Recent Campus Photos

I was on campus on October 31 and took some snaps.  Foliage was almost over but it certainly felt great to drive down Old Main Street again.  

The Memorial Building has transformed into the Hess Center for the Arts, with a fresh palette of colors apparent just beyond the crisp white lobby.  The auditorium now has side balcony seats to accommodate the 638 students now enrolled plus faculty and guests. There is a new concert hall (incredible) and a new art gallery (more next week).

The Library is currently gutted for a complete renovation as a learning commons, with maker and collaborative spaces planned etc.  As these core academic buildings are renovated to rise to current and future educational standards, we will more often get the feeling that "we're not in Kansas anymore" when we go back to reunions etc.

Some may be glad to know that the (reproduction) Audobon books in the case from the library are safe in the basement of the Hess until the renovation is complete.

Men Make Dinner

Just learned that today is "National Men Make Dinner Day".  You could probably get a mulligan for finding out so late and cook tomorrow!

http://www.menmakedinnerday.com/home/index.php?nl=morning-briefing&em_pos=large&emc=edit_nn_20151105

Cuzco calls it quits...

Cuzco is the handle for a professional poker player.  On his best day he made the final table on PokerStars TV and ultimately walked away with $92K and a third place finish.  But that and another $44K payday are the two highs in an otherwise "mundane" career of 24 years.

See his big day described in blog fashion HERE

It also makes for an interesting entry in one's LinkedIn profile:

Professional Poker Player

Self Employed

February 1989 – April 2013 (24 years 3 months)USA and Peru

Used advanced game theory techniques to earn a living playing poker in a highly competitive environment. Played Texas Hold’em in both casinos and online poker sites. Introduced on PokerStars TV as an accomplished player when one of my final table appearances was broadcast on that internet channel.

Congrats to Frederick Chase on his successful reentry to the marketplace as: 

SIEM Platform Engineer

Hewlett-Packard

July 2014 – Present (1 year 5 months)Palo Alto, CA

Lest you forget, Fred was our class Math Scholar, won backgammon tournaments as a student at Stanford and was clearly able to survive on number theory as a poker player.  Awesome!

Remembering the Veterans

Ben Patton continues to find ways to serve veterans as his I Was There film workshops are expanding to include work with military families.  From HuffPost:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-patton/family-filmmaking-a-creat_b_8401858.html