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HISTORY IN THE MAKING
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Students study in the former annex of Anschutz Library. Anschutz is currently undergoing renovation to provide more space and technology availability to students, as well as to accommodate many University services. The renovation will be finished by fall 2010.
READING THE SIGNS
20 candles for Anschutz Library
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Avalon Speirs considers Anschutz Library her second home, remembering late nights and countless hours of her college career there.
Anschutz Library is celebrating its 20th anniversary today. In 1989, Nancy and Phillip Anschutz donated $6.5 million to establish a library endowment in honor of Phillip's parents, said Rebecca Smith, the director of the communications and advancement of KU libraries. After 20 years, Anschutz is in
"Every time I would tell my parents I was at the library, they would laugh about how it was probably a bar". Speirs, Chicago senior, said, "No really, I spend all my time here."
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the midst of getting a face-lift to better fit students' needs by fall 2010.
Jennifer Church-Duran, assistant dean for user services, said Anschutz is being remodeled to expand its student commons area as well as provide more computers, citing the increasing role technology has had in replacing books. She also said the renovation would ease student traffic and consolidate some of the services the University offers.
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ACTIVISM
CAUTION
YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE LARGEST GENETICALLY MODIFED FOOD EXPERIMENT IN HISTORY.
CONTRIBUTED ART
Jamie Padzensky, Andover senior, designed this poster for her advanced typography class. The class was inspired by the Graphic Imperative exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Student art disclaims advocacy for causes
BY BETH BEAVERS bbeavers@kansan.com
"CAUTION: YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE LARGEST GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD EXPERIMENT IN HISTORY" warns an advocacy poster by Jamie Padzensky that is on display in the front hallway of the Spencer Museum of Art. Other posters advocate against pollution from coal fire plants or say
"The students have an altruistic kind of streak in them," he said. "The students have interest in doing things for social good."
Patrick Dooley, professor of graphic design, said the Graphic Imperative exhibition, which is also on display at the Spencer Museum of Art, was the point of inspiration for the project.
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that shrimp fishing doesn't just catch shrimp.
Dr. David Johnson explains how brain tissue reacts to Alzheimer's disease. His research, which was published in October, explores visual and spacial tests that can help recognize the disease four to seven years before the official diagnosis.
Tests may help recognize disease
KU professor found some screenings can predict Alzheimer's
Every November, Brad Rolph thinks of his grandfather Ed. Rolph, Olathe senior, said Ed Rolph always lived a half-day's drive away in St. Louis, and the two would seize the Thanksgiving holiday to catch up on football
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrechtkansan.com
and cards — their two favorite pastimes. Since Rolph enrolled at the University, however, he said a new distance had come between them.
Ed, once a Hearts master, now struggles to understand the card game. Last Thanksgiving, he could no longer connect the successful Ohio State Buckeye football team to his alma mater. Ed has Alzheimer's disease.
"He's gotten a lot worse," Rolph said. "He probably won't remember me the next time I see him."
When a person is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, damage is
often already significant and deterioration of the mind progresses quickly, said David Johnson, assistant psychology professor and Alzheimer's research specialist. This fall, however, Johnson released findings that show the illness can be detected up to seven years prior to official diagnosis. These "pre-clinical Alzheimer's" patients, he said, provide new hope for future treatment of the disease.
"We have to detect it earlier and interfere with it earlier because by the time we see frank, functional decline in an individual, there's
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so much brain disease that has occurred that it's unlikely we're going to find any medical intervention that would reverse that," Johnson said.
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