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ZA / NEWS / TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Human history begins with man's act of disobedience, which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
— Erich Fromm
Weather forecast
The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
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FACT OF THE DAY
Small chance of rain with a low of 70 degrees again. 15 to 20 mph winds.
TUESDAY NIGHT:
JESDAY: 92 degrees and steady south winds of 15 to 20 mph with some high gusts.
WEDNESDAY: 81 degrees and cooler. A high chance of rain.
65 degrees for the low and a chance of rain still.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
THURSDAY:
Around 77 degrees and a break from the heat with a low of 55. Partly cloudy skies.
FRIDAY:
Mostly cloudy skies with a high of 65 and low around 53,with a slight chance of rain.
Seven people were honored last week for 45 years of service at KU's Employee Recognition Ceremony. If you add those years to the 21 who were honored for 40 years of service, it represents a millennium of service to KU!
Information from forecasters Megan Lynxwiler and Chris Dobbs, KU atmospheric science students
What's going on?
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
May 10
Dr. Cheryl Hayashi of the University of California, Riverside will deliver a lecture titled "Form, Function and the Evolution of Spider Genes" Tuesday, May 10 from 3:45 to 5 p.m. in Haworth Hall as part of the BIO3 Seminar Series.
May 11
The School of Music will host a French horn recital for Michael Cooper as part of the student recital series. It will be 7:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
THURSDAY
SATURDAY
May 12
The KU Alumni Association will host a Grad Grill from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. at the KU Alumni Center.
May 14
The English department will host an honors and awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY
May 15
FRIDAY May 13
The Dole Institute of Politics will host a lecture by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the Dole Institute of Politics. The event is free.
Professor emeritus Ted Johnson will give a Stop Day walking tour of campus beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Natural History Museum. The event is free.
May 16
MONDAY
Finals week begins.
ATHLETICS
Official in ticket scandal settles with department
BY ALEX GARRISON agarrison@kansan.com
Former associate athletics director Ben Kirtland agreed to pay the department $63,000 in restitution for his part in the $2 million ticket-stealing scandal before he was prosecuted by the federal government, according to documents obtained by The Kansan on Monday.
Kirtland entered a private civil settlement with Kansas Athletics in October, agreeing to pay half within thirty
Kirtland
days of the agreement and the rest by January 31. The federal prosecution's investigation for conspiracy to commit wire fraud against him and four other former athletics employees began in November. All have been convicted and sentenced, except for Kirtland, who is set to be sentenced on Thursday.
Jim Cross, a spokesman for the prosecutors, said the federal government has no involvement in the settlement and does not know if the money has in fact been paid. He also said it may or may not
affect Kirtland's sentencing — it's up to the judge. The charge carries up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Other co-conspirators — former athletics employees Kassie Liebsch, Rodney Jones and Charlette and Tom Blubaugh
— have received sentences ranging from 37 to 57 months, and ordered to pay thousands of dollars in restitution to the IRS and Kansas Athletics.
Cross confirmed that Jones has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution but on Friday requested an extra 30 days before he begins serving his time at a minimum-security camp in El Reno, Okla. The judge denied the delay request without comment.
-Edited by Danielle Packer
RESEARCH
New professorship created with $1 million donation
Reid
The grant and the five-year term for a hematology/oncology professor will bring the cancer center one step closer to achieving National Cancer Institute designation. KU Endowment has raised
Ralph Reid, president and executive director of the Sprint Foundation, said in a press release that National Cancer Institute designation would help attract
A $1 million gift from the Sprint Foundation will create a new professorship in blood-related cancers at the University of Kansas Cancer Center.
tion deadline in September.
resources and funding to Kansas City. Dr. Roy Jensen, director of the cancer center, said that private philanthropy like Sprint's grant raised the bar for cancer research and patient care in Kansas City as well as for the whole state and region.
In March, the cancer center received support for its NCI application from an external advisory board of scientific experts from around the country. The advisory board pointed out some major strengths and weaknesses
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
$51 million for NCI designation since 2009. Officials plan to raise $9 million more before the NCI applica-
The hiring of a researcher to lead the hematology/oncology division answered one of two weaknesses identified by the board, which said the cancer center needed more participation from nationally significant scientists and physicians.
of the cancer center. The center's strengths included the KU Clinical Research Center, which will open in the fall, and what the board called a "high level of productivity."
—Edited by Danielle Packer
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