THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009
NEWS 5A
CAMPUS
Former chancellor Hemenway researches for book
RY JESSE RANGEL
jrangel@kansan.com
Former chancellor Robert Hemenway spent 14 years meeting with provosts, overseeing budgets and setting goals for the University. Since retiring in June, he now gets to spend his days doing research.
Between his time as chancellor and his planned job as a professor next fall, he is taking a sabbatical to do research for a book he plans to write about intercollegiate athletics. Hemenway previously taught in the English department.
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"People who've written about this agree that there's a real tension with commercialism that has become more prominent in intercollegiate athletics," Hemenway said. "People who are involved in athletics have to look to the future and ask themselves: what's going to be the relationship between the student athletes and the games they participate in and the way universities both benefit and provide benefits?"
He now keeps an office in the
Hall Center for the Humanities building on 900 Sunnyside Ave., making it his day-to-day corner on campus.
Victor Bailey, director of the Hall Center, said he.
Center, said he first began working closely with Hemenway when $7 million from the Hall Family Foundation was donated to build the facility in 2001. Hemenway is on the foundation's board of
"...There's a real tension with commercialism that has become more prominent in intercollegiate athletics." DR. BOB FREEMAN
nations board of directors. Bailey said
OBERT HEMENWAY Former chancellor
that during the building of the facility, he found that Hemenway, who was also on the building committee, was easy to work with. He said it was helpful Hemenway had a background in humanities.
"For the last few years, once we've been in this building, he has continued to help us occasionally with programming." Bailey said. "Therefore, I think it wasn't a difficult decision for me when, having announced he was stepping down, he requested being a research fellow in the Hall Center, for one, possibly two years.
Bailey said the center had helped with Hemenway's transition from chancellor to faculty.
"It gives him a chance, I think, to re-engage with the faculty, with graduate students and with the research programs of those people," Bailey said.
Hemenway said the Hall Center had very
rich programs on subjects such as African literature and his field of study, African-American literature.
"It's a very good place to work," Hemenway said. "There's a lot of intellectual activity at the Hall
Dr. Robert Hemenway sits in his office in The Hall Center for Humanities. Hemenway is researching information for an intercollegiate sports book
Hemenway said he planned to meet with the English and
Center. I feel very honored to be a part of it."
American studies departments when he returned to the University next fall. He said he could teach courses such as American literature
or intercollegiate athletics.
— Edited by Alicia Banister
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS Comedian Paul Rodriguez pauses for a drink of water while speaking at a rally attended by an estimated 200 farm workers and members of a Hispanic water coalition. The members were calling on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers to reach a solution to the state's water problem at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New bill to provide Calif. with stable water supply
SACRAMENTO, Calif
- California lawmakers on Wednesday passed an $11.1 billion overhaul of the state's antiquated water system in a bid to supply a soaring population while preserving a fragile environment.
After a long night of debate, the state Assembly voted in favor of the comprehensive package of water bills and a bond measure to fund them. The Senate also approved.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was expected to sign the five-bill package, which he called a wise investment in the state's future.
"This is without any doubt the most comprehensive water infrastructure package that has passed here," Schwarzenegger said.
The plan provides funding for new dams, groundwater cleanup, conservation and habitat restoration. It gives Schwarzenegger comprehensive tools to begin restoring the crucial Sacramento-
San Ioaquin Delta and create a stable water supply for cities in Southern California and farmers in the Central Valley.
Lawmakers have wrangled for years over how to upgrade the water system. The problems became more acute this year when farmers faced a third dry year
with less snowfall and new pumping restrictions to protect a delta fish.
Democrats and Republicans spent months hashing out a strategy intended to change how water is used in
where most of the state's population lives. The maze of earthen levees is susceptible to earthquakes that could halt pumping for months.
Federal courts and agencies have ordered reductions in pumping to protect he delta's collapsing ecosystem.
"This is...the most comprehensive water infrastructure package that has passed here."
The water plan includes creation of a seven-member governing council to oversee the delta that funnels fresh water from Northern to Southern California.
California and how to better manage the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Legislators want to require California cities to use 20 percent less water by 2020, although large urban areas such as Los Angeles and San Francisco would not have to meet such a high threshold because per-capita water use is lower
ARNOLD
SCHWARZENEGGER
Governor
At the center of the new water package is the bond that has grown over the past two days to more than $11 billion. The Senate had passed a $9.9 billion version earlier in the week but the Assembly added more money.
than other parts of the state.
CRIME Medical problems delay mental evaluation in case
WASHINGTON — Officials at a prison hospital say chronic medical problems are complicating a psychiatric evaluation for the 89-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a guard at Washington's Holocaust museum.
CRIME
U. S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton granted an eight-week extension for the evaluation of James von Brunn. Walton said the warden at Butner Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., requested the extension because several chronic ailments were preventing officials from
The report on von Brunn's competency to stand trial had been expected at the end of November. Monday's order extends von Brunn's time at Butner to Jan. 2.
conducting necessary tests.
CRIME
Jury indicts veteran for possession of a firearm
CRIME
BENTON, III. — An Army veteran who authorities say threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois has been indicted on a gun charge
A federal grand jury in Benton indicted 29-year-old Mark Harmon on one count of attempted
Tuesday's indictment replaces a criminal complaint that accused him of having a handgun last month outside the VA hospital in Marion after calling a nurse and saying he planned to "fill that place with lead."
possession of a firearm on federal property with the intent to commit a crime.
Authorities say they found a loaded Glock 23 semiautomatic handgun and a magazine filled with 13 bullets in Harmon's truck.
CRIME
Harmon is jailed without bond. One of his public defenders declined to comment Wednesday.
Rapist not monitored close enough
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Corrections officials failed to properly supervise convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to discover the girl he allegedly kidnapped and held in his backyard for 18 years, a report released Wednesday said.
Associated Press
The review by state Inspector General David Shaw blasted the handling of Garrido's case by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation during the decade he was under state supervision after being paroled in a previous rape case.
The report said parole agents were not trained to conduct home visits and did not follow up on information that showed Garrido violated his parole. It also faulted the state's GPS-monitoring system, saying it gives the public a false sense of security concerning the whereabouts of offenders.
Police have said Garrido held Jaycee Dugard captive and raped her in a backyard encampment of tents during a period from
Shaw said the GPS system falls short of its potential and recommended developing and implementing a comprehensive monitoring policy.
Shaw criticized parole agents for not investigating the clearly visible utility wires running from Garrido's house to the secret compound; not talking to neighbors who might have said something about the children; and not questioning further the presence of a 12-year-old girl during a home visit.
"The department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims," the report states.
1999 until his arrest in August. He allegedly fathered her two children.
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