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Happy Homecoming Week!
Here's what's happening on Saturday, Oct. 18:
10 a.m. The Homecoming Parade, led by Grand
Marshal Danny Manning, begins in front of the Adams
Alumni Center and will wind its way down Jayhawk Boulevard.
11 a.m. The School of Education invites faculty,
staff, students and alumni to its' pre-game
patio event overlooking the stadium.
The KUMC Medical Alumni Associations host the Jayhawk
Huddle. Gather on the Hill with fellow Medical Center
grads.
1 p.m. The 'Hawks take on the Baylor Bears in
Memorial Stadium. Tickets are going fast; act now to
receive a special three-game
discount package. And don't forget to register for
the Official
KU Online Directory so you can find your friends
and share in all the KU fun.
And of course, Friday, October 17th, Bill Self makes
his KU debut in Late Night in
the Phog, featuring an appearance by the 1988 National
Championship team. Register for the KU Connection Contest and a chance to win an official
keepsake ball autographed by the Danny Manning!
This month's KU Schools: Business, Engineering and Fine
Arts. Medical Center Alumni should check out the KUMC Beat for the latest news from the Medical Center.
Also in this issue, you'll read about the most recent
accomplishments in the KU community. Enjoy!
Warmest wishes from the Hill —
The Kansas Alumni Association
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Stories
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Jayhawk journalist writes biography of Dr.
Phil
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Turning the pages of a 1968 high school yearbook,
Lisa Gutierrez, feature writer for The Kansas
City Star, spied a familiar face. Swaying with
his sweetheart at the Shawnee Mission North homecoming
dance that year was Phil McGraw, now known to
TV viewers as the famous Dr. Phil.
One year later, Gutierrez, j'83, shares authorship
of "The Making of Dr. Phil: the Straight-Talking
True Story of Everyone's Favorite Therapist",
to be published in November. Read more
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KU to honor 1988 national champions
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Members of the 1988 men's basketball national
championship team will take their bows during
"Late Night In The Phog" on Friday,
Oct. 17, in Allen Fieldhouse. KU students' public
displays of affection for the 1988 team will combine
with another sentimental display during "Late
Night," as students participate in an attempt
to beat the world record for the largest number
of couples kissing simultaneously. Read more
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Fall enrollment includes record gains
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KU's fall 2003 enrollment hit a record high and
set new marks for the number of Kansas residents
and retention of first-year undergraduates. The
numbers also showed that efforts to recruit and
retain more underrepresented students at KU are
paying off. Overall, enrollment rose 423, or 1.5
percent, to 29,272 students, eclipsing the record
set in 1992.
Read more
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Dole
Institute seeks director
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Wanted: someone with big feet.
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KU is searching to fill the director's "big
shoes" at the Robert J. Dole Institute of
Politics following Richard Norton Smith's appointment,
effective Dec. 1, as the executive director of
the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum in Springfield, Ill.. Read
more
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This
Week In KU History
October 16, 1940: 1,083 KU
men register in the Kansas Room of the Kansas
Union building for the first peacetime draft in
American history.
Read
the full story.
Read more
dates for This Week In KU History
Gridiron Glory (And Then Some)
A compilation of some of the historical highlights
of KU football is now available on This Week In
KU History. Articles cover Tommy Thompson, KU's
first serious football star, to Gayle Sayers,
perhaps the greatest football Jayhawk ever. There
are also detailed reports on KU's two Orange Bowl
appearances in 1949 and 1969, the history of the
Kansas-Missouri rivalry, and the strange-but-true
moment in 1910 when KU gave serious thought to
abolishing football and replacing it with rugby.
Read
more KU football history.
This Week In KU History is a project
of the KU Memorial Unions.
Learn
more.
Copyright 2003
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation
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