WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Spring 2016

FEATURES

The Many Iterations of Henrion Hall

If halls could talk, those in Henrion would have plenty to say — about all kinds of things. We’d hear about athletics and art, for sure. There’d be tales of student love affairs and other intrigues, countless stories of Shocker activity, old and brand new.

The Fastest Quad Racer In The Land

He slips on his camera-synched goggles, triggering the Top Gun theme song. Powering up his quad racer, he fingers the twin-toggled radio controls, and in the whisssssk of a split second the seasoned pilot — call sign BrainDrain — is whipping down the course inches above the weeds.

Etzanoa: The Great Settlement

Wichita State anthropology professor and archaeologist Don Blakeslee was reading a new translation of an old account of a 1601 hostile encounter between Spanish explorers and Native Americans near the site of a “great settlement.”