Jayhawk radio announcer Bob Davis was recently inducted into the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
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建筑特色
1. 屋顶采用石质装饰，简洁又独特。
2. 窗户设计有明暗分区，增强视觉效果。
3. 屋顶采用坡形设计，富有层次感。
4. 屋顶采用玻璃幕墙，方便自然光透过。
5. 屋顶采用金属装饰，坚固耐用。
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
C.J. Giles suspended
Junior center is attending to "personal issues," will not practice
BY SHAWN SHROYER
Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self has suspended junior center C.J. Giles from the team indefinitely.
"C.J. Giles will not practice with the team while he attends to some personal issues," Self said, "If and when these issues are addressed, we will discuss his future with the program."
The statement was released by the Athletics Department on Tuesday night. Giles and Self were unavailable for further comment.
As a sophomore, Giles started 13 games and averaged 6.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. He led Kansas and ranked seventh in the Big 12 with 48 blocked shots last season. Giles tied a school record against Chaminade last November, sinking
nine straight field goals. He scored a career- high 21 points that game.
Giles was a candidate to start for the Jayhawks at center, although junior center Sasha Kaun is now the favorite to fill that role. If Self should choose to go with a smaller lineup, junior forward Darnell Jackson or freshman forward Darrell Arthur could replace Giles.
Giles' scholarship will remain in
effect for at least the remainder of this semester, although no formal decisions beyond that have been made.
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Kansan sportswriter Shawn Shroyer can be contacted at sshroyer@ kansan.com.
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Junior center C.J. Giles poses for a photo at Kansas Basketball Media Day last Friday. Giles is no longer practicing with the team he attends to what coach Bill Call called "personal issues."
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Former coach denies allegations
BY C.J. MOORE
Washington
Former KU women's basketball coach Marian Washington has denounced reports that she or any of her former staff failed to
cooperate with the University during its investigation of rules violations in Summer 2004.
Washington said in a press release issued through her lawyer that
she and her staff never failed to cooperate with Rick Evard, the University's counsel, on matters relating to NCAA rules violations during the University's investigation.
"I cannot allow someone to suggest that I, or my staff, did not cooperate." Washington said in the statement. "I really resent that he, or anyone else, would suggest that."
When reached Tuesday evening, Evrard declined to comment.
Washington was responding to the allegation that the University's self-imposed penalties on the women's basketball team had to do with her and her assistants declining to be interviewed about the infractions after they had left Kansas.
The investigation, led by Evrard, had revealed seven possible violations by the program. Because Washington and her assistants were not respond-
Construction continued Tuesday on Wescoe Hall, despite complaints of noise hazards and other inconveniences by KU professors. The project, contracted with RMT Construction of Olathe, began this June, and is scheduled to be completed by March 2007.
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FACILITIES
After loudest Wescoe construction moved to evening, noise still causes some disruption, but not too much
BY DANNY LUPPINO
Many faculty members teaching in Wescoe Hall said the ongoing construction in the building is generally not disruptive, though those in classrooms closest to the construction still noticed a problem with noise.
Despite the University's decision to have the loudest construction at night, faculty in the building's west side say some disruptive noise is still present. The construction is taking place directly under the fourth floor classrooms on that side of the building.
"I've had to try to speak up a bit more and sometimes it's been a little too hard to hear students," William Scott, professor of English, said. "It's not good."
The University moved the loud construction to the night because of complaints that it was disrupting seminar classes in the late afternoon and early evening.
"But of course it still goes on during the day" Scott said.
Faculty in other parts of Wescoe, however, said there have not been any problems as a result of the construction.
John Sweets, professor of history, has an office on the second floor of the building and teaches a class on its east side. He said those parts of the building had not experienced any noise problems.
"In terms of me and the classes I've taught, it's had no effect on my teaching at all." Sweets said.
The only complaints from faculty in the east side of the building stemmed from a perception that the
construction may have been the cause of two power outages at Wescoe during the semester. Jackie Hosey, associate director for news and public issues at the University Relations office, said the construction had nothing to do with those power outages.
Both Hosey and Don Steeples, vice
The lecture halls on the building's west side have also been largely free from distractions.
"You'll hear a power tool for about 20 seconds, but nothing really too bad" Schrodt said.
Phil Schrodt, professor of political science, said noise from the construction had disrupted his class in room 2039 only once. Most of the time, he said, noise could barely be heard in the classroom.
Even though he said he was frustrated by the noise, Scott said he thought the office and classroom space that would be created by the construction were necessary and the noise was an acceptable result of that
provost for scholarly support, said they had received no complaints from faculty regarding the construction since the schedule was changed.
Kansan staff writer Danny Luppino can be contacted at dluppino@ kansan.com.
"All in all I think there are much bigger problems facing the University than this," Scott said.
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SPEAKER
Candidate focuses on energy, research, education
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
Mark Parkinson, Governor Kathleen Sebelius' running mate for lieutenant governor, spoke about his high hopes for the upcoming election last night.
Parkinson, a former Republican turned Democrat, made a campaign stop to speak to the University of Kansas Young Democrats in the Kansas Union. He said his three desires to improve Kansas are through public schools, alternate energy and biomedical research facilities.
Parkinson cited the local option budget program as an integral key to bring about improvements in public schools.
"It is critical to increase the base
amounts spent on public schools," Parkinson said. "It is also critical that we increase the amount that local districts can raise on their own. If we do these two things, we can create world class schools in Kansas."
Parkinson said he wanted to increase economic sectors of the Kansas economy by creating more outlets for alternate energy and attracting biomedical research institutes to the area. He said he envisioned a partnership between the Stowers Medical Research Institute in Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center as being a vital part of expansion in the medical research community in Kansas.
"We believe that by marrying the Stowers Institute with the KU
Medical Center and creating incentives for biomedical research to be done along the K-10 corridor to Lawrence and along the I-70 corridor to K-State that we can create the kind of biomedical research triangle that most can only dream of. Parkinson said, "We can do that and the governor has that kind of ability to make that kind of thing happen."
Parkinson said his goal was to get more KU students interested in the gubernatorial election in November.
Throughout his speech, Parkinson praised Sebelius' leadership as governor for the past four years in bringing Kansas into a more stable budget position. He said Sebelius' independent leadership and ability to reach across party lines was key to that success.
"I don't think a lot of students are
Marc Langston, President of KU Young Democrats and Wichita junior, was at Parkinson's speech and said he thought it was important for the University community to get to know him as a candidate.
Parkinson himself changed his political affiliation to run on the Democratic ticket. He said he was a moderate Republican, but joined the trend of politicians becoming Democrats.
aware of who he is, even though they know who Governor Sebelius is," Langston said. "He has some strong ideas that are important to KU in terms of research."
Sebelius selected Parkinson as a candidate for lieutenant governor in May after current lieutenant governor John Moore announced his retirement.
of his class from KU Law School in 1984 and formed his own law firm two years later. He was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican in 1990 and two years later was elected to the Kansas Senate. He served as chairman of the Kansas Republican Party from 1999 to 2003.
Parkinson graduated at the top
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Kansan staff writer Courtney Hagen can be contacted at chagen@ kansan.com.
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