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. 28 Contents Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine FEATURES Fire Drills 28 Who trains heroes? KU’s Fire Service Training program, the statewide source for lessons in dousing blazes and so much more. BY STEVEN HILL Piano Man 34 Furniture furnishes inspiration for Wendell Castle, who sculpts objects as simple as a coat rack or as stately as a Steinway. BY CHRIS LAZZARINO COVER Jayhawk v. Jayhawk Quintessential KU 36 Oyez! Oyez! Draw near and give your attention To honor our magazine’s 22 as KU attorneys make their cases before the anniversary, we pose the age- U.S. Supreme Court. old question: How do we love our alma mater? BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Let us count 100 ways. BY KANSAS ALUMNI STAFF Photographs by Earl Richardson Illustrations by Larry Leroy Pearson Cover design by Susan Younger 36 Volume 100, No. 1, 2002 Gerhard and Harrison reply: 1. No, the earth appears to have been Lift the Chorus cooling over the last 8,000 years, but the trend consists of ups and downs. The earth appears to be warming from the Little Ice Age, circa 1100 to 1850. News service the volunteers and the contributors who 2. The Little Ice Age was preceded by acts quickly make Audio-Reader possible. the Medieval Warm Event (MWE, circa Emlin (Pete) North, j'51 850-1100) during which the Viking agri- thought it would Audio-Reader volunteer cultural colonies were established in Ibe of interest to Topeka Greenland. It appears that the Vikings your readers to settled Greenland in the 860s, and the know of the impor- western farm community died out by tant role Audio- Getting warmer ... colder ... about 1350 and the other sometime Reader [“A Way between 1500 and 1540, when an expedi- With Words,” issue The article about Drs. Lee Gerhard and tion found the body of the last Viking, No. 5] played in William Harrison [“Hot Topic,” Hilltopics, who presumably had buried everyone communicating the events of Sept. 11 to its issue No. 5] was the first time, as far as I else before perishing. Botanical evidence thousands of listeners who depend on it for can remember, that I have read an article suggests that the MWE Europe was information about the world around them. [about global-warming research conducted] warmer than today. On learning of the terrorist attacks, by geologists. 3. That is a correct assumption. Either Director Janet Campbell and her Audio- I wish to pose a few questions. I think starvation or epidemic disease in Reader staff downloaded the latest news their answers should help reduce the heat response to colder temperatures and lack from the Internet and passed it along to vol- (no pun intended) this subject generates. of nutrition appears to be the cause of the unteers Donna Laushman and Mary Ann 1. On a millennial scale, do we know if colonies’ death. Physical stature declined Strong, who incorporated the reports in the earth is still warming up from the last from an average of about 5 feet, 10 inches their live morning newspaper broadcast. ice age? to 5 feet, 5 inches during the decline, fur- From the Internet, staff learned that In- 2. Was the earth warmer 1,000 years ther suggesting that they toughed it out Touch, the radio reading service in New ago than it was today? I ask this question as long as possible, but succumbed to York, had lost its broadcast tower in the col- because we know that the Vikings estab- harsh conditions. lapse of the World Trade Center. In-Touch, lished settlements on Greenland which 4. We do not know where the just like Audio-Reader, provides program- existed for 300 to 400 years. Mendenhall Glacier front was 1,000 and ming to reading services all over the world, 3. Was the earth colder 500 years ago? If 500 years ago. ... Earth’s climate changes and we quickly realized that these services the earth was cooling, that could explain all the time, in both directions, at many would be depending on broadcasts that were why Viking colonies in Greenland disap- scales. There is no “flat line” in climate. not going to come. To meet this need, peared. We believe that natural earth and solar Audio-Reader sent out a message to reading 4. The Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, processes are the major driving forces of services everywhere that it would read the Alaska, has receded over the last 200 years. climate change. Human contribution is most current news from the USA Today Obviously this trend started before humans possible, but is most likely to be masked Web site. had perturbed the atmosphere to any signif- by the much greater amounts of natural Audio-Reader program manager Lori icant degree. Is there any evidence to show change. Miller learned that the Topeka Capital- where the front of the glacier was 500 and Lee Gerhard and William Harrison Journal and Lawrence Journal-World 1,000 years ago? Kansas Geological Survey would print special editions that afternoon. In conclusion, I would like to make clear She drove to Topeka to get the Capital- that I am in favor of reducing deforestation Journal, and the information from both and reversing activities of the last 200 years Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the newspapers was incorporated into the that cause atmospheric pollution. We must editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni afternoon and evening schedules. recognize, however, that whatever we do magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. If you would like to This is how KU’s Audio-Reader was may have little or limited effect on whatever respond via e-mail, the Alumni Association’s the information link to a large part of global warming does take place in this address is [email protected], or visit the world on a day that will be long century. our Web site at www.kualumni.org. Letters remembered. It is another reason why James H. 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