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Your treatment begins by connecting with our care coordinator at 913-588-1227. © The University of Kansas Health System Contents | Issue 6, 2018 38 26 40 32 26 38 40 COVER STORY Man’s First Best Friend Protests Past Over Here Sweet Suite Music A professor and his student are Civil disobedience can take One hundred years ago, the challenging well-worn myths many forms—bold, quiet, entire campus community Wynton Marsalis and his jazz about the big, bad wolf. public, private—but the mobilized to ght a war on orchestra help the Lied Center perspective of time shows two fronts: in the trenches of celebrate a silver anniversary. By Chris Lazzarino resistance is not futile. France and the hospitals here at home. 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Chris Lazzarino did a great values they instilled and the job capturing the essence of opportunities they were able to Mr. Schneider and his meaning provide me with very limited and presence on campus. One of her comments struck economic resources. eir lives If you were on campus particularly close to home, that were very much like those of during the ’70s, you absolutely of being a student at KU and Sarah’s family as described in knew Tan Man—maybe not “moving between two dierent your article. ey were very personally, but of him. You worlds” when talking with her proud Kansas farm folks who could not pass Wescoe without parents and grandparents back valued and honored family and glancing to see if he was there. home. On many occasions what could be achieved by I don’t know whether we while a student at KU I visited hard work. adopted him or he adopted us. my parents on the farm and John W. Huey, b’69, l’72 Likely some combination. even worked the summer Lenexa Maybe at rst glance you wheat harvest, but frankly were intrigued or surprised those experiences served as I reading (no mobile phones then, so we even more incentive for me to the story about Sarah Smarsh’s actually took in campus Shared stories succeed at KU. I too was the book, Heartland. Provocative atmosphere each day), but rst in my family to graduate comes to mind. I’d say she has fairly quickly you couldn’t help I Steven with a university degree. rued a few feathers in our but become his fan. You Hill’s article on Sarah Smarsh I may have a bit dierent great state, but that’s what good worried if he wasn’t there, and [“Hard Stories,” issue No. 5] take, though, than Sarah on authors do! you smiled and felt reassured and her recently published the opportunity presented by Steven Dillman, c’81 when he was. book, Heartland: A Memoir of earning a university degree, Kansas City ere were no protest signs, Working Hard and Being Broke when combined with diligence no boisterous claims, no in the Richest Country on and eort in one’s career. I I that I chanting, no agenda, and no Earth. continue to believe that those read—no, digested—Steven troublesome or unruly I suspect that her story, attributes oer perhaps the Hill’s article about Sarah behavior. Sometimes he would personal background and single greatest opportunity for Smarsh’s journey out of be approached by students, family history of being raised “escaping poverty” as Sarah poverty! I am a fellow son of and Tan Man always obliged. in a rural Kansas environment achieved. It seems to me that rural Kansas who also He was friendly, always polite, “below the poverty line” and is one reason why it is so “escaped” to KU, though some and had a simple, unfettered being rst exposed to the important that our institutions 34 years earlier. (ings don’t presence that simply said, “I broader social/economic and government must continue change!) I must rush out to am who I am.” We respected inuences at KU are not so to oer (rather than reduce, as purchase Sarah’s book and him for that, and he gave us all unique.