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 Get ready for some football! The KU football team is preparing to contend for the 2005 Big 12 North title, and you can check out the Jayhawks at the annual spring game at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at Memorial Stadium. The Kansas Alumni Association, in conjunction with KU Dining Services, Jayhawk Illustrated / Phog.net, and Jayhawk Beverage, will host a tent on the Hill from 12:30 until 2:30. Free food and beverages will be available for the first 500 fans. The gridiron action begins at 1 p.m. with a flag-football alumni game featuring some of your favorite KU greats, including Bobby Douglass, David Jaynes, John Hadl and Don Fambrough. There will be a one hour intermission at 2, followed by the 2005 spring game at 3. Alumni Association members: Show your membership card at the tent and receive a free gift! Read more about KU football in our KU Places story.
Summer is on the way, so prepare to send your kids to one of KU’s great camps. Click here for a list of activities and contact information. Enroll your future Jayhawk in an exciting adventure on the Hill.
 A disappointing loss in the opening round of the NCAA tournament overshadowed a Big 12 Conference championship, but the 2004-2005 Jayhawk basketball team made alumni and fans proud with another stellar season. Congratulations to Coach Self and his team.
 And even though he now wears North Carolina Blue, Roy Williams deserves a hand for winning his first national championship. Congratulations to Coach Williams; we hope to meet up with your Tar Heels next year!
Warmest wishes from the Hill,
The Kansas Alumni Association
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Match Made in Battenfeld
Almost 200 Graduating KU School of Medicine students recently gathered with family and friends in Battenfeld Auditorium for Match Day festivities, the final step in the residency-matching process that begins when students first interview for residency spots and rank their favorites. Read more in the KUMC Beat.
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Marion Jones to compete at Kansas Relays
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Three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones will be among the featured athletes at the 78 th Kansas Relays GOLD ZONE April 21-23 in Memorial Stadium. Maurice Green and other fellow Olympians also will compete. If you would like to volunteer for the Relays and see these top athletes in action, please contact Debbie Luman in the KU track office, dluman@ku.edu. Volunteers also receive a free T-shirt and meals. Read more.
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Jayhawkasauraus: New Dino Lab spotlights KU
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KU’s expertise in dinosaurs is now on full display inside the Kansas City children’s museum Science City in the fully restored Union Station. At 1,700 square feet, the “Dino Lab” is the largest of its kind in the nation. Read more.
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Awards attest that KU students, faculty are at the top of their game
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Recent national awards honored the work of KU’s debaters, faculty and students of the School of Social Welfare, and an exercise video for people with Parkinson’s disease that was created by a dance professor and KU Continuing Education. Read more.
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KU in the Capitol
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“The good outweighs the bad,” said Paul Carttar, executive vice chancellor for external affairs at KU. "We have every reason to be relatively satisfied with how things are playing out in the Legislature." Read more.
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April 23, 1966: KU freshman track star Jim Ryun knocks nearly eight seconds off the Kansas Relays record for the mile run in a race that launches perhaps the greatest three-month stretch of his remarkable career. Read the full story.
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Medical Center Series Coming To KUhistory.com This Month
The first installment of 40 new articles about the history of the KU Medical Center will premiere on KUhistory.com on April 21, 2005.
Timed to coincide with the centennial of the KU School of Medicine, the initial pieces in this series cover most of the key moments in the Med School’s first 50 years as a four-year institution. Additional articles focus on the preliminary nineteenth-century medical education programs at KU that took place on Mount Oread.
“This new body of content solidly demonstrates the validity of the one-university concept from a historical standpoint,” said Henry Fortunato, project director and editor-in-chief of KUhistory.com. “As a group, the Medical Center stories are among the best we have ever done and add further resonance to the shared identity that unifies the University of Kansas.”
The KU School of Nursing, the KU School of Medicine, the University of Kansas Hospital, the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office of the KU Medical Center, and the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, are underwriting this major content enhancement to KUhistory.com.
Learn more about the new Medical Center series
KUhistory.com is a service of the KU Memorial Unions.
© 2005 University of Kansas Memorial Corporation
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