Fortress Hays

As the semester winds down things are getting plenty busy. I had hoped to post a couple pictures of the art students chalking the FHSU sidewalks, but I never got over to the quad to photograph them yesterday. Seems to be the story of my life these days.

So instead I’ll post a panorama I shot over by the Sternberg Museum over Spring Break. It’s not much of a “Where in Hays?” for the locals, so we’ll dedicate this one to the travellers passing on I-70. Who knows… maybe you’ll even recognize your car whizzing by.

Two weeks from today, on Thursday evening April 12, 2007 at 7:00pm, at the Sternberg Museum there will be a free showing of the award-winning documentary Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Inteligent Design Circus. The event is sponsored by the FHSU Science and Mathematics Education Center as part of its Science Talks series.

The film examines the issues surrounding the Kansas School Board political debate about amending science standards. Although the film ultimately recognizes the scientific merits of evolution, it rightly holds scientists accountable for their potential extinction as a result of their failure to effectively communicate their findings to the general public.

It will be interesting to see how the film is received in this part of the world…