream fashion shows, models walking for the lingerie label are told to have fun and flirt with the audience. They also got to wink and laugh as they shared the stage with Swift, who appeared in a glamorous pink and black lace outfit for one of her two performances.
"There's no better energy. You can be sexy and have fun and smile. You get to let your personality shine, so I love that," model Lily Aldridge said before the show.
Aldridge called the performance a "little slumber party that we get to have in London" — albeit an expensive and slickly managed one. Champagne flowed for the hundreds of guests who turned out in tuxedos and evening gowns to watch the show, and a post-show party followed late into the night.
Aldridge said she was looking forward to hitting the dance floor at the party. "Yeah, I'm going to dance tonight. I'm going to probably eat pizza. I'm very excited about it. I packed a Cadbury fruit nut bar," she said, laughing.
The show will air in the U.S. on CBS on Dec. 9.
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