24 Big Risks, Big Rewards

30 Common Touch

36 You are Here

4 Lift the Chorus
Letters from readers

7 FIRST WORD
The editor’s turn

8 ON THE BOULEVARD
KU & Alumni Association events

10 JAYHAWK WALK
Mad Hatter returns, yellow bikes dwindle,
Bob Billings remembered and more

12 HILLTOPICS
News and notes: Better safety sought for social
workers; the Med Center names a new leader

18 SPORTS
Football savors K-State victory;
men’s basketball starts season atop polls

38 ASSOCIATION NEWS
Kevin Corbett to lead Association

44 CLASS NOTES
Profiles of a Paralympian, a Star Trek author
and a highway hero

60 IN MEMORY
Deaths in the KU family

64 ROCK CHALK REVIEW
Children’s theatre celebrates 50 years, an
engineer studies dragonfly flight, and more

68 OREAD ENCORE
Wildcats tamed