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Greetings from the Hill, where an early April chill has subsided
and the redbuds and lilacs will soon brighten Jayhawk Boulevard.
This third issue of KU Connection offers stories of the season,
including a preview of the Kansas Relays, a sentimental look
at Danforth Chapel, and, of course, the University's celebration
of the men's basketball team's Final Four appearance and spectacular
33-4 record.
We invite you to join in the celebration by sending
your congratulations to Coach Roy Williams and his team.
We will collect all the greetings from KU Connection readers
and present them to the Jayhawks.
In addition, to honor the tradition that the 2001-02 team
has enriched, we also ask you to share
your favorite KU basketball memory. Send us a note recalling
your favorite player, game, season, or golden moment, and
we'll post all the memories online to share them with other
alumni and friends. We look forward to hearing from you.
With warmest wishes -
The Kansas Alumni Association
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More than 2,500 alumni didn't need to
reach to hug one another as the band played "The
Crimson and the Blue" at KU's Final Four rally
March 30 in Atlanta. They already were elbow to elbow. Read More
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Dee Wallace Stone, d'71, who portrayed the harried
single mother in Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic "E.T.
The Extra-Terrestrial," is back in the limelight
with the movie's 20th-anniversary re-release.Read
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Students who voted to fund a new student recreation
fitness center in 1999 will begin to see the building
take shape after an April 12 ground-breaking ceremony
south of the Watkins Health Center. Read
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The Kansas Relays marks its 75th anniversary April
17-20. This year's track tradition features Olympic
gold medalist Billy Mills, d'62, who will give a speech,
and record-setting sprinter Maurice Greene, a native
of Kansas City, Kan. Read
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KU
in the Capitol
The state legislature is still in session, considering
how to close a $700 million budget deficit. Its decision
could have serious ramifications for the University.
To keep up-to-date on legislative issues facing KU,
view http://www.govrelations.ku.edu
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Participate
in the first online test of This Week In KU History
During the week of April 28-May 4, This Week In KU
History will be conducting its first online public test.
Check out www.kuhistory.com anytime that week to get a sample of this date-driven
e-history of the University of Kansas. You'll be able
to read richly illustrated original articles about the
day KU almost abolished football in 1910, the turn of
the century Maypole Scraps tradition, the premiere of
Lewis Lindsay Dyche's Panorama of North American Mammals
at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and many more. Plus,
you'll be able to access a small library of digitized
original texts from University Archives and utilize
a host of hotlinks connected to related web sites.
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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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April 2002
