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The Kansas state flag was removed from the top of Fraser Hall on Friday after a storm.
Iconic landmark missing its other half
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
scollins@kansan.com
Fraser Hall, which can be seen from miles away, is missing a very important component — one of two flagpoles.
KU officials dismantled the pole bearing a KU flag on Friday due to summer storm damage.
"The hope is to repair it," said Jill Jess, associate director for news and media.
Jess said the pole should be reinstalled within a few days. This may take longer, if the almost 50-year-old flagpole needs to be entirely replaced, she said. A replacement flagpole could take a couple of weeks.
Fraser Hall, which was built in 1967, stands a little more than 1,000 feet tall. The United States flag will continue to fly while the KU flapole is restored.
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to cancer prevention. Chapman suggested that students should approach exercise as if it was a required class they have enrolled in for the semester. That way, hitting the gym becomes a requirement and not an option.
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Alcohol was also a main culprit highlighted in the study's findings. The study stated that there was a direct link between alcohol and cancer risk, so the fewer beers a student chugs in his or her lifetime, the better.
Jenny McKee, health educator at Watkins, said on top of its potential long-term effects, alcohol also cause illness related to hangovers, a depressed immune system and could affect students' memory foundation as well.
"Alcohol does not contain any nutrients needed by the body to function correctly and cannot be used as energy," McKee said.
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such as last spring and summer's tickets scandal, other sets of eyes will reduce the opportunity for future conflicts.
Sherrer has recommended that the University of Kansas and Kansas State University hire outside personnel to serve on such boards, but that topic has yet to be discussed.
Al Bohl served as athletics director from 2001 to 2003 before Perkins was hired. He now lives in St. Augustine, Fla., where he has written two novels. Had he still been athletics director, he said, he too would've accepted the chancellor's decision.
Former Chancellor Robert
"I would think that most athletic directors, no matter who Kansas ends up hiring, wouldn't have a problem with that," Bohl said. "In fact, if I was the A.D., I would welcome that. Having another body that is able to be checking this to make sure things are running right and appropriately I really feel is a good thing."
Hemenway hired Bohl and Perkins and did not want to comment on the changes to the board.
"I decided when I retired that I wasn't going to get involved in looking over the shoulder at the people that are running the program now." Hemenway said.
The board is made up of the athletics director, provost, student body president, vice provost for Student Success, the faculty athletics representative and the University's chief business and financial planning officer.
The board's bylaws require that it meet at least four times in an academic year. Its responsi-
said. "He served us very well as chair of the board, but I think that this will allow us to evaluate the athletics corporation in a different way."
"He served us very well as chair of the board."
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Student Body President Michael Wade Smith equated the board's previous structure with a company's CEO overseeing himself.
MICHAEL WADE SMITH Student body president
"I don't believe that Lew breached anything or did anything inappropriate in the role," Smith
bilities include reviewing the procedures, processes and expenditures of Athletics.
"The board should serve as a source of information and overview for the A.D." Gray-Little said. "And I think having
someone chair it other than the athletics director is helpful in providing that"
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THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW CHAIR
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said a search for a successor for outgoing athletics director Lew Perkins has yet to formally begin. Perkins announced in June that he will retire Sept. 4, 2011.
"We have not formally started the search," Gray-Little said. "We are having conversations with people within athletics and around the University community, but we have not formally started the search."
Also left to be determined is a set of criteria for what the University is looking for in potential candidates.
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"That's what we're developing now in our conversations as we talk with people," Gray-Little said.
Grad student brandishes trivia knowledge on 'Jeopardy'
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Donald Scheeker is a life-long trivia fanatic.
He will appear on "leopardy" on Sept. 23.
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS scollins@kansan.com
When Donald Schepker applied to appear on "Jeopardy" more than a year ago, he soon doubted he would be a contestant. Then he got a call from the show this past June to be on an episode, which will air on Sept. 23.
wanted to do."
"It's something I've always enjoyed watching on TV but I've also always just loved trivia," said Schepker, a doctoral candidate in the School of Business from Lenexa. "The ability to compete on 'Jeopardy' was my ultimate goal, plus the chance to try to win some money and to compete against people who also wanted to do that was something that Ive
He said it's very easy to apply and anyone can do it. But it's not easy to get on the show, he said. Schepker first applied in January 2009 through an online application that consisted of 50 trivia questions. He said if a person does well on the test, then she or he receives an invitation to participate in an audition. There he filled out another 50-question test to verify that he didn't use outside sources to answer questions. Also, Schepker took part in a practice game with two other potential contestants.
"They are really focused on who will be good on TV, who will move to game quickly to get to all the clues and someone who won't freeze
up," Schepker said. "So if you do all of those things, then you can make it through."
He said he spent more time preparing for the audition than the actual filming of the show. He concentrated on his weak areas such as Shakespeare and British history, and read trivia books, he said. The episode was filmed on July 27 at the Jeopardy studios in Culver City, Calif.
"You can try to cram a little bit but some of it is just a lifelong thirst for knowledge, and who knows if it's useful or not, it's something that I've always been interested in," Schepker said.
Vincent Barker, Schepker's adviser in the doctoral program in the
School of Business, said he wasn't surprised when Schepker told him about "leopardy"
"He just has one of those minds. He knows a lot of trivia. He's sort of perfect for 'jeopardy,' Barker said. "He's one of the smartest people I know in terms of he just seems to know a lot of stuff. He's a fantastic doctoral student, he's a really good teacher, and he's just also a very nice person."
Charly Edmonds, the administrative director of doctoral programs, said Schepker has been a great asset to the doctoral program and the School of Business.
"I'm not surprised by his appearance as he has mentioned his interest in trivia and I think it's impressive that DJ made it to Jeopardy," Edmonds said. "I look forward to watching his appearance on Sept. 23."
Schepker says he cannot tell his family and friends the outcome of the episode because he signed a confidentiality contract. Nonetheless, he can share that he enjoyed every minute of his "Jeopardy" experience.
"It was a great day and an amazing experience," Schepker said. "For somebody who has watched the show for as long as I have, and for someone who really enjoys trivia in general, it was really amazing for me to be able to test my skills."
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