AFTER SEPT. 11 I 2002 CALENDAR I HOOPS GUIDE KU First See page 22 KANSASKANSASNO. 6, 2001 $5 ALUMNIALUMNI Man on a Mission A Kansan sculpts a nation’s monument to D-Day TELL US ABOUT YOUR FUTURE JAYHAWK! The Office of Admissions and Legacy List services: • High school students receive information about attending KU. Annual admission deadline for freshmen is April 1.The scholarship Scholarships needs your help. deadline is January 15. Whether your student is in • K through 8th-grade students receive annual correspondence Kansas or far from the Hill, To add your student to our list, please tell us: • your name and relationship to the student KU recruiters want to add his or • student’s name, phone number, e-mail address, mailing address her name to their Legacy List. • student’s grade level • for high school students only: please include the name of student’s Out-of-state admission receptions high school will be held in the following cities: Feb. 12 St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 17 Tulsa, Okla. For more information, contact Margey Frederick at Feb. 21 Dallas,Texas 785-864-2341, [email protected], or sign up online at Feb. 24 Omaha, Neb. www.admissions.ku.edu/Legacy. March 3 Chicago, Ill. March 10 Minneapolis, Minn. April 7 Denver, Colo. And remember:We love to roll out the Crimson and Blue carpet for Alumni living in these cities are company! Bring your future Jayhawk to the Visitor Center in Templin encouraged to attend activities and Hall at the 15th Street campus entrance. Call 785-864-5135 to schedule share their Rock Chalk pride. a guided tour and admissions presentation. KANSAS ALUMNI CONTENTSEstablished in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine DEPARTMENTS FEATURES 3 FIRST WORD The editor’s turn 20 4 LIFT THE CHORUS Letters from readers ‘Love Will Triumph’ 6 ON THE BOULEVARD Two days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Schedules of KU events in his annual Faculty and Staff Convocation JAYHAWK WALK address, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway called 8 Batty for bugs; captain, on the University “to offer the healing power our captain; and more of knowledge and understanding” to help mend a nation. 10 HILLTOPICS Page 20 News and notes: Bob Dole breaks ground on a new 22 institute for public policy 14 SPORTS First and Foremost Hoops heat up and The University kicks off its historic $500-million football changes course KU First campaign with fireworks, a pancake 18 OREAD READER feed and scholarship giveaways. Since when Sara Eckel divines did paying the bills get to be so much fun? ‘a heavenly gift’ in Mary O’Connell’s Staff report Living With Saints 19 OREAD WRITER 28 Jeffrey Moran laments public poetry’s demise Bronze Stars 38 ASSOCIATION NEWS With his monumental contribution to the Homecoming, Rock Chalk Ball and more National D-Day Memorial, Lawrence sculptor Page 22 Jim Brothers honors the men who fought and died 40 ASSOCIATION at Normandy—and pulls off the biggest artistic CALENDAR feat of his life. The latest on chapter and KHP events By Steven Hill 42 CLASS NOTES Cover photograph by Earl Richardson Profiles of an astronaut, an anchorman, a PC designer 36 and more 58 IN MEMORY The Entertainer Deaths in the KU family Mandy Patinkin, star of stage and screen, 62 SCHOOLWORK wows fans and students with a surprise return News from academe to the Hill. 68 HAIL TO OLD KU By Jennifer Jackson Sanner Campanile by candlelight Page 28 VOLUME 99 NO. 6, 2001 KANSAS ALUMNI [1 Woods •Palmer •Nicklaus •Watson Your name here EVERYONE CAN BE A PRO AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL SOUTHWEST OPEN February 18, 2002 Gainey Ranch Golf Club, Scottsdale,Arizona Valley of the Sun Chapter members will receive more information soon, but the Alumni Association invites ALL Jayhawks and their friends to participate in this great annual event. If you would like an invitation, call us at 800-584-2957, or e-mail [email protected] Visit our Web site at www.kualumni.org for additional details. FIRST WORD BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER What photos cannot capture, however, is the exchange of ideas in Budig Hall on that Thursday after our darkest Tuesday. The conversation began with Hemenway, who challenged faculty to take practical steps toward helping students cope. He encour- aged professors to participate in relief efforts along with their students. Those with special expertise in Middle East culture, foreign policy, aircraft design, military science and other disci- DAVID MCKINNEY/UNIVERSITY RELATIONS DAVID plines should host seminars, he said, to better inform the com- munity. Class sessions, he urged, should become forums for analyzing not only the news, but also the moral questions that arise from unprecedented events. “There is need for conversation led by a professor, even if we don’t feel that wise at the moment,” Hemenway said. “Be there for your students during these days of crisis that will live with them forever. Thirty years from now, let them remember that we were there together.” After the chancellor finished speaking, he asked audience ith great splash and splendor, the University on members to share their thoughts. Thus began an honest Sept. 7 publicly launched KU First, a campaign exchange among faculty who stood to ask questions about pro- to raise a whopping $500 million that is the sub- tecting our students abroad and about the religion of Islam; who ject of our feature story on page 22. On the told firsthand tales of prejudice and cautioned others not nightW KU officially declared its bold intentions, the task of to equate terrorists with all followers of Islam or all Arab peo- explaining how such investment would fulfill KU’s promise fell ples; who reminded us that debate and dissent should continue of course to Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. to thrive in a nation that prides itself on democracy. Together in Before a buoyant crowd in the Lied Center, the jewel of KU’s a classroom, 48 hours after the attack, faculty began to sift most recent fundraising campaign, Hemenway took to the task through the facts, ideas and opinions that terrorism had strewn with apparent ease. He hailed the worldwide triumph of Ameri- far and wide. ca’s system of democratic capitalism and amazing discoveries in As I listened, my mind flashed back to a classroom in Blake technology and the biosciences. As he described his vision of Hall, where Professor Clifford Ketzel taught the two dozen of us KU’s future, he cast an irrepressibly hopeful light on higher edu- who had enrolled in his American foreign policy course. When I cation and one of its strongholds, Mount Oread. had pulled a card for his class to complete my political-science “There is one constant to such days of miracle and wonder,” requirement, I could not have known that Americans would be he said. “The human spirit is challenged. We are forced to dis- taken hostage in Iran, nor could I have predicted the amazing cuss our values. The beauty of a university is that it becomes exchanges that would enlighten a woefully uninformed 20-year- both a force for change and a source of wisdom during trans- old. Years later, I still remember that Professor Ketzel and we forming times.” students were there together. And, as I consider our chancellor’s Such words, along with the wistful alumni stories, beaming watershed speeches in September 2001, his distillation of higher student testimonials and stunning musical performances, could- education’s purpose seems to remain constant, whether our days n’t help but stir emotions. Sept. 7 was an extraordinary night, are filled with miracles or menace: The University is a force for summoning feelings of gratitude, loyalty and optimism and change and a source of wisdom during transforming times. reminding us that KU is an extraordinary place. Transforming times taxed our news judgment as this issue of Six days later, on Sept. 13, with somber faces and aching Kansas Alumni took shape. Ultimately we decided it was fitting hearts, hundreds took their seats in Budig Hall for what was to to return to an era when America faced an overwhelming threat be an extraordinary Faculty and Staff Convocation. The task of and responded in remarkable ways. When we read Steve Hill’s explaining once again fell to Hemenway. But this time the sub- captivating account of alumnus and sculptor Jim Brothers and ject, our searing national tragedy, defied explanation. The days his work on the National D-Day Memorial, we chose it for our of miracles and wonder that had glistened only a few brief cover story, which begins on page 28. When we read of Broth- nights before were now shrouded in menace and worry. So the ers’ vow to honor the unparalleled commitment of the U.S. sol- chancellor abandoned his usual fall “state of the University” diers who stormed the beaches at Normandy, we could not help speech, choosing instead to tell us how KU might offer comfort. but see in our history a ray of hope. In turn, we hope their story Our feature on page 20 highlights his remarks, along with will summon in our readers gratitude, loyalty and optimism— images of the campus community sharing its collective grief feelings millions of us now seem to share, no matter how we and resolve. choose to express them. KANSAS ALUMNI I NO. 6, 2001 [3 LIFT THE CHORUS KANSASNOVEMBER ALUMNI 2001 KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Upside and a downside Publisher Chair Fred B.Williams Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Port Ludlow, Congratulations on your cover picture Editor Washington and the story on monarch butterflies [“See Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Executive Vice Chair You in September,” issue No.