Volume 124 Issue 35
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Friday, October 7, 2011
HOP ON OVER
BIG 12 INVITES TCU TO JOIN
ANDREW JOSEPH
ajoseph@kansan.com
The University of Missouri may be on its way out, but the Big 12 is already moving forward.
In an official statement, the Big 12 Board of Directors unanimously authorized interim commissioner Chuck Neinas to begin negotiations with Texas Christian University to become the conference's newest member.
"The action of the Board was without dissent. On the advice of legal counsel, the University of Missouri did not participate in the vote," conference officials said in the statement.
According to a report by CBS Sports, TCU will accept the Big 12's invitation and join the conference in
2012. The report goes on to state that the Big 12 presidents have formally agreed to grant the rights on Tier I and II television revenues for the next six years.
"These discussions with the Big 12 have huge implications for TCU. It will allow us to return to old rivalries, something our fans and others have been advocating for many years," TCU Chancellor Victor Boschini Jr. said in a statement Thursday.
The TCU Board of Trustees met Thursday to discuss prospects of joining the Big 12 according to ESP-PDNallas.com.
With the ratification of the television grants, the Big 12 is guaranteed long-term stability regardless of the course of action Missouri takes in the coming days.
TCU was initially due to join the
Big East in 2012, but the conference has encountered a significant amount of instability following the departures of Pittsburgh and Syracuse for
the Atlantic Coast Conference.
According to The New York Times, despite never playing a game in the Big East, TCU will have to pay the $5 million exit fee, but the University is not bound
to the 27-month waiting period like Pittsburgh and Syracuse.
near future.
The Tulsa World reported that Big 12 officials are awaiting Missouri's decision, but all indications are that
Neinas has proactively preached about the Big 12's need for expansion, so TCU is not expected to be the conference's only addition in the
the University of Louisville will be Neinas' next target. However, Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is strongly against the current trend of realignment.
"It's one of the most disappointing things I've seen in 35 years in the game to see this thing break up like this," Pitino said to The New York Times following the TCU developments. "We've stayed loyal to it all along. We've stayed loyal, and
by staying loyal we are not sure what's going to happen to us."
Louisville would bring along a strong athletic identity and an entirely new television market for the Big 12.
Whether the Big 12 looks to get back to its original 12-team membership remains to be seen, but Brigham Young University, West Virginia, Cincinnati and Tulane have also been mentioned amongst possible expansion options.
"As always, we must consider what's best for TCU and our student-athletes in this ever-changing landscape of collegiate athletics. We look forward to continuing these discussions with the Big 12," Boschini said.
Following the Big 12's invitation to TCU, Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray Little released the following statement;
"The Big 12 board's approval of equal revenue sharing and the granting of television rights to the conference demonstrate a commitment to the Big 12 by its member universities. This is an outcome KU has sought throughout this process, and it is one that I've been seeking as a member of the conference's stability working group."
The chancellor also said that adding TCU to the conference would benefit Kansas because the University recruits students and has a large alumni base in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Gray-Little said the University is looking forward to facing the Horned Frogs next year.
— Edited by Jennifer DiDonato
UNIVERSITY
Photos capture campus history
SARA SNEATH
ssneath@kansan.com
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN
The Spencer Museum of Art is hosting a KU campus heritage exhibit now through December. The exhibit is a collaboration between Spencer Museum of Art curators and graphic design students at KU. The exhibit focuses on Spooner Hall, Fraser Hall, Old North College, and Potter Lake.
On the second floor of a building tucked behind Strong Hall, Andrew Foster, a senior from Derby, places his backpack in a metal locker. Flashing an ID at the front desk, he takes a right and enters a small room lined with bookshelves. With the help of a curator, Foster begins digging through black-and-white photos from the Civil War era.
"The curator told me there are 1 million photos in the research library not available online, literally 1 million", Foster said.
Foster is using Spencer Research library's archived photos to compile a book on camus war memorials.
Foster said until he began his recent project he had no idea how far back the photo archives dated. The information is free and for $5, the library will make a publication quality copy of an image, he said.
A request form must be filled out to reproduce images for display or publishing, but copyright restrictions are not normally a problem with images of campus, said Tara Wenger, head of reader services at Spencer Research Library.
The requests are used primarily to keep track of reproductions and their usage. Images from Spencer have been hung in restaurants, published in books and displayed in homes.
A current exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art also uses images from Spencer Research Library. "Glorious to View: The KU Campus Heritage Project" is a collaboration between Spencer Museum of Art
staff and University graphic design students.
Chassica Kirchhoff, a curatorial intern at Spencer Museum of Art, said "Glorious to View" features archive images from both Spencer Museum of Art and Spencer Research Library.
Kenzie Tubbs, a senior from St. Louis, said she helped design a piece in the "Glorious to View" piece focused on Old North College. Old North College, originally North College Hall, was the campus' first building, built in 1866. The site is
"It was so hard to pick the ones for 'Campus Heritage' because there are so many crazy pictures of campus," Kirchhoff said.
now occupied by GSP-Corbin residence halls. She said her group was provided with several photos to work with by Spencer Museum of Art curators.
Amanda Kilwin, a senior from St. Louis, said her work in the exhibit focuses on Potter Lake. She said she learned a lot about the history of campus and the number of images Spencer Research Library and Spencer Museum of Art hold.
"I's fascinating to look at the photos," Tubbs said. "I didn't even know these old images existed."
"They have a huge collection," Kilwin said. "They are not always able to show everything in the museum."
- Edited by Jason Bennett
Spencer Museum of Art holds about 38,000 works, of which only about 1 percent are on display, said Jerrye Van Leer, Spencer Museum of Art coordinator of tours and visitor services.
Kirchhoff said many of the images from Spencer Museum of Art and Spencer Research Library can be found on Luna Insight, an online collection database found on the University's library website. Images from Spencer Museum of Art, like those of Spencer Research Library, can be reproduced for personal, academic and publication purposes, Kirchhoff said.
INTERNATIONAL
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Torben Mothes from Eutin, Germany speaks with Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures lecturer Jim Morrison about the internship program's future plans.
Delegates to boost sister city exchange
Delegates from two Lawrence sister cities visited Kansas this week to promote student exchanges with Germany and Japan.
ISAAC E. GWIN
editor@kansan.com
Emissaries from the Lawrence sister cities of Eutin, Germany and Hiratsuka, Japan, toured Lawrence and the campus in an effort to foster their exchange programs, which provide students with the opportunity to study, or intern in the emissaries' respective countries.
Torben Mothes, a banker from Eutin, spent Wednesday morning in Wescoe Hall speaking with students in German language classrooms about the growing number of summer job opportunities in and around Eutin.
ham, a doctoral student working in the Kansas Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, said about the Eutin exchange program. "For the interns, it is a perfect opportunity to work with people in a professional context, which helps them to master that high level of language required."
"I think it's great," Joe Cunning
Mothes also met with key faculty in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures to inform them of the success of the 2011 internships and to make plans for 2012.
According to Jim Morrison, lecturer on German business culture, the Eutin internship program with the University has increased significantly in the past three years. Only one or two students each year had participated in the exchange
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CLASSIFIEDS 9
CROSSWORD 4
Index
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINION 5
SPORTS 10
SUDOKU 4
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