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HAVE YOU SIGNED FOR THAT? Paul Mason, assistant dean of the School of Business, was quoted in an article on Bankrate.com about the importance of signing the back of credit cards. Once thought to be a mandatory step, the necessity is now being questioned with the increase in online transactions and self checkouts. "There is very good evidence that signing the back of your card is meaningless anymore," Mason said. "I can tell you that in the Midwest, where I live, it is most unusual to have a clerk look at the back of the card. They usually swipe it and hand it back."

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The original Blake Hall opened in 1895 and was named in honor of Lucien I. Blake (1853-1916), the physics and engineering professor who persuaded the legislature to spend $50,000 to build it. He left KU in 1906 to continue pioneering, lucrative research in electricity, X-rays and underwater wireless communications.