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"When I graduated from Wichita State, I set out for Harvard as fast as I could. I hadn't considered pursuing a graduate degree anywhere but at an eastern college, because I believed that was where all the old stuff — all the good stuff — was," says Lee Pelton '73. Bearing his bachelor of arts degree in English and psychology, an unflagging ardor for the 19th-century Romantic poets Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a quixotic belief that in the East he would find the com...

First of all, while we didn't just randomly draw names out of a hat, this certainly isn't anything close to a scientific conclusion boasting repeatable, measurable results. What we did was ask a group of alumni and a group of wsu faculty and staff to tell us who have impressed them the most as Shockers — in other words, to list those alumni, faculty and staff who, in their opinions, have made the greatest impact on our world and our university and its students. Then we counted th...

Remember Jack and the beanstalk, the giant and that goose that laid those golden eggs? Well, to describe pro wrestling today, I can think of nothing more apt than to tell you it's like a fairy tale — a fairy tale on steroids. At 7 feet 1 inches and let's call it 500 pounds, Paul Wight fs '92 is The Big Show in the big show that is professional wrestling. His signature move is the Choke Slam; his finishing move, The Showstopper. And he is, at press time anyway, the current Wo...