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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2006
2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KU HISTORY
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BY DIRK NEWTON
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KANSAN CORRESPONDANT
February 20,1863
A bill was passed by the Kansas House of Representatives and Kansas Governor Thomas Carney by only one vote, the bill placed the University of Kansas in the city of Lawrence.
February 20,1939
Multi-sport star James Bausch returned to the University on business as an Internal Revenue Service traveling auditor and met with his former track coach to stand in on a practice. Just seven years before, Bausch was tabbed as one of the finest athletes in the nation after winning a gold in the decathlon at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles that featured four other Lawrence natives.
While at Kansas he starred on the football team, and was dubbed "Jarring Jim" for his bruising 6'2" 200 pound frame as a full back. He also was a center for the basketball team and won the conference title in the shot put, discus and pault in his junior year of track. But Bausch left Kansas early when others speculated about a booster, promising Bausch a job at his insurance company if he were to transfer from Wichita State to Kansas. Other schools in the conference got wind of the speculation and ruled that it was illegal recruitment and threatened to kick Kansas out of the Big Six. Kansas was forced to cut Bausch from the team in late 1950. Two years later he won the gold medal.
February 21.1978
Green Hall is dedicated as the new School of Law at the University with former President Gerald Ford on hand as a dignitary.
February 23,1895
KU graduate Lucien Blake is invited aboard the Scotland, a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of New Jersey and completes the first shore-to-shore underwater wireless message, a task the U.S. government had failed to crack for many years before finding Blake.
February 23,1948
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, a man President Dwight D. Eisenhower said he trusted, was named the dean of School of Medicine at the University and was the youngest in the nation at his position. Gene Budig named him one of the "giants of KU history," and it comes to no surprise that many believe that Murphy was the most influential Chancellor ever to hold the position at the University. After serving only three years and after helping secure more doctors in small towns, Murphy was named Chancellor of the University of Kansas after Deane W. Malott left Kansas for the presidency at Cornell University. Murphy made it his goal to continue improving the School of Medicine and by 1959 had more than quadrupled its budget putting it at nearly $10 million and increased its staff from 300 to 530 people. In 1960, after a three-year feud with Governor George Docking, Murphy resigned and took over as Chancellor at UCLA leaving Kansas to a partner who was by his side through it all, W. Clark Wescoe.
Community stresses reform
IMMIGRATION
BY FRID A. DAVIS III
fdavis@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Immigration reform is a contentious topic in the United States, and that notion is not lost on the Latino Community Coalition of Douglas County. The coalition is trying to raise awareness and educate Douglas County residents about the issue.
At a community immigration forum hosted by the Latino Coalition Thursday, the forum brought in Melinda Lewis, director of policy advocacy and research at El Centro Inc., of Kansas City, Kan. Lewis spoke about the current immigration reform legislation proposed at the state
Lewis spoke in both English and Spanish to a crowd of nearly 125 in the basement of the St. John the Evangelist Church about what residents of Douglas County could do to influence immigration reform.
and federal government levels.
Members from the University of Kansas organizations including the Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Migrant Worker Solidarity attended.
"Poll's show that most people want reasonable solutions to immigration," Lewis said, citing the need for less restrictive paths to citizenship.
She was adamant that in order to see favorable immigration legislation, people need to call their
congressman or woman and voice their concerns.
"But the only people calling their congress people are the ones asking for walls along the border," she said.
Lydia Leon, facilitator of the Latino Community Coalition, said the forum was the first of its type in the community this year.
Victor Aguilar, president of HALO, was pleased with the forum's and the education that the coalition has offered Douglas County residents.
"It's important to inform people, that's the main thing," Aguilar said.
Aguilar, Dodge City junior said that not enough people had received good information about immigration and
instead have based their opinions on what they had heard from "talking heads," like Bill O'Reilly or Lou Dobbs. As for immigration reform in the state of Kansas, Aguilar said the state's doing a decent job, but that Hispanics needed better representation.
Beth Chronister, Topeka senior, said the event's message was important to the changing face of Kansas. Amritta Davis, Kansas City, Kan., senior, who volunteers for the Latino Coalition, summed up the forum's message and its intent: "Immigration is not just a Latino or minority issue, it's an issue for all Americans."
— Edited by Hayley Travis
PEOPLE
The show must go on
NEWYORK — Kevin Federline is ready for a backlash over his brand-new role as white-boy rapper.
Federline releases new hip-hop track, rebuts criticism
"He hates his children, he treats his wife like dirt, he gets high all day," he said, quoting his critics. "If I was that bad, you think anyone, let alone Britney, would put up with it?"
But it already can't get worse, the dancer and husband of pop star Britney Spears told Newsweek for its issue on newsstands Monday.
He has released his single "PopoZae" on his Web site. It got 2 million hits in eight days, he said, which proves there's interest.
The Associated Press
He plans to release his debut album by this spring, but without featuring his wife on the album, said Federline, 27.
Alex Brandon/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Chalmette Unified High School Marching Band passes a heavily damaged strip mall on Judge Perez Highway during the Knights of Nemesis Mardi Gras parade in Chalmette, La., Sunday. The parade rolled through one of the areas of St. Bernard Parish that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Fact of the day
Source: slate.com
"Q quote of the Day"
A Seton Hall study on the charges of detainees at Guantanamo Bay found that 55 percent of them are not suspected of having committed any hostile acts against the United States and that 40 percent of the detainees are not affiliated with al-Qaida.
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."
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