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Putting It To A Vote
A day-trip democracy Lawrence, Spencer Art Museum both featured in poll to decide the area’s top tourist hotspots BY MEGAN HEACOCK
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One click of a mouse could help Lawrence and the Spencer Museum of Art become top tourist destinations in the Kansas City area. The Kansas City Convention and Visitors Association nominated these two attractions to be part of an online poll that will designate the best places to visit in the Kansas City area. The association nominated Lawrence as a top day-trip destination and the University’s
Spencer Museum of Art as a favorite art museum or gallery in the area. Amy Woodmancy, who moved to Lawrence 19 years ago, said Lawrence deserved the nomination because of its “old town” friendliness. “It is really unique because it doesn’t have many big businesses like WalMart,” Woodmancy said. “It still has smaller places that actually know you when you come in. You can’t get that at Wal-Mart.”
see Competition on page 13A
KU devises response plan for swine flu BY ALY VAN DYKE
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Heather Putnam, Los Angeles graduate student, examines the Asian art exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art. The museum has been nominated for the KC Visitors’ Choice 09 competition as the best museum or gallery in the Kansas City area. Voting continues through Aug. 31.
Photo illustration by Adam Buhler and Liz Schubauer/KANSAN
With two cases of novel H1N1, also called swine flu, reported on campus over the summer, University officials have developed a response plan in anticipation of an outbreak on campus. “H1N1 is on campus,” said Don Steeples, senior vice provost for scholarly support. “We are expecting it will spread over the course of the semester.” One case of swine flu was reported in June, the other in the beginning of August. Steeples said that both students recovered. Lisa Horn, communications coordinator with the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, verified that the virus is present in the Lawrence community, but said no one has an accurate account of actual H1N1 cases. “There’s a lot more H1N1 than we know,” she said. She said tracking the number of cases was difficult because state and local health departments don’t require people to be tested for the virus, unless a person has been hospitalized or dies from the illness. Horn said the Kansas Department of Health and Environment estimated that at least 10,000 Kansans have been infected by H1N1. In July, the KDHE expected up to 1.12 million — 40 percent of the state’s population — could come down with H1N1 in the next two years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated up to 40 percent of the total U.S. population could contract the virus in the same time period. Joe Quimby, senior press officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said peo-
see flu on page 3A administration
Chancellor Gray-Little brings new era for Jayhawks BY ROSS STEWART
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Editor’s note: This story first ran in a summer issue of The Kansan. The Kansan had the opportunity to sit down in Chapel Hill, N.C. with Bernadette Gray-Little, the University’s 17th chancellor, and several of her colleagues and friends. The conversations centered on who Gray-Little is and what she intends to do at the University. Chapel Hill, N.C. — Bernadette Gray-Little shoots a contemplative look at the ceiling for a moment then points out the window at something she’s going to miss. “I enjoy that sight right out there,” Gray-Little said. “More days than not I stop on the way in or out or I look out my window and I look out on that sight. It’s a great sight.”
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She points out a window to a building, the university’s Wilson library, which looks like a regal whitewashed capitol building. It’s two football fields away from her office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, across a vast courtyard filled with crisscrossing sidewalks, surrounded by trees and old academic halls. Gray-Little ended her 38 years of employment at UNC as provost July 8. She began her role as the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas on Aug. 15. Born and raised in Washington, N.C., a small town in the then-segregated South, her parents placed a great deal of worth on receiving an education. Her younger brother Mark Gray said it was presented to them as a way out of poverty. Gray-Little still continues to pur-
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sue this early-established ideal. She sees the worth in it. Her time at UNC shows her dedication to education. Her accomplishments, such as increasing diversity, and creating an office of undergraduate research and a first -year seminar program, bettered UNC. She plans to do the same for the University.
Growing up: education
Gray-Little grew up the fourth child of eight with three brothers and four sisters. The first time she moved from her hometown was for college. Her father was illiterate and worked in construction. Her mother had a GED and was a homemaker who occasionally did custodial work. Though her family did not have
the means to support her higher education, her parents always pushed that education was a way out of poverty, according to her brother, who’s now a lawyer in Greensboro, N.C. “In some ways, education became such a big thing that it became the end as opposed to a means to an end,” Gray said. “I just remember education was the goal; I guess it was also a means.” Washington was still segregated in the 1950s when Gray-Little was growing up there. In spite of this, she said, the only time she really experienced segregation was when she left the neighborhood. She said she didn’t have one particular instance to share showing that segregation during her childhood really affected
see gray-little on page 12a
States reduce financial aid because of budget cuts The number of students looking for financial aid is increasing at the same time. Finance І 8A
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Bernadette Gray-Little became the University’s 17th chancellor Aug. 15, replacing Robert Hemenway, who announced in December 2008 that he would be stepping down.
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