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To submit your cell phone number to receive emergency text messages from the upcoming emergency contact system, go to the KU home page and click on the “emergency contact” link. Log in to the secure site using your university ID to provide a cell phone number and provider as well as primary emergency contacts, updated phone numbers and addresses. As of June 4, a total of 6,850 students, staff and faculty had signed up and submitted their cell phone numbers.

TOPONYMS

KU's largest residence hall is named for brothers Elmer V. and Burton McCollum, who grew up in Lawrence and worked their way through school. Elmer received a bachelor's in chemistry in 1903 and a master's in 1904, and later identified vitamins A and D. Burton took a 1904 degree in electrical engineering and was a pioneering researcher in seismography. McCollum Laboratories also is named for him and was funded by income from his estate and more than 30 patents he registered.

KU HISTORY

On June 15, 1991, lightning struck Hoch Auditorium, burning it to the ground in less than four hours. The building had been a target of lightning before, and ironically, plans were in the works to install lightning rods on the building that summer. The building had been home to KU basketball games from 1927 to 1955, hosted the Rock Chalk Revue for 40 years and was home to archival material of the university's FM radio station KANU. The structure was rebuilt and dedicated as Budig Hall in 1997. For more, visit www.kuhistory.com

NOTABLE ALUMS

Scot Hein, who received architecture degrees from KU in 1979 and 1980, is the senior urban designer for the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is leading the design of the athletes village for the 2010 Olympics that will take place in Vancouver. Hein also teaches at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.

TOPONYMS

KU's largest residence hall is named for brothers Elmer V. and Burton McCollum, who grew up in Lawrence and worked their way through school. Elmer received a bachelor's in chemistry in 1903 and a master's in 1904, and later identified vitamins A and D. Burton took a 1904 degree in electrical engineering and was a pioneering researcher in seismography. McCollum Laboratories also is named for him and was funded by income from his estate and more than 30 patents he registered.