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JAYHAWK GENERATIONS 2001 CALENDAR HOOPS GUIDE h h h NO. 6,2000 $5 Settle* into the Kansas basketball ttadiuo U mere -Ml_ f II i • Jc/ vy I I I mt SS 1-800-645-5409 Shop -'an-ysai four locations i Westridge Mall, Topek 9548 Antioch, Overland Park I Town Center Plaza, Leawood KANSAS ALUMNI CONTENTS e Magazine FEATURES 20 IRS I WORD Hail to the Chiefs FT THE CHORUS The American Presidency Series helped the dters from readers University Press of Kansas establish a name for ON THE BOULEVARD itself. Now, after 30 years, the esteemed series is Schedules of KU events running out of presidents to profile, but its influence JAYHAWK WALK endures. Smoking grass, Iron Chefs and more By Steven Hill LLTOPICS 'ews and notes, including Gilded Age art, 24 sea census and more How We Play the Game SPORTS nnball flirts with a mid- Roy Williams has found a home at KU, and the ason turnaround and University has found a coach who reminds us what asketball gears up it means to be afayhawk. OREAD READER By Chris Lazzarino Patrick Quinn looks at a singular pluralist: FDR Cover photograph by Wally Emerson OREAD WRITER * great teacher takes on a eat Dane 32 ASSOCIATION NEWS Woodward scholars, Halls of Academe omecoming and more Why is KU building new scholarship halls when ASS()( IATION many universities have given up on cooperative CALENDAR housing? Because students and alumni would The latest on chapter and have it no other way. Kill' events JAY1IAWK By Steven Hill GENERATIONS '"Icome to the Hill ASS NOTES c 'ram classmates 4ORY iths in the KU family SCHOOLWORK Page 32 /6 HAIL TO OLD KU Birth of a bird VOLUME 98 NO. 6, 2000 KANSAS ALUMNI If it's Crimson and Blue We've Got it and More! JAYR PIRI Jayhawk Spirit is your authentic source for the finest quality Kansas gifts and sportswear. Come see us on Game Days! 935 Massachusetts Street Lawrence, KS 66044 Visit out new website at KansasGear.com powered by Call for our new catalog with over 100 items! 1.800.749.5857 or 785.749.5194 • fax 785.749.5295 FIRST WORD BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER khe number 23, though scuffed seemed meant to be was not to be for the Jayhawks. But even in and faded after 12 years, still heartbreak, Kansas teams and their faithful never lost heart. True reads clearly on the white terry to tradition, Kansans have believed that eventually, somehow, Tcloth wristband wadded in a things will be set right. corner of my dresser drawer. Not meant Last summer, the wild Roy Williams saga affirmed our faith. for sweat, the wristband once stated my Our cover story examines not only the week that was weird, but sentiments rather than my fashion sense. also the Kansas basketball legacy of which Williams is the right- In 1988, like thousands of KU alumni ful steward. In the comments of those who played in the field and fans, I sported the accessory to house when shorts were short and nationally televised games honor Archie Marshall. were special events, you'll perhaps catch a glimpse of the aura or Marshall, '88, a forward who pos- grasp a thread of the indefinable. sessed both shooting grace and rebound- Other stories in this issue also capture subjects distinctly ing grit, was supposed to have glided Kansan. As a new scholarship hall opens this fall on the eastern down the court alongside senior Ail- slope of Mount Oread, Steven Hill describes the elements of the American Danny Manning, c'92, on the University's scholarship hall system that have enabled it to way to a national championship. But on endure while cooperative housing at most universities across the Dec. 30, 1987, against St. John's, Mar- nation has faltered. shall's left knee crumpled in a collision And, as the country chooses a new president, Steve recalls under the basket, ending his senior sea- the acclaimed American Presidency Series that has established son after it had scarcely begun. the University Press of Kansas as an unrivaled force in the study The injury seemed especially brutal of U.S. presidents. Although the end of the Clinton presidency is because it was not Marshall's first. In imminent, the appearance of a book on his tenure probably 1986, as the Jayhawks battled Duke in won't appear until at least 2004, allowing historians, political the Final Four semifinal, Marshall had scientists and unfolding domestic and world events to put the torn his right knee. After recuperating presidency of Bill Clinton into perspective. Scholarly assessment during his junior year, he returned to the of a president can occur only after the din of the political arena court only to be cheated again. has quieted, explains press director Fred Woodward. The Jayhawks did not forget their sidelined team- mate. Manning wrote his friend's number on a wrist- band that he wore throughout the season. Careening through a chaotic season, Kansas suffered 11 losses, and its once-bright championship hopes barely flickered as March approached. But Manning, Marshall and fellow senior Chris Piper, b'88, still saw the gleam. During their final game in Allen Field House, a tearful, joyful, hearts-and-flowers farewell that set the standard for senior finales, the three couldn't help but long for more. The game against Okla- homa State seemed merely a subplot to the real drama, which reached a climax late in the game as coach Larry Brown called Marshall's number. Hobbling a few steps onto the court, Marshall caught Manning's pass and, as the crowd's roar crescendoed, he launched a 40-footer. The ball glanced off the backboard, but it didn't matter. The final seven seconds of Archie Marshall's KU career Archie Marshall and Danny Manning brought the house down. Number 23 wristbands became all the rage. After Kansas A Southerner who now calls Kansas home,Woodward has defeated Oklahoma, 83-79, in the gut-wrenching national cham- patiently coached the once-struggling press to national stature pionship game, Marshall clipped the first strings of the victory by encouraging not only innovative scholarship but also enter- net. Many of the KU arms that waved the wheat in exultation prising general-audience books. In 1988, he rushed to commis- wore the symbol of his tragedy turned triumph. sion the popular Against All Odds, the story of the Jayhawks' Such redemption tells the story of Kansas basketball. Time improbable championship season. after time, as you'll read in Chris Lazzarino's cover story, what By the way, Woodward's staying, too.-"*1* KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 6, 2000 h 'FT THE CHORUS KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Research not respected Publisher Chair As an alumnus who is now the Shake- Fred B.Williams Reid Holbrook, c'64, P66, Overland Park, Editor Kansas spearean at the other school, I was sad- Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'8l dened and a little troubled at the cover Executive Vice Chair Art Director Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, and article on the KU professor whose Susan Younger, f 91 Washington hobby is proving Shakespeare was some- Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j'86 Executive Committee one else ["By Any Other Name," issue No. Staff Writer Jim Adam, e'56, Overland Park, Kansas 5]. While the cover and article were Steven Hill Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66. Overland Park, undoubtedly competent if not slick, and a Kansas Editorial Assistants gesture of balance was achieved in pre- Karen Goodell Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, Washington senting the historical issues, the lack of Photographer Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c'64, l'67, Kansas City, Wally Emerson, j'76 overall balance in the reporting would be Kansas Graphic Designer Gil M. Reich, e'54, Savannah, Georgia striking to any scholar of the period. Valerie Spicher, j'94 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, Wichita, Kansas While almost all of the article was "evi- Editorial Office dence" in support of this "theory" (a sad Kansas Alumni Association Vice Chairs 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 Gary Bender, g'64, Scottsdale, Arizona, and use of the term here, I'm afraid), the arti- 785-864-4760 Colorado Springs,Colorado cle did seek out scholars Hardin and Berg- Advertising Office Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b'83, Brussels, eron for counterevidence, but embedded Sarah Lober, Advertising Manager Belgium Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 Tim S. Dibble, d'74, Issaquah, Washington their responses in ways that made them Lawrence, KS 66049 Patricia Weems Gaston, j'81, Annandale, look dismissive, territorial or petulant, 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 Virginia fax 785-843-7555 given the overall focus of the piece. The e-mail: [email protected] Directors to July 2001 arguments of the chemistry professor Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Lisa Ashner Adkins, c'84, l'87, Leawood, Kansas emeritus, on the other hand, despite the by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas John B. Dicus, b'83, g'85,Topeka, Kansas incomprehensible diagrams, are given full six times a year in January, March, May, July, September Robert L. Driscoll, c'6l, l'64, Mission Woods, and November $40 annual subscription includes mem- Kansas weight and sympathetic attention. bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: What is more troubling than sad, how- 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Peri- Directors to July 2002 odicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS, and additional Lewis D. Gregory, c'75, Leawood, Kansas ever, is the implicit way that such amused mailing offices.