No 2, 2018 n $5 Speak Up, Speak Out KU’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center sets standard for change n VIEW FROM THE HILL n VIETNAM REVISITED n A MEDAL FOR DOLE CAR T-CELL THERAPY SUPERCHARGES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT CANCER T cells are isolated from the patient’s white blood cells. “CAR T-cell Scientists re-engineer the T cells with the CAR gene to target specific therapy is cancer cells. revolutionizing cancer care.” The supercharged T cells are Joseph McGuirk, DO returned to the patient where they Division Director of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics hunt and destroy cancer cells. As the region’s only NCI-designated cancer center, we offer patients access to the most groundbreaking treatments in the nation – including cellular therapies like immunotherapy. In fact, we are one of a few in the country, and the only one in this region, to offer CAR T-cell therapy. “We’re just beginning to learn how similar methods will lead to smarter, faster treatments, but already the results are promising,” says Dr. McGuirk. Precision cancer therapies like this are found in this region only at The University of Kansas Cancer Center. Why would you go anywhere else? To explore all of the cancer treatment options available to you, visit kucancercenter.org/cancertreatments. ADVANCING THE POWER OF MEDICINE® © The University of Kansas Cancer Center Contents | Issue 2, 2018 32 26 24 32 24 26 38 COVER STORY Patriot View to a Thrill America’s Story Voices Spur Change Congress awards Bob Dole its At the Spencer Research A new project seeks oral Responding to crisis, KU highest civilian honor. Library, the stunning vista is histories from military forges an innovative sexual the same, but the outlook is all veterans and others to better assault prevention and By Mike Pettit new. understand one of the most awareness program that draws divisive periods in U.S. heavily on student input. By Chris Lazzarino history—the Vietnam War era. By Heather Biele By Steven Hill Cover illustration by Susan Younger 38 Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 116, No. 2, 2018 ISSUE 2, 2018 | 1 Lift the Chorus of minorities in Lawrence in I his many books. I rst met him who entered that establishment Your while researching my KU and with mouth agape [“He’s Got It opinion counts Hope College chemistry If He Can Find It,” issue No. 1]. mentor Cal Vander Werf’s Over the years I had many Please email us a note at [email protected] commitment to the rights of occasions—when I worked for to tell us what you think of KU and Lawrence minorities Brown Cargo Van and E & E your alumni magazine. in the ’40s and ’50s. I wrote Specialties or for any home about it in my biography, Cal project—to revisit in search of Vander Werf: Anchor of Hope. an obscure item. Anytime I anks, Kansas Alumni, for needed something out of the helping all of us appreciate ordinary, I always went to and I was actually teaching Rebuilt right those who make our past come Ernst & Son rst, and I always Sunday school class to two of to life. came away fullled. Rod Ernst his sisters that year. T Doug Neckers, PhD’63 will indeed be sorely missed. I did my graduate degree at article covering KU’s club Perrysburg, Ohio Perry Sprague, d’70, c’76 KU and then taught in the hockey program [“e Mighty Wichita English department two years, ’Hawks,” issue No. 1]. What a from 1959 to 1961. Even aer good group of players and Only one Rod all these years, I think of coaches who run the program. Pride of Mayetta Lawrence as one of my favorite ey had a reputation to Editor’s Note: Just after Kansas places to live. I have wonderful Alumni came o the press in rebuild and they did it the right T for memories of being on campus January, we learned the sad news way: ey repaid the debts of that Rod Ernst, c’57, longtime your article on Bill James and and teaching two classes as a the old club team, re-estab- proprietor of Ernst & Son his daughter, Rachel, and their graduate teaching assistant. lished their credibility on Hardware, staunch Jayhawk and sleuthing [“Murder Most Foul,” ank you again for the campus and among other subject of a feature story in issue issue No. 6, 2017]. write-up on Bill. What a teams, and put a competitive No. 1, died Jan. 23. His In Memory I grew up in Mayetta, as Bill wonderful small world team on the ice. I hope they notice appears on page 64. The did, and I was 12 when he was we have. make the playos and their following letter is one of those we born. His family lived across Patricia Hafer Buck, g’58 program continues to prosper. received noting Ernst’s passing. the street from our church, Indianola, Iowa Rock Chalk, Jay-Hawkey! Steve Bausch, e’84, Denver Editor’s Note: The Jayhawks did qualify for the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Show your KU pride Division 3 playos, losing a 5-4 thriller to Arkansas Feb. 24 in with every handshake Lincoln, Nebraska. KU finished its season 20-6-1. Choose from a variety of styles, available in 10K, 14K yellow or white gold. The inside of the ring is forged with “Rock Chalk Jayhawk,” and can also be engraved with the graduate’s initials, Scholar’s hero degree and class year. A special presentation box is included. T beautiful story on Professor William For more information visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. Tuttle [“Freedom Fighter,” issue No. 1]. e term “scholar- citizen” denes Bill, and he is a Lawrence and KU scholar’s hero. 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Email responses may be sent to the Alumni Association, [email protected]. Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space 72 Glorious to View and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a free gift of KU Scene on campus Campus Playing Cards, a $5 value. ISSUE 2, 2018 | 3 IGNITE POTENTIAL The indomitable Jayhawk spirit is a beacon of hope in Kansas and beyond. Private support fuels KU’s success by transforming students into leaders and ideas into discoveries. Most gifts are $500 or less, but regardless of size, each one opens doors to new opportunities. www.kuendowment.org/your-gift by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word efore the nation’s recent days of are not representative of the government’s actions in Vietnam.” Breckoning about sexual miscon- More than 30 years later, Musgrave’s experience became a duct in the workplace captured the central theme of “e Vietnam War,” lmmaker Ken Burns’ spotlight, higher education leaders recent documentary. Kansas Public Radio producer Kaye began to face the harsh realities of McIntyre also featured Musgrave in a recent edition of her sexual assault in college and weekly show, “KPR Presents,” and he is helping her gather university communities. For KU, other veterans’ memories for “Kansas Stories of the time was up in September 2014, Vietnam War,” a project of the Kansas Humanities Council when an anonymous student’s in partnership with the Library of Congress. In our feature, complaint against the University, Associate Editor Steven Hill describes the statewide eort to R E G N Lawrence police and the district U collect stories from combat veterans, military medical corps O Y AN attorney for mishandling a reported SUS members and veterans advocates as well as conscientious objec- sexual assault made national headlines. tors. Varied perspectives from a pivotal, painful era can provide In November 2014, Kansas Alumni rst reported on campus invaluable lessons as the nation navigates current and future eorts to improve procedures for reporting, investigating—and conicts.