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PEACE OR POWER POLITICS: Paul D’Anieri, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, explores the recent democratic history of Europe’s second largest nation in his book “Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics and Institutional Design.” More than once the former Soviet state has appeared to be well on the way to peaceful democracy, only for those efforts to be trumped by power politics. D’Anieri’s book helps provide an understanding of Ukrainian politics and why such problems are common to former Soviet states and developing nations.

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S.H. Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin would have been KU's third chancellor, but he arrived in Lawrence on a sweltering summer day in 1874 in the middle of a drought and a grasshopper invasion. He immediately left town and did not even visit the campus. The Board of Regents then hired James Marvin, a professor of mathematics at Allegheny College; the building named for him also honors his son, longtime Dean of Engineering Frank O. Marvin.