Billy Mills Olympic Triumph Fuels Long Battle for Native People
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No 6, 2014 I $5 Billy Mills Olympic triumph fuels long battle for native people I L.A. ARTIST KIEL JOHNSON I KU EXAMINES PROGRAMS FOR PREVENTING, INVESTIGATING SEXUAL ASSAULT Contents | November 2014 28 36 18 18 28 36 The Man With Wings on A Time for Change Artist for the People His Feet e University community Kiel Johnson cra s a unique Fi y years ago Billy Mills searches for lasting improve- blend of mixed-media art realized his dream when he ments a er allegations from a that’s as restless, energetic and won Olympic gold; he’s spent 2013 sexual assault case cause wholly original as the L.A. the decades since trying to anger across campus. artist himself. help his Lakota people realize theirs. By Jennifer Jackson Sanner and By Steven Biller Chris Lazzarino By Steven Hill Cover photograph by Associated Press Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 112, No. 6, 2014 ISSUE 6, 2014 | 1 © 2014 by Kansas Alumni magazine Lift the Chorus read it cover to cover, as I did management. e wrapper on today. ough I graduated 21 Kansas Alumni is lightweight, years ago, there always seems easily lost through winds and Kansas City, Missouri, Central to be a reference to something mismanagement. Taking my Library. I experienced on the Hill, or a copy from its wrapper o en We were scheduled to friend I had lost touch with is results in smaller pieces that discuss Laura Moriarty’s e featured in Class Notes. can be lost, though I take care Chaperone. Our wonderful Kudos to your sta for giving to put them in my recycle bin. facilitator, Jill Schmidt, always us another reason to boast that Recycling capabilities also vary shares related items, so when I we bleed crimson and blue! greatly, and there is truly a very found issue No. 5 in my Sarah Shear O’Sullivan, c’93 slight chance that this bag mailbox, I was glad to see Oakland, California actually gets recycled in the Chris Lazzarino’s story about greater Los Angeles area where the KU Common Book [“A I Kansas I live, even though it goes to novel KU journey,” Rock Chalk Alumni for its overview of the recycle center. Showcase the face Review], which I shared with campus developments and I ask the sta of your great the group. Other members distinguished graduates and magazine to look into eliminat- W were excited to nd out about faculty. ing the plastic mailing wrapper and passion Elsa Rhae has for the Common Book project. As a graduate in chemical on Kansas Alumni. Multiple her newfound hobby [“Face to e University nurtured my engineering, I learned from Dr. magazines sent without such Face,” issue No. 5], it was great love of reading and learning, Donald Green and Dr. Clark material arrive via the U.S. to see her alma mater support and I continue those activities Bricker. A er graduation, I Postal Service to my mailbox her alongside all the people with enthusiasm. worked in industry, supporting in quite acceptable condition. around the world she has Linda Kerby, n’71, c’87 increased use of appropriate ank you from a chemical reached. When I see her work I Leawood materials to improve the engineer who believes strongly am so amazed by her talent, delivery and preservation of in our industrial capability and even though she has been products manufactured and need for jobs and pro tability, talented her whole life with To bag or not to shipped all over the world. For but who would also very much anything she picks up. bag? decades I helped serve the like to see our planet and its Great article showcasing her petroleum and chemical inhabitants stay healthy and talent and abilities! T for the plastic industries, and was proud to free from plastic pollution. Maggie Daniels cover to protect the magazines be associated with them. William Francis, e’73 Los Angeles of alumni, like me, who live a More recently I have seen a Director & President Emeritus substantial distance from major pollution problem Algalita Marine Research and Education, Lawrence. I really appreciate caused by improperly managed Feathered friend Long Beach, California receiving a magazine that does plastic waste. In 2011 it was T “F F” not appear to have already named by the United Nations article [issue No. 5] and been read multiple times (or to Environmental Programme as Editor’s Note: After increased especially the entire John have landed in the hands of a one of the two most signi cant complaints from readers about Gould Ornithological Collec- newly hatched Jayhawk!). environmentally damaging torn magazines, we reluctantly tion are fantastic. I am having a Special thanks to Debbi emerging problems worldwide. decided to package all issues in plastic to protect them from wonderful time going through Johanning for addressing my At rst I was skeptical, but I damage. Traditionally we have the online collection. I hope all multiple complaints about this got involved with a non-pro t mailed issue No. 6 in plastic to other readers are having the matter and for sending organization, Algalita Marine include the calendar and annual same great time with this replacement issues. She has Research and Education. report. Our printer, Allen Press of website. truly gone “Far Above” to make Algalita focuses on ocean Lawrence, uses bags made of Ben Shaw, b’63 me a happy and satis ed pollution by plastic: marine life low-density, grade-four recyclable Seattle member. is entangled, ingests, and is plastic. In 2013 the company Like many others in the susceptible to invasive species recycled 3.5 tons of plastic. Book club bonus Association, I am a proud caused by plastic pollution. Jayhawk, and I love this Although much plastic is Your opinion counts: Please magazine! I am so excited recyclable, I see far too much T email us a note at kualumni@ our monthly book club, when it arrives, and if possible, plastic intended for recycling kualumni.org to tell us what you Women Who Dare, at the I sit down immediately and lost through poor waste think of your alumni magazine. 2 | KANSAS ALUMNI STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685) 1. 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Total Number of Copies Snyder Book Contest winner takes national prize. (Net Press Run) 34,200 34,250 b. Paid Circulation (1) Mailed Outside-County Paid Subscriptions Stated on PS 14 Sports Form 3541 32,765 33,333 Self steers a young but talented hoops squad; (2) Mailed In-County Paid Subscriptions Stated on PS Bowen takes the football helm. Form 3541 0 0 (3) Paid Distribution Outside the Mails Including Sales Through Dealers & Carriers, Street Vendors 42 Association News Counter Sales, & Other Paid Chapter volunteers win Wintermote honors; Distribution Outside USPS 0 0 (4) Paid Distribution by Other Classes Roundup and Homecoming head fall celebrations. of Mail Through the USPS 0 0 c. Total Paid Distribution 32,765 33,333 d. 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