Pump up the Volume! Video Production Crew Transforms the KU Basketball Experience
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No 1, 2015 I $5 Pump Up the Volume! Video production crew transforms the KU basketball experience ISSUE 1, 2015 | i I MACARTHUR WINNER SARAH DEER I ARTS WARRIOR CORINE WEGENER Contents | Issue 1, 2015 24 30 38 30 24 38 Lights! Camera! Action! Justice for All What Came Before Behind the scenes on game Sarah Deer’s work to protect Like the “monuments men” day, the Rock Chalk Video native women from sexual of World War II who inspired crew ignites the spark that assault helped bring about two her, Corine Wegener saves makes Allen Field House key federal laws—and earned civilization’s treasures from the most exciting venue in the Muscogee (Creek) Indian becoming casualties of war. college sports. a prestigious MacArthur “genius grant.” By Chris Lazzarino By Chris Lazzarino By Steven Hill Cover photograph by Steve Puppe Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine | Volume 113, No. 1, 2015 ISSUE 1, 2015 1 Issue 1, 2015 64 Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 4 Lift the Chorus Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Letters from our readers Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 7 First Word Steven Hill e editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 8 On the Boulevard Dan Storey KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 10 Jayhawk Walk Advertising Sales Representative Smiles, everyone; ’rassling research; a power- David Johnston, j’94, g’06 liing professor and more Editorial and Advertising Oce KU Alumni Association 12 Hilltopics 1266 Oread Avenue News and notes: Budget looms large; School of Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 Languages, Literatures and Cultures launches. 785-864-4760 800-584-2957 www.kualumni.org 18 Sports [email protected] Graham’s return sparks men’s hoops; Beaty era promises sportier spread oense. 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Email responses may be sent to organizes exhibition of O’Keee and the Alumni Association, [email protected]. contemporaries. Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a free gift of 68 Glorious to View KU Campus Playing Cards, a $5 value. Scene on campus ISSUE 1, 2015 | 3 Lift the Chorus life to helping other Native Americans nd their paths to their dreams with inspiration, background at Haskell and KU. encouragement and college My wife, Peggy, and I had nancial aid that he raised or graduated from KU in 1963, personally provided. Billy’s life and she was then teaching high has been and continues to be a school in the Shawnee Mission life of modesty and excellent School District. service. He is a role model to ank you so much for the us all. writing you do for all of us KU Bob Covey, d’62 alumni. I will always be proud Bakersfield, California to be a Jayhawk. African-American starters in Editor’s Note: Bob Covey David Zehring, c’63, m’67 Allen Field House. Or when La Veta, Colorado competed for KU track teams in sprinter Charlie Tidwell pulled 1958, ’59, ’61 and ’62, and was a hamstring while leading head track and field coach at Billy’s triumph the nals at the 1960 U.S.A. Bakersfield College for 42 years. Olympic Team trials in C for Mills’ success Berkeley. Considered the capturing the spirit of Billy goes beyond gold world’s fastest sprinter, with a Mills in “e Man With Wings chance at the gold medal in Olympic coup on His Feet” [issue No. 6]. Y I a Rome, Tidwell was leading by rough my good friend copy of Kansas Alumni from four meters when he limped to T was delivered Bob Billings, I was fortunate to my former KU track and eld a stop, his Olympic dreams this week, and much to my meet Billy when he was still teammate and personal friend, shattered. He had an earlier delight, there was Billy Mills on running for KU. You can Billy Mills. e article was very disappointment when he broke the cover! imagine how thrilled I was accurate and well done. It the 220-yard dash world record I attended KU during the when I learned with the rest of caught some of the drama and in a dual meet in Abilene; two years Billy was there. I lived at the world that he’d won the racism that people of color weeks later coach Bill Easton Carruth-O’Leary residence Olympic 10,000 meters. faced while living in Lawrence announced that he had hall, which also contained the I’ve been eagerly awaiting and most other U.S. cities a received a letter from the athletes’ cafeteria. e students the article since I learned that half century ago and still today. Abilene Christian College track ate hamburger and the athletes Steven Hill was doing it. It was As you wrote, Billy Mills had coach stating that the record had steak! certainly worth the wait. Billy’s to be careful just walking forms could not be submitted Among the amenities that triumph over such early through Lawrence and could because it had been discovered came with this setup was the childhood adversity and racial be insulted or beaten because that the starting line had been indirect association of students discrimination should be an he was Native American. In set incorrectly. Incorrect with athletes, some of whom inspiration for us all. Lawrence he had only one starting lines on a track where also lived there. ey read the John McGrew, b’60 restaurant where he was ACC’s great Olympic cham- newspapers and hung out in Lawrence permitted to eat and one pion Bobby Morrow trained the lobby and we all got to barber shop o campus where and raced? Right! know them in a way we would he could get a haircut. If he Your article was both not have otherwise. Proud memory needed to go to the county enjoyable and very accurate. e students had our own hospital, he could get in only Mills’ story of persistent laundry in the basement, and I by the back door. e movie courage and mental toughness Billy and I oen did our many of Steven Hill’s articles in “Running Brave” caught some against all odds was beyond washing and ironing there at Kansas Alumni, and the most of Mills’ struggles to get a what most of us majority white the same time. I was in awe recent one, on Billy Mills, has chance at success. people never faced and didn’t of him, but he was such a prompted me to write. I doubt anyone will ever want to know. When Mills won modest fellow that you couldn’t I remember watching that write an article about when, in his gold medal in 1964, it was help rooting for his running race on television as a second- 1958 and 1959, Dick Harp’s KU for his teammates at home as talents. As the article recounts, year medical student at KU basketball teams were some- good as it could get. en he he had some medical problems and rejoicing at Billy Mills’ times called “Blackhawks” did more, much more, by that aected his nish in long victory, knowing of his because they had three or four devoting most of the rest of his races. And coach Bill Easton 4 | KANSAS ALUMNI wasn’t easy on him either. was the invited guest speaker journeys to successful athletic in dealing with this challenge. en came the Olympics in and runner at the Hospital careers. I have absolutely no doubt that 1964. It was a privilege to have Hill Run. Cunningham was severely had his running career not known him, but this was the e night before the race, burned at age 8 from a gasoline been prematurely cut short by capper. What a great coup! when he learned that we were can explosion that killed his the Amateur Athletic Union in O and on over the years I owners of Phidipiddes, a elder brother and prompted his 1956 at age 24, Wes would have have kept up as best I can with Kansas City running store, he doctor to recommend amputa- attained his goal of running a the news on Billy. When I saw asked if the store was open that tion of Glenn’s legs. His sub-4 minute mile, which he his photo on the cover, I evening so he could get some parents’ intervention fortu- missed by a scant 1/2 second immediately sat down and read new shoes. e store was nately prevented that from in 1955. the whole story. anks for closed, so we selected a couple happening. Cunningham’s John Quarrier, b’56 bringing it all back.