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Every year since 1895, freshmen have approached the school atop Fairmount Hill with their own unique intertwining sets of trepidations, aspirations and plans for campus life.

The angel is one of the world’s great go-to metaphors: “Touched by an Angel,” Angel Airlines, Angel Island, fallen angel and that most exalted of compliments, “You’re an angel.”

Digging up the truth is Jill Cobb’s bare-bones mission. But in her line of work, the truth rarely makes a clean entrance.

Cheez Whiz has been a familiar fixture in America’s processed food pantry for decades.

Readers write in to comment on The Shocker and its contents.

Shockers everywhere, at events long ago to happenings just the other day, always have something interesting to say.

Shocker personalities show up everywhere. Take a look!

Members of Wichita University’s Class of 1955 gathered May 12-14 to reminisce and to be inducted into the university’s 50-Year Club.

Debbie Kennedy reflects on a period of transition for the association.

Kathy Sexton says being part of the alumni association is about building and growing relationships

The alumni association at Wichita State has become a partner with Visioneering Wichita.

The Camelback Golf Club and Resort in Scottsdale played host to the 2005 Arizona Shocker Open on March 14.

Dubbed CaddyShock V, the 2005 Shocker Open golf tournament was promoted with a tag line reminiscent of Caddyshack.

WSUAA News and Events

The Heritage Fund provides support in maintaining association programs, events and publications, and allows for the initiation of new areas of service.

Poets help prisoners at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility express their feelings.

WSU has a new “front door,” in the form of the recently dedicated Marcus Welcome Center.

These Gleanings entries survey the current university scene.

A gallery of both literary and visual art, Shock Art showcases works by Wichita State alumni, faculty and students.

For six thousand years, the art of tattooing has traveled the globe to appear, disappear and reappear — currently on many a WSU student and alum.

Jim Marlett ’69 shares his love of frogs, childhood fear of snakes, respect for prairie-dog smarts and the importance of Charlie and his “squeezer.”

In 1962, 16-year-old Luisa Pequeño left Cuba with her brother. Helped by a Catholic charity, the Pequeño siblings made the journey without their parents.

Not many people can say they’ve come up in a speech given by the First Lady of the United States. But Joan Beren ’83 can.

You’ll search in vain for former Shocker great Doug Mirabelli fs ’97 in all those photos of the jubilant dog pile that followed the Boston Red Sox’s dramatic World Series championship in October.

A woman of firsts, Fairmount College’s Ella (White) Brown spoke out nationally for the Woman Suffrage Amendment.

From the 1929 Parnassus comes this description of an early University of Wichita spring tradition — the May Fête.

By now, Sarah Becker is accustomed to the quizzical looks she gets after telling people she competes in the steeplechase.

A hard-hitting, slick-fielding infielder, Katie McGeeney came to the Wichita State softball program last year with impeccable credentials.

The Shocker women won their seventh national title, their first since 1994, at the Intercollegiate Bowling Championships in Rockford, Ill.

Shocker Sports News and Notes

Comings, goings, appointments, retirements, honors, accolades and other personal alumni news.

These WSU alumni and university friends leave lasting legacies.

Peter Zoller, WSU associate vice president of academic affairs, suggests books that give the reader a better understanding of the world.

Among Africa’s rural Zulu people, formal education is often limited to “chalk talk,” relates Terry Hutter ’74/76 — memorization with no application.

When Gerald Norwood ’74 starts listing his community activities, even he is surprised at their scope.

Tom Page ’97, and Jill Miller ’01 traveled to Washington, D.C., for a May 26 rally in front of the Department of Education.

As a young man, optometrist A. Roy Roberts ’78 knew he wanted to pursue a career in a medical specialty.

Check out this news about dinosaurs, spooky Shockers, trivia and more — with illustrations by Wade Hampton.