Event

Tickets still available for Cosby at KU

Plenty of tickets still remain for Bill Cosby’s comedy show Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

Only about 1,600 tickets had been sold as of Tuesday, said Trisha Gresnick, program adviser for Student Union Activities. She said there was no minimum number of tickets that needed to be sold, and the show was not in danger of being canceled.

“It’s general admission, so there’s really no incentive for anyone to buy tickets early,” Gresnick said.

The show, at 8 p.m., is part of Homecoming events at KU.

Tickets are $15 for students and $25 for the public. They are available from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Student Union Activities box office, on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, or from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office.

Tickets also are available by phone at 864-3141 or online at www.kuathletics.collegesports.com.

6News productions

‘River City Weekly’ features bioscience

Bioscience and Kansas University’s efforts at bringing laboratory discoveries to the marketplace are the subjects this week on a special “River City Weekly” encore.

Chancellor Robert Hemenway discusses KU’s efforts in the biosciences, while Jim Baxendale, director KU’s Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, discusses the work of bringing inventions to the marketplace. Val Stella, distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, talks about efforts at the Higuchi Bioscience Center’s Center for Drug Delivery Research and CyDex.

“River City Weekly,” hosted by Greg Hurd, premieres on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays with replays at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Mondays, and 10 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays.

Achievement

Sixth-grader wins chess tournament

A Lawrence student took first place in the Blue Valley Northwest Scholastic Chess Tournament last week.

Kenny Blevins, a sixth-grader at Wakarusa Valley School, won the elementary division at the chess tournament. Other Lawrence chess players also completed and placed.

In the high school division, Southwest Junior High seventh-grader Thomas Reams placed second; Central Junior High seventh-grader Roy Wedge took 10th; Southwest seventh-grader Thomas Clark placed 12th; Southwest seventh-grader Kellen Cross took 14th; and Quail Run fourth-grader Alan Shi took 15th. Keely Stenseng, a seventh-grader at Southwest, also competed in the division.

In the elementary school division, Quail Run fourth-grader Katie Conrad placed fourth; Quail Run first-grader Cole Reams took fifth; and Quail Run fourth-grader Gage Buffington took sixth.

Southwest won second place in the high school division, while Quail Run took first and Wakarusa Valley placed third overall in the elementary division.