No 2, 2015 ■ $5 No 2, 2015 ■ $5 The Hotspot Learning Studio turns Anschutz Library into bustling campus hub ■ LOUIS ARMSTRONG ■ FREEDY JOHNSTON Contents | Issue 2, 2015 26 34 20 26 20 34 Turn the Page Really Wailing Tonight For a Song With coee cafes, microwave Did Louis Armstrong truly More than 20 years aer he ovens and technology by the serenade Wilt Chamberlain sold his little piece of Kansas tetrabyte, e Learning Studio and teammates upon their to nish his classic recording at Anschutz is a beeping, return to campus from a “Can You Fly,” Freedy Johnston buzzing round-the-clock heartbreaking triple-overtime is still doing what it takes to reminder that the quiet, loss in the 1957 national keep rockin’. cloistered library of yesteryear championship game, as is gone. campus lore has long main- By Steven Hill tained? Roll the tape. By Chris Lazzarino By Chris Lazzarino Cover photograph by Steve Puppe Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 113, No. 2, 2015 ISSUE 2, 2015 | 1 Lift the Chorus Indian—a proud Oglala Lakota Change” [issue No. 6, 2014], from an impoverished South and remembered my own rape Dakota reservation—he was on the KU campus in Novem- impact, if not more? Small, but treated in the 1950s and ’60s ber 1972. In many ways, I’m MIGHTY! Keep going, girls! like less than a man, across the grateful to a friend who Keep reaching out to your United States and in Lawrence. insisted on taking me to fellow students in this It was shameful and disgusting. Student Health Services that beautiful way. But as heartbreaking as the day, and to the doctor who Teresa Boos, s’94 story was, it also was upliing, insisted on calling the police. I Hays because Hill painted for us a don’t know if, le alone, I picture of a man whose would have done that. But I integrity, perseverance and did, and so did many other Mills wins out dignity won out. Mills found a women who, over the next year way to forgive those who (was it longer?) were raped by A who’s treated him so poorly, and the same man, a student at a lived far from Kansas for most today he spends his time Bible school in Ottawa, who Pointed praise of the past quarter-century, I’ve working tirelessly to give back came to KU on the weekends come to rely on well-written, and to help kids from the res to have his way with women. Y to produce a entertaining, informative try to make something of He was prosecuted, twice (in super magazine for all of us. stories about KU from the sta themselves despite all they Kansas and Nebraska), let out Gretchen and I love it. at Kansas Alumni. I fall behind must overcome. both times, and returned to his Chancellor Emeritus Gene Budig in my reading sometimes, like I hope to meet Billy Mills criminal impulses until, in Isle of Palms, South Carolina this winter, when the team I someday. I want to shake his 1982, a Nebraska court put him cover—the Atlanta Braves— hand. Much respect to you, sir. away for 30 years. I never knew kept me busy and periodicals And to Steven Hill for giving the other women victimized at Kind words stacked up next to my recliner. us a wonderful story about KU, nor how many of them So I brought a bunch with me such an honorable man. agreed, in 1982, as I did, to go T “Don’t worry, to spring training and just got David O’Brien, j’86 to Nebraska for the trial that be happy” [Jayhawk Walk, around to reading Steven Hill’s Atlanta nally took him o the streets. issue No. 1] touched my heart. story, “e Man With Wings So many of us agreed to testify I recall hearing a story about a on His Feet” [issue No. 6, I the Billy that the case was settled before student who told himself that if 2014], about the legendary Mills article. I remember his it went to trial. no one said hello to him that distance runner Billy Mills. wonderful victory—a tremen- I share this to add my voice day, he would end his life. Tremendous—the story, and dous tribute to his heritage. to many who want colleges and Sadly, no one did and a young the man. e story was special for me college students to better man took his life. It was one of the most because I had recently nished understand the crime of rape As a clinical social worker powerful pieces I’ve read in the Glenn Cunningham (and dierentiate it from poor working with veterans who some time, and I can honestly biography American Miler. decisions), to understand the have post-traumatic stress say I’ve never been more proud My dad, a junior-high coach, extra burden that falls to disorder, I know the smallest of a fellow Jayhawk than I am took me to the Kansas Relays victims to report the crime to gesture or kind word can take now of Billy Mills. We, the many times, and I have many the police (and stop the rapist), their thoughts o ending their ink-stained wretches, get a bit great memories of outstanding and to understand that own life and give them hope jaded about much of what we performances. Too bad that ignoring the severity of the to continue. cover, in my case sports. For track is ignored now except for crime and its aermath fuels a e ne young women of me to get teary-eyed reading a the Olympics. culture that still allows this KU Encouragements have sports story is a tall task. But David Dittemore, e’69 crime to fester. hearts to see the needs and really, this wasn’t a sports story. Tacoma, Washington ere is no erasing the struggles of those around them It was a human story. About a aermath of rape. We must and do something about it, man who shocked the world by try harder to stop it before even in a simple way. Don’t we winning the 10,000 meters at Voice raised another victim lives a life oen get caught up in the the 1964 Toyko Olympics, the forever clouded by a single, complications of taking on a rst and only American to win I by Jennifer horrible act. big idea when a small idea Olympic gold at that distance. Jackson Sanner and Chris Susan Alderson Homann, c’74 would have just as much Because he was an American Lazzarino, “A Time for South Pasadena, California 2 | KANSAS ALUMNI Issue 2, 2015 64 Publisher Kevin J. 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Sta members in KU Libraries, Information Technology and Undergraduate Studies who joined forces to create the studio insist that its activities and environment can be vital to student retention and success. ey plan to launch new programs that will bring together students, alumni, faculty and sta for workshops on a vast array of topics. And this semester, design students and their professors are exploring ways in which e Learning Studio can continue to adapt to an educa- tional landscape that features more discus- sions and fewer lectures.