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 Issue 2 March 2002

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Welcome to the second issue of KU Connection. Along with important news on the University budget and the NCAA Tournament, we offer two promotions:

Register to win two tickets to join Athletics Director Al Bohl in his scholarship suite for a home football game, or a Big 12 championship gift pack, both compliments of KU Athletics.

Plus you can sign up for FREE permanent e-mail forwarding, courtesy of the Alumni Association and the University Computer Center. This service allows all KU graduates to register a yourname@kualumni.org e-mail address that will follow you through changes in cities, jobs, or Internet service providers. It's the only address your friends and family will ever need to remember! Register online today!

Thanks to our alumni and friends for the hundreds of responses to the inaugural issue of KU Connection. We appreciate your encouragement.

Best wishes from the Hill, and GO JAYHAWKS!
The Kansas Alumni Association

  Story Highlights

Alumni and friends who follow the Kansas Jayhawks to St. Louis, will gather to cheer the team at a party and pre-game rally at beginning at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at the Hard Rock Cafe in Union Station.
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In the face of steep budget cuts, the university "has seldom been more vulnerable," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in testimony March 7 before a state Senate budget committee.
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The Malott family gift to KU First will help fund an attractive new campus entrance at the corner of 15th and Iowa streets. The gateway honors the memory of former Chancellor Deane W. Malott. Read More

KU's February 2002 symposium "Let America Be America Again," celebrating the life and legacy of American poet Langston Hughes, drew 500 scholars and Hughes enthusiasts and the attention of nationwide media.
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  This Week In KU History

March 19, 1889: Lewis Lindsay Dyche, a KU-trained naturalist and explorer, accepts a University chair in anatomy, physiology, and taxidermy. Dyche will go on to design the Panorama of North American Mammals, unveiled at 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and now on permanent display at the KU Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall.
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A project of the KU Memorial Unions, "This Week In KU History" is going online Fall 2002. Learn More

 

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