THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904 THE UNIVERSITY [Picture of a wooden sculpture of an eagle with outstretched wings.] Roesler: Music scene underrated Lawrence's concert opportunities are just as good as any big city. OPINION | 7A Changing the game Six former players return to football through coaching. FOOTBALL | 7A WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 WWW.KANSAN.COM CAMPUS VOLUME 121 ISSUE 25 Tyshawn Taylor seen by hospital after incident BY JAYSON JENKS AND COREY THIBODEAUX jjenks@kansan.com, cthibodeau@kansan.com Sophomore guard Tyshawn Taylor was seen but not admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Tuesday night, a nursing supervisor said. Associate athletics director Jim Marchiony confirmed that an incident occurred Tuesday evening in front of the Burge Union. The Lawrence Journal-World reported on its Web site that the incident involved members of the football and basketball teams. Marchiony did not confirm that. "We're aware of reports of an incident and we are fact finding right now," Marchiony said. Player names and specific injuries have yet to be released. Grant to start shared database Before this grant, sharing and processing of the collective data Leonard Kristalka, director of the Biodiversity Institute in Dyche Hall, said the cybercommons would have a profound impact on the way research data was handled and what can be done with it. The information gathered in research at all four schools will be run through several steps of analysis. This analysis will allow scientists to study ecological trends and predict their outcomes. This information could be about the spread of animals, insects or diseases. It could also be the impact of climate change. red Johnson, professor emeritus of French and Italian, points out the symbolism in the architecture of Dyche Hall. The building was part of his Autumnal Equinox Starlight Walking Tour of Mount Oread, which he leads every year. The tour featured information about the placement of building relative to the positions of stars and the significance of their structures. BY ZACH WHITE white@kansan.com On Friday morning more than thirty people gathered in the commons at Spooner Hall to watch the announcement of a $6 million project the University of Kansas will be participating in the next three years. The crowd was made up of faculty and students from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.), who helped bring the grant to Kansas. The grant will be split between the ecology and evolutionary biology departments of the University of Kansas, Kansas State university, the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. It will fund the creation of a "cybercommons," a collective computer system used to process and provide data to researchers from all four schools in real time. SEEGRANT ON PAGE 3A AUTUMNAL EQUINOX Andrew Hoxey/KANSAN Toursheds light on campus Professor reveals campus connection with astronomy BY JESSE BROWN jbrown@kansan.com The dark and quiet sidewalks on campus that see so much foot action in daylight are empty. The air is cold and crisp. It's 5 a.m. on Tuesday and the intersection of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard, which would normally be empty, is crowded with more than a dozen people waiting to take part in the autumn equinox starlight walking tour of Mount Oread led by KU professor Ted Johnson. Professor Emeritus in French and Italian, Johnson leads an annual tour on the autumn equinox to educate students and anyone willing to brave the early hours about how and why certain campus buildings are constructed in relation to cardinal directions, iconography and astronomy. "It's fun to walk about and see how these buildings are set down and how they do relate to the North Star and so forth," Johnson said. A few of the buildings that were constructed with Greek and Roman influences, such as the tower on Dyche hall, the north side of Fraser Hall and the north entrance to Watson Library, all align with Polaris, the North Star. Johnson said like Ancient Egypt did with the pyramids and the Sphinx, that some campus buildings are also aligned with stars. "It's always going to be lined up." Johnson said, standing on a manhole west of Dyche Hall. According to Johnson, the North Star will always appear above the tower when standing at this campus location. "These kind of lineups are ones that you find everywhere in ancient Karnak and France." everywhere in the United States and France. Johnson also made other observations about campus buildings. At Stauffer-Flint Hall, he noted the bisected circle above the east entrance and asked for opinions from the group about what that symbolism could mean. A range of ideas came forth, including a representation of the yin and the yang, a closed eye and the cycle of the day split in half with day and night represented. The subject of the tour is not so visible in the everyday hustle of campus life, but it reveals campus' hidden mysteries. "I like seeing the symbolism and every thing" Chris Billinger, Wakenney senior, said of the tour. "I'm an engineering student so this is very different from what I'm normally exposed to, so I like to kind of expand my horizons a little." Jenny Curatola, Lansing freshman, is a student of Johnson's who came to experience the tour. "It was worth it," Curatola said. "Some of the stuff was a bit of a review, like we already talked about the Natural History Museum, but I never get tired of hearing him." Johnson said he enjoyed guiding the tour because he saw things a student wouldn't see every day in the daily grind of being a student. "The main thing is to get people to have a look at the campus in a way that is not just simply be busy going to and from classes but to think about the University in a larger way," Johnson said. Professor Johnson also gives a longer tour on Stop Day that covers more ground on campus. - Edited by Amanda Thompson CAMPUS First deadline approaches for online alcohol course BY BRANDON SAYERS bsayers@kansan.com bsayers@kansan.com More than 1,500 students still need to complete the first part of the newly required online alcohol education course. They have until Thursday to do so or they risk having a hold placed on their enrollment for future semesters. According to Carol Seager, director of Student Health Services, only 63 percent of the roughly 5,000 complete an online alcohol education course. The students were e-mailed links to the course on Aug. 31 and were notified that they had until Sept. 24 to complete the first part. Students who fail to complete the course will have holds placed on their accounts and will be "I just haven't had time between class and other things to do it. I'm hoping to get to it soon." PAUL BROWN Overland Park freshman In August, the University notified all new students aged 21 or younger that they were required to students with the requirement have completed part one of the course as of Tuesday. the course will be kept confidential and the University will only see general population data, not individual student answers. The Web-based course, provided by AlcoholEdu for College, is based on scientific evidence and includes a survey, video and other interactive components as well as an assessment. All information from unable to enroll for the spring semester. An Aug. 17 a University press release announcing the course TIMELINE FOR ALCOHOL COURSE - 63 percent of 5,000 students have completed part one of the course - First part takes less than two hours - First part must be done by Sept. 24 - Second part takes about 15 minutes - Second part must be done by Nov. 2 Course can be found at alcohol.ku.edu The deadline for students to complete the first part of the University's alcohol course is Thursday. All incoming students under 22 are required to complete both parts of the course. said the first portion would take students less than 2 hours to complete, with the second portion of the course taking an additional 15 minutes. "By providing detailed information on the effects of alcohol in an easily accessible, interactive format, we hope to help students make wise choices while in school and throughout their index lifetimes," Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success, said in the release. 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