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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CELEBRITY
University alumni find fame in various fields
RYAN MILLER
news@kansan.com
Every year, thousands of students walk down the hill and graduate from the University. Various graduates become familiar faces on the news and over the past couple decades, numerous alumni have found fame, including some past Jayhawks below.
PAUL RUDD
(APR. 6. 1969 - )
Today, Paul Rudd is known as an actor, comedian, screenwriter and musician. You might recognize him in various movies such as the "Anchorman" series, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up." According to imdb.com, Rudd was originally a student at the University of Kansas and majored in theatre. He was also known for having been a part of the Sigma Nu fraternity on campus for several years.
Rudd has shown his Jayhawk pride subtily in some of his work, including wearing his KU hat in several scenes of the 1995 film "Clueless." In an interview with Kansas City Ink, Rudd said his character, Brian Fantana, in the comedy film "Anchorman," even mentions Rudd's college roommate in a lude joke.
ROBERT ALLEN "ROB"
RIGGLE, JR.
(APR. 21, 1970 - )
Famed actor and comedian, Rob Riggle is known for his roles in many films such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and in upcoming films like "Dumb and Dumber To." He is mostly known for his work as a correspondent for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show". According to his Facebook page, Riggle graduated from the University of Kansas in 1992 after attending for several years, he majored in theatre & film and minored in history.
Additionally, Riggle was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
(FEB. 10, 1868 -
JAN. 29, 1944)
This KU alumnus is quite famous, and you may recognize the name. That's because the journalism school here at the University is named after him. White first attended the College of Emporia and later the University of Kansas. According to the University website, "though the future 'Sage of Emporia' attended both colleges, he never earned a degree."
White learned the newspaper business at his first newspaper job for the El Dorado newspaper. In 1892, he began working for The Kansas City Star and after several years, he borrowed $3,000 to purchase The Emporia Gazette, where he stayed for the remainder of his life. White became famous
after an article he never intended to publish, "What's the Matter with Kansas," was printed and distributed around the country. Over the course of the rest of his career and life, he earned many awards including two Pulitzer Prizes. The school of journalism was renamed to the William Allen White School of Journalism in 1944, after his death.
FORREST C.
"PHOG" ALLEN
(NOV. 18, 1885-
SEPT. 18, 1974)
Forrest "Phog" Allen, also known as the "father of basketball coaching" is a renowned alumnus and was the head basketball coach for 39 years. Allen Fieldhouse was dedicated to him on Mar. 1, 1955. According to the University website, Forrest Allen was coached by James Naismith while he attended the University. Over the years, his various teams won 24
conference championships and three national titles.
According to his biography from the Kansas Historical Society, he began classes at the University in 1904 and played various sports, including three years of basketball. Allen was also a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He was a student for several years, although he left in 1909 to study osteopathic medicine at the Kansas College of Osteopathy, later returning to the University to coach again.
RONALD ELLWIN "RON"
EVANS, JR.
(NOV. 10, 1933 -
APR. 7, 1990)
Have you ever wanted to fly to the moon? This Jayhawk has. He was Command Module pilot for Apollo 17 — which was the last manned flight to the moon. Although he did not land on the moon with his two crewmates, he did orbit the moon and is the last person
to do this solo. While at the University, he received a degree in electrical engineering in 1956. According to his NASA biography, he later earned a degree in Aeronautical Engineering as well from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. The biography also states he was a member of Tau Beta Pi, Society of Sigma Xi, and Sigma Nu fraternities.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of other notable University alumni from the school's nearly 150 year-long history. Including a wide range of actors, writers, politicians, CEOS, astronauts and more, the University has produced a wide variety of skilled and talented people. Jayhawks are leading the charge and are bound to keep bringing forth notable alumni for this upcoming generation's history books.
Edited by Kate Miller
FILM
Company to digitize 500 of Andy Warhol's films
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Andy Warhol made more than 500 films between 1963 and 1972. Some ran for eight and a half hours while others lasted four minutes. Soon after he was shot in June 1968, Warhol withdrew most of his early art films from circulation. After his death in 1987, a handful of those films went back in circulation through the Museum of Modern Art's film library.
Now, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City will partner with a Technicolor company called MPC to make the films available in digital format.
Work begins this month in New York City on nearly 1,000 rolls of original 16 mm film, which will be digitally scanned, frame by frame. Each frame will be converted into a high resolution image that is 2K, or two times the resolution quality of typical high definition television.
The project, which covers more than a million feet of film, will last several years because the process takes time and requires careful handling of the original 16 mm films. Not all of the films, which have been housed at MoMA since the 1990s, are ready to be scanned because they must first undergo conservation, said Rick Armstrong, a spokesman for The Andy Warhol Museum. The films are among the most frequently requested works in MoMA's circulating library.
The digitization project is a joint effort by MPC, an Oscar-winning creative studio that crafts spectacular visual experiences and Adstream, an Australian company that provides digital asset management. MPC has produced visual effects for such films as "Godzilla," "Maleficent," "X-Men," "Days of Future Past," "Life of Pi," World War Z" and "The Lone Ranger."
Patrick Moore, deputy director of The Andy Warhol Museum and adjunct curator for this project, said MPC employees are so excited about the work that some of them are moving from the company's London office to New York City.
"We truly do view the
films as being as important as a painting. Imagine if you found out that there were 100 unknown Warhol masterpieces sitting in a warehouse. That's how we view this unseen material. Many of the times when we show the films, we don't have 16 mm projection capability. We have to work from less than ideal digital transfers." Moore said.
Once the films are digital, they can be shown in their finest form, he added.
Warhol loved Hollywood cinema but his work was influenced by Jack Smith and other filmmakers
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PATRICK MOORE
Adjunct curator
MPC is doing this as a gift. We never went out and costed it in that way. We assumed it would be much more than we could possibly afford."
working in Downtown New York during the 1960s, Moore said.
Warhol's films, Moore said, have a "do-it-yourself disregard for technical quality and a very naughty and precocious sense of humor in just making it up as you go along. Warhol had this interesting idea that it was OK if the film was boring or aggravated the audience."
A New York judge deemed "Flaming Creatures" obscene. Police seized the film when it was screened in April 963 at the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York City.
Jack Smith, whose 43-minute erotic movie, "Flaming Creatures," was censored in New York, appeared in some Warhol films.
Warhol had a successful commercial, dual projected film called "Chelsea Girls," which was distributed in 1966.
"Andy filmed the screening and that film was seized by the New York Police Department and never recovered," Moore said.
"It has been shown here and at MOMA. it's long and it's difficult and it has no narrative," Moore said, adding that it includes "many screen tests, solo monologues and people who are obviously enjoying some
controlled substances."
The project will last two years, Moore said.
"We have to really make sure that we have all of the data on the films correct. We are working with the Whitney Museum of American Art to ensure that we are all using the same titles," he said.
Research on Warhol's films is being done by curators at the Whitney and part of that effort involves determining exactly how many films the artist made. In 2017, Yale University Press will publish the definitive catalog of Warhol's films. The same academic press published volume one of Callie Angell's work on Warhol's films. A well-known film scholar, Angell died in 2010 at age 62.
Moore could not quantify the cost of the project because MPC is doing it for free.
"MPC is doing this as a gift. We never went out and costed it in that way. We assumed it would be much more than we could possibly afford. They are a part of Technicolor. They have the capacity to do this in a way that a normal lab would not. They scan it at such a high level that it becomes the new master for the film." Moore said.
Some of the fruits of this project will be shown later this year when fifteen Warhol films that have never been seen by the public will premiere Oct. 17 at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. The event, "Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films," will feature live musical performances by Tom Verlaine, Martin Rev, Dean Wareham, Eleanor Friedberger and Bradford Cox.
FRESHMEN
Guide to important places and traditions on campus
RYAN WRIGHT
Welcome to the University of Kansas. Now that you're here, you've probably heard about the Campanile and about a place called Wescoe Beach. If you haven't figure out exactly what they are yet, you're in the right place.
ROCK CHALK
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Rock Chalk is one of the most iconic phrases in the world, but most people don't know the history behind it. According to Professor Jeffrey Moran, the chair of the history department at the University, "Rock Chalk" is an inversion of chalk rock. Chalk rock is the limestone that can be found nearly everywhere in Kansas, especially when you try to dig. Student ambassador Culin Thompson said that the Rock Chalk Chant evolved from a cheer that chemistry professor E.H.S Bailey created for his science club in 1886. Thompson said that Professor Bailey used the cheer at science competitions and when the University called for a campus chant, Professor Bailey submitted his. Later it evolved to "Rock Chalk Jayhawk KU' which is used today.
IT'S NOT A BEACH... IS IT? Wescoe Beach is one of the most popular places on campus. Every day you'll spot many
students meeting up with
friends or relaxing, but why is it called Wescoe Beach?
Moran said Wescoe Beach is named after Chancellor Clark Wescoe because he had the entire area covered with sand from the Caribbean for students on campus to play sand volleyball.
THE CAMPANILE
The Campanile is a 120-football bell tower which was built as a World War II memorial in 1951, according to Thompson. The bell plays the Westminster chimes every quarter hour between 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. It is University tradition to walk through the Campanile into Memorial Stadium during graduation. It is rumored that if students walk through the Campanile before graduation they will not graduate on time.
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SNOW HALL
Snow Hall is one of the most recognizable buildings on campus and it is easily one of the more aesthetically pleasing. It's rumored that the building was designed after Snow White's castle because the architect's daughter was a big fan of Disney, but Thompson confirmed this to be incorrect. According to Jeffrey Moran, Snow Hall precedes the Disney castles by many years. Moran said that when it was built, every university in the country was following the style known as "university gothic" and was under the impression that
real university was supposed to look like a late-medieval monastery.
THE PHOG
Allen Fieldhouse is one of the most special places in college basketball. Its rich history is
unrivaled. Allen Fieldhouse opened and hosted its first basketball game in 1955, where the the University of Kansas defeated Kansas State University. The Fieldhouse is the oldest in the Big 12 and will celebrate its 60th birthday this season. The DeBruce Center, a new building which will be built next to the Fieldhouse, will host Dr. James Naismith's original rules of basketball which were purchased by the Booth Family to be displayed at the University.
Jim Marchiony, Associate Athletics Director, shared a little known fact about Allen Fieldhouse. Marchiony said construction of the Fieldhouse was delayed in the 1950s because of the scarcity of steel due to the Korean War. The University received permission to build the Fieldhouse after emphasizing the use of the building for ROTC purposes.
Now that you know most of the important things about the structures and sayings of the University, you're officially ready to begin your journey.
Edited by Kate Miller
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