THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
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JAYHAWK FROM PAGE 1
a master Russian woodcarver, whom Hoffman describes meeting and aiding in his 1920 memoirs, or one of his apprentices and based off of an unshod Jayhawk prototype.
A 1921 article in the Kansas City Star said that Hoffman then gave the Jawhawk to the University Daily Kansan to be put on display "in a glass case and have a prominent place in the museum of the department of journalism."
A rediscovery
In July of 2009, University archivist Becky Schulte got an email from the School of Journalism.
Someone had found the Russian Jayhawk — his legs snapped at the ankles — in Stauffer-Flint Hall and wondered if Schulte wanted to keep him in the archives in Spencer Research Library.
"We placed him in a box and added him to our archive database." Schulte said.
Schulte also added the Russian Jayhawk to her retrospective on the Jayhawk, a presentation she's given in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Wichita.
A little more than a year later, Schulte brought the Russian Jayhawk out of storage to show him to a Kansan reporter who was writing an article on the archives.
Shortly after that, Greenberg saw a link on Facebook to the Kansan article.
He was struck both by the Jayhawk's history as a "symbol of appreciation" and his design.
"It's something that's typically Russian in its technique and comes from a craftsman tradition, but it's also a typically American subject," Greenberg said.
He made an appointment with Schulte to see the carving and, after receiving permission from the School of Journalism, started making plans to display the Jayhawk in the Slavic offices.
A new home
repaired. Greenberg sent out an appeal to alumni and students, raising $200 for the work, and the Spencer Research Library contributed the rest.
Displaying the carving wasn't as simple as moving it from the archives to Wescoe Hall, however.
First, the Jayhawk had to be
Whitney Baker, the Spencer's conservator, also took temperature and light readings of the case where Greenberg wanted to display the Jayhawk.
"He's made of an organic material — wood — and he will decay," Schulte said. "What we do is try and limit that decay as much as possible, which is one of the reasons he normally lives in an acid-free box in the dark."
The Slavic department also purchased a meter to sit in the case with the Jayhawk and will send monthly readings to the archives so its employees can monitor the carving's environment.
The lajawk will only be on display for one year to minimize any potential damage.
A celebration of compassion
Nearly a year after Greenberg first heard about the Russian Jayhawk, almost 40 people crammed into a small, book-lined room in the Slavic department offices, spilling out into the adjacent hallway.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little came, as did Danny Anderson, the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Students, alumni and faculty were in attendance as well.
The tiny Russian Jayhawk brought them all together; a reminder, Greenberg said, that "objects aren't just objects. They have meanings and context."
And the meaning of this object?
"He is a symbol of all that we are: small, fragile, noble and able to bridge cultures if only we try," Greenberg said at the ceremony. "I dedicate our Russian Jayhawk to the next hundred years of KU students. May they continue to learn another language, another mindset and show the world the great things that Kansans bring to the world."
- Edited by Mike Lavieri
COMPOSER FROM PAGE 1
clarinet or vibraphone and trumpet. Pieces played by the same instruments competed head-to-head until there was a finalist from both brackets. The two composers, Ian Boswell and Daniel McIntosh, were then given 15 minutes to compose totally new pieces of music.
Boswell ultimately won the competition, but the quality and variety of the music students managed to compose in such a short amount of time was the highlight for Atlas.
"Everybody went a completely different direction with it," said Atlas. "Taking this one basic melody, everybody had a completely different piece."
— Edited by Laura Nightengale
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first U.S.
bishop criminally charged with sheltering an abusive clergyman has been accused of failing to protect children after he and his diocese waited five months to tell police about hundreds of rape
Bishops pleads not guilty in Kansas City courts
NATIONAL
Finn
of child pornography discovered on a priest's church, authorities said.
Finn and the diocese were required under state law to report the discovery to police because the images gave them reason to believe a child had been abused.
Bishop Robert Finn and the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese have pleaded not guilty on one count each of failing to report suspected child abuse, officials said Friday.
Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said
The indictment, handed down Oct. 6 but sealed because Finn was out of the country, says the bishop failed to report suspicions against the priest from Dec. 16, 2010, when the photos were discovered, to May 11, 2011, when the diocese turned them over to police.
"Now that the grand jury investigation has resulted in this indictment, my office will pursue this case vigorously," Baker said. "I want to ensure there are no future failures to report resulting in other unsuspecting victims."
Finn denied any wrongdoing in a statement Friday and said he had begun work to overhaul the diocese's reporting policies and act on key findings of a diocese-compassed investigation into its practices.
"For our part, we will meet these an-
nouncements with a steady resolve and
a vigorous defense," said Finn, who offi-
cials said was not under arrest.
Finn faces a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor. The diocese also faces a $1,000 fine.
After the Catholic sex abuse scandal erupted in 2002, grand juries in several regions reviewed how bishops handled claims against priests. However, most of the allegations were decades old and far beyond the statute of limitations.
Until Finn was indicted, no U.S. bishop had been criminally charged over how he responded to abuse claims, although some bishops had struck deals with local authorities to avoid prosecution against their dioceses.
BLOOD FROM PAGE 1
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to donating blood," Green said. "This involves a series of questions and a mint physical to see if it is healthy for this person to donate."
According to Green, once the blood is collected, each unit is tested for more than fifteen different ailments. Oftentimes, the blood is broken down into different components — red cells, plasma and platelets — so that each unit can help as many as three different patients.
The blood received from the KU Blood drive will go to hospitals in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. There is also the possibility that the blood could be sent to other locations across the country if there is a shortage.
"If someone you know has received a blood product, it was because someone choose to be a blood donor," Green said. "Donating blood is a great way to help others, doesn't cost you any money and takes only a little over an hour of your time."
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