No 6, 2017 I $5 Our Monsters Dyche Hall’s fantastic beasts descend from their perches n MURDER MYSTERY n GRINTER’S SUNFLOWERS Quality of Care Really Matters Ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report. And again, The University of Kansas Hospital is named Best Hospital in Kansas and Kansas City. Named among the nation’s best academic medical centers in Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study for patient safety and outcomes. Among a select few hospitals in the nation to earn a third consecutive Magnet designation, nursing’s highest honor. The nation’s first to receive the Joint Commission’s Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification for exceptional outcomes. Especially when your quality of life is on the line Understanding outcomes and quality numbers between hospitals can help you make smart healthcare decisions. We are proud to be nationally recognized, year after year, by the most prestigious organizations that study quality of care. Before you decide where to be treated, examine the numbers as if your life depends on it. Learn about these awards and what they mean for you at kansashealthsystem.com/qualitymatters. ADVANCING THE POWER OF MEDICINE® Contents | Issue 6, 2017 22 30 36 22 30 36 Monsters of the Mind Murder Most Foul Blooming Attraction A top-oor renovation of Baseball thinker Bill James A family farm outside of Dyche Hall reveals pressing puts his analytical mind to Lawrence harvests a bumper needs for KU’s other mythical work on another great love— crop of sunowers—and beasts: the grotesques that for a True Crime stories—and solves smiles—at summer’s end. century have kept watch on a hundred-year-old murder Jayhawk Boulevard from their mystery. By Heather Biele Natural History Museum perch. By Steven Hill By Chris Lazzarino Cover photograph by Steve Puppe ISSUE 6, 2017 | 1 Lift the Chorus November 2017 Love lasts If you were a part of KUDM in the past 10 years, as a I “L ” dancer, committee member, or [Jayhawk Walk, issue No. 4] steering director, KUDM with interest. would love to hear from you! My parents were married for Please visit kudm.org for more Publisher Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 76 years and seven months. My information about KUDM, to father, Howard Taylor, was a learn how alumni can get Editor student at (now) Kansas State involved with the organization, Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 University and my mother, or to donate to the cause. Rock Creative Director Georgia Essick Taylor, was a Chalk and For the Kids! Susan Younger, f’91 Emily Draeger, senior student at (now) Emporia State Associate Editors Executive Director, University when they married Chris Lazzarino, j’86 KUDM on Feb. 7, 1938. Steven Hill Culture bridge Lawrence ey lived in Wichita until Photographers K my father died on Sept. 17, Steve Puppe, j’98 article “e Protein in the 2014. My mother, at almost 99 Reciprocation Dan Storey Freezer” [issue No. 5] by years old, still lives in the house Graphic Designer Steven Hill about Prof. Joanna they built in 1950 and has had T Valerie Spicher, j’94 Slusky’s work. With his just one telephone number! of L. Paige Fields from Trinity excellent description, even a Theodore J. Taylor, g’64, PhD’73 University of San Antonio as Sta Writer person with a B.A. in cultural La Grande, Oregon dean of the KU School of Heather Biele anthropology can understand Business [“New leaders,” Advertising Sales the science behind it. Hilltopics, issue No. 4] strikes Decade of dance Representative Articles like this help bridge me as representing a wonderful Teri Harris the gap between the two KU D M reciprocal contribution to KU cultures of science and the (KUDM), a student-run by Trinity. 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