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K.U. Basketball

Some of the coverage about K.U. Basketball Coach Roy Williams this past week stated that his salary and benefits package was worth about $458,000 per year.

I wonder if any of the faculty at K.U. comes close to that figure — If not, isn’t that pretty convincing evidence that somewhere along the line the universities have lost sight of the fact that their purpose is education, rather than athletics?

Then again, I doubt that it would be front-page news for a week if a physics or math professor went to another institution.

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The Gravedigger

The shadows chased the failing light as the old man leveled the soil with his rake. Maybe it was old-fashioned, but he thought every grave should be dug by hand, even a pauper�s grave.

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THE WAR PRAYER

Outraged by American military intervention in the Philippines, Mark Twain wrote “The War Prayer” and submitted it to Harper�s Bazaar. This magazine rejected it for being too radical, and it wasn�t published until after Twain�s death, when World War I made it even timelier. It appeared in Harper�s Monthly, November 1916.

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MAM Wins Emerald Award!!

Today in History

1776: Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels
1860: Pony Express debuts
1955: ACLU says it will contest obscenity of HOWL
1996: Unabomber arrested

Pony Express Day