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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 47
Leonard Kristalka, director of KU's Biodiversity Institute, was named the Chair of Science for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. GBIF is an online database that catalogs biodiversity information from all over the world. It has sponsored members from 51 countries and 42 international organizations.
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Krishtalka named to board of database
BY MEGAN HEACOCK mheacock@kansan.com
The director of the KU Biodiversity Institute has joined a group of 11 people worldwide elected to the executive committee of an international biodiversity database that has collected more than 125 million biodiversity records.
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Leonard Kristalka has been director of the Biodiversity Institute since 1995, and also
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serves as the director of KU's Natural History Museum. Kristalka was elected Chair of Science for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Hillary Hauber, Overland Park graduate student, right, presents research on vampire religion to the KU Cauldron Club Monday night in the Kansas Union. This was the first of three Halloween-themed events to be held this week by the club.
Group celebrates holiday differently
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While most students are dressing in their most clever, sexy or hilarious costumes Saturday night, Sean Manning will spend a somber evening remembering the loved ones he has lost.
Rather than traditional Halloween festivities, Manning, Overland Park graduate student, will join friends and other students to spend the night celebrating the pagan holiday of Samhain.
**WHO:** KU Cauldron
**WHAT:** "Wicca: The Religion of Witchcraft" lecture
**WHEN:** 7 p.m.
**WHERE:** English Room of the Kansas Union
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A GOURD TO AFFORD
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Ryan Campbell, Olathe senior, carves a pumpkin in front of Strong Hall on Monday. The KU Dance Marathon sold pumpkins to carve for $5 to raise money for Children's Mercy Hospital and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Carving out a good cause
KU Dance Marathon tries a festive new way to raise money
Most school days, Devon Cantwell and Grace Runyan bustle along Jayhawk Boulevard, heading straight for their classes. But Cantwell, Topeka sophomore, and Runyan, Leavenworth junior, diverged from their daily routes yesterday to carve pumpkins for
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charity in front of Strong Hall.
The event, "Karving for Kids," was the first in a series of fundraisers for KU Dance Marathon, a group that organizes fundraising events for the KU Medical Center Pediatrics and Children's Mercy Hospital. Each April, the group then hosts a dance and presents its contribution to the two organizations. This year the group experimented with a festive way to kick off the year, and asked for a $5 donation for each pumpkin carved.
"I think it's a really goodchoice," Runyan said of the new event idea as she painted her pumpkin. "I don't know about everyone else, but I really like carving pumpkins and
Cantwell, who stenciled her pumpkin with stars and moons,
"I don't know about everyone else, but I really like carving pumpkins..."
said she thought the creative nature of the event and its timeliness made it particularly fun.
it's a really interesting display to come across Strong Hall and to see a bunch of pumpkins laying out"
"It's something unique," Cantwell said. "It's not something all the groups on campus do. Every house needs a pumpkin for halloween."
Claire Williams, St. Louis senior
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